Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: If it is possible I don't know how, but my bet is it is something of those new fashion things. There is no USB offered: developers mode (which is networking over usb), I need to check if I disable it it would change behaviour. Anyway the question is , because I looked in tdebase-tdeio-plugins-trinity and I found nothing regarding MTP: Description: core I/O slaves for TDE This package includes the base tdeioslaves. They include, amongst many others, file, http, ftp, smtp, pop and imap. . It also includes the media tdeioslave, which handles removable devices, and which works best with procfs, udev, and udisks2/udisks/pmount. Media also extends the functionality of many other tdeioslaves. To use this service, please make sure that your user is a member of the plugdev group. Another option would be that the phone is incorrectly handled as camera device and I need to change or add somewhere the vendor and product id, so that it recognizes it as USB. Not even sure if the phone would support this - I will try tomorrow with wi-n-do in the office. So the question is if someone where has experience with MTP in TDE - would help me rule out this part of the game. thanks

I have had moderate success with jmtpfs; it requires java. I mostly use ssh with an ssh client installed on my phone (a cheap Samsung device).