[SOLVED] Andriod phone Not Showing

[dave r]

I've been on Linux Lite for a while now, Since I've had my Android Phone I've been connecting it to the computer and downloading pictures using Gthumb. Since an upgrade just after Christmas the phone is not showing, there used to be Volume showing at the bottom of the Home Folder sidepane that I used to click on to access the phone but its not there now, also if I try to use Gthumb to import from the device the source is greyed out, it doesn't even show my external hard drive, but if I use lsusb in the terminal it shows every USB device connected to the computer. So how do I get Volume back and what else do I need to do to access the phone?

[altman]

Was that any problems/issues during the upgrade process !

One thing that you can try is in Terminal if any errors are in there  ;

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get -f install

Let see what comes out of this .

[dave r]

Was that any problems/issues during the upgrade process !

One thing that you can try is in Terminal if any errors are in there  ;

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get -f install

Let see what comes out of this .

This is the result of the two comands

root@davesmagicbox:/home/dave#  sudo dpkg --configure -a
root@davesmagicbox:/home/dave#  sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
root@davesmagicbox:/home/dave#

I've had some success with this, I've installed the PCManFM file manager and the phone shows up in this, my normal file manager is Thunar, so it seems like I need to make PCManFM my default file manager, though why thunar has stopped showing the phone I don't know. The upgrade was the first time I had upgraded for ages and I must admit I went off and did something else while it was upgrading.

[rokytnji]

Check your thunar prefernces>advanced>volume management. I bet something is unticked there.

[Valtam]

What version of Android are you running?

[dave r]

That was the first thing I checked and the Volume Management is ticked and and under configure all is ticked.

[dave r]

What version of Android are you running?

The phone is telling me version 4.1.2. Jelly Bean

[Valtam]

How are you trying to connect, did you use 'USB mass storage' as the option on the phone or are you trying via MTP?

[dave r]

How are you trying to connect, did you use 'USB mass storage' as the option on the phone or are you trying via MTP?

I've tried both as a Media device, MTP, and as a camera, PTP, both work in PCManFM niether work in Thunar.

[Valtam]

First, get rid of PCManFM. File manager is not the issue. Having PCManFM and Thunar on the same machine is a recipe for disaster unless you are an advanced user and know how to get the two to play nice together.

If your LL is 32bit, then open a terminal and do the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install mtpfs libmtp9 libmtp-runtime libmtp-common mtp-tools libnet-smtp-ssl-perl

If your LL is 64bit, then open a terminal and do the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libmtp-common libmtp-runtime libmtp9:amd64 libnet-smtp-ssl-perl mtp-tools mtpfs

Reboot, and look for 'Android' on your Desktop or in Thunar in the left pane.

Works for me on LL using Lollipop on my Android.