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The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is a protocol that allows media files to be transferred atomically to and from portable devices.

The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is an extension to the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) communications protocol that allows media files to be transferred atomically to and from portable devices.

Whereas PTP was designed for downloading photographs from digital cameras, Media Transfer Protocol allows the transfer of music files on digital audio players and media files on portable media players, as well as personal information on personal digital assistants.

The USB Implementers Forum device working group standardised MTP as a full-fledged Universal Serial Bus (USB) device class in May 2008.

See wiki page.

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Unable to perform file operations on a MTP device mounted via GVFS: "Operation not supported"

I am running Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit (based on Ubuntu 14.04). Ever since upgrading from Linux Mint 14/Ubuntu 12.10, the Python script I use to sync music to my Walkman has stopped working. Previously, when I mounted my Walkman, it would automatically…
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Mount my mtp in my android phone on a directory?

I have installed mtp-tools on my debian7.8. mtp-files can list all my files on android phone. How can I mount all my files on android phone on the directory /tmp/myphone? root@debian:/home/debian# jmtpfs -l Device 0 (VID=0b05 and PID=0c02) is…
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Mount MTP Android Device in Linux Mint 17.1

I to mount my ASUS Android device in Linux Mint 17.1 (MTP). My pc didn't see my device, so I tried following the answer in this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077377 But when I click on "connect" I get the following…
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Accessing MTP mounted device in terminal

cd: /run/user/$UID/gvfs/mtp://%5Busb%3A001,010%5D/ gives the error : cd: no such file or directory: /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp://%5Busb%3A001,010%5D/ Even though the device is mounted in the file manager and shows the same mtp path I'd like to…
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How to get the Samsung Galaxy S5 to work with MTP on Debian 9?

So I'm trying to share files between the Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android and my Debian9/KDE machine using MTP instead of KDE Connect. The problem is that I keep getting: The process for the mtp protocol died unexpectedly. When trying to copy over…
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Why is rsync so slow when working with MTP devices?

In order to perform regular backup of my phone (Samsung A5 2016, or SM-A510F) using rsync, I used the following command: rsync --verbose --progress --omit-dir-times --no-perms --recursive --inplace --progress…
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What's the difference between mtpfs and jmtpfs packages in Debian?

I recently wanted to connect some LG Android smartphone to my Debian, but the device wasn't detected. I installed the jmtpfs package, and that solved the problem. But in Debian, you have two packages with similar names: mtpfs and jmtpfs. What's the…
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How to force a device to be mounted as Mass Media Storage (MMS) rather than Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)?

I use various Sony Walkmans to record a multitude of short audionotes on the go (while running, swimming, or simply walking or taking the bus). I used to mount each device as a Mass Media Storage (MMS) to /media/$USER/WALKMAN/ under linux, and to…
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Mount MTP device in FreeBSD

I have an Android tablet which uses MTP instead of USB Mass Storage for transferring files. I'd like to mount it in a FreeBSD machine. I tried the method described here. I installed mtpfs by going to /usr/ports/sysutils/mtpfs and running make…
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How to make MTP work

I'm experiencing many problems trying to properly connect and access the memory of my phone from my Linux system. I'm running openSUSE 13.1, with KDE, and my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo equipped with Android 4.4.2 (it is not rooted, it it makes…
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Mounting an MTP enabled device on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 32-bit

My aim is to perform file operations on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (older edition) using Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 32-bit. This does not work out of the box as I plugged my device and saw myself. In order to mount and have the device recognized by the OS…
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How to make Android MTP in CentOS7 available for all users?

I'm using Moto G4 play with Marshmallow; and CentOS 7. I'm able to mount the device and see the content as root, by using jmtpfs. First time I used sudo then I switched as root and then mounted, works fine on both occasions; but files are only…
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Input/output error using jmtpfs not saving file when copying to device

I'm trying to mount an Android device on Debian using: jmtpfs /media/mobile But when I try to copy a file from my system to the device I get an input/output error saying that the file can't be closed. Am I missing some parameter or something to…
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Mount Samsung Galaxy S7 using simple-mtpfs

I would like to mount my Samsung Galaxy S7 to an folder using simple-mtpfs and I cannot do it as I used to (on previous Fedora and older Galaxy S4). If I simply plug S7 to my computer, I can browse it using Nautilius, but I cannot access it in…
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go-mptfs and mounting smartphone devices under /dev/sdx

I have a Samsung Galaxy J5 which has micro-usb (as most modern Samsung smartphones go) which gets mounted under /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=someaddress . While I'm able to use it like that but it is very inconvenient as all other usb devices live…
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