Greetings.
When i connect my Phone (Samsung A70) to my PC, it doesn’t recognize it and just stays on charging mode.
The cable and phone works fine with a windows PC, so what gives?
Also, i am aware that a similar problem exists with other distros, so i am just covering my bases here.
Just covering bases here, but is the phone unlocked while you plug it in, and you change the mode to file transfer (assuming that’s what you want)?
If so, I suggest trying a different USB port (specifically a different type), if your system has one.
-Phone unlocked
Yes
-Change the mode to file transfer
Doesn’t even give me the option, it just sees it as a charge port
I assume that USB Debugging on the Phone is On.
do you have adb installed?
what is the result of
adb get-state
Error: no devices/emulators found
and you have usb debugging turned on correct?
what is the output of
pacman -Qs mtp
Yes, usb debugging is on
and this is the output of the command:
local/ksmtp 25.04.1-1
Job-based library to send email through an SMTP server
local/libcddb 1.3.2-7
Library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (https://gnudb.org)
local/libmtp 1.1.22-1
Library implementation of the Media Transfer Protocol
the phone should show a pop up menu make sure the menu is set for file transfer
the only other thing I can think of is try another usb cable.
If you’re using KDE Plasma, I can totally recommend KDE Connect. Which wouldn’t even require a USB connection and should work via Wifi.
Would require to enable kdeconnect in the current zone of your firewall. Install the client on the phone via store and kdeconnect should be able to find the client when its opened on the phone.
did you accept the rsa signature on your phone? This usually needs to be re accepted if you have any phone updates and will refuse connection until you accept it.