When I connect my Android cellphone to my home PC it does not show up in Nautilus – a nice cellphone icon labeled Android should show up on the sidebar but only additional CD-ROM shows up. No success with a different cellphone and a camera. On My home PC the gmpt can access both the cellphone internal and additional memories but Nautilus cannot do that anymore.
When I connect the phone to my office lapton then it shows up in Nautilus – both Android and CD-ROM shows up. It works perfectly.
Both computers: the same Ubuntu version, the same software installed, the same configurations. Maybe I've messed up something on my home PC while learning Ubuntu?
On my home PC the mtp-detect returns:
libmtp version: 1.1.13
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=0b05 and PID=5f02) is a Asus Zenfone 2 ZE550ML (MTP).
Found 1 device(s):
Asus: Zenfone 2 ZE550ML (MTP) (0b05:5f02) @ bus 1, dev 18
Attempting to connect device(s)
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
and a lot of USB low-level
info.
lsusb returns:
Bus 001 Device 018: ID 0b05:5f02 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/018 returns:
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 189, 17 maj 28 20:46 /dev/bus/usb/001/018
On my office laptop the mtp-detect returns:
libmtp version: 1.1.13
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=0b05 and PID=5f02) is a Asus Zenfone 2 ZE550ML (MTP).
Found 1 device(s):
Asus: Zenfone 2 ZE550ML (MTP) (0b05:5f02) @ bus 1, dev 24
Attempting to connect device(s)
ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.
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Best Answer
The solution is to reinstall Nautilus:
I've found the results of the installation command especially interesting:
It is possible I've removed gvfs-backends unwittingly while playing around with network and SMB.