How to connect an ANDROID-phone with USB for file transfer?

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My new REDMI phone does not allow file transfers over USB. In Developer-Options, the phone is set to File-Transfer Anroid-Auto. The PC has installed gvfs, gvfs-mtp and mtpfs.
What else might be missing or how to allow file transfer over USB?

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When you connect your phone via USB, do you see a Charging this device via USB notification? If so, choose it and select File Transfer.

The setting in Developer Options doesn’t actually seem to work.

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Have you tried kde connect to see if that allows it?

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Yes, I see the options: No Tranfer, File Transfer (AKTIVE) and Photos (PTP)

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Is your phone detected? Do you see it appear in your file manager (probably Dolphin)? Does it appear running lsusb?

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Thank you

Yes, and yes

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When I plug in my android phone in Dolphin it shows up in devices.
I then pull down from the top on the phone and scroll down where it says Android system and it says
Charging this device via USB
Touch for more options.
I touch that and select file transfer.
Close Dolphin and reopen it and it shows the files on the android phone.

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I have the same problem with a Moto G8 Power and Manjaro KDE.
The phone is shown as a device, Doplhin opens it but it keeps “Loading…” forever.
I have always used KDEConnect as a workaround but now I have to move a lot of GB and I would like more speed.

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No MANJARO-issue at all, more an user-caused problem. I have it now working as follows:

  • Switch the MobilePhone ON and unlock it.
  • The mobile’s screen shall be bright when plugging the USB-cable!!
  • Check, that the USB-option “File Transfer” as defined in the DeveloperOptions (ref. above) is still active, click on this line.
  • Enjoy the data-transfer …
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It doesn’t work for me.
Dolphin says: “No storage device found. Check that your device is unlocked and MTP is enabled in USB connection settings.”
If i select “PTP” instead of “File transfer” on my phone, i get:
“File or folder udi=/org/kde/solid/udev/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:27:00.4/usb5/5-1 doesn’t exist”.

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Update: i let the phone’s screen turn down, then I opened Dolphin again (it opens on the last folder used, so it opened on my phone) and this time it worked.
I started the file transfer, but it stopped after a while. For Dolphin the transfer is still going on, but at zero speed.

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