SonyEricsson U5i and camera importer
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Can not see any file/folder in importer dialog - no tree, no files with SonyEricsson U5i (e.g. Symbian 9.4 with Gwenview 4.11.3 / KDE 4.11.3 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS)
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Hi Molostoff,
Can you see the folders with Dolphin? If so can you post a screenshot of the tree? |
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1) with plasma usb tray icon widget - dolphin button opens home folder (/home/user), so just with obvious options I can not see camera contents 2) if I open dolphin manually, and set path to 'camera:/' then I see the following: http://postimg.org/image/ipyox7wi5/ have ho idea what does this mean, but seems these folders are shown as empty, while it is not really true - camera is full of images. |
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The camera:/ protocol is an implementation of PTP - a common mechanism used to access cameras. This explains why Gwenview is unable to see any images. Please check the settings on your camera to verify the correct storage device is being made available (some will only make either internal or external storage available - and in most cases you are saving images to the external storage).
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this explains nothing to me, man. here below is the contents of summary.txt from camera:/ URL, as you can see both sources of data are presented (card and phone), so your supposition is not correct. Also, phone has no settings to store images on card or on phone (I dont know why, perhaps all computer guys became clever enough)
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Okay - that information definitely clears a few things up. If you remove the storage card from the phone and connect it directly to the computer using a card reader, are the images visible on it?
Based on the size of the internal memory, I suspect the phone always saves images to the storage card - the above will confirm this.
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Yes, those images are really visible. But this connection becomes non-PTP, but just regular USB storage. The subtree with images on card is named /Images/Camera/ with subdirs for each date. (all subdir and image names are [A-Za-z0-9_]+ ). Also I have tried MTP connection (just installed mtp related stuff from ubuntu repo) - the result is that camera is detected, dolphin shows device name on the device panel, but gwenview importer shows "error 150" . With PTP connection Gwenview importer is more adequate - it shows usb device name, I can push button with that name and subtree selection pane shows... nothing  - both views (subtree and image selector) are empty. Dolphin also shows empty subtree, so I suspect that the problem with the driver for PTP, but I dont know how to frobnicate it.(btw, SE Vivaz U5i internals are the same as any Symbian S60 9.4, my one is not hacked and still provide natural Symbian functionality) |
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Does browsing the device through Dolphin via MTP work correctly (ie. are all files shown)?
Unfortunately i'm not sure if this is a bug in the Symbian or KDE implementations of PTP. As gphoto2 supports PTP as well, could you try testing with it to see if it is able to get a full listing of files over PTP? http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/using-gphoto2.html
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With MTP Dolphin show subtree and all files, but opening file (image) with kde viewer (okular, gwenview) disconnects phone. But I can copy/paste image to local folder (yep!). So as I see it, functionality of mtp is ok (simple copy), but gwenview or okular can not process it saying that mtp process unexpectedly ended. there is a dmesg output:
after reset phone disconnects...
gphoto2:
This thing I can not explain, but can test everything you can ask, so any help welcome! At the moment phone can be accessed 1) upnp via wifi (through vlc upnp client) - very slow 2) usb mass storage mount (directly) - ok 3) blutooth directory and files (aka obex) via dolphin - ok 4) mtp via direct file copy (through dolphin 'file copy/paste') - ok |
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The inability of Okular / Gwenview to access the phone over MTP is unusual - it looks like they may be triggering the "multiple MTP connections" issue - many devices do not support more than one session and behave unusually when this occurs.
Based on the output of the gphoto2 command, and previous comments regarding lack of configurability, it would appear your phone doesn't correctly expose data for access over PTP unfortunately. You'll need to use mass storage or MTP to access your phone.
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thanks! |
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