kde connect and pos phone

Jim azanorak at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 10:40:26 MST 2018


The screen is not locked when I've tried this.  KDE connect does allow 
me to send data to the computer.  Until this is fixed, I'll just use 
sftp to send data to the desktop.  If it's a lot of data, I'll shut off 
the phone and put its SD card in the computer.

On 12/30/18 9:38 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> Not locked like carrier lock, I mean locked like in sleep, without a 
> pin.  You just need to wake it up, pin unlock the phone, as that tends 
> to lock storage.  I've noticed other things (like airdroid) won't 
> allow connection if it locks.
>
> -mb
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 6:42 AM Jim <azanorak at gmail.com 
> <mailto:azanorak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Do you mean the partitions can't be accessed as long as the phone
>     is locked to one carrier?  Stephen, I checked remote filesystem
>     browser in settings on the desktop, and it's enabled.  On the
>     phone kde connect has storage permissions and all other
>     permissions I can give it. (contacts, phone, sms, and storage)
>
>     On 12/29/18 10:26 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>     Make sure your phone is unlocked, android locks the partitions
>>     when the phone is, same as adb. Also, android is definitely weird
>>     about sd-card access, you typically have to unlock it specially
>>     to request permissions separately, I've run into this on numerous
>>     devices that access files there, and may limit connect.
>>
>>     I don't use kde or dolphin much to use this feature, but I know I
>>     *have* used it in the past, just don't remember details beyond above.
>>
>>     -mb
>>
>>     On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:08 PM Stephen Partington
>>     <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I would check in the connect settings and then the app
>>         permissions. This feels like Android security locking in place.
>>
>>         On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 10:01 PM Jim <azanorak at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:azanorak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>             I recently bought a Motorola Moto e5 cruise phone running
>>             android 8.  Kde connect works on it except for the
>>             feature that's supposed to allow for accessing files on
>>             the phone from the desktop machine.
>>
>>             In Dolphin, I click on the phone and see the internal
>>             storage and the micro SD card i added.   I also see
>>             folders that say Camera pictures (internal storage) and
>>             Camera pictures (SD card)
>>
>>             I try the camera pictures folder on the internal storage
>>             and I get: The file or folder
>>             /run/user/1000/aa7ea069101eb562/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera
>>             does not exist.
>>
>>             I try the camera pictures folder on the SD card and I get:
>>
>>             The file or folder
>>             /run/user/1000/aa7ea069101eb562/storage/30303030-2d30-3030-3000-40b6400040b6/DCIM/Camera
>>             does not exist.
>>
>>             Trying to open the internal storage folder: The file or
>>             folder /run/user/1000/aa7ea069101eb562/storage/emulated/0
>>             does not exist.
>>
>>             Trying to open the SD card folder:
>>
>>             The file or folder
>>             /run/user/1000/aa7ea069101eb562/storage/30303030-2d30-3030-3000-40b6400040b6
>>             does not exist.
>>
>>             This computer has Kubuntu 18.04 64 bit installed on it.
>>             Is this a problem with android 8? I know android gets to
>>             be more of a pain in the ass to use with each new
>>             version. It seems they're trying to make it so secure
>>             that people can't use it.
>>
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