Have just purchased a brand new Xperia Z1 phone.
Phone has pc companion installed which can be downloaded to Desktop comp.
But…This is Windows software.
Could it work on Peppermint 4 through Wine.
Have no experience of using Wine.
Jocklad
Maybe but I doubt it, or it would be a pain to get USB working in WINE.
You have 2 options here
a) use Virtualbox to install Windows inside Linux, then run “Companion” from there
or better
b) just mount the device as an MTP device to access the phones storage.
Peppermint should automagically mount MTP devices … though you may need to tell the device to present itself as an MTP device.
But only the respin of Peppermint 4 has mtpfs installed by default … what’s the output from:
dpkg -l | grep mtp
and what happens when you plug your phone into a Peppermint PC via USB ?
ben@ben-Dell-DV051 ~ $ dpkg -l | grep mtp
ii libmtp-common 1.1.5-42-g6e96316-1ubuntu1 all Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) common files
ii libmtp-runtime 1.1.5-42-g6e96316-1ubuntu1 i386 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) runtime tools
ii libmtp9:i386 1.1.5-42-g6e96316-1ubuntu1 i386 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
ii mtp-tools 1.1.5-42-g6e96316-1ubuntu1 i386 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools
ii mtpfs 1.1-4 i386 FUSE filesystem for Media Transfer Protocol devices
ben@ben-Dell-DV051 ~ $
File manager is recognising the USB connection.
Obviously I did not allow the phone to install pc companion onto a linux system
Jocklad
What are you expecting to do with the phone and Linux ?
Purely for transfer of music/phot files ect.
Thought it might be easier using USB.
If this is a problem will use bluetooth instead.
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Quote:b) just mount the device as an MTP device to access the phones storage.
Peppermint should automagically mount MTP devices … though you may need to tell the device to present itself as an MTP device.
Have changed the phone settings to MTP.
Can now access.
Many thanks Mark. ;D
Jocklad
Great 