Samsung Galaxy SII not detected

[gamx]

I use Natty 64 bit. When I connect a Samsung Galaxy SII phone (using the mtp mode, the only one available as far as I know), lsusb detects it:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 2001:f111 D-Link Corp. DBT-122 Bluetooth adapter
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046e:5522 Behavior Tech. Computer Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:2831 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2831U DVB-T
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

but according to mtp-detect it is not there:
libmtp version: 1.0.6

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

Nautilus, however detects it as a camera (standard mtp behavior I guess) but it simply shows folders that are empty...
I guess this is the reason why I cannot sync music with Banshee, etc...

[Alessandro (pinguinofurioso)]

any news?

[Alexander Usyskin (sanniu)]

With 1.1.0 from Oneric mtp-detect recognized device as Galaxy Tab, but failed to scan it.

[ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE (ndmhcgfzqhcfqeadtkmfxzqtbujwuyxe-deactivatedaccount)]

i've got this same problem. i put a post about it on ubuntuforums but it's got at lot of views and 0 replies:

<begin ubuntu forum post>
mounting android - unable to see deeper than one level.
having a somewhat bizarre problem that i hope the knowledgeable folks here might be able to help with.

i tried to load some new music on my phone this morning, but i'm unable to see anything under the top level of the phone. e.g. i have all the directories under my phone, but all of them are reporting as empty through ubuntu. checking the filesystem on the phone, i see the content i expect.

on phone i have:
/sdcard/media/ringtones
/sdcard/media/music
/sdcard/media/alarms

on ubuntu i have:
SAMSUNG_Android/media/<empty directory>

i can create a new directory under media, say 'temp' and i see it on my phone. unmount, remount, temp is invisible to ubuntu.

checking dmesg i am seeing the following error:

[ 313.767405] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[ 314.099858] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Aggregation not enabled for tid 6 because load = 6
[ 315.324946] usb 2-1.3: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd gvfs-gphoto2-vo rqt 33 rq 102 len 0 ret -71

i'm not sure if it shoudl be mounted as a gphoto2 fs or not. it used to work, and when it did i wasn't paying attention to how it was mounted.

i think, but i'm not certain that this problem has arisen as of the latest kernel update 3.0.0-12. i'm running ubuntu 11.10. the problem is consistent across both 64bit and 32bit. i am sad to say that mounting on a windows box i'm able to see all the directories as that seems to put the problem firmly with ubuntu.
<end ubuntu forum post>

as of a kernel update i did last night, which oddly hasn't updated the kernel number in uname, the error is gone, but the behavior is still the same:

ubuntu 11.10 64bit on a dell latitude e6410.

$ uname -a
Linux chen 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

dmesg:
[10732.785245] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[10732.877424] usb 2-1.3: config 1 has no interfaces?
[10733.034696] cdc_acm 2-1.3:2.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.
[10733.034793] cdc_acm 2-1.3:2.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[10733.035180] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[10733.035182] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[10735.142137] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 5
[10735.344821] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd

let me know what other information you need to help resolve this issue, and i'll get it for you.

[ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE (ndmhcgfzqhcfqeadtkmfxzqtbujwuyxe-deactivatedaccount)]

also, this used to work on 11.10. i loaded a bunch of music on my phone, as well as ringtones and whatnot just a few weeks ago.

[ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE (ndmhcgfzqhcfqeadtkmfxzqtbujwuyxe-deactivatedaccount)]

a bit more tinkering and i've managed to get it to work, but you have to put the phone into usb debug mode.

on the phone, go to settings | applications | development. check 'usb debugging'. go back to your home screen. connect the phone to the computer. swipe down to open the notifications panel. press 'usb connected'. you should see a screen with a green android. press the 'connect usb storage' button. the android should turn orange.

when i use this method dmesg has the following:

[19402.127887] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[19402.222023] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0
[19402.222644] cdc_acm 2-1.3:1.1: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.
[19402.222745] cdc_acm 2-1.3:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[19403.218746] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Android UMS Composite 00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[19403.219122] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access Android UMS Composite 00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[19403.372025] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[19403.372400] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[19403.388841] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[19403.389744] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk

[fmo (fmo)]

This bug seems to have been fixed on the newly released libmtp 1.1.3 see here http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/files/libmtp/1.1.3/

I think it would probably also be a good idea to upgrade mtpfs to 1.1 http://www.adebenham.com/mtpfs/ (current version is 0.9-3)