I have just purchased a new TCL Idol X S950 phone and I'm figuring out some issue to make it visible on my system.
This phone uses Android 4.2.2 and I guess this is the cause of the issue: my previous phone with android 4.1 was correctly displayed in nautilus/dolphin (using mtpfs
).
Now I have tried to install mtp-tools
, but nothing has changed.
lsusb
gives me that list (T&A Mobile Phones should be my phone).
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1bbb:0168 T & A Mobile Phones
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2b80 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 8086:0189 Intel Corp.
dmesg
gives me this output:
15780.855333] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[15780.874336] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1bbb, idProduct=0168
[15780.874348] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[15780.874354] usb 3-2: Product: TCL S950
[15780.874359] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: TCT
[15780.874364] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: FESKMRSOYLW8RKSK
Best Answer
Include your device in libmtp source code
You can try to include your device in the libmtp source code and build libmtp from source.
Install mtp-tools and optionally the checkinstall package:
Take note to VID and PID numbers, example:
Download the latest libmtp source from the project site. At the time of writing the version was 1.1.6, so this is would be an example:
Add an entry to your in device in the source:
Example:
Note, pay attention to the trailing commas (
,
) in the file like this:Now configure, build and install (
checkinstall
is recommended overmake install
) the patched version:Reboot and thats it.