Problem Mounting Mobile Phone Device In Filesystem

Hey All,

Although I’m a long-time Unix/Linux user, I’m pretty much a novice user of KDE Plasma (Fedora f42 Edition). I did a forum search for previous topics on the subject, but didn’t see anything specific to my issue. So…

I’m trying to plug in my mobile phone, which is a Pixel 4a (5g), and mount the device storage somewhere in my filesystem. This would allow me to sync, say, my Music folder tree using rsync. I’ve tried a bunch of variants of gvfs, but—maybe not so surprisingly—none of them work.

What I have found is that when I connect the phone via USB-C, which I’ve set up to connect as as ‘File Transfer/Android Auto’ device in my phone settings. This is recognized on my laptop as an MTP device and auto-connects to the File Manager (Dolphin). This is not what I want. If I try to mount it using gio mount the system won’t allow this because the device is already mounted by the File Manager.

I looked around a bit in the KDE Plasma settings, and found a section called Connected Devices→Device Actions, which appears to control this auto-connectioin thing. I’d like to delete this action, but the menu disallows it.

Can anyone of you pros out there give me a hand to do what I’d like?

Many thanks!

Hey All,

I posted this several weeks ago and there were no replies, so I thought I’d re-up to see if I can generate some interest in helping me solve this puzzle.

tl;dr When I plug my mobile phone into my laptop usb-c port, I don’t see any option to mount the device in the filesystem; making it available in Dolphin doesn’t work for me. Can someone here help me out with that? Thanks!