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rcrsn51 wrote:Does it allow up/downloading? Or playing directly through a Puppy media player?

Yes to both.
a. I copied 1 jpg file and 1 mp4 file [selected at random] to /mnt/home/00/00...
Then...
Using those copied files [right-clicked on the files displayed in Xfe, and chose the programs from the context menu = the "file-centric method"]...
b. Used Viewnior to view the jpg photo image...
And...
c. Used GNOME MPlayer to play the mp4 video.

d. Both were successful.
Then...
e. Successfully deleted the /mnt/home/00/00 folder together with the 2 files inside.

No good Bill, and I was careful with the edit.. That removal breaks the mount.

That dialog's no hardship anyway as it lets me know *when* the device is ready.

@Sylvander: Just out of curiosity, how do you have your Xfe file manager set up? Did the MTP window open in ROX or do you have ROX linked so it opened in Xfe?

Can you manage the files on the MTP device directly from Xfe? ie. if you browsed to /mnt/CamPhoneTab.

@rcrsn51

1. "Did the MTP window open in ROX or do you have ROX linked so it opened in Xfe?"
a. When I run CamPhoneTab,..
I click the MTP radio button and then click "connect"...
An "sh" window opens saying: And...
b. No file explorer auto-runs.
Normally, I would manually run a chosen File Explorer...
Either ROX or Xfe, and then navigate to /mnt/CamPhoneTab...
But I now notice that I can click "View" in CamPhoneTab, and that will open a ROX window displaying /mnt/CamPhoneTab...
[I deliberately have ROX set as the default, not Xfe; there's a good reason which I have now forgotten]
However...
c. When I now do one of these...
The /mnt/CamPhoneTab folder is EMPTY!
I made sure the phone was plugged in and powered on prior to running CamPhoneTab.
d. It worked fine the 1st time, when...
d1. I booted into a session...
d2. Installed CamPhoneTab-1.1.10
d3. Connected the phone.
d4. Ran CamPhoneTab, clicked MTP, clicked Connect.
d5. Ran ROX and/or Xfe, navigated to /mnt/CamPhoneTab, and could see the "Pictures" folder, with its sub-folders, and could copy content from there to my internal HDD.

2. "Can you manage the files on the MTP device directly from Xfe?"
a. When it worked I could.
i.e. The 1st time I installed it.
I didn't save the session changes at the end of that [1st] session [to avoid saving other stuff I didn't want].
Instead, I rebooted without saving, and installed once again during the next [2nd] session, then SAVED the session changes, and closed down [this was the only change made during the session].
b. When I next booted [into the 3rd session = this one] I'm finding that the /mnt/CamPhoneTab folder is displaying NOTHING [empty].
Same [empty] in ALL = ROX, Xfe, and "View" in CamPhoneTab->[ROX].

3. I do remember, that...
There was a session [the 1st?] that FROZE after I installed CamPhoneTab, and I used Ctrl+Alt+backspace, then reboot.
Hence, no saved session changes.

4. Any ideas?

Correct! >> No file explorer auto-runs.

Correct! >> "View" opens the CamPhoneTab directory.

Doubtful >> "There was a session [the 1st?] that FROZE after I installed CamPhoneTab."

Though there was no activity light flashing from my box, I suspect the amount on data on your phone needed more time.

I experienced the same and let it play through to find it did eventually expose the phones directory structure.

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You should be able to connect and disconnect (closes all related windows) by merely clicking the appropriate buttons.

Connect >> "View" and see files.

Disconnect >> "View" and see CamPhoneTab is now unmounted.

Are you running the updated build?

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Bill, did you correct the apps version title-bar?

@Sylvander: If the terminal window shows "Connected", you should be good.

Click the View button. If the ROX window is empty, click the ROX Rescan button - the blue Recycle symbol on the tool bar.

In relation to the "Nokia Lumia 610:

1.

rcrsn51 wrote:@Sylvander: If the terminal window shows "Connected", you should be good.
Click the View button. If the ROX window is empty, click the ROX Rescan button - the blue Recycle symbol on the tool bar.

a. "Connected" is shown.
b. When I click the "View" button, the ROX window is empty.
c. When I click the blue "Rescan directory contents" button, it shows "(Scanning)" for a half-second or so, but no change, CamPhoneTab folder still empty.

@Semme
2. Though I give the ROX window AGES, it still doesn't display any content.

