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Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5

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On 2026-05-10, 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.

If none of the other options suggested so far by others work, if
your phone runs Android you might be able to use the Android
Debug Bridge (adb).  It takes a bunch of key presses to enable
USB debug access on the phone--and disable it when finished--but
it does provide non-root access to the phone's file tree.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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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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