Fedora knowns nothing about my android smartphone

[sparcher (Oleksandr Chernetskii)]

Smartphone configured as MTP device.

When connect journalctl says:

Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=17ef, idProduct=7b76, bcdDevice= 4.04
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: Product: Lenovo L38041
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: Manufacturer: Lenovo
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 kernel: usb 2-1.4: SerialNumber: HKL5EGY8
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 mtp-probe[5342]: checking bus 2, device 10: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4"
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 mtp-probe[5342]: bus: 2, device: 10 was an MTP device
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 mtp-probe[5357]: checking bus 2, device 10: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4"
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 mtp-probe[5357]: bus: 2, device: 10 was an MTP device
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 gvfsd[5356]: Device 0 (VID=17ef and PID=7b76) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.19.
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 gvfsd[5356]: Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Nov 30 16:11:22 ICI3 gvfsd[5356]: Error 1: Get Storage information failed.

Key is

Device 0 (VID=17ef and PID=7b76) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.19.

Help me report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
I don’t know how to do it.

For refrences:

$ rpm -qa | grep -i mtp
libmtp-1.1.19-5.fc39.x86_64
gvfs-mtp-1.52.1-1.fc39.x86_64
$

Also I tried android-file-transfer
both from repo and AppImage
=NOP

OS = Fedora 39 Cinnamon

Thanx in advance

[ledeni (Igor Bezrodnik)]

Did you set your android to transfer files?

[alan-jelaska]

This might help.

First You need to unlock Your android device. Go to: Settings About Build number. You have to tap 7 times (really, seven, it’s not a joke). It will say: “You are developer!”

I was about to suggest “try to install nautilus-gsconnect”, but I checked and it seems that for Cinnamon is better solution to install original, namely kde-connect. When You connect to computer make sure Your phone is unlocked. HTH

[sparcher (Oleksandr Chernetskii)]

Is it not enought?

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@sparcher

Help me report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
I don’t know how to do it.

It looks like Issues · libmtp/libmtp · GitHub is the place.

[alan-jelaska]

@sparcher

Is it not enought?

Don’t know. I have one old Samsung (GT-19300) which I couldn’t connect in any imaginable way. So I used Google drive as a mediator. And mine (from my current phone Android 12) USB prefs looks different:

[sparcher (Oleksandr Chernetskii)]

At my old smartphohe I easily change phone mode from MTP to PTP and vise versa w/o magic 7 taps.

Now PTP works fine (shotwell import pics w/o problem)
MTP don’t work

see screens

[alan-jelaska]

I’d still try with Kdeconnect, or as a last resort via Google drive. Now I remembered that long time ago I used ssh on android phone with apple’s bluetooth keyboard (it annoyed fanboys from both camps ). Maybe You can try with some sftp app for android.

[alan-jelaska]

I couldn’t stop thinking about it even though I don’t need it. I tried this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.becke.sftp_server__s0_v1&hl=en&gl=US and it works. It’s server that runs on phone. You can drag&drop files to and from Your phone.

Here are the pics:

Now I must try it on some old crappy phones If I find them.