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  1. #1
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    Ubuntu won't mount Nexus 5

    Ubuntu 13.04 won't mount my new Nexus 5 using MTP. My previous Nexus 4 mounted fine.

    The error is:
    Unable to mount Nexus 5
    Unable to open MTP device '[usb:001,010]'

    dmesg output:

    [ 1347.327293] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
    [ 1347.420878] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=4ee1
    [ 1347.420883] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
    [ 1347.420886] usb 1-1.2: Product: Nexus 5
    [ 1347.420888] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: LGE
    [ 1347.420891] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 02b2eefb2161137a

    I'm running on an iMac. The device mounts fine under MacOSX.

  2. #2
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    Re: Ubuntu won't mount Nexus 5

    OK, looks like it's a problem with MATE; Cinnamon seems to be able to access the Nexus 5 without a problem.

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    Re: Ubuntu won't mount Nexus 5

    Quote Originally Posted by Batmensch View Post
    Ubuntu 13.04 won't mount my new Nexus 5 using MTP. My previous Nexus 4 mounted fine.

    The error is:
    Unable to mount Nexus 5
    Unable to open MTP device '[usb:001,010]'

    dmesg output:

    [ 1347.327293] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
    [ 1347.420878] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=4ee1
    [ 1347.420883] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
    [ 1347.420886] usb 1-1.2: Product: Nexus 5
    [ 1347.420888] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: LGE
    [ 1347.420891] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 02b2eefb2161137a

    I'm running on an iMac. The device mounts fine under MacOSX.
    I followed instructions from here, and you gave me the clue to make it work. I needed the right idVendor. This is what I did:

    1. Enable Developer options and enable USB debugging.

    2. Install necessary MTP modules to your computer:
    sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs

    3. Configure 51-android.rules
    sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

    paste the following at the end of the file (if the file does not exist then just paste):
    #LG – Nexus 5
    SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTR{idVendor}==”18d1", MODE=”0666"

    4. Make the file executable:
    sudo chmod +x /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

    5. Restart udev
    sudo service udev restart
    I needed the idVendor, which you supplied. I restarted my computer and plugged in the Nexus 5, and it worked. It might have worked without the restart, but I realized when I shutdown that another user was logged in and maybe that caused a conflict.

    Thanks for the vendor ID. I hope this works for you.

  4. #4
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    Re: Ubuntu won't mount Nexus 5

    It did not helped me, but I found in web completely automated approach to configure (by the same approach) and do automount - http://roman-ivanov.blogspot.com/201...untu-1204.html.

  5. #5
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    Re: Ubuntu won't mount Nexus 5

    My issue got fixed by switching from USB 3.0 to USB 2.0

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