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mauer

Member

Registered: 2018-03-09

Posts: 2

Problems with KDE and Android phone

Dear all,

I recently switched from Gnome to KDE and I'm having some problems with accessing my mobile phone. I installed libmtp as well as the kio-extras package.

When I connect my phone via USB, I get the desktop notification that it was found. When I try to access it the following error message appears:

File or folder udi=/org/kde/solid/udev/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-10/3-10.2/ does not exist.

mtp-detect lists my phone correctly:

libmtp version: 1.1.14

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=12d1 and PID=107e) is a Huawei P9 Plus.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Huawei: P9 Plus (12d1:107e) @ bus 3, dev 9

Did I miss anything?

Many thanks,
Marco

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,273

Re: Problems with KDE and Android phone

Did I miss anything?

No, it's a known bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387454

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: Problems with KDE and Android phone

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387454

Not entirely sure if this something dolphin has to fix or the kernel, usual consensus is that if kernel breaks a userspace program the kernel is at fault. However this might still be something to fix in how dolphin accesses the device.

Obvious workarounds are to use another MTP client and/or (since MTP as a protocol is dumb as hell anyway...) use some networkbased access method like kdeconnect or a FTP share or similar.

Last edited by V1del (2018-03-09 14:02:21)

mauer

Member

Registered: 2018-03-09

Posts: 2

Re: Problems with KDE and Android phone

Hi V1del,

Many thanks for the advise regarding KDE Connect. Just installed it and it's great. Does exactly what I was looking for.

Many thanks,
Marco

j.ysr

Member

Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 2

Re: Problems with KDE and Android phone

Not entirely sure if this something dolphin has to fix or the kernel.

Yes! I think the issue is related to Dolphin, I installed it and the removable media (phone or whatever...) get back to work as usual.

Last edited by j.ysr (2025-06-13 17:07:55)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: Problems with KDE and Android phone

You are digging up a 7 year old thread. Whatever your issue was it most likely wasn't what was being discussed here.

Don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.