Making the ubuntu 12.10 recognize your Android (internal and external sdcard) and adding usb rules security (udev)

Author: victorjabur
April 23, 2013
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If you plug your android phone or tablet on your Ubuntu 12.10 and nothing is happening, follow this next steps and magically your cell phone will be recognized:

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get install libmtp-common libmtp-dev libmtp-runtime libmtp9 mtp-tools gmtp python-pymtp libusb-dev gvfs
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmtp-common libmtp-dev libmtp-runtime libmtp9 mtp-tools gmtp python-pymtp libusb-dev gvfs

The follow code is to register your device on usb dev rules of linux:

  1. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libmtp/libmtp/1.1.1/libmtp-1.1.1.tar.gz
  2. tar -xvf libmtp-1.1.1.tar.gz
  3. cd libmtp-1.1.1
  4. ./configure --prefix=/usr
  5. make
  6. sudo make install
  7. sudo cp 69-libmtp.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
  8. sudo service udev restart
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libmtp/libmtp/1.1.1/libmtp-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf libmtp-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libmtp-1.1.1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo cp 69-libmtp.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo service udev restart

Credits and references:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs-with-mtp-support-in.html
http://gunavara.blogspot.com.br/2012/11/samsung-galaxy-s3-vs-ubuntu-1204.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/87667/getting-mtp-to-work-with-a-galaxy-nexus

If you have any questions, please leave a comment and i will try to help.

Bye,
Victor Jabur