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I hate the way Samsung uses to transfer files, I wonder if there is a driver or something i can install to fix this problem because I downloaded a driver on Windows in order to use my s3 mini, I am new in Ubuntu so please someone help me please. OK this is the problem... I connect my phone, ubuntu mounts it but i can't open any file, only copy or move them. I want to open them directly instead of moving the file to the Pc... please help me...

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I had this problem after upgrading to 14.04.

Under 13.10 I got the Samsung tablet set up to do its usb as a camera. You need to get into the usb menu on the tablet (which only shows when the usb is connected!) There is a usb symbol at the top of the screen.

This didn't work after upgrading to 14.04. So....I set the tablet usb to MTP and ...

I installed mtp-tools and mtpfs like this from the command line. 

sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs

That did not work straight away. Then I installed gMTP. gMTP did not work.

But after running gMTP and closing and opening Nautilus (the file manager), Nautilus started to see both my Samsung tablet and the SD card on it. I can transfer files normally.

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Last time I was trying to connect my Note 2, I experienced similar issues - previous versions of Android would just mount as an external drive etc. The change to the supported protocols was a Google/Android thing, not Samsung.

I tried some of the things mentioned above, but with only very limited success - I ended up using "Airdroid" to do the transfers of music etc wirelessly, as it was just too much faffing about to sort the wired connection.......

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