[ale] Things I have learned about the HTC One m8

[Charles Shapiro]

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.
On Jul 4, 2014 5:25 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> On 2014-07-04 13:51, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Android 4.4 apparently has disabled USB mass storage to the phone in
> favor
> > of Microsoft's evil MTP protocol (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol ), designed mainly
> to
> > facilitate DRM controls on your devices.  There may be a way around this.
> > Linux MTP drivers are apparently buggy and troublesome. I need to do
> > further research.
>
> USB mass storage has been gone since Android Honeycomb (3.0).  UMS
> doesn't support file systems greater than 4GB (which is pretty much all
> phones after that point) and UMS didn't work well with Anroid 4.0's
> unified file system (single partition rather than dual partitions).  So
> they switched to MTP/PTP.
>
>
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