Transfering photos btw. Huawei and Linux Mint

[Dose]

Hey,

I want to update my phone, and before doing that, I want to have a backup of my photos, etc.
I do not seem to be able to figure out how to connect my phone to Linux Mint. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!

[Flemur]

What kinda linux, what kinda phone and what have you tried, if anything?

[ajgreeny]

My Xubuntu 16.04 automatically finds the Huawei Ascend Y530 phone that I have when I connect with a USB cable, the power cable that came with the phone.

Previous versions of *ubuntu needed a bit of fiddling with mtp system files to get it to work but it was very easy one you knew what was needed.
See https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226702
It is quite long but it did work for me so may help you as well, but try just a simple USB connection before you try all of that.

[Rocky Bennett]

Hey,

I want to update my phone, and before doing that, I want to have a backup of my photos, etc.
I do not seem to be able to figure out how to connect my phone to Linux Mint. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!

It depends on what kind of phone and which Linux Mint.

[JeremyB]

My Xubuntu 16.04 automatically finds the Huawei Ascend Y530 phone that I have when I connect with a USB cable, the power cable that came with the phone.

Previous versions of *ubuntu needed a bit of fiddling with mtp system files to get it to work but it was very easy one you knew what was needed.
See https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226702
It is quite long but it did work for me so may help you as well, but try just a simple USB connection before you try all of that.

Hi ajgreeny
My Huawei Nexus 6P always defaults to charge only when I plug it into the laptop and I have to switch it over for file access and at one point I am sure I had to have USB debugging enabled in developer options on the phone to access using Linux Mint and/or Ubuntu

[Dose]

See https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226702
It is quite long but it did work for me so may help you as well, but try just a simple USB connection before you try all of that.

Thanks. I followed the guide, and I now have two (similar) devices show up when I plug in my phone, but I get the following message when I try to access them: No MTP devices found.

[Dose]

It depends on what kind of phone and which Linux Mint.

My phone is a Huawei P9 (Emui 4.0.1, Android-version 6.0), and my computer runs Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela.

[Dose]

What kinda linux, what kinda phone and what have you tried, if anything?

My phone is a Huawei P9 (Emui 4.0.1, Android-version 6.0), and my computer runs Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela. Other than plugging in the device, and following this link https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226702 (as suggested in this thread), I have not tried anything, as I wouldn't know what to do - at all! I am only using Linux because I like that it is open-source; I have no know-how whatsoever

[TI58C]

Hi Dose,

I've found that the simplest way to copy pictures etc from my phone is by using Bluetooth. Mint has a program aboard that's called bluetooth applet. On my system it's standard and BT-symbol shows up in the system tray.

- make sure BT on both computer and phone are set to "visible to all BT devices"
- pair
- on phone use file manager to navigate to dir with pics, select all and then touch BT symbol

Files will show up on computer in "Public" folder.
When sent from computer to phone, files will be in "bluetooth" folder

This certainly is inferior to a good and working USB-conection, but for me USB turned out to be a minefield.
Hope this helps,
Robert

[Dose]

Hi Dose,

I've found that the simplest way to copy pictures etc from my phone is by using Bluetooth. Mint has a program aboard that's called bluetooth applet. On my system it's standard and BT-symbol shows up in the system tray.

- make sure BT on both computer and phone are set to "visible to all BT devices"
- pair
- on phone use file manager to navigate to dir with pics, select all and then touch BT symbol

Files will show up on computer in "Public" folder.
When sent from computer to phone, files will be in "bluetooth" folder

This certainly is inferior to a good and working USB-conection, but for me USB turned out to be a minefield.
Hope this helps,
Robert

Thanks, Robert! I just found out (5 minutes before reading your reply) that bluetooth is now working - it didn't before. So the guide further up in this thread must have done something good, even though I still can't transfer via USB. You guys have been great, thank you so much

[JeremyB]

What kinda linux, what kinda phone and what have you tried, if anything?

My phone is a Huawei P9 (Emui 4.0.1, Android-version 6.0), and my computer runs Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela. Other than plugging in the device, and following this link https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226702 (as suggested in this thread), I have not tried anything, as I wouldn't know what to do - at all! I am only using Linux because I like that it is open-source; I have no know-how whatsoever :-D

Since you are using LM 17.2 I think the steps in the ubuntuforums thread are necessary to be able to use USB with the phone

[TI58C]

My phone is some obscure French brand, probably a chinese "knockoff" with French "rebranding". Cost just 79 EU, so no complaints.

It's just about a year ago I tried USB-connection, Remember that I had so buy some "special" micro-USB to USB cable to connect to phone 2 way. Do not know what it's called, but "any" mico-usb to usb would not do.

But no matter what I tried, no luck..ADB, MTP, OBEX, whatever. Nothing...

But simple file transfer with BT worked every time. On different systems. Reliable although slow.

Robert

[k-314]

On KDE I used kdeconnect, now on Xfce I am using AirDroid ......

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