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Android phone access in Dolphin does not work

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I'm running stretch/AMD64 and I'm having extreme problems accessing my 
Samsung S5 phone from my Plasma5 desktop.

When I plug the phone in, I get the notification with 2 suggested 
actions. They both read "Open with File Manager" but the first one opens 
Dolphin with "camera:..." while the second opens Dolphin with "mtp:..." 
in the location bar. When I actually try to navigate to the folder with 
my photos, I get a notification on the phone telling me a device is 
attempting mtp access... When I click "Allow", I get another 
notification pop-up on my desktop with the same two options...

When I actually try to access the photos, I frequently get "process 
died" or "I/O error" messages, although sometimes I can actually see a 
photo (not just the file names) - persistence pays off. Moreover the 
phone will lock when connected, even if a file transfer is underway. 
This kills the transfer.

To make matters worse, I have photos and videos that I have taken which 
show up in the Gallery on the phone and which I can view on the phone 
and see when I remove the SD card and read it directly but which don't 
show up in Dolphin.

Clearly this is not the way the process is supposed to work. I can 
understand the phone requesting a verification for the connection, but 
everything on the desktop side seems wrong:
- the two actions should be distinguishable by their description,
- the process shouldn't die and if it does, it should relaunch,
- the connection should block the phone from locking if locking will 
stop file transfers,
- there should be a record of the error in a log somewhere. As it is, 
all I can find is a lot of systemd journal entries like "Jan 24 14:01:33 
transponder kernel: usb 4-5: usbfs: process 20598 (mtp.so) did not claim 
interface 0 before use" which seem to occur before the device is 
actually recognized.
- all the photos should show up.

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Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-01-24 20:50 +0100
  Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work ken <gebser@mousecar.com> - 2017-01-25 19:00 +0100
    Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-01-25 19:30 +0100
      Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-01-27 05:50 +0100
        Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-01-27 08:50 +0100
        Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work ken <gebser@mousecar.com> - 2017-02-02 21:40 +0100
          Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-02-02 22:10 +0100
    Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work RLewis <lewis.r0516@rogers.com> - 2017-01-28 17:40 +0100
      Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-02 03:00 +0100
        Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work RLewis <lewis.r0516@rogers.com> - 2017-02-02 14:10 +0100
          Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-03 05:50 +0100
            Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work RLewis <lewis.r0516@rogers.com> - 2017-02-03 23:00 +0100
              Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-07 06:30 +0100
                Re: Android phone access in Dolphin does not work RLewis <lewis.r0516@rogers.com> - 2017-02-08 04:20 +0100

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