Disconnecting android phone

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I have a weird problem. I can connect my android phone to my laptop, it keeps connecting/disconnecting (about twice per second). I tried on another laptop with Ubuntu installed, and it worked fine.

Big problem is that, aside of no file transfer, I can't charge my phone. I keep getting the message "unable to open MTP device '[usb:003,]'", where num keeps increasing (I assume it is communication attempts).

What may be causing this problem? I have no idea where to start. It's the only USB device that does that (my ipod charges fine, and I can even access the music no problem).

Is there a way I can "deaden" one of the usb ports, such that only power is provided, but no data transfer attempts?

P.S.: My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2.

P.P.S: It does that on all USB ports.

Do you have go-mtpfs installed? If yes, have you tried mounting trough this? — Michael, Jan 23 '14 at 18:26

Philippe Gachoud · Answer 1 · 2017-03-07T22:21:36.377

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For me it was the usb cable which was bad, with a good quality USB cable it corrected the problem

And as a workaround, using Samba on your phone as mentioned in [this tread][1] worked for me as the best solution (take a look @ the sdcard share adding in the settings of the application)

edited Mar 07 '17 at 22:21

answered Jan 22 '17 at 19:37

Philippe Gachoud

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Bang on, I had the exact same problem. Trying a different cable fixed it. – kutuzof Oct 18 '20 at 09:37

Wilf · Answer 2 · 2014-02-13T00:09:31.320

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Use the PTP connection instead of MTP - for some reason I always have this problem in Ubuntu_{, but never in Fedora...}

You should get a Notification on connection, touch it and select PTP:

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I think on older versions of Android there was 'Mass Storage Mode'

Works on Android 4.1

Also, make sure libmtp is installed.

_{Also note, there is a revolutionary concept - turning the phone off...}

edited Feb 13 '14 at 00:09

answered Jan 23 '14 at 18:56

Wilf

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I had tried both PTP & MTP, same behaviour. I had libmtp installed already (under libmtp-common) – morphheus Jan 23 '14 at 21:32
This could be of help... – Wilf Jan 24 '14 at 10:50
Thanks; I was never able to transfer files from ubuntu to Android. Still, my problem persists: Ubuntu tries to connect to the device, but gives a DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) . – morphheus Jan 25 '14 at 03:16
As I pointed in the OP, I cannot even charge my phone (but I can do so on other ubuntu computers). This seem to be an install-specific problem, not a ubuntu-specific problem. – morphheus Jan 25 '14 at 03:17

Disconnecting android phone

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