Not able to connect xperia tipo to Ubuntu

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I can connect my Xperia Tipo to Windows but not able to connect Ubuntu. Why is it so? Is there any changes that I need to make to my phone ?

What do you want to connect (USB storage, ADB, ...)? What happens when you connect your device to Ubuntu? Anything appearing? Did you check with the lsusb command if the device was recognized? Most likely some UDev rules are missing (your device not being known to the system). Though that should not matter to the USB storage. — Izzy♦, Dec 14 '12 at 11:23
Do you have the drivers installed on Ubuntu? For windows most Xperia devices automatically install drivers, it doesn't happen on Ubuntu.. — Suraj Bajaj, Dec 14 '12 at 11:40

Flow · Answer 1 · 2012-12-14 13:28:25Z

This question seems to come up every few weeks...

Ubuntu 10 (and sometimes above) requires manual editing of your udev config in order to recognize an Android device.

As root create the text file "/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules” and add this line for a Sony device:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="054c", MODE="0666"

Save the file and exit the editor, then set the permissions of the file and tell the udev system to reload the rules:

$ sudo chmod a+rx /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

mest · Answer 2 · 2013-01-15 11:40:10Z

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Maybe your phone is not in mass-storage-mode. Go to

settings / XPeria / connectivity

and set USB connection mode to mass-storage.

However, with this setting access is limited to the SD card; you won't be able to mount the internal memory.

answered Jan 15 '13 at 11:40

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