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Accessing the Windows Phone 8X by HTC from Linux

Currently the “Windows Phone 8X by HTC” (what a stupid name) is not supported under Linux.

If you are using Ubuntu Raring, you can  use my PPA, where I have patched the USB ID of the WP8X: https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/wp8x

On other systems you can compile the libmtp yourself. Download the libmtp sources and apply the following patch:

diff --git a/src/music-players.h b/src/music-players.h
index fedda12..deb9cdd 100644
--- a/src/music-players.h
+++ b/src/music-players.h
@@ -471,6 +471,9 @@
   { "Microsoft", 0x045e, "Zune", 0x0710, DEVICE_FLAG_NONE },
   // Reported by Olegs Jeremejevs
   { "Microsoft/HTC", 0x045e, "HTC 8S", 0xf0ca, DEVICE_FLAG_NONE },
+  // Reported by Markus Heberling
+  { "Microsoft/HTC", 0x0bb4, "Windows Phone 8X by HTC", 0x0ba1, DEVICE_FLAG_NONE },
+

   /*
    * JVC

After installing the new libmtp version, your phone should be detected and you can explore it with Nautilus. Make sure your phone is not locked with a PIN while attaching the USB cable, it wouldn’t work for me in that case.

I have submitted the patch upstream, so hopefully it will be included in the next version.

One reply on “Accessing the Windows Phone 8X by HTC from Linux”

Mark, have you been sucessfuly syncing your windows phone from Linux? I am a fairly new user and can’t get it to work for the life of me. Any tips?

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