Plug in cable to PC, go into android USB setting and switch it to file transfer instead of charging mode, it should show in your file manager as a connected USB drive. ( you can tell everyone is a linux or phone techy, everone gave the complicated merhods that didn’t address the question asked, but @OP all the other methods work also )
TBF, KDE Connect is pretty convenient for this and other stuff
Of course, it’s awesome; so is GSConnect on Gnome, and syncthing is awesome, and fx on android with samba shares is great. Croc on mobile to PC, etc. just the dude asks how to use USB cable and gets recompile your kernel suggestion ( I’m being hyberbolic)
He can still use the Cable C to keep the battery on.
I have a Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS and I can never get it to find any other devices in KDE connect for some reason. Syncthing works fine though so I just use that instead.
I’d use Kdeconnect or syncthing
This is the way. MTP is horrible and adb is annoying.
MTP sucks, it’s even slower than good WiFi and half the time it locks up in the middle of a transfer.
syncthing doesnt use usb sadly
Mtp is your friend, here is hiw I do it on my devices (samsung a23 and both opensuse and arch):
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I connect my phone to my pc. Then select mtp in the phone notification.
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Start my file manager (dolphine or whatever) and access my phone storage from there.
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Make sure to allow the notification on the phone asking if you want to sahre your storage with the external device.
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For my LineageOS phone I use ADB:
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camerato get photos I’ve taken for example.Actually, I always end up using ADB tools to get files or photos, you can get recursive files to get them all. I do it even with people that tries to get photos from their Windows machines, so I don’t think it’s a problem with Linux neither. This is the best way to get safely and correctly all your files.
fun tip, if you have a samba share and your devices are in the same network, use a file manager that can connect to local network (like explorer by speed software), and transfer your files wirelessly. it seems to be equally fast too, i haven’t used a cable for ages except for killing updaters and bloatware with adb.
That’s pretty neat. There’s also an SMB client called CIFS Documents Provider (by Atsushi Wada) that’s Free (MIT License) & open source.
There is a package called android-transfer-file or something like that in the void repos but I’m not sure if its also in the mint repos, might be worth checking, its a gui app that makes it very straightforward to transfer files. Or in last resort you can always git clone the project and use ‘make’ to build manually the app
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