[Bradford] Viewing Files on Linux from an Android phone

[John R. Hudson]

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 12:08 +0000, Alice Kaerast wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 00:53, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:
> > This may prove useful for some people. I found that I couldn't access files,
> > on my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Phone (JellyBean), from my desktop computer
> 
> Whenever I plug my Wildfire S into a computer I get asked what I want
> to use it as (on the phone).  If I choose disk drive then it works
> flawlessly on both Windows and Linux.  Has something changed in recent
> versions of Android, or is this Galaxy-specific?  Or are you choosing
> something other than disk drive when plugging in?
> 
There has been a thread on the openSUSE forums about the Galaxy S3
vendor and product IDs not being in the udev files. So it may simply be
a matter of opening the relevant udev rule and adding it.

John
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