Sorry if this has previously been answered…i have searched some of the similar answers but not found what i was looking for.
I installed /e/ on my Samsung Galaxy S5. I want to transfer files via USB or via Bluetooth. Neither are recognised on my Linux Mint machine, although the computer charges the phone, so knows its plugged in.
When I go to USB Preferences, it won’t allow me to select any of the four options (file transfer, USB tethering, PTP, No data transfer).
I never had this problem with Lineage…I just plugged it in to my laptop and Lineage asked me what I wanted to do!
i can’t reproduce this behavior on my (debian testing) linux machine (utilizing the cinnamon desktop envrionment) and a connected xiaomi MI 8 mobile phone. it always worked. in /e/ 0.12-p just as in the new 0.13-p release.
i can’t switch the master/slave options at the top, but file transfer, tethering, PTP etc. are selectable and work.
I had a thread some months ago which took also these problems into focus, look here and scroll down a bit.
Linux access is still a problem. That’s why I use an FTP server on my phone, the Linux machine has a filezilla running which is the FTP client. This does always work in both directions.
if you want to connect e.g. a consumer camera, you will very likely stubble over more mysteries and configuration obstacles.
it’s just important, that all necessary system and desktop components are indeed available resp. working on your machine (e.g. mtp-probe from libmtp-runtime and gvfs-backends etc.).
for more comfortable local file synchronization (i.e. without utilizing cloud services) Syncthing resp. Syncthing-fork looks rather handy.
