[How to] Connect your Android Ice Cream Sandwich Phone to Ubuntu for File Access The Galaxy Nexus – such a great phone, and one that wows anyone who uses it. But there is one area in which the phone falls short: getting it hooked up to my Ubuntu laptop. This is because Google has moved away from the USB mass storage protocol, which was used up till Android 2.3, to the MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)
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