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 · 11 Jun 2020, 19:17

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 · 11 Jun 2020, 19:22

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

edher · 16 Jun 2020, 03:15

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

Keneda · 16 Jun 2020, 07:53

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

arubislander · 16 Jun 2020, 19:16

@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 · 17 Jun 2020, 02:14

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 · 17 Jun 2020, 03:16

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

Peter Gamma · 25 Mar 2022, 12:28

@kugiigi Approach 3 is familiar to me with my Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android KitKat 4.4. and additional software I don t remember. KitKat 4.4. allowed to write to the external SD card, but I could not find a working 4.4 stock rom, so I am forced to change to another device.

Peter Gamma · 25 Mar 2022, 14:44

Now I remember, I had the Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) installed on the Galaxy S5. There was an option to mount the external SD card. It was an option which had to be ticked on, and it worked to access the (external) SD card via usb from a PC. But is this the same option as described here? There was as far as I remember only the extnernal SD card available.

Can the internal and external SD card be accessed from a PC with all Ubports devices in the mode describe here? Or is it PinePhone specific? If it works for all devices, then it is probably the easiest way to access phone files from a PC.

arubislander · 25 Mar 2022, 17:56

@peter-gamma, this only works on the PinePhone since in Recovery mode Jumpdrive is running, which exposes both the internal and external storage of the device over USB.

Peter Gamma · 26 Mar 2022, 05:08

@arubislander 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?:

Jumpdrive

Thanks. Jumpdrive

https://pineguild.com/jumpdrive/

is PinePhone specific?

arubislander · 26 Mar 2022, 07:14

@peter-gamma It would seem so.