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dioltas

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Registered: 2009-06-03

Posts: 44

Samsung Galaxy S3 and MTP

Have been trying for a while to be able to access files on a Galaxy S3 with a USB cable and MTP.

I've searched a lot, but without finding a solution to actually get MTP working.

If I plug the phone into a windows machine, the files are accessible almost instantly, which is annoying.

Here is the output of some commands when I plug in the phone:

dmesg:

[ 6108.107419] usb 4-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd

lsusb

Bus 004 Device 004: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 8086:0189 Intel Corp. 

sudo mtp-detect

libmtp version: 1.1.4

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 4, dev 4
Attempting to connect device(s)
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.

sudo mtp-detect

libmtp version: 1.1.4

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 4, dev 5
Attempting to connect device(s)
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
inep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): No such device
outep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): No such device
usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: No such device
usb_clear_halt() on OUT endpoint: No such device
usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint: No such device
usb_open(): No such device
LIBMTP PANIC: Could not init USB on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.

sudo jmtpfs /media/mtp

Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y.
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MtpErrorCantOpenDevice'
  what():  Can't open device

I have udev-android from the AUR installed.

I tried cloning the latest libmtp from SourceFourge

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/libmtp/code libmtp-code

but it didn't seem to help.

# ./mtp-detect

Error: Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading.
libmtp version: 1.1.5

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP).
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 4, dev 7
Attempting to connect device(s)
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.

Sometimes mtp-detect finds nothing, mostly it gives error in the first example above.

I know there are other ways to transfer files, and apps to allow you to mount external sd card in UMS mode, but I would really like to get MTP working.

Any help appreciated.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 and MTP

Search again, on these forums, as the same question has been asked about the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Nexus. Closing, you can request re-open if you verify that this is indeed SGS3 specific (I highly doubt so based on other things I've read concerning libmtp).

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