Help Mounting SGS in Ubuntu Linux

[wobble99]

Can anyone tell me how to mount the phone on Ubuntu Linux (LTS)? None of the suggestions I have seen in other threads work for me. I have set the phone in mass storage mode which is enough for it to work in windows but not Linux. I see several error messages with dmesg but I don't understand them (like "usb1-1: device descriptor read error -32").

 

[justiyad]

I think the phone has to be in debug mode. With the android SDK installed on the computer.

 

[Hadesanubis]

usb debugging on plug it in drag the notifications down click turn on file transfer and it mounts the sd cards you have

 

[wobble99]

Still doesn't work.

I get an error dialog "VirtualBox - Error"

Failed to attach the USB device Unknown devuce to the virtual machine

E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)

 

[wobble99]

Bump

 

[snapper.fishes]

Do you have Android develop kit installed? It's available from Google.

 

[wobble99]

Yes. I do have the SDK installed.

 

[snapper.fishes]

Yes. I do have the SDK installed.

Strange. I can tell you that it is definitely possible to mount the SGS onto Ubuntu (since I also uses Ubuntu) in debug mode. Might have something to do with the fact that you are running ubuntu in virtual machine (as opposed to a direct installation to another partition).

 

[wobble99]

I've just discovered that my previous phone's software had replaced my low level USB driver on my host OS (WinXP) . I've fixed that issue now but haven't tried to connect the phone through the Linux VM yet (got bigger problems now -- newest version of Kies does not work).

 

[snapper.fishes]

I've just discovered that my previous phone's software had replaced my low level USB driver on my host OS (WinXP) . I've fixed that issue now but haven't tried to connect the phone through the Linux VM yet (got bigger problems now -- newest version of Kies does not work).

Why VM though? Why not just install it directly in a small partition?

 

[wobble99]

I would have thought the answer to that was obvious. But here's three reasons for you:

1. I don't have any unpartioned disk space and I don't want to shrink any existing partitions.
2. It is more hassle to do the above than to create a VM.
3. I want to be able to use the Linux OS without rebooting.