XIAOMI PHONE & THUNAR - Nightmare for file transfers !!!
by LinWinux from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6E28E)
Hi everyone,
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G Smartphone. I'm not sure if this issue began (about 4 months ago) due to MX updates or if it was related to a Xiaomi update, but getting file transfers between the phone and Thunar to work is a friggen nightmare. I take a lot of business photos and I'm also a hobby photographer, so this issue effects me at least twice each and every week. Here's the low-down of what's going on:
1. I plug the phone into a USB 2.0 port on my MX 21 system
2. Phone displays options .... No action, photo transfer, file + data transfer, cancel
3. I select file + data transfer because if I select photos the link vanishes from Thunar.
(so I have no choice, only data transfer keeps the devices link in Thunar active)
4. Thunar attempts to mount the phone for a few seconds during which the phone menu options go away.
5. Thunar is not able to mount the phone, no error messages, device link in Thunar is still visible.
6. Start over with step 3.
Today was the worst of all. Sometimes I have to repeat these steps 4 or 5 times before the phone data finally becomes visible in Thunar. But today it was between 12 and 15 times of repeating these steps. This is incredibly annoying, especially because I never had this issue on my Asus Zenphone 3 or even with this phone during the first few months that I owned the phone.
Does anyone know of a phone app, similar to the iDevice mounter in settings, which works better than the default file manager / usb port access?
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G Smartphone. I'm not sure if this issue began (about 4 months ago) due to MX updates or if it was related to a Xiaomi update, but getting file transfers between the phone and Thunar to work is a friggen nightmare. I take a lot of business photos and I'm also a hobby photographer, so this issue effects me at least twice each and every week. Here's the low-down of what's going on:
1. I plug the phone into a USB 2.0 port on my MX 21 system
2. Phone displays options .... No action, photo transfer, file + data transfer, cancel
3. I select file + data transfer because if I select photos the link vanishes from Thunar.
(so I have no choice, only data transfer keeps the devices link in Thunar active)
4. Thunar attempts to mount the phone for a few seconds during which the phone menu options go away.
5. Thunar is not able to mount the phone, no error messages, device link in Thunar is still visible.
6. Start over with step 3.
Today was the worst of all. Sometimes I have to repeat these steps 4 or 5 times before the phone data finally becomes visible in Thunar. But today it was between 12 and 15 times of repeating these steps. This is incredibly annoying, especially because I never had this issue on my Asus Zenphone 3 or even with this phone during the first few months that I owned the phone.
Does anyone know of a phone app, similar to the iDevice mounter in settings, which works better than the default file manager / usb port access?