3. I can click "Connect", and "View", and "Disconnect", and is does all of those, but does not display content [after "View" and "Rescan"].

4. PPM shows "CamPhoneTab-1.1.10" installed...
...And yet the button on the taskbar displays "CamPhoneTab v1.0".

Sylvander wrote:4. PPM shows "CamPhoneTab-1.1.10" installed...
...And yet the button on the taskbar displays "CamPhoneTab v1.0".

That's OK. Only the background stuff changed. The GUI front end did not.

I don't know why you cannot repeat your original success.

The question here is whether the system is fragile with Windows phones or fragile in general.

That I've used both go-mtpfs and simple, the latter is a vast improvement on both 528 and Fatdog 700.

Go-mtpfs would always choke on trying to open my Androids "phone" directory.

Simple allows it to carry through and deliver.

Big Guy, for Sylvander, perhaps there needs to be some sort of /mnt, /tmp directory cleanup to reset the file system?

The original version is the one I'm using..

Tried this:

1. Booted from cold.
a. Once at the desktop, connected the tablet and powered it on.
b. An Xfe window appeared displaying /mnt, and including /mnt/GT-P5110.
c. Navigated to /mnt/GT-P5110/Tablet, and there were all its sub-folders.
d. Closed the Xfe window.
e. Ran CamPhoneTab, clicked MTP, clicked "Connect", sh displayed "Connected", clicked "View", ROX window opened displaying /mnt/CamPhoneTab folder EMPTY.
f. Ran Xfe, navigated to /mnt/GT-P5110/Tablet and all the folders still shown.
Xfe->/mnt/CamPhoneTab empty.
g. Looks like CamPhoneTab is no longer functioning; I'll uninstall it and reinstall it.

I don't understand this. Are you saying that Xfe suddenly got the ability to mount MTP devices on its own?

Xfe is your default FM?

Connected the tablet, powered on and an Xfe window appeared displaying /mnt/GT-P5110.

Sylvander, when you again mount your tablet on /mnt/GT-P5110/Tablet and see your sub-folders, run this: Yes, you'll find active.txt in your root folder. Gzip and attach or post it's contents..

@Sylvander: Are you testing this on a clean install (like you should) or does your setup already have some stuff that handles MTP?

1.

rcrsn51 wrote:Are you saying that Xfe suddenly got the ability to mount MTP devices on its own?

a. No.
At some time in the past, I set up the old arrangement for viewing the content of the tablet.
Cannot now remember how it worked, but...
It appears to have used go-mtpfs-20130628 and MTPconnect_0.9 to do the work [those are still installed].
I must have edited some config file to arrange that Xfe would auto-run to display /mnt.
Perhaps I should install CamPhoneTab-1.1.10 in one of my other Puppies that has no such arrangement installed.

b. Seems the old system is still working, and installing CamPhoneTab-1.1.10 hasn't disabled that.

c. Just now I tried uninstalling, then reinstalling CamPhoneTab-1.1.10, but that made no difference.
I could try deleting the slackosave.4fs file, and restoring a backup copy.
Might lose recent useful changes, but hey-ho that's life.
Unless you can suggest something better.

d. Strange that CamPhoneTab-1.1.10 was working fine at first [which is why I decided to save the installation changes], and now it isn't.

e. Will post again regarding more recent posts made whilst I was typing this.

rcrsn51 wrote:...does your setup already have some stuff that handles MTP?

Yes.
See 1a in post above.

1.

Semme wrote:Xfe is your default FM?

No, ROX is my default, but I must have made arrangements for Xfe to display the content under these circumstances..

2.

Semme wrote:Sylvander, when you again mount your tablet on /mnt/GT-P5110/Tablet and see your sub-folders, run this:

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ps ax > active.txt

Yes, you'll find active.txt in your root folder. Gzip and attach or post it's contents..

a. Done.
b. I can easily use Xfe to "Add to archive..." the "active.txt" file.
Decided to choose .tar.gz, don't know if that's the best, or whether it will be accepted as an attachment.
Here goes...

And here you have it! I'll now offer Bill the podium..

4095 tty1 S 0:00 /bin/bash /root/Startup/MTPconnect.sh
5623 tty1 Sl 0:00 go-mtpfs GT-P5110

When I shutdown or reboot...
GT-P5110 is shown being dismounted during the shutdown process.

That should happen.