<p dir="ltr">Interesting. Thanks for the information. My computers don't support MTP, so I am still exploring options here. I did get my contacts and passwords transferred, so I'm out of immediate trouble anyways. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2014 5:25 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2014-07-04 13:51, Charles Shapiro wrote:<br>
<br>
> Android 4.4 apparently has disabled USB mass storage to the phone in favor<br>
> of Microsoft's evil MTP protocol (<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol</a> ), designed mainly to<br>
> facilitate DRM controls on your devices. There may be a way around this.<br>
> Linux MTP drivers are apparently buggy and troublesome. I need to do<br>
> further research.<br>
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USB mass storage has been gone since Android Honeycomb (3.0). UMS<br>
doesn't support file systems greater than 4GB (which is pretty much all<br>
phones after that point) and UMS didn't work well with Anroid 4.0's<br>
unified file system (single partition rather than dual partitions). So<br>
they switched to MTP/PTP.<br>
<br>
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