As far as I remember the cable I bought is good for charging as well as for data transfer.
USB-C to USB-C-Kabel 1 € 19,95
But in the menu of the FP5 the transfer menu is grey =blocked and the phone does not show up in my Ubuntu Mate PC.
I my old FP2 I had to activate the debugging or it started automatically.
Tried some other USB slot - but does not work either at the pc.
Only found another thread by a Frenchman who had the same difficulty with another phone - and also a cable doing both tasks - and one day by chance the menu showed up as activated without him doing anything.
Connect phone and PC with USB cable, in phone the settings search box type USB. You will see USB controlled by, open it and then select file transfer. If you don’t see that try another know working cable.
menu USB (all in German)
then comes: device which controls the usb connection
I chose connected devices - but it says:change to the connected device not possible
the possible tasks for transfer remain grey
I am sure the cable is for both tasks - charging and transfer
I suspect it has to do with the Murena OS …
no quite sure if I had to activate root somewhere in my previous fairphone 2
I’ll try it on my laptop - there the transfer from FP2 was possible - but this old cable is different
the Mate ubuntu should be able to pickup MTP when gvfs-backend is installed Settings → Connected Devices → USB → File Transfer (de: Einstellungen → Verbundene Geräte → USB → Dateiübertragung)
and then just mount the device in the file browser.
Other options for cable are plain adb pull or adb push. For simple networked file transfer there’s localsend, for continually syncing (involving a bit of setup) syncthing is alright.
