Hello everyone, I'm facing a really anoying problem which is, when I connect my windows phone 8.1(bought it because I had discount for it, it was very cheap and I only use it for calls and sms) to linux mint 17.2 (I' m a noob on this OS still learning and so far loving it) it instantly formats the micro sd card of the phone. I read that its very difficult to access a windows phone storage on a unix based OS, but why is this happening? If anyone knows whats causing this please leave it here, so that others with the same problem can be informed about it.
Connecting windows phone 8.1 smartphone to Linux mint formats smartphone micro sd card
- Thread starter nukepie
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You need to install GVFS and simple-mtpfs. To do so, hop into the terminal and do the following ('$' denotes prompt):
$ sudo apt-get install libmtp-common
$ sudo apt-get install simple-mtpfs
$ sudo apt-get install gvfs
Following these steps should do the trick for you.
$ sudo apt-get install libmtp-common
$ sudo apt-get install simple-mtpfs
$ sudo apt-get install gvfs
Following these steps should do the trick for you.
Hello itmoba first sorry for not answering earlier, second thank you for sharing you knowledge. So far the only thing that I can't install is simple-mtpfs do you know how to install it?. I will continue to search for ppa's or another form to install it.
Ah, that's fine, no worries; here's a workaround:
($ represents the command line[/i])
$ sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends
$ sudo apt-get install mtp-tools
This should do the trick for you. If this doesn't work, apprise me/us of the situation and we'll sort this mess out.
($ represents the command line[/i])
$ sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends
$ sudo apt-get install mtp-tools
This should do the trick for you. If this doesn't work, apprise me/us of the situation and we'll sort this mess out.
Well it seems to be working, in other words, its not formatting the micro sd card anymore. It gives this error at the beginning "Unable to mount Lumia 535 (RM-1089)\nError mounting Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device", but it mounts both the internal and external storage correctly and as I previously sad, its not formatting the sd card. I'm going to try on a different computer to test it as well.
Well this was what I was looking for, and now this can help others with the same problem. Itmoba, thank you very much for having given your time to resolving this issue of mine, you were very polite and helpful.
My best regards for you and for everyone who looked at this thread and tried their best to help.
Well this was what I was looking for, and now this can help others with the same problem. Itmoba, thank you very much for having given your time to resolving this issue of mine, you were very polite and helpful.
My best regards for you and for everyone who looked at this thread and tried their best to help.
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