Connecting my Samsung A20e Mobile Phone

[LeithR]

I was recently given a Samsung Galaxy A20e mobile phone so tried to connect to Linux ( I use Xenialpup64bit). I get notification that it has connected, looked in tmp and found a message in myMPTdevice indicating that the system was seeing it but in MPT.log there is a message "2021/08/10 19:36:16 selectStorages failed: EOF". Is there something I need to download to enable me to work between my phone and my laptop?

[LeithR]

I find it very strange that nobody has answered my query re the Samsung A20e mobile phone. Is there anybody out there please?

[williams2]

I don't have a Samsung phone.

Some (usually older) phones have drives that can be mounted directly.
Such a phone would probably cause a mount icon to appear on the deaktop.
You would see a directly mountable drive listed if you typed in a terminal fdisk -l

Your phone probably uses mtp.

What happens if you type pupmtp in a terminal?
What happens if you type pupcamera in a terminal?

Some usb cables will only work for charging, and will not work to transfer files.

EDIT: And usually you need to unmount the phone's sd card before mounting it in Puppy. My (android) phone asks if I want to charge only or to transfer data.
What happens if you type mtpdevice in a terminal?

[Jafadmin]

When you first plug the phone into your puppy, your phone assumes you are trying to charge. There shold be a notification in the notification area on your phone saying as much.

Tapping that notification should allow you to select "file transfer" mode, instead. It should then show up in puppy.

[LeithR]

Thanks Both, sorry for the delay in my response. I have checked out both your suggestions and none have worked. All that happens is on the phone I get an indication of the charge state of the phone then nothing more.

[bigpup]

Look in the phones setup.
See if it has a setting for USB options, for what the USB connection can be set to do.
It is usually defaulted to charging.
Choose either Media Device (MTP) or Camera (PTP).
Select Media Device (MTP) if it's not already selected. That is data (pictures on the phone).

[bigpup]

A few ideas from search on internet

Happened to me on a Samsung S3. The reason for the selectStorages failure seems to be that the phone had a dialog up (to tell me that it couldn't find the Windows or Mac software on the other end of the USB connection:-). Clicking Ok on that dialog and re-run go-mtpfs, should work fine.

Another reason is that with newer versions of Android, MTP seems to be disabled as long as the device is locked (which makes sense, security wise). Can you catch the error and show a message "Unable to find any storage spaces on your device. If it is currently locked, unlock it and try again."?

[bigpup]

I use Xenialpup64bit

Have you updated Xenialpup64 7.5?
If no.
Use Quickpet program.
Quickpet->Info->Xenialpup updates
Reboot and update the save, so these changes are now being used.

[LANdpLAN]

I don't have a Samsung phone.

Some (usually older) phones have drives that can be mounted directly.
Such a phone would probably cause a mount icon to appear on the deaktop.
You would see a directly mountable drive listed if you typed in a terminal fdisk -l

Your phone probably uses mtp.

What happens if you type pupmtp in a terminal?
What happens if you type pupcamera in a terminal?

Some usb cables will only work for charging, and will not work to transfer files.

EDIT: And usually you need to unmount the phone's sd card before mounting it in Puppy. My (android) phone asks if I want to charge only or to transfer data.
What happens if you type mtpdevice in a terminal?

pupmtp works for me. How can I create a gui button on the destop to run it?

[bigpup]

If you are talking about what you do by running pupMTP from the menu.

In Rox file manager navigate to /usr/share/applications/

Find the file pupmtp.desktop

Drag and drop it onto the desktop.

Now you have a desktop icon to run it.