How to check my mobile's phone contents

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Hello everyone. I just bought the usb cable that allows me to connect my samsung C5212 to my computer.

AFter plugging it in my computer I received the following messages:

[181418.820263] usb 3-1: Product: SAMSUNG Mobile USB Modem
[181418.820265] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Samsung
[181418.820266] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 000000-00-000000
[181418.888596] cdc_acm 3-1:3.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[181418.892493] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[181418.892495] cdc_acm: v0.26:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

For me it seems that my phone was correctly identified. What can I do now to access its contents?

Best Regards
Alex

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you could try kmobiletools, wammu (requires gammu) or bitpim (got to get from their site). I once use bitpim for my lg, it was ok, haven’t tried the others

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alaios wrote:
> Hello everyone. I just bought the usb cable that allows me to connect my
> samsung C5212 to my computer.
>
> AFter plugging it in my computer I received the following messages:
>
> [181418.820263] usb 3-1: Product: SAMSUNG Mobile USB Modem
> [181418.820265] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Samsung
> [181418.820266] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 000000-00-000000
> [181418.888596] cdc_acm 3-1:3.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
> [181418.892493] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
> [181418.892495] cdc_acm: v0.26:USB Abstract Control Model driver for
> USB modems and ISDN adapters
>
> For me it seems that my phone was correctly identified. What can I do
> now to access its contents?

It was correctly identified as a modem, not as a memory device.

I don’t know about your particular phone but my D600 can present itself
as either a modem or a mass storage device. In order to access the
content, I need to select the mass storage device. That is done via the
settings menu on the phone itself and has to be done every time; it
always defaults to modem. Even then, all that can be seen via the USB is
the contents of the extra microSD card that I have plugged into the
phone. I can’t see the contents of the phone itself.

I hope your phone is more flexible!

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Thank for that . MY phone is that flexible :slight_smile:

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alaios wrote:
> Thank for that . MY phone is that flexible :slight_smile:

I have no idea what that means.

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How did you work it out?

I received a similar message to

only with usb 2-1 instead of usb 3-1.
But neither wammu, nor bitpim, Xgnokii, or gMobileMedia worked for me on my C5212.
I could read a lot of data through setting it up as mass storage device, but I can’t read any sms - which is my main goal, as I could read my phonebook through a Phone Suite under M$.

Do you have any help for me?
Thanks in advance!

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On 2012-03-31 21:16, JohnSmith1999 wrote:

> But neither wammu, nor bitpim, Xgnokii, or gMobileMedia worked for me
> on my C5212.

Then bad luck, because as a mass device you will not see the SMSs.
Does your device has bluetooth? It is easier than via cable, there is a
standard.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I know - that’s why I wrote this post.

Bluetooth does not work with my laptop, but thanks for this suggestion. Maybe someone has another idea that might help?

Regards

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If you’re lucky, you may find that your device is supported (as a MTP device) by libgphoto2.

If you haven’t installed it already

zypper in libgphoto2

Plug your mobile phone device in, then try

gphoto2 --auto-detect

If all is well, it will appear listed in the output. (If not you’re out of luck with using ghoto2 at least).

Here’s a nice guide (if required)
2.2. Using the gphoto2 command line interface (CLI)

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Hi
There is always mtpfs as well… it’s in the packman repo.

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Hi
There is always mtpfs as well… it’s in the packman repo.

Yes, that might be worth a shot too. :slight_smile:

BTW, I forgot to mention in my previous post that if trying libgphoto2, you’ll want the ‘gphoto’ utility package as well.

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On 2012-04-04 22:06, JohnSmith1999 wrote:
> Bluetooth does not work with my laptop, but thanks for this suggestion.

Why is that?

Just for the record, I have a Nokia phone, and although it works in Linux
via bluetooth, it works much better with the manufacturer software, in
Windows. Unfortunate, but such is life.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Just curious have you tried a VM?

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On 2012-04-05 09:36, Sagemta wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2453774 Wrote:

> Just curious have you tried a VM?

Of course, that’s what I use. :slight_smile:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Well, the output got me:

# gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model                          Port                                            
----------------------------------------------------------

so no luck there. :frowning:

That got me the following:


/mnt/Samsung# mtpfs /mnt/Samsung/
/mnt/Samungs# ls -ll
total 0
/mnt/Samsung# cd ..
/mnt# ls -ll
ls: cannot access Samsung: Transport endpoint is not connected
total 12
d????????? ? ?        ?       ?            ? Samsung

Did I do something wrong with mtpfs? When unmounting, the file structure in /mnt looks fine again.

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Try mtpfs -o allow_other /{mount point} as a non-root user, root isn’t needed for a fuse file mount. It may not help the end point error which is common with mtp only phones/tablets. Google’s adb will work but its a command line tool which files can be pulled pushed to the phone. Also used for android development.

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Thank you all for the help so far.

Mmh, I couldn’t mount anything.


mtpfs -o allow_other /mnt/Samsung/
fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied

Even after I changed the permissions on fuse to ‘777’ I got the same message.

I don’t have an android phone, so I don’t think adb will work.

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Hi
Add a udev rule, this is what I use;


cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-asus.rules

# 51-asus.rules: Udev rule for ASUS Transformer TF101
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0b05", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", GROUP="users", MODE="0664"

Modify as required.

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