[Q] MTP on linux Ubuntu

Bumble-Bee · May 13, 2011

anyone been able to sync music/video's to there transformer from a linux machine ?

I have all of the mtp stuff set up for other devices, but i cannot get the transformer to show up ...

Any help would be appreciated

crater · May 13, 2011

I don't believe the TF is an MTP device... it simply mounts as storage. Drag/Drop your music.

Roach2010 · May 13, 2011

crater said:
I don't believe the TF is an MTP device... it simply mounts as storage. Drag/Drop your music.

It is actually an MTP device. This allows us to access the storage area without making it unavailable to the device like a USB mount does.

Here's how to get your Transformer to show up in Ubuntu for example. This includes stuff you will have setup but this will help others too.

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install mtpfs
$ sudo mkdir /media/transformer
$ sudo chmod 775 /media/transformer
$ sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/transformer

You should now be able to see the device under /media/transformer

To remove the device type:

Code:

$ sudo umount mtpfs

You may also need add a rule for the device to see it in Ubuntu:

Code:

$ sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

Add this line to the 51-android.rules file:

Code:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0b05", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4e0f", MODE="0666", OWNER="<your user name>" #Asus Transformer

Save the file, then chmod to all read:

Code:

$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

Crimton · May 13, 2011

i was reading a guide on xoom forums i believe that told you to edit fstab. is that not necessary? i did it without making a backup and i messed up my mounting points.

crater · May 13, 2011

Roach2010 said:
It is actually an MTP device. This allows us to access the storage area without making it unavailable to the device like a USB mount does.

My mistake, I was completely unaware that they had made this change in honeycomb.

mtpfs works great, I've got it working on my gentoo netbook for managing music and videos on my Creative Xen X-Fi.

Roach2010 · May 13, 2011

Crimton said:
i was reading a guide on xoom forums i believe that told you to edit fstab. is that not necessary? i did it without making a backup and i messed up my mounting points.

fstab is for automounts at system startup, I just tried adding an entry for mtpfs but I got 'An error occurred while mounting /media/transformer' so I can't help with that.

Crimton · May 14, 2011

I could care less if it auto mounts I just want it to mount at all. so you have tested what you posted above and it definitely works? if so, that is awesome.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk

edit: can't get this to work for me

how do you get it to mount? if i do sudo mount mtpfs i get:

Code:

 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on mtpfs,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

if i do /media/transformer i get:

Code:

 bash: /media/transformer: Transport endpoint is not connected

i got it to work by starting a new mount point /media/tf101 and setting permissions on it.

roundhay · May 15, 2011

I can't get this to work consistently, some times I can see all of the folders in the internal storage some times I only see the playlist folder and sometimes I see no folders and the "Transport endpoint is not connected" error message.

It is also worth noting that everytime I set up a new mountpoint it works but getting the files system to mount again is very unreliable.

Any ideas what this might be?

Don't really fancy setting up a new mount point every I want to transfer files onto the eee pad.

Using Ubuntu 11.04

Magnesus · May 15, 2011

I just use gmpt on Ubuntu (in the rare ocasions I need it - I mostly get files from Samba share).

MACscr · May 23, 2011

Ok, so i got things mounted, but when i try to copy a 5gb file from my 2tb drive to my transformer, it seems to eat up space on my os disk when it tries to transfer. This definitely wont work for me as I only have a couple gigs of space free on my OS disk, which is meant for speed, not lots of storage (my 2tb drive is for that). Why is this happening? Some sort of temporary/caching action going on? Seems like a major design flaw with mtpfs if this is how it works. =(

MACscr · May 23, 2011

Magnesus said:
I just use gmpt on Ubuntu (in the rare ocasions I need it - I mostly get files from Samba share).

gmtp doesnt seem to be able to see my transform. =(

ivan.volosyuk · May 23, 2011

I use QuickSSHD on my Transformer and sshfs on Linux. It is possible to use public key authentication. For pushing large files I use adb push. MTP works very unreliable. Sometimes files are randomly moved to different directories if they are recognized as media files. So after a few experiments I stay away from mtpfs.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

flashedmytiltblind · May 29, 2011

Has anyone figured this out yet, because this is really pissing me off. I understand the benefits of mtp, but if I can't use it linux (Ubuntu) to linux (Android), what's the point?

levenite · May 29, 2011

I use Ubuntu 10.04, AMD-64 bit and gMTP works pretty well. I did have to compile it because I understand that for some Linux versions it is broken.

nukeador · Jun 8, 2011

I'm having problems too with Asus Transformer (Tested on Ubuntu 11.04 64 and 32bits).

I'm unable to transfer big files (like HD videos), it seems the transfer is completed but no file is stored. On the 64bits box I get messages about "the device is not connected" after trying to transfer big files, and I have to remount the device to be able to browse through folders.

nukeador · Jun 8, 2011

Ok, here it's a tip: Enable USB Debugging under Settings → Applications

It seems it works enabling that. I have to do more tests with large files since mtpfs uses my root partition as temporally storage and I run out of free space

lacion · Jun 8, 2011

levenite said:
I use Ubuntu 10.04, AMD-64 bit and gMTP works pretty well. I did have to compile it because I understand that for some Linux versions it is broken.

i just got my 10.1v today and i'm trying to do this, but i havent even found gmtp source for 10.04

levenite · Jun 8, 2011

lacion said:
i just got my 10.1v today and i'm trying to do this, but i havent even found gmtp source for 10.04

I believe this is the link I used:http://chewy509.110mb.com/gMTP.html

Note: When you start gMTP make sure you give it time to initialize.

cis.snakeman · Aug 9, 2011

Crimton said:
[...]

edit: can't get this to work for me how do you get it to mount? if i do sudo mount mtpfs i get:

[...]
i got it to work by starting a new mount point /media/tf101 and setting permissions on it.

So wat was your mount command after all ?
Could you share please ?

Because from my point of view I have an additional issue, after my Tablet Mounted, if I try to open (with Nautilus) the mount point I have an error:

In French said:
Impossible d'afficher «*/media/transformer*».
Le type du fichier est inconnu

In English said:
Impossible to display « /media/transformer ».
Unknown file type

xyellx · Aug 10, 2011

If you are using Fedora with Gnome3, like me.

yum install -y gnomad2

Since there is no mtpfs in the packge repo, use this or compile mtpfs.

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