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    Question Android Phones file transfer

    Hi,
    Today I bought Samsung Galaxy A51 phone and the file transfer to Linux problem got worse,
    The phone is connected via USB C cable, and the connection is very unstable.
    Sometimes it won't even recognize the device at all and won't mount it.
    Sometimes it will get stuck in the middle of file transfer, or when calculating folder's space.
    The file transfer rate is also sometimes very slow (specially if I have lots of small files).
    I transfer files to the internal storage, not SIM (in this case).
    Why it happens and is there a way to solve this?

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    Re: Android Phones file transfer

    Bad USB cable? Try a different cable from a different batch.
    Also, would be good to know the OS, release, DE, ... heck, just post inxi -Fz output so we get all that data at once, please.

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    Re: Android Phones file transfer

    Tried several cables, some of them do not work at all with A51 (they worked with my older phone),
    Only the official one and the one from OnePlus work
    The A51 is out of the box, bought it today.
    And my PC is new as well...

    maxim@Maxim-HQ:~$ sudo inxi
    CPU: 12-Core AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 2196/2200/3800 MHz Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 Up: 15h 12m
    Mem: 10905.3/64296.8 MiB (17.0%) Storage: 18.19 TiB (43.4% used) Procs: 445 Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
    and here:
    https://termbin.com/bnmi

    The transfer is so slow...
    Maybe I put it at the slow USB slot?
    I got at the box blue, black. and at the motherboard red and blue USB slots.
    The motherboard is
    Last edited by MaximB; August 16th, 2020 at 08:06 PM.

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    Re: Android Phones file transfer

    look at KDE connect

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    Re: Android Phones file transfer

    Thanks,
    It did paired with my device, and I gave the correct permissions.
    However for some reason when I try to upload folders and files from the PC to mobile, it complains about not finding the files (although I shared the downloads folder on the mobile and can see the files).

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    Re: Android Phones file transfer

    A few other ideas...

    MTP mode enabled on Android?
    My android devices just show up when i run caja (the mate file manager).
    Once I used adb push. That's fine for getting lots of files on a device.

    Most of the time, I'll just just use the nextcloud client to "pull" xfer files overnight from my nextcloud server to any client.
    If I'm in a hurry, I’ll use an sftp client.

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