Nautilus freezes accessing Android via MTP when USB debugging enabled

[halfbeing]

Nautilus started freezing on me when I tried to access certain folders on my Android phone (Sony Xperia P) via MTP, such as the DCIM folder. I would have to kill Nautilus and then unplug and reconnect the phone. Sometimes after this the phone would be in the list of devices, but when I clicked on it no volume would appear.

Thunar didn't show the same freezing behaviour, but once the volume stopped appearing in Nautilus it would stop appearing in Thunar too.

This behaviour continued even after I did a factory reset on the phone. I could not reproduce the behaviour in Windows 7.

Disabling USB debugging on the phone fixed the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.22-lowlatency 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 29 02:14:03 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'848x580+0+24'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-22 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-09-24 (4 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Scott Palmer (skewty)]

Same issue running 16.04 on my Samsung S5 running Marshmallow.

libmtp error: could not get object handles.

[Scott Palmer (skewty)]

I don't have have USB Debugging enabled (confirmed in Dev options) so this just makes Ubuntu unusable for this task. Is there anything in the works?

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

I'm getting the same error that #4 is getting with a Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini on ubuntu 16.04. Like with OP, disabling USB debugging fixed the issue.

libmtp error: could not get object handles.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does anyone still get that issue in newer versions? If so could you get a backtrace of nautilus while it's freezing?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]