libmtp

  1. Bug #1792085
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1792085

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jeff (jeff124578) wrote : Re: MTP not working/very slow on Bionic

I was able to fix this on Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic), which comes with libmtp-common=1.1.13 by installing a newer version of libmtp 1.1.16. Now Ubuntu transfers huge numbers of songs between my phone and laptop by simply drag-and-drop in Nautilus.

    sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config wget libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-dev

    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libmtp/libmtp/1.1.16/libmtp-1.1.16.tar.gz
    tar xzf libmtp-1.1.16.tar.gz
    cd libmtp-1.1.16

    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

I didn't even have to uninstall the old version, and also no need for android-file-transfer or jmtpfs.