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zedwards

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Registered: 2011-04-23

Posts: 5

Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

I would like my phone to show up in Rhythmbox as well as open thunar with it mounted like it did in Ubuntu. I have searched all over etc. and nothing but disparate posts referring to udev, devfs and hal.

I am using wmii as the wm, and it's not showing up automatically in either program. I run dmesg and see it there, mount it with pmount and then I can go see it in /media/sdb1 but it doesn't show up in Rhythmbox (and I have the plugins for music players). I kinda miss the days of just putting something in my fstab.

Any help would be nice. Thanks.

dmesg:

usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HTC      Android Phone    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
scsi 4:0:0:1: Direct-Access     HTC      Android Phone    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
scsi 4:0:0:2: CD-ROM            HTC      Android Phone    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
scsi 4:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 4:0:0:2: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 13844464 512-byte logical blocks: (7.08 GB/6.60 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] 62333952 512-byte logical blocks: (31.9 GB/29.7 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

Last edited by zedwards (2011-04-24 22:53:04)

zedwards

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Registered: 2011-04-23

Posts: 5

Re: Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

UPDATE:

Not sure what I did as I've been trying a few things, but in /media now shows the udev mounts. Still does not show up in Rhythmbox.

SpleenThief

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Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 16

Re: Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

Have you tried the instuctions https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/An … eal_device? It may help. Also, is there an option on your phone to switch from storage to music sync? It may also help to enable "usb debugging" in your settings. I'm not sure exactly where either of those two things would be, but you should be able to find them.

zedwards

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Registered: 2011-04-23

Posts: 5

Re: Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

Thanks for your link. I tried that, but didn't do much more than give my device a name with lsusb. It's showing up in /media automatically, but it's NOT showing up in Rhythmbox and Thunar. What did people do to get theirs to work?? Am assuming you just installed everything. I just want a light system and no gnome, etc.

SS4

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Registered: 2010-12-05

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Re: Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

Do you have libmtp installed? Clementine treats my droid's SD card as an MTP device.

Also check is rhythmbox was installed with mtp support

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zedwards

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Registered: 2011-04-23

Posts: 5

Re: Android phone wont show up in Rhthmbox

libmtp is installed as well as the mtp plugin in Rhythmbox. Funny because Shotwell will see it as a device and ask to import my photos from the phone.