android

To get photos off the phone:

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Plug in the phone.

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Browse it with the Xubuntu file UI. (You might need to click Allow Access on your phone.)

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Go to Internal Storage/DCIM and copy the Camera folder (don't click into it!).

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Paste it into a date folder in ~/Pictures/android-s3-photos.

If someone else texts you a photo, you can save it to internal storage. Then to copy it to the desktop, you can get it from Internal Storage/Pictures/Messages

I really need to find a cli way to do this, so that I don't have to copy everything just to get the last month or so of pictures!  

CLI

First enable USB debugging with these instructions (https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options):

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Find a page in Settings named something like "About Phone".

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Click on the Build Number seven times (seriously??).

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At the bottom of Settings you'll now see a Developer Settings section.

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In there turn on USB Debugging.

Now:

sudo apt install adb
adb devices -l  # You might need to click Allow on the phone first
adb -d shell ls /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/202409* | xargs -i adb pull {} .
adb -d shell ls /sdcard/Pictures/Messages/* | xargs -i adb pull {} .

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