Difficulties to connect to access an Android phone from Kubuntu 16.04

[Karsten Loh]

You are connected to a VPN by chance? If I'm connected to our VPN KDE
connect fails seeing the other as well, once I disconnect it works fine.


LLAP,

Karsten
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On 31.01.2018 15:22, Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Everybody.
>
> Thanks for all your input so far.
>
> Have installed KDE Connect at both my laptop and mobile. However, even
> when switching on both of them, the devices do not "see" each other
> via KDE Connect.
> My laptop is Lenovo X220 and has Kubuntu 16.04, updated via the
> backports. KDE plasma version: 5.8.8.
>
> My phone is a Samsung S5 mini, along with Android 6.01.
>
> Yours.
>
> Bas G. Roufs.
>
> 2018-01-31 7:51 GMT+01:00 Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr
> <mailto:girardhenri at free.fr>>:
>
>     I use kdeconnect indicator for sms it works great, but I must
>     admit it's a bit tricky to install, specially for me I use 18.04 :
>
>     https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/indicator-kdeconnect
>     <https://launchpad.net/%7Ewebupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/indicator-kdeconnect>
>
>     The other way is with android sdk, far the best if you intend to
>     upgrade android on smartphone. I got a nexus 4, I updated to
>     nougat 7. xx and an hp touch pad I updated too nougat 7 too.
>
>     with both at least you can get it with command line.
>
>
>
>     Le 30/01/2018 à 23:53, Bas Roufs a écrit :
>>     Have installed KDE Connect on both devices, however, they do not
>>      see each other, even if they function in the same network.
>>
>>     Yours.
>>
>>     Bas.
>>
>>     2018-01-30 23:19 GMT+01:00 Richard S. Crawford
>>     <richard at underpope.com <mailto:richard at underpope.com>>:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Bas Roufs
>>         <basroufs at gmail.com <mailto:basroufs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hello Everbody.
>>
>>             At earlier versions of Kubuntu, I could quite easily
>>             access the SD card and internal memory in my Android
>>             phones. I connected a USB cable in between the phone and
>>             laptop and the phone showed up as a "mass storage"
>>             device, after which I could easily transfer files between
>>             either devices.
>>
>>             However, ever since let's say Kubuntu 14.04 it's getting
>>             more and more complicated. Kubuntu 16.04 is even worse in
>>             this context.
>>             One error message that often comes back sounds something
>>             like "mtp protocol died unexpectedly.  Today, I got this
>>             error message:
>>
>>             /Internal Error/
>>
>>             //
>>
>>             /Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org/
>>
>>             //
>>
>>             /No such object path
>>             '/modules/kdeconnect/devices/ed509789b5640fb9/sftp'/
>>
>>
>>             Also this one shows up from time to time....
>>
>>             The only way out I have found so far is taking out the SD
>>             card of the phone, putting it in a bigger SD card case or
>>             into some USB device, after which I can access the card.
>>             However, this is a bit troublesome.
>>
>>             Any clue how to solve these problems?
>>
>>             Yours.
>>
>>             Bas G. Roufs. 
>>
>>
>>         ​Hi Bas,
>>
>>         You've probably already seen people recommending KDEConnect
>>         for this purpose. I use it, and have had no problems
>>         accessing files on my Android device.
>>
>>         Richard​
>>
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>>     Bas G. Roufs
>>
>>     Utrecht, NL, E. BasRoufs at gmail.com <mailto:BasRoufs at gmail.com>;
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