Created attachment 176400 [details] KDE Removable Devices applet incorrectly detecting Android as Portable Media Player. SUMMARY USB is detecting an Android phone as a 'Portable Media Player' and as a result, the phone can't be mounted and is not accessible. Phone is a Samsung Galaxy A11 (Android 10). STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Plug Android phone into a USB port. 2. Removable Devices applet appears. 3. Phone is erroneously detected as a Portable Media Player. OBSERVED RESULT Phone is detected as a Portable Media Player. EXPECTED RESULT Phone should have been detected as an Android device and made mountable/accessible. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Under previous Plasma version, phone was correctly detected as an Android.
That's how appears to Solid, unfortunately. Android devices by default use MTP for file transfer, which was historically used for portable media players. The system doesn't have a way to know the exact device form factor, AFAIK. I suppose we could genericize the terminology to "Mobile device" but I'm not sure if that would really be better. Or maybe I'm wrong and Solid has a way to distinguish. Moving to Solid.