Question about file transfer to Android device

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 11:07, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> ...
> With that and the problems with trying to create another ventoy drive, I
> am looking at having lost two days, over trying to simply write files to
> an Android device, because the operating system utilities require the
> hardware drivers for the Android device, for some weird  and illogical
> reason, rather than simply and logically performing the operation at the
> operating system level.

I would have said that libmtp is effectively part of the OS. How would
building libmtp into the kernel have helped?

I am not sure what you are complaining about. You are using an old
version of the OS, and it seems the problem is that the version of
libmtp that comes with the OS does not cope with your tablet.  Are you
saying that the authors of libmtp should have foreseen whatever the
problem is that prevents the tablet from connecting?  The mtp protocol
itself is not something (as far as I am aware) the Ubuntu has any
control over.

Also this is probably not a Mint or Ubuntu issue.  I believe that
Debian uses libmtp also.



Colin L.