[DESKTOP] Android Support

[amagnusdottir]

Hi,

Forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I think this is where I should be, but please point me in the right direction if I am not.

I recently switched to Kubuntu from Linux Mint 18 (Mate). I have been mounting my LG Android phone (Android 7.0) for ages without any difficulty, moving files back and forth, etc. I do this frequently as part of a workflow. Anyway, having switched to Kubuntu (18.04), I find that I'm having problems mounting the phone. When I plug the phone into the USB port, the notification appears on the phone and allows me a few options, one of which is "File Transfer". I select this (as usual), and a.) I get a popup on the Plasma desktop, but before I can choose any of those options, the phone toggles back to battery charging mode.

I've never had any issues with this before. Same phone, same cables, etc.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to get past this? Any idea what's going on?

thanks,

anna

[oshunluvr]

Have you tried KDEconnect? It's been working pretty well.

If you want to troubleshoot your USB connection, start by looking at the output of dmesg when you connect and disconnect your phone and look at the event that's causing the toggling.

[oldgeek]

I also use KDEConnect to download photos and to organize what's in the phone photo files. Works quite well. I can even run SMPlayer from the phone if it's playing something. Good little program.

[claydoh]

I know it is obvious and you may have already tried, buy have you tried a different cable, and other usb ports?
There could be just enough dirt or fuzz in the port on the phone, or the connector is just loose enough. The switchover after a moment is making me think it is the cable, from similar experience in the past. Which phone, if I might ask?

[ennui]

I wanted to bump this thread. I've also just switched to Kubuntu 18.04 from MInt and my cellphone won't connect to transfer files. After setting the connection to file transfer on the phone, I can get a directory listing for the phone in Dolphin. If i try to transfer a file, get a dialogue on the phone to allow. I "allow" the transfer and the usb connection is immediately stopped.

Also, KDEconnect crashes immediately on the phone.

[ennui]

I wanted to bump this thread. I've also just switched to Kubuntu 18.04 from MInt and my cellphone won't connect to transfer files. After setting the connection to file transfer on the phone, I can get a directory listing for the phone in Dolphin. If i try to transfer a file, get a dialogue on the phone to allow. I "allow" the transfer and the usb connection is immediately stopped.

Also, KDEconnect crashes immediately on the phone.

just one thing to add: KDEConnect crashed when installed from FDroid but appears to work from the play store.

[GreyGeek]

I always get a dialog which displays a question "Trust this device", and two click areas, "Trust" and "Not Trust". When I click "Trust" Dolphin is allowed to open "camera:/" and I can browse to 100Apple and 101Apple and download my documents from there to my Pictures subdirectory. (I installed every app with "iPhone" in its name, except the dbg files.).

I don't know how the Android connection works.

[bradleypariah]

For whatever it's worth, if you network share a few of your PC's folders, you can install ES File Explorer or ASUS File Manager on your Android phone.
Use the Android app to move files in both directions.