Android MTPFS with Ubuntu 14.04

[SupaRice]

How can I get my Android devices to work with Ubuntu 14.04 without having to go into a long drawn out reinvention of the wheel?

I've already done

apt-get install mtpfs mtp-tools --yes

No dice. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Mostly doesn't.

Any luck on this for others? I've seen several articles online instructing some third party software source, but wasn't sure if that was safe.

Go-mtpfs
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-t...-go-mtpfs.html

Is that the way???

Frustrated, this crap works with WINDOWS! But Android and Linux don't work!? Meh!? There's gotta be an easy way to get this working.... Right?

[SupaRice]

Bueller?

[3rdalbum]

If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 it should work without you needing to do anything. Do not follow the 12.04 guide, it will only break things.

Try plugging the phone straight into the computer rather than into a hub. Or use a different USB port, or a different cable (my father had trouble with his until he realized that the little locking clips on the cable connector were broken).

Is your phone reporting that it is entering Media Transfer mode when you plug it in? Or PTP mode? What does 'lsusb' and 'dmesg' say when you plug the phone in?

[SupaRice]

Error window pops up and says:
"Unable to mount SAMSUNG ANDROID"
"Unable to open MTP device '[usb:003,007]' "

[27648.891596] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[27648.908593] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[27648.908595] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[27648.908597] usb 3-2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[27648.908598] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[27648.908599] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: ab8f9bf8
[27650.899043] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 7
[27651.293971] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[27651.311234] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[27651.311238] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[27651.311240] usb 3-2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[27651.311242] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[27651.311243] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: xxxxxxx
[27652.009530] systemd-hostnamed[8157]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04f2:b3c8 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0cf3:311f Atheros Communications, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[SupaRice]

It does this with my son's Samsung Galaxy Tab3 7" also...

Haven't tried my Asus Transformer yet.

[coldraven]

This is really annoying! I have just been travelling with a notebook running Xubuntu 14.04 and my Moto G connects via USB with no problems.
I got home today and tried to transfer photos to my main laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 and no luck at all. The phone says that it is in MTP mode and lsusb shows the phone but nothing in Nautilus.
I installed mtp-tools and still nothing
I tried a different cable and a different usb port and still no joy.
What is going on?

Edit:
If I run SSHDroid on the phone Nautilus can connect using SSH but as both devices are using wi-fi it is very slow. 1.8GB of photos would take over an hour to transfer.

[jon-zendatta]

Same here, so I just plug SD card in to computer

[gordintoronto]

My solution is Airdroid, which is also Wi-Fi.

[Vladlenin5000]

I guess I'm among the lucky ones: My Meizu MX3 works flawlessly with MTP.

[manuelortiz480]

I made a bunch of recommended changes to 12.04 trying to get mtp to work with my galaxy tab 2 7.0. I tried to undo them when I upgraded to 14.04 but I'm sure I missed something. I have even tried me new phone. It works fine if I boot from a live USB thumb drive. But when I boot from my hard drive I get

Unable to mount LGE Android Phone
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

And the entries in syslog are

Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.344604] usb 2-1.6: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.438789] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=1004, idProduct=631c
Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.438797] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.438801] usb 2-1.6: Product: LGE Android Phone
Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.438805] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: LG Electronics Inc.
Jun 29 21:14:24 mortiz-610 kernel: [94827.438809] usb 2-1.6: SerialNumber: 09a13d169812c6d5
Jun 29 21:14:25 mortiz-610 colord: Device added: sysfs-LG_Electronics_Inc.-LGE_Android_Phone
Jun 29 21:14:25 mortiz-610 colord: Device added: sysfs-(null)
Jun 29 21:17:01 mortiz-610 CRON[14811]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

I'd be glad to show any other log or config files.

manuel