ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Ed Kapitein <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/07/15 22:06, Louis Holbrook (not read, for accounts) wrote:
> I just got my first linux phone today - Aquaris E4.5 and wanted to 
> hook it up to my laptop and start messing around through terminal. But 
> I can't seem to be able to get in touch with it. From what I've read 
> so far, adb should be involved somehow, but the device doesn't show up 
> anywhere. I tried it from the Ubuntu SDK too, and it didn't list any 
> device either.
>
> I was pointed to Ubuntu touch - remote access to device 
> <http://askubuntu.com/questions/538129/ubuntu-touch-remote-access-to-device> 
> as a possible duplicate of this question, but it's not because:
>
>   * The device never shows up in my SDK when I connect the USB
>   * When I try apt-get on my device, I get "not using locking for read
>     only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock (which means in turn it can't
>     write to dpkg soucres)
>   * My linux mint (17.1 rebecca) distro's phablet-tools package
>     doesn't even include phablet-shell
>
> Is it supposed to be as simple as just plugging the usb and then it 
> gets detected, or are there other woodoo tricks to it?
>
>
> PS is there a way to search this mailing list archive by keywords in 
> any way?
Does it show up in lsusb?
Try:
lsusb | grep 2a47:0003
( on the computer/laptop, not on the phone )

I find it easier to start ssh:
sudo service ssh restart
( on the phone )

And log in with ssh ( as the user phablet )
you can copy the id_dsa* from ~/.ssh/  folder on the phone to the 
computer/laptop and use
it to log in.
( on the phone, cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys first )

Hope it helps.

Kind regards,
Ed