The gmtp and mtp-detect worked for me within 3 seconds of pluggin in phone.
GMTP crashed in the secound attempt to connect. Bug reported - 1063702 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015010 Title: Cannot connect to Samsung Galaxy S III To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmtp/+bug/1015010/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs