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I used to have a Samsung Galaxy Fit that worked out of the box with Banshee.
I recently bought a new Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, I tried to sync it using Banshee, but it doesn't show up.
It does mount when I switch to Mass Storage mode, and I can see it using lsusb but running mtp-detect outputs No raw devices found.
I'm running Gnome 3 on Arch Linux.
According to the libmtp homepage (the source of mtp-detect):
If you happen upon a device which libmtp claims it cannot autodetect, please:
- Submit the vendor ID and device ID as a bug, patch or feature request on the Sourceforge bug tracker at our homepage.
- If it gives a sensible output from "mtp-detect" then please attach the result as well as it teaches us some stuff about your device.
- If it doesn't give sensible output, attach the output from "lsusb -v" for your device.
- If you want to be able to hack some more and you're not afraid of C hacking, add an entry for your device's vendor/product ID and a descriptive string to the database in the file src/music-players.h.
- If you want to poke around to see if your device has some special peculiarities, you can test some special device flags defined in src/device-flags.h by inserting them together with your device entry in src/music-players.h. Flags can be tested in isolation or catenated with "|" (binary OR). If relatives to your device use a certain flag, chances are high that a new device will need it too, typically from the same manufacturer. The most common flag that needs to be set is the DEVICE_FLAG_UNLOAD_DRIVER that detach any Linux kernel drivers that may have attached to the device making MTP access impossible.
