Motorola Droid (A855) - connecting to Ubuntu 9.10

[isleshocky77]

I just plugged in my Motorola Droid and it shows up as "Motorola A855". However, I can not open it up in Nautilus nor will Rhythmbox recognize it.

Currently just trying to get some music on to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jeebustrain]

I've never used the Droid (though I'm hoping to find someone at work that I can dump my TouchPro2 on so I can get it) but if it's anything like a Windows Mobile device, see if there is a USB setting that lets you flip between sync and disk mode. I can connect my TouchPro2 to my Ubuntu machine and use Disk mode without having any software installed. It just mounts like a flash drive.

[isleshocky77]

Nevermind. Just realized how to do it.

After plugging the phone in through USB you'll get a notification saying it's been plugged in on the phone. From there you can select to mount the SD card. Once doing that you can access it just like a USB drive.

You must unmount it in ubuntu, and then unmount it on the droid through the notifications area to begin using your music on the device.

[dror]

Just to clarify. Drag the status bar on top of the phone down and you'll see the USB storage option.

[deanerk]

Yay, my Droid comes tomorrow. Glad to hear I can get some tunes to it without issues. Now will I be able to plug it into my head unit in the car to use for tunes while using Google maps navigation and receive or place a phone call? Can't wait to put it to some tests like this...

[Fender56]

Just to clarify. Drag the status bar on top of the phone down and you'll see the USB storage option.

Woa! Bloody awesome!

I was just expecting Ubuntu to automount it. Probably would have taken me a while to stumble across that one.

This is the first smart phone I've ever owned, and so far I love it. Can't wait to start writing stuff for it.

[alextor98682]

Yes guiys that works awesome, but Man oh man so does the blue tooth file transfers... I bouht the blue tooth adapters at Wally world for $20.00 plugged it in My ubuntu machine and paired it to my Droid. when sending s file you right click on the file you want to send and the pull down the blue tooth device and click send. a notification on the droid prompts you to accept, you push accept and then in a few secs. ofr mins. depending on the file size you have it on your Droid. It works flawless. The 2 best things happened to me when i changed to Ubuntu and now bought my Droid and synced it to ubuntu..... Yeah Baby !!!!!!

[isleshocky77]

Yes guiys that works awesome, but Man oh man so does the blue tooth file transfers... I bouht the blue tooth adapters at Wally world for $20.00 plugged it in My ubuntu machine and paired it to my Droid. when sending s file you right click on the file you want to send and the pull down the blue tooth device and click send. a notification on the droid prompts you to accept, you push accept and then in a few secs. ofr mins. depending on the file size you have it on your Droid. It works flawless. The 2 best things happened to me when i changed to Ubuntu and now bought my Droid and synced it to ubuntu..... Yeah Baby !!!!!!

Can you go into more detail about this? I was able to pair my ubuntu 9.10 and droid without problems, but now it just says on the phone "paired but not connected". I can't figure out how to get them to connect for sending of files to work.

Thanks.