Ubuntu 10.04 is not recognizing HTC EVO

**emergingtechnologies** · July 2nd, 2010

Hi,

I just bought the HTC EVO and thought it would immediately be found by Ubuntu. My iPod Touch and every other device I have is.

Ubuntu is not seeing the EVO and I have no idea what to try.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Chris

**pedro_orange** · July 2nd, 2010

Have you ensured that you have chosen to "Mount as Disk Drive" on the phone?
You should be able to change it if you chose a default one in the notifications menu.

**jawohls** · July 31st, 2010

I just got my EVO in yesterday and have been setting it up but cannot get 10.4 to recognize that the phone is attached. I do have the phone's default connection type set to "Disk Drive".

I have an Archos A5A as well and it doesn't have a problem being recognized. That one is running Android 1.6.

The EVO is still on Android 2.1 till later this week.

I have always had problems with Sprint phones not connecting as a usb device, they had proprietary drivers not compatible with linux, so I would have to remove the SD card from the phone to exchange data with it. That wasn't a problem with the last phone but with the EVO the SD card is buried under the battery and is really inconvenient to remove the sd card.

Any one having this issue connecting to the phone??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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nevermind....

Well apparently I'm just stupid or HTC has a little glitch that requires you to log out of Ubuntu forums, go out eat breakfast, have coffee, send a text message with the phone then come back and plug it back it to the computer for it to recognize the device. Even though I had already disconnected it several times before I made this post. I came back in to re-connect it and get a dump of `lsusb` to assist and voila, I scared it into working.