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Could someone try to transfer files from a Mageia 4 test platform
to an Android 4.1 or newer Smartphone. Please share with us how
you did this. I do not have an Android 4.x phone.

A google search on "android 4.x linux file transfer" finds lots
of help.

Thanks

I use airdroid to transfer files between the phone and pc/laptop.

alf wrote:I use airdroid to transfer files between the phone and pc/laptop.

Thanks, airdroid is a webapp and as such is not in the Mageia Repo.
I'd also like to make sure something in our Repo works for a local xfer.
I'm moving really big video files to my Android phone, like 500MB mp4 files.

By Android 4.x, do you means stock ROMs or rooted? I'll just connect USB cable, and press the button to enable USB mass storage support.

doktor5000 wrote:By Android 4.x, do you means stock ROMs or rooted? I'll just connect USB cable, and press the button to enable USB mass storage support.

Specifically the Moto Series X & G but I'm told and read that any Android 4.x and newer requires some kind
of a special app to transport files to and from a Linux box to one of these Android phones. I have an Android 2.3.4
phone and it works just as you say. I tried my M3 Laptop to a Samsung Galaxy 4 USB and it didn't work at all.
But I'm reading that lots of linux boxes talk to the Galaxy line with a special app. I just want to make sure
that M4 has that capability.

Here's one solution:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-T ... 9629.shtml

wilcal wrote:

doktor5000 wrote:By Android 4.x, do you means stock ROMs or rooted? I'll just connect USB cable, and press the button to enable USB mass storage support.

Specifically the Moto Series X & G but I'm told and read that any Android 4.x and newer requires some kind
of a special app to transport files to and from a Linux box to one of these Android phones.

You didn't answer the question. Do you use stock manufacturer ROMs, or are the phones in question rooted/using custom firmware? E.g. CyanogenMod, AOKP ...
In the latter case, you can enable usb mass storage support, and the Android 4.X phone acts like any other mass storage device.
For stock manaufacturer ROMs, mostly they will use MTP (media transfer protocol) which requires some libraries and stuff, and there are different ways to access this.
Just take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
Also depends on the used desktop environment.

Apart from native access like that, there are alternative third-party solutions like airdroid, airstream or Samba, ftp, ssh ...

The phones I would be interested in would only contain "stock manufacturer ROMs".
Yes, I have seen and read about the MTP thing. I guess then that would be the
solution for now.

Thanks

You might also want to read http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=153 about MTP in general and it's shortcomings/limitations.