I often use go-mtpfs to mount mobile phones on Kubuntu 25.04, however today there were a number of problems with a Samsung galaxy S7.
It mounted okay, but couldn’t copy in beyond compare, msg’s like:
11/11/25 01:22:42 PM Unable to load /home/*********/myphone/Phone/Android/data/com.sec.imsservice/files: An operating system call failed.
so nothing was copied. The command lsusb returns
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy series, misc. (MTP mode)
Even using Dolphin with an attempt on a copy/paste had errors. Tried Android File Transfer, it’s not an easy tool to navigate and kept having problems mounting. Came upon a post at https://www.baeldung.com/linux/mounting-mtp-devices , tried that but
Error: Unable to locate package gvfs-mtp
on an apt install.
There are often
stream read errors on Kubuntu also, for the phone.
Related post at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/790786/how-to-mount-mtp-devices-independently-of-desktop-environment
So, I booted into a windows 10 SSD, and a copy , with the same phone, in Beyond Compare worked perfectly. Windows seems to be able to handle MTP devices with ease.
What MTP tools do you use to mount a mobile phone ?