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Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5
Date 2026-05-12 14:06 +0100
Organization A little, after lunch
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On 12/05/2026 09:43, Daniel James wrote:
> On 12/05/2026 00:09, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> PTP is a rather more specialized (i.e. limited) protocol and seems to 
>>> be designed to enable the PC to use the phone as a digital
>>> camera -- you'd have to be running something on the PC that
>>> understood cameras rather than a general-purpose file manager.
>>
>> I thought PTP was the earlier protocol, while MTP was the later 
>> generalization:
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> I don't think that contradicts what I wrote. PTP was the earlier 
> protocol, specifically for cameras, which was later generalized to 
> support full file transfer as a replacement for USB mass-storage.
> 
I didnt know that,
> Sorry for any confusion.
> 
NP


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Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> - 2026-05-10 22:40 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2026-05-11 11:37 +0200
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-05-11 11:14 +0100
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-11 23:09 +0000
      Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-05-12 09:43 +0100
        Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-12 14:06 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-11 12:32 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-11 14:00 +0100
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-11 11:56 -0300
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 08:59 +0000
  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-05-11 16:51 +0000
    Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-11 23:07 +0000

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