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Author: Tim via Hampshire
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To: hampshire
CC: Tim
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] How to connect Android phone to Debian system
Hi Peter,


Don't want to keep throwing links at you but I had two saved when I was
playing with Debian on my other laptop. The other link I had was this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/n2skx6/connecting_android_phone/

I never completed getting mine to work as I ended up replacing the hard
drive and re-installed a different (debian based) distro


Hope it helps


Tim H


On 29/04/2023 17:02, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> Tim said:
>> I found this a while ago
>>
>> https://tomsalmon.eu/2020/01/mounting-android-phone-over-usb-on-debian/
>>
>> Not sure how relevant it is now a days
> Thanks Tim. That didn't work, but the CLI did provide a possibly more
> informative error message:
>
> error returned by libusb_claim_interface() = -6LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to
> initialize device
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MtpErrorCantOpenDevice'
>    what():  Can't open device

>
> The phone itself has instructions for file transfer with Windows and Mac
> computers, but not Linux. As Android is based on Linux, that seems a
> little odd to me.
>
> I have found a way to contact the manufacturer, Motorola. Maybe they can
> solve the problem.
>
> Peter Alefounder.
>
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