Hendrik Boom said on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:17:39 -0400

>On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Didier Kryn via Dng wrote:
>...
>...
>>     Pluging an USB memory stick is simple and not more harmfull than
>> connecting the power supply; it has a small draw-back, which is that
>> Android, like Windows, writes junk files and directories of its own
>> on the memory stick. The easiest way to transfer to/from Linux is
>> definitely the wifi interface; and it is clean: no junk is written.
>
>what *is* the wifi interface? How do I use it? I need to transfer
>files from an android phone to a devuan laptop.

A week ago I finally succeeded in transferring photos to my from my
Android phone to my computer.

Before doing anything, you must make sure that you have a USB cable
capable of high speed data transfer. A lot of cables labeled "high
speed cable" means they charge at high speed, not that they can
transfer data. Unless you're absolutely sure, order a high speed USBc
cable, possibly with a USBa on one end if your computer has no USBc
ports.

Next, before doing anything with the cable, on your computer as a
normal user, perform the following command:

lsusb > lsusb_b4.txt

Next step is to make sure your phone is capable of file transfer.
Connect the phone to the computer with the known good high speed data
transfer and wait many seconds, maybe up to a minute. It should give
you a menu including a choice for file transfer. If not, reboot the
phone (instructions later).

Once it gives you the menu including file transfer, tap file transfer.

Now, on your computer, perform the following two commands:

lsusb > lsusb_after.txt
diff lsusb_b4.txt lsusb_after.txt

There should be one line different, and it should say something about
the brand name of the phone and maybe something called "moto". If so,
your phone is now connected via USB. To mount it, do the following as
root:

1. Install jmtpfs
2. mkdir /mnt/phone
3. simple-mptfs -o allow_other /mnt/phone

Now as a regular user you can navigate to your DCIM/Camera directory and
from there to rsync your pictures from there.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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