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Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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If you use KDE Connect, which is cross-platform and not just for KDE, you can mount your phone's storage remotely without touching adb. I believe it uses sshfs in the background.

It's all automated so you don't have to think about how it works.

Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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ADB is such a crummy experience for file transfers, and Android File Transfer is somehow even worse. This sounds great!

Imagine how worse experience is if you are iOS user or developer - i Have to manually in xcode in gui download app container and unpack it change some mesh assets, pack again and switch containers in xcode again.

Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mainly because of the difficulties of running tests (and the android emulator) on GH action runners. Attempt to add some basic tests can be found here https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 This submission motivated me to check out the latest state of vi…

Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.

Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?

Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.

Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?

Encrypted storage is an implementation detail of the filesystem. Once you're at the point of connecting an unlocked phone to a computer running ADB, you can just transfer files and not care about whether or not the underlying data is encrypted at rest.

Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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If you use KDE Connect, which is cross-platform and not just for KDE, you can mount your phone's storage remotely without touching adb. I believe it uses sshfs in the background. It's all automated so you don't have to think about how it works.

KDE Connect is the bee's knees :-)

I use it every day to interact between my phones and computers (browse files across devices, transfer them, use the phone screen as computer trackpad, control media playing on another device, run remote commands safely... and I know I'm not using even half of the features).

Re: Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mainly because of the difficulties of running tests (and the android emulator) on GH action runners. Attempt to add some basic tests can be found here https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 This submission motivated me to check out the latest state of vi…

Hi there do you think adbfs could work with adb over TCP (wifi)?
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