UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi,

OK, I was have trouble getting anywhere. Android itself won't accept all the commands and will simply ignore the sleep command.
So I tried hooking my phone up to a Ubuntu VirtualBox. Unfortunately the VirtualBox is unable to properly mount the phone.

So I now created a live USB stick with Ubuntu on it. I am able to access the phone and all my files.

However, when I execute the commands, I get an error message, that the the "regular file" cannot be created. It creates all the folders/subfolders but is unable to write any files.

I can open the drive manually, create and delete folders etc., so access seems to be there, but why can't it write any files?

Does th system have to be a properly installed Linux? Won't it work on a LiveCD-type system?

can you post the exact commands that you used.

Sorry for the delay. I made a new USB Live Distro. This time with Mint instead of Ubuntu. Just to make sure.

But I get the same errors.

Code:

mint@mint /media/mint/C/-= D =-/S6edge Backup $ stat -c '%Y %n' * | sort -n | while read mtime file; do cp -R "$file" /run/user/999/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D/Phone/test/; sleep 1; done
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/user/999/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D/Phone/test/apps/2017-09-19_23-53.novabackup': Operation not supported
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/user/999/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D/Phone/test/apps/2017-09-19_23-54 - foldersync.db': Operation not supported
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Any ideas?

Folders were created but no files.

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Solved it switching to ptp instead of mtp. But then sleep was ignored and some files failed

Stupid question, but why not use the -p option to cp? This preserves modification timestamp and attributes.

Andrew

Because Android Nougat only allows root users to modify/write timestamps.
It's a known bug in Android 7.0 and won't be fixed until 8.0, which will not be made available to the Samsung S6 edge :-(