Re: NetBSD and Android devices

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Michael wrote:

> Android phones lost the ability to act as USB mass storage devices
> a long time ago (with Android 4.0). Nowadays they only offer MTP
> (media transfer protocol).
> 
> There are some apps that restore (some) umass functionality, but I fear
> they all require a rooted device.
> 
> 
> pkgsrc has devel/libmtp as a MTP client. Last time I looked at it, it
> wasn't very functional, but that might have changed.
> 
> N.B. there is a MTP client for Gnome (gvfs-mtp) and a utility
> based on libmtp (jmtpfs) that might make things easier once
> ported.

I forgot about that. Thanks.

BTW, I just set up Samba to work with my android phones via wifi.
Have to do operations using the phone (Ghost Commander works well),
but it is easier than using ftp.