on my PC=Dell latitude E6510, RAM=8Gb, GPU=GT218 NVS 3100M, CPU=i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, OS=opensuse 13.1 KDE= 4.14.3 if I connect via USB my phone sony Z1 compact with android 4.4.4 setting the phone to use MSC protocol dolphin gives this error:
An error occurred while accessing '59.5 GiB Removable Media', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/root/3564-3462: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdb1" "/run/media/root/3564-3462"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
this is the dmesg output:
[87666.558417] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci
[87666.644496] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=e1a7
[87666.644502] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[87666.644505] usb 2-1.3: Product: D5503
[87666.644507] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony
[87666.644509] usb 2-1.3: SerialNumber: CB5A1Y2MBZ
[87666.645488] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[87666.645578] scsi10 : usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0
[87667.649914] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY Mass Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[87667.650697] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[87669.660088] ready
[87669.660728] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 124735488 512-byte logical blocks: (63.8 GB/59.4 GiB)
[87669.661536] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[87669.661544] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[87669.662280] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[87669.672429] sdb: sdb1
[87669.676057] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
pla@suseST-pla:~>
if I set the phone to use MTP protocol nothing happens and nothing appear in available devices in the system tray.
this is the dmesg output:
[87518.107532] SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:24:d7:08:09:34:a0:e4:53:c4:e4:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.107 DST=192.168.1.105 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=59835 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33214 DPT=1714 WINDOW=14600 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A04EF7D400000000001030307)
[87522.598169] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-pci
[87522.684859] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=01a7
[87522.684868] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[87522.684873] usb 2-1.3: Product: D5503
[87522.684878] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony
[87522.684882] usb 2-1.3: SerialNumber: CB5A1Y2MBZ
pla@suseST-pla:~>
if I connect my samsung S4 mini with android 4.4.2 it works, and it seems it doesn’t allow to choose from MTP and MSC protocol.
here is the dmesg output may be it helps
[87998.036315] SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:24:d7:08:09:34:a0:e4:53:c4:e4:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.107 DST=192.168.1.105 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=57528 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33280 DPT=1714 WINDOW=14600 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A04EFF49D0000000001030307)
[87999.820359] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 15 using ehci-pci
[87999.907828] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[87999.907837] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[87999.907843] usb 2-1.3: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[87999.907847] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[87999.907851] usb 2-1.3: SerialNumber: 0c403f4b
pla@suseST-pla:~>
have you any suggestion to have my xperia z1 compact working with USB cable??
manythanx, 
ciao pier