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  any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-20 19:43 -0800
    Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-02-21 12:12 +0000
    Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-02-21 14:52 -0500
      Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Sarcastic Fringehead <none@none.none> - 2015-02-21 14:47 -0600
        Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-02-21 16:28 -0500
    Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Andreas Kohlbach <feb15.5.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-02-21 15:48 -0500
    Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-02-22 03:30 +0000
      Re: any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-23 14:23 -0800

#13713 — any favorite linux usb friendly flip phone?

Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
camera will allow Linux to plug into its USB port
and read it pictures?

Many thanks,
-T

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#13716

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:43:37 -0800, T wrote:

> Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose camera will allow
> Linux to plug into its USB port and read it pictures?

Take a look at the gMTP package.

Using that, I was able to copy files from the Gallery folder of my 
Samsung Galaxy 3 Mini connected by USB to my Mageia-4 system.

-- 
/\/\aurice
(Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)

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#13718

T <T@invalid.invalid> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
> camera will allow Linux to plug into its USB port
> and read it pictures?

Not a dumb camera but I wrote a script using gphoto2
that copies new images to the hard disk and/or
removes photos from the camera.

This works for a Kindle and Samsung Galaxy.
My guess is that it would work for almost any device.

-- 
Dan Espen

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#13719

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:52:22 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:

> Not a dumb camera but I wrote a script using gphoto2 that copies new
> images to the hard disk and/or removes photos from the camera.
> 
> This works for a Kindle and Samsung Galaxy.
> My guess is that it would work for almost any device.

So how about posting a link to that script? Open source it.

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#13721

Sarcastic Fringehead <none@none.none> writes:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:52:22 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> Not a dumb camera but I wrote a script using gphoto2 that copies new
>> images to the hard disk and/or removes photos from the camera.
>> 
>> This works for a Kindle and Samsung Galaxy.
>> My guess is that it would work for almost any device.
>
> So how about posting a link to that script? Open source it.

I might, but it's not all that hard to reproduce.
It's just under 100 lines of Perl.
Many aspects to such a script are not really general purpose.
So far, I keep all Samsung photos in one folder, all
Kindle photos in another.  I don't change the names of the images as the
camera assigns them, so:

chdir disk-folder
glob "*"

Produces a list of everything already captured.

gphoto --list-files

produces a list of everything in the camera.

The Perl Array::Utils package allows the script to a produce
list of images in the camera and not on disk.

Then it's a simple manner to either get the images in the
camera that are not on disk, or delete the images in the camera
that are no longer on disk.

I'm not clear on how many people would want to manage their
devices that way.

-- 
Dan Espen

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#13720

T wrote on 20. February 2015:
>
> Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
> camera will allow Linux to plug into its USB port
> and read it pictures?

photo2 in case the camera's memory isn't recognized as mass
storage. Execute

tail -f /var/log/syslog

(or where ever your logs come down) and then plug in the phone and see
what happens. You can abort this with CTRL-c.

If it's a smart phone running Android you could use adb to pull files
from the file system on the Android phone.
-- 
Andreas

I wish my grass was emo. Then it would cut itself.

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#13722

On 2015-02-21, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
> camera will allow Linux to plug into its USB port
> and read it pictures?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T

For a dumb flip phone, I like the Alcatel A392G labeled for
TracFone, available at WalMart for ~$30.  When the USB port is
plugged in, the phone displays a menu with options for charge
only, mass storage, webcam, and perhaps something else.  I use
rsync to quickly upload pictures from the phone.

Fwiw, I found rsync to be massively faster than gphoto[2] for
that purpose, because gphoto[2] requires reading the metadata for
every file on the storage device _EVERY_ command, even if you're
just trying to copy one file.

HTH    

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

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#13749

On 02/21/2015 07:30 PM, Robert Riches wrote:
> On 2015-02-21, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
>> camera will allow Linux to plug into its USB port
>> and read it pictures?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>
> For a dumb flip phone, I like the Alcatel A392G labeled for
> TracFone, available at WalMart for ~$30.  When the USB port is
> plugged in, the phone displays a menu with options for charge
> only, mass storage, webcam, and perhaps something else.  I use
> rsync to quickly upload pictures from the phone.
>
> Fwiw, I found rsync to be massively faster than gphoto[2] for
> that purpose, because gphoto[2] requires reading the metadata for
> every file on the storage device _EVERY_ command, even if you're
> just trying to copy one file.
>
> HTH
>

Thank you all!

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