Can anyone tell me how to mount the phone on Ubuntu Linux (LTS)? None of the suggestions I have seen in other threads work for me. I have set the phone in mass storage mode which is enough for it to work in windows but not Linux. I see several error messages with dmesg but I don't understand them (like "usb1-1: device descriptor read error -32").
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Help Mounting SGS in Ubuntu Linux
- Thread starter wobble99
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- samsung galaxy s
Hadesanubis
Newbie
usb debugging on plug it in drag the notifications down click turn on file transfer and it mounts the sd cards you have
snapper.fishes
Android Expert
Do you have Android develop kit installed? It's available from Google.
snapper.fishes
Android Expert
Strange. I can tell you that it is definitely possible to mount the SGS onto Ubuntu (since I also uses Ubuntu) in debug mode. Might have something to do with the fact that you are running ubuntu in virtual machine (as opposed to a direct installation to another partition).
snapper.fishes
Android Expert
I've just discovered that my previous phone's software had replaced my low level USB driver on my host OS (WinXP). I've fixed that issue now but haven't tried to connect the phone through the Linux VM yet (got bigger problems now -- newest version of Kies does not work).
Why VM though? Why not just install it directly in a small partition?
I would have thought the answer to that was obvious. But here's three reasons for you:
- I don't have any unpartioned disk space and I don't want to shrink any existing partitions.
- It is more hassle to do the above than to create a VM.
- I want to be able to use the Linux OS without rebooting.