How can I mount my sdcard inserted into my pinephone running ubports when I connect the phone via usb-c to my windows desktop?

arturo2bodegas

The title says it all...I just got my pinephone yesterday, and it's running ubuntu touch version 46. development channel. I would like to put some music on the sdcard, but I don't know how to mount it so that it will show up in windows when I connect the phone...do I have to mount it through the terminal or something?

arturo2bodegas

@arturo2bodegas I just read on the gitlab page that MTP isn't implemented yet, I hope that this works soon.

edher

@arturo2bodegas I was about to ask the same thing. So, currently it's not possible to mount an SD card?

Keneda

You can use WifiTransfert to move files between phone and PC.

arubislander

@edher said in How can I mount my sdcard inserted into my pinephone running ubports when I connect the phone via usb-c to my windows desktop?:

@arturo2bodegas I was about to ask the same thing. So, currently it's not possible to mount an SD card?

I don't have a PinePhone myself (yet) but I think that mounting the SD card on the phone should be possible, if not done automatically. But mounting the phone's storage (internal and external) onto a computer connected to it still needs work to be done for it.

Giiba

I have done it before... but cannot say I remember which device it was. I recall the trick being you need to mount to a folder in your home directory (ie ~/sdcard ).

The command was simple:

sudo mount /dev/{xxxxxxx} /home/phablet/sdcard

I will see if I can duplicate the process this evening.

kugiigi

You have a couple of options at the moment which are not ideal but at least they would work.

First is as mentioned, using Wifitransfer app.
You can setup SSH if you're familiar with it.
You can power off your phone then press Volume up + Power until the phone boots into the "Installing Update" screen which you should ignore because it's not actually installing anything. Connect your phone to your PC and it should detect both the internal storage and sd card. Obviously with this approach, you can already just pull out the sd card and mount it directly to your PC but it's up to you which is more convenient