Connecting your Android phone or tablet to Ubuntu with MTPFS

Connecting your Android phone or tablet to Ubuntu with MTPFS

1. Setup
   First up, install the necessary tools with sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs
   Connect your Galaxy Nexus to your computer. On your phone, open up the notification drawer, and click on "USB Connection type". Make sure that MTP is selected.
   
   Then, run these commands:
   

   mtp-detect | grep idVendor
   mtp-detect | grep idProduct
   

   You shall get an output like this:
   Now, run these commands:
   

   gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
   

   A Gedit window should open up. Type this text in it, all in a single line:
   

   SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="VENDORID", ATTR{idProduct}=="PRODUCTID", MODE="0666"
   

   Replace VENDORID with the idVendor you had noted down earlier. Similarly, replace PRODUCTID with the idProduct you had noted down. In my case, they were 04e8 and 685c respectively, but they might have been different for you.
   Save and close the file. Then, disconnect your phone and run these commands:
   

   sudo service udev restart
   sudo mkdir /media/GalaxyNexus
   sudo chmod a+rwx /media/GalaxyNexus
   sudo adduser $USER fuse
   

   $USER is a default shell variable and should be the user you want to add (usually yourself). Now, run this command:
   

   gksu gedit /etc/fuse.conf
   

   In the Gedit window, remove the # at the beginning of the last line (the one that begins with #user_allow_other) like this:
   
   You're almost done! Now, restart your computer, and then run these three commands:
   

   echo "alias android-connect=\"mtpfs -o allow_other /media/GalaxyNexus\"" >> ~/.bashrc
   echo "alias android-disconnect=\"fusermount -u /media/GalaxyNexus\"" >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc
   

2. Usage
   Connect your phone, make sure your phone is using MTP and run android-connect.
   Voila! You can now browse your Android phone contents using Nautilus. Just fire up the file manager, and then in the side bar click GalaxyNexus to browse your phone contents just like you would do with a USB stick. You can also add, remove and modify files just like a normal file system.
   
   To safely remove the phone, just run android-disconnect.
3. Conclusion
   From now onward, you just need to run android-connect to mount your phone and then android-disconnect to safely remove your phone. Everything else should be handled automatically. I tried many ways of getting the mount and unmount to happen automatically on cable connect, but this was the best solution I could come up with.
   These two commands won't require root permissions to run. All users who are members of the fuse user group should be able to run these commands without root access.
   That's it! You've successfully connected your Ice Cream Sandwich phone to your Ubuntu computer. The process may be long for a newbie, but I’m sure someone will come around and make a GUI for all of this so that everything happens smoothly. :)
   
   
   http://askubuntu.com/questions/87667/getting-mtp-enabled-devices-to-work-with-ubuntu/308366#308366