How to connect a Nexus 10 to transfer files?

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This is a similar question to How do I connect a Nexus 7 to transfer files? , But the solution given there doesnt work.

How can I connect Nexus 10 on ubuntu. It gives me an error (actually tries to access the device for 30secs and gives up) when I try to open the "Nexuis 10" Icon in the document viewer (Like how a USB is displayed)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '12 at 07:10

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I don't know if this will work on the 10, but what I did for my 7 was installed a program called gMTP. It's kind of slow and glitchy, but it works. I don't fully understand exactly why it doesn't just open like a regular flash drive though.

answered Nov 23 '12 at 07:10

FizzyGalacticus

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 20:00

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I came across this article discussing the topic, if it helpful at all. It specifically speaks to mounting Android 4.0+ devices in Ubuntu and the issues with MTP.

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-mount-android-40-ubuntu-go-mtpfs.html

answered Dec 19 '12 at 20:00

dtdlurch

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 18:37

Make sure that you update the firmware to 4.2.1 or whatever is the latest version before trying all the libmtp+fuse solutions out there.

When I first for my Nexus 10, it had 4.1 on it. The libmtp steps didnt work on it at that point. Then I updated the firmware to whatever the latest was (4.2.1 for me, took two reboots) and the steps started working for me.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 14 '13 at 01:31

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Use Go-mtpfs. It's fast and generally better than the slow PoS libmtp based mtpfs

https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs

answered Apr 14 '13 at 01:31

Aleksandr Panzin

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How to connect a Nexus 10 to transfer files?

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