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Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5

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On 2026-05-10 at 18:40 ADT, Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi.

> I recently had cause to try getting some photos off my phone on to my Pi5. 
> I was able to see the root folder on the phone when allowing PTP transport 
> on the phone, but was unable to navigate to any of the sub-folders.

> Presumably this is a permissions issue, but as the subject is somewhat 
> arcane to me, can anyone advise how I can get in to the DCIM folder on the 
> phone?

> This was the same whether the phone was plugged in via USB cable, or 
> connected by Bluetooth.

> Any advice gratefully received.

I have termux on my phone, which lets you use ssh to log in to the phone
from your laptop, and also lets you use scp to transfer files back and
forth.

termux' sshd is not run by default, but you can either run it from the
termux window or you could put a call to it in the shell's init file.

I find it much nicer to ssh in and cd around than to hunt using a gui file
manager, but YMMV.

                                Jim

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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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