Mo Some One wrote: > When connecting a "Galaxy S3 mini" via usb, it is not detected at all; > however if connected during installation, it is temporarily detected as a > "usb mass storage device" before CDrom is detected.
Did you try some program that could mount MTP device? For example I find: gmtp - simple file transfer program for MTP based devices go-mtpfs - Mount MTP devices over FUSE libmtp-common - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) common files libmtp-dbg - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) debugging symbols libmtp-dev - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) development files libmtp-doc - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library documentation libmtp-runtime - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) runtime tools libmtp9 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library mtp-tools - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools I use go-mtpfs. regards