Michael wrote: > Android phones lost the ability to act as USB mass storage devices > a long time ago (with Android 4.0). Nowadays they only offer MTP > (media transfer protocol). > > There are some apps that restore (some) umass functionality, but I fear > they all require a rooted device. > > > pkgsrc has devel/libmtp as a MTP client. Last time I looked at it, it > wasn't very functional, but that might have changed. > > N.B. there is a MTP client for Gnome (gvfs-mtp) and a utility > based on libmtp (jmtpfs) that might make things easier once > ported.
I forgot about that. Thanks. BTW, I just set up Samba to work with my android phones via wifi. Have to do operations using the phone (Ghost Commander works well), but it is easier than using ftp.
