Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

[Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor <mcp_reznor@hotmail.com>]

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From: Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor <mcp_reznor@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2024 1:38 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downloading from cell phone to Gentoo



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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2024 12:33 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
>> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
>> The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
>> I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.

>MTP can be a bit tempermental if that's what's being used. It's been
>around for enough years that it should "jsut work", but that's still
>no my experience, even with recent phones. I usually fire up an sftp
>server on the phone and do file transfers via Wifi. I find it to be
>less hassle and faster.

I've been using KDE Connect for quite awhile, you should give it a shot.  It's in the main gentoo portage tree, and once you install it, it'll give a link to the android apk in the install completion info.

Forgot to add, KDE Connect opens a port on your computer and phone for the app to connect, it uses my WiFi, so no need for a transfer cable of any kind.