[How-To] Connect an Android device using MTP in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[gscratch2]

Thanks very much to the original poster. However, I have the same symptoms as nathatanu0. Followed all the steps, but when I connect my phone after reboot, the condition is exactly the same as before the steps, namely "Could not lock the device" and all folders show zero files. When I connect the phone to a Windows machine, I can see all the files in all the folders.

Samsung Galaxy S II and Ubuntu 12.04LTS

[janwouter]

Worked on the first try like a charm. Thanks for this explanation. I use a cheap unknown Chinese phone, InFocus M310, android 4.2.2, but that made no difference.

[mazhar330gb]

Many thanks. Instructions worked for the tesco hudl2 tablet (once I worked out saving stuff with nano) with my fujitsu laptop running ubuntu 14.04 but exactly the same instructions and kit doesn't work with my unbranded desk top also running ubuntu 14.04. weird. However I can get the hudl2 connected to the desk top using gMTP.

[MackaDocious_Prime]

You guys mind if I ask a specific question on this thread? It's about ADB. I get an error when I try

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

[henrique10]

Nice how-to.

I spent hours trying to connect my Redmi 2 to my notebook running with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and with a couple minutes with this post my problem desapeared.

Thanks!

[howefield]

You guys mind if I ask a specific question on this thread? It's about ADB. I get an error when I try

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Try

sudo apt-get -f install

[MackaDocious_Prime]

It helped. I did

sudo apt-get -f install

then,

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

. I see my device now thanks! Except I probably should have also done 'fastboot'

[wilnd]

Worked perfectly for my One Plus 1 Android phone under Ubuntu Trusty, thank you!!!!

[Trogladyte]

This didn't work for my HTC One XL. I tried it on a different USB port and got "Unable to open MTP device '[usb:001,007]'"

Grateful for any advice. I'm sure this shouldn't be so hard...

[smc2]

I have not found a forum central to Android, but this appears the best for Android/Ubuntu interoperability. Is there one out there? I need exchange not dependent upon the internet between Ubuntu and Android! Please let me know if this is not it! It is referenced by others:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2260400

I've been struggling with this topic for days. Tried quickly on 14.04 and 15.04 without luck on a stick install of each(maybe that's the problem). My preference would be to plug a USB into the phone, but it is not OTG compliant and that's another headache, so the USB charging cable is what I've been working with.

I would love to have normal file exchange at the file system level and bash, but run into a mix of experience permission/security errors. I believe a correctly installed mtp-server is the route? Honestly, running through this thread in entirety I start to get a little lost.

Help, where do I start, are the above still correct for 14.04, 15.04?