BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Accessing files from Android phone on Pi5
De:       Lawrence D?Oliveiro
Data:     Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:01 +1100
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On Mon, 11 May 2026 11:14:42 +0100, Daniel James wrote:

> On my Android devices (Sony phone and Samsung tablet, both Android
> 16) the I select "File transfer" rather than "PTP", and I can
> navigate anywhere. ISTRT the required setting on an earlier device
> was "MTP".
>
> PTP is a rather more specialized (i.e. limited) protocol and seems
> to be designed to enable the PC to use the phone as a digital camera
> -- you'd have to be running something on the PC that understood
> cameras rather than a general-purpose file manager.

I thought PTP was the earlier protocol, while MTP was the later
generalization:

PTP -- transfer only pictures
MTP -- ?M? for media -- transfer other stuff, not just pictures

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

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