[Animats]

Oh? An Android phone plugged into a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system appears as a USB drive. Android brings up a popup asking if you want to enable USB access (a basic security measure against hostile charging ports) and, if allowed, the phone's storage appears as a folder.

[LeonidasXIV]

An Android 2.x phone. Android 4.x+ replaced the MSD protocol they spoke with MTP which nobody seems to get right so you have FUSE filesystems like jmtpfs, mtpfs-simple etc to deal with your particular brand of breakage.

[NoGravitas]

That was a pretty valid criticism about 2 years ago. I haven't really had any problems with MTP on Fedora or Ubuntu since about that time. Whatever gvfs is using for MTP works fine these days.

[cesarb]

I sometimes plug my Android 4.x+ phone into a desktop with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to copy some photos from the phone. It works fine, with no extra software or configuration required. On the graphical interface, it appears like a USB drive.

[douche]

Yeah, that's not happening with my Samsung Galaxy on 4.4.2. Plug-and-play.

[Animats]

Maybe this is a Windows bug. Linux users don't seem to be having problems. Is it not working on Windows?

[LeonidasXIV]

I really doubt an issue with FUSE drivers is a Windows bug since Windows does not have support for FUSE.