However the images were not not visible in the phone’s Photos Hub gallery. The copy seem to work, the phone could be disconnected, power-cycled and re-connected and the files were still on the phone. png images to the phone’s picture folder or any of its subfolders has problems. PDFs copied to the phones’s Documents folder could be opened using the free Microsoft PDF Viewer from the Windows Store.Documents: Text files and Microsoft Office documents that had been saved with Microsoft Office and copied into the phone’s Documents folder could be opened with the phone’s Office app.m4a) songs copied into the phone’s Ringtones folder could be used as ringtones. Images and Videos, Phone to PC: I could open my photos and videos on the phone using the Gnome image viewer or VLC Player and I could copy them to a folder on the PC.That looked promising so I tried copying various types of files to and from what seemed like the appropriate folders. When I connected the Lumia to my Ubuntu Linux box with a USB cable, as expected, Linux recognized the Lumia as an MPT storage device and opened a Nautilus window displaying the phone’s pictures, documents, music, ringtones and videos folders (image, above). So it should “just work” with Windows Phone too, right? Well, yes and no. If I drop music files or videos anywhere in the Android phone’s drive, the Android Media player finds and plays them with no issues. At least when when connect my Nexus S phone running Android 4.1 to my PC running the ancient, but still supported, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, a Nautilus file explorer window pops up showing the phone’s internal “memory card” and I can copy files back and forth between PC and phone. Like Android 3.0 and later, Windows Phone 8 uses MTP (media transfer protocol) rather than USB mass storage for interfacing with a device’s internal Flash storage, and with the SD card if the device uses one (the Lumia doesn’t.)Īt one time their were some issues with MTP support in Linux, but they seem to be mostly fixed. It’s refreshingly different than anything else and fast, fluid and, for the most part, very intuitive.Īs a Linux user I wondered if it would be possible to connect the Lumia with my Ubuntu laptop and transfer photos, music, videos and documents back and forth. The Lumia runs Windows Phone 8 While there are a few things I don’t like about WP8, I’m enjoying the overall user experience. This is the first time I’ve used a Windows Phone device for more than a few minutes. Has loaned me a Nokia Lumia 920 to try out.
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