On Thu, 2026-04-23 at 02:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> 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).
>

There seems to be considerable variation on how to achieve the switch
from "charge" to "file transfer", depending on different devices and
android versions. (On my current tablet - android 14 - I have to swipe
down from the top of the screen to get the usb options: until I do
that, there's no sign of them.) I believe some ultraparanoid
manufacturers disable the "file transfer" option completely (that's
hearsay - I've not personally encountered this, as yet).

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

As far as I can see, there's no executable called simple-mtpfs (I
assume that's the correct spelling?) in the jmtpfs package - is it in
another package? "apt search simple-mtpfs" didn't give any hits. When
I tried jmtpfs, I just used "jmtpfs [mount_point_dir]" and it seemed to
work (admittedly, I didn't try transferring any files).

I see that there's a github repo for simple-mtpfs:

https://github.com/phatina/simple-mtpfs

I've just cloned it and tried building: configure failed with:


./configure: line 3831: syntax error near unexpected token `noext'
./configure: line 3831: `AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17(noext)'

I'll try to figure out what's wrong later. I see that there's an open
issue about this problem (#92) - no certain fix as yet.