Just moved to Mint 14.1 to see if I can get any more life out of my laptop. Ubuntu was starting to misbehave in many ways and I really was sick of Unity. Mint seems to be flying along. The thing is I use HSPA on my Andriod mobile for the Internet. It’s very fast and serves me well. With Ubuntu my mobile was recognized as a USB drive or a router instantly (when connected by lead). Now, Mint can see the wireless on my mobile and connect but in is not recognizing it as a device at all for file transfer or router when connected by a a usb lead.
Can you help?
IIRC diidn’t Mint do something weird with the .gvfs directory ?
When you plug the device in by USB, what’s the output from:
dmesg | tail -n 40
and is there anything listed at
/run/users//gvfs
IIRC diidn't Mint do something weird with the .gvfs directory ?
Yeah they moved it location to /run/user/your-user-name/gvfs
See if gvfs-mtp is installed
Here is the output Mark
dmesg | tail -n 40
[ 18.051378] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5640 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051380] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051383] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5660 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051385] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051388] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5680 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051390] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051392] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5700 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051395] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051397] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5745 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051400] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051402] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5765 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051405] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051407] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5785 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051410] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051412] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5805 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051415] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051417] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 5825 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[ 18.051419] cfg80211: 5460000 KHz - 5860000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A mBi, 3000 mBm)
[ 18.051561] cfg80211: Ignoring regulatory request Set by core since the driver uses its own custom regulatory domain
[ 18.057616] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12
[ 18.067718] ieee80211 phy0: >Selected rate control algorithm ‘minstrel_ht’
[ 18.068991] ath5k: phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa2, PHY: 0x61)
[ 18.111005] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 18.111860] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 20.139926] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1546) terminated with status 1
[ 25.649325] wlan0: authenticate with 90:c1:15:76:7e:fa
[ 25.657791] wlan0: direct probe to 90:c1:15:76:7e:fa (try 1/3)
[ 25.860047] wlan0: send auth to 90:c1:15:76:7e:fa (try 2/3)
[ 25.862602] wlan0: authenticated
[ 25.868261] wlan0: associate with 90:c1:15:76:7e:fa (try 1/3)
[ 25.870756] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 90:c1:15:76:7e:fa (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 25.871492] wlan0: associated
[ 25.871908] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 29.472893] nf_conntrack: automatic helper assignment is deprecated and it will be removed soon. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead.
[ 106.641879] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] 31268864 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)
[ 106.651873] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] No Caching mode page present
[ 106.651880] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 106.671867] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] No Caching mode page present
[ 106.671874] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 106.677921] sdd: sdd1
[ 106.641879] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] 31268864 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB) [ 106.651873] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] No Caching mode page present [ 106.651880] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 106.671867] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] No Caching mode page present [ 106.671874] sd 5:0:0:2: >[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 106.677921] sdd: sdd1
If this is the phone, it appears that it IS being mounted as /dev/sdd1
First try SeZo’s idea:
sudo apt-get install gvfs-mtp
Then see if anything is mounted at /run/users//gvfs
and post the output from:
mount
I tried Sezo’s idea, this is what I got.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package gvfs-mtp
I think what you want is the mtpfs package.
With mtpfs
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package gvfs-mtpfs
No just:
sudo apt-get install mtpfs
You haven’t answered my earlier questions … any particular reason why ?
“You haven’t answered my earlier questions … any particular reason why ?”
Sorry. I dont know what I have missed Mark. ???
Just input the above code.
mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
Sorry, there you go. 
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/adammaureen/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=adammaureen)
/dev/sdf5 on /media/adammaureen/Seagate type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
Was that with the phone plugged in ?
Unplug the phone from the USB socket … Plug the phone back in, then send the output from:
dmesg | tail -n 40
and
mount
and
ls -a /run/user/adammaureen/gvfs
Can you also mention the phone make/model/OS
When you say it worked in Ubuntu … which version, and what exactly happened when you plugged it in that isn’t happening now ?
Yes it was.
dmesg | tail -n 40
[12643.821809] scsi 14:0:0:0: >Direct-Access Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 100D PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[12643.823962] sd 14:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[12643.842769] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] Spinning up disk…
[12647.976122] usb 2-3: >new high-speed USB device number 18 using ehci_hcd
[12648.109024] usb 2-3: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12648.109145] usb 2-3: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12648.224094] usb 2-3: >new high-speed USB device number 19 using ehci_hcd
[12648.357024] usb 2-3: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12648.357133] usb 2-3: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12648.472074] usb 2-3: >new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci_hcd
[12648.493136] usb 2-3: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12648.493272] usb 2-3: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12648.608084] usb 2-3: >new high-speed USB device number 21 using ehci_hcd
[12648.629149] usb 2-3: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12648.629271] usb 2-3: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12648.632111] hub 2-0:1.0: >unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
[12648.900104] usb 6-1: >new full-speed USB device number 14 using uhci_hcd
[12649.044124] usb 6-1: >not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[12649.067152] usb 6-1: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12649.069150] usb 6-1: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12649.180094] usb 6-1: >new full-speed USB device number 15 using uhci_hcd
[12649.322153] usb 6-1: >not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[12649.346142] usb 6-1: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12649.349121] usb 6-1: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12649.516066] usb 6-1: >new full-speed USB device number 16 using uhci_hcd
[12649.548189] usb 6-1: >not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[12649.574139] usb 6-1: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12649.576154] usb 6-1: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12649.688062] usb 6-1: >new full-speed USB device number 17 using uhci_hcd
[12649.718147] usb 6-1: >not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[12649.741149] usb 6-1: >Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
[12649.743138] usb 6-1: >can’t set HNP mode: -32
[12649.744149] hub 6-0:1.0: >unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[12651.244062] .ready
[12651.249831] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[12651.252792] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] Write Protect is off
[12651.252805] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
[12651.255773] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
[12651.307753] sdf: sdf2 < sdf5 >
[12651.330788] sd 14:0:0:0: >[sdf] Attached SCSI disk
Then
mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/adammaureen/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=adammaureen)
/dev/sdf5 on /media/adammaureen/Seagate type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
and finally
ls -a /run/user/adammaureen/gvfs
. …
can you post the output from:
uname -a