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Fairphone 5 USB connection (filesystem) dies quickly

  • /e/ version: 2.2-t-20240715417772-stable-FP5
  • Device model(s): Fairphone 4
  • Developer mode enabled: yes
  • Device rooted: no (?)
  • Trackers blocker enabled: yes

Summary

When connecting the phone with my computer, I can briefly access the files via USB, but then the connection dies. (Same steps and cable work reliably with several FF4).

The problem

Steps to reproduce

  1. Connect the FF5 with a computer via USB.
  2. jmtpfs /scr/mirror/fairphone-helge/
  3. cd /scr/mirror/fairphone-helge/
  4. ls

What is the current behavior?

Sometimes (some) files/directories appear, but most often the following message is printed: [19864.701769] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 And the FF5 makes noises and flashes the screen.

If some files appear, then this error happens on the next "ls"

Afterwards, the device is unaccessible until I umount it.

What is the expected correct behavior?

I see all the files (and could copy them, etc.) and the FF would not make noises and would not flash the screen.

Technical informations

Relevant logs (adb logcat)

I got a log with about 6719 lines (which does not fit here). I can provide this in another way or I can reduce it, if you tell me which keywords are relevant for you.

Solutions

Workaround

I can prepare the copy command before mounting and use the "-u" option and hope to get some files. I repeat this until I got all files, which may be quite a few mount, copy, umount, unplug, plug sessions...

Possible fixes

Unfortunately no. It must be some difference between FF4/FF5.