Friday 17 August 2012

Mounting a Nexus 7 on Ubuntu 12.04

..or any other Android 4+ device really. Here's a quick step by step guide to get your Nexus 7 (in my case) mounted on Ubuntu.


1. Install some modules
sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs

2. Create the file 99-android.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/

sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules


Pasted in the the following.. 
# Nexus 7

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"

2. Make it executable
sudo chmod +x /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

3 Restart udev
sudo service udev restart

4. Create a mount point

sudo mkdir /media/nexus7

chmod 755 /media/nexus7

5. Plug in device and ensure MTP is enabled

On the Nexus 7 bring down the menu, select usb connection and make sure the 'Media device (MTP)' is sticked and then..


sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/nexus7



Remember to umount the device

sudo umount /media/nexus7

df -h
.. to report storage levels
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16 comments:

  1. Dale19 August 2012 at 09:52

    Hello!

    Thanks for posting this - been trying for a while to get my Nexus 7 to mount for USB data transfer in Ubuntu (albeit I'm running 11.04).

    I got up to #2 ok, but then where do I paste in the "# Nexus 7..." information? I tried pasting into terminal but nothing seems to happens...

    Should I create a file using gEdit in that location and copy/paste the info there, then continue using the terminal commands?

    Thanks a lot for your help :-)

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    1. Dale27 August 2012 at 13:27

      Thanks for your help on this - it all worked well, even with a warning about permissions.

      Thanks again :-)

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  2. Jason Tang19 August 2012 at 10:05

    Hi Dale, yes paste in the lines beginning '# Nexus' and 'SUBSYSTEM==' into the file '/etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules'. Give that a go

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  3. Unknown23 August 2012 at 16:46

    my problem was the device appears mounted but does not allow me to copy onto to it error "Could not change permissions for /media/nexus7/Internal storage/Pictures/cccccccccc.jpg"

    I did as you suggested and still get the permissions error

    any ideas

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  4. Jason Tang24 August 2012 at 00:02

    Sounds like you need to adjust your mounting permissions. Look into mtpfs -h

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  5. Nathan Brauer20 September 2012 at 16:08

    Here's what I get...

    nathan@nathan-1213:~$ df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1 451G 118G 311G 28% /
    udev 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
    tmpfs 1.6G 1.2M 1.6G 1% /run
    none 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
    none 3.9G 382M 3.6G 10% /run/shm
    df: `/media/nexus7': Transport endpoint is not connected
    nathan@nathan-1213:~$ cd /media/nexus7
    bash: cd: /media/nexus7: Transport endpoint is not connected

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  6. Unknown10 October 2012 at 05:41

    Even I am facing similar issue as Nathan

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    1. Jason Tang10 October 2012 at 07:18

      Once you've plugged in your nexus 7 have you, in the drop down menu select the usb connection and make sure 'Media device (MTP)' has a ticked check box

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  7. Janík15 October 2012 at 13:16

    Thanks for help :-) I just have one question, is it possible, that Ubuntu mounts Nexus 7 everytime it detects, that Nexus is connected to USB?

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  8. Mandeep18 October 2012 at 01:30

    Thanks for this howto. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the SYSFS key is not recognized by udev. However, the following rule worked:

    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e41", MODE="0666" OWNER=""

    HTH,
    -mandeep

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  9. Unknown23 October 2012 at 19:47

    No need to make 99-android.rules executable, it's merely a configuration file.

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  10. Unknown14 December 2012 at 15:48

    Can we change the permissions so that it does not use the sudo? it will make much easier unmounting through nautilus

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  11. Borbon27 April 2013 at 00:37

    Anyone have learned how to sync using banshee ?

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  12. Edward4 June 2013 at 18:17

    Thanks, this was helpful.

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  13. Unknown24 September 2013 at 00:26

    Works fine the first time. Thanks. RH

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