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I had a similar problem with an iPhone. I got it to work by
fiddling around some. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Import-from-iPhone-5-behaves-strangely-td4704878.html">http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Import-from-iPhone-5-behaves-strangely-td4704878.html</a><br>
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Ralph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/11/2018 07:14 AM, Richard B.
Emerson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">There's always "Plan B":d/l the images to the
machine directly and then let digiKam handle them from there.
Sure, it's an extra step or two. Given the current problem,
though, it may be the easiest way to fix the problem. :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Gilles
Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div dir="ltr">Well, the PTP protocol is implement through
Gphoto2 driver. If this kind of error appear, this can be
a dysfunction located in Gphoto2 driver.
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<div>To have more details about, run the appimage from a
console and look debug trace printed while you try to
read the phone contents.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-11 4:30 GMT+01:00
Tony Bazeley <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<p>I'm a bit new to digikam, and having trouble
with import procedures.<br>
Am trying to import from a Huawei P9 phone,
configured to PTP mode.</p>
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style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Trying
to import using the generic USB PTP Class
camera or the digikam suggested option "Huawei
P9 Plus" both yield the same error:<br>
<i>"Failed to connect to the camera. Please
make sure it is connected properly and
turned on."</i></p>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'm
using digikam-5.8.0-01-x86-64 under Ubuntu
16.04.3 LTS<br>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Would
very much appreciate any thoughts on how to
proceed.<br>
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