How to transfer photos from LG G5 to a computer with linux using a usb cable

I wanted to send photos from LG 5 to a computer with linux software (Ubuntu 16, Sparky-Mate) via USB, but unfortunately I can't find the "mass storage" option on my smartphone which allows other photos to be sent quickly by connecting the phone to a computer via USB other files. Now I am sending photos as attachments to emails.
Please give me a hint if there is another way or option to solve this problem?

And when connected, Linux doesn't detect anything for you?

It detects my smartphone like LGE Android Phone and after opening it shows me 3 catalogs:
DCMI, Pictures and .thumbnails.
There are all thumbnails in .thumbnails, but that's not the point.
There are several catalogs in Pictures but only in PhotosEditor catalogs there are 3 photos in Screenshots 1. Other catalogs are empty.
It is so interesting that on your smartphone as the main catalog for photos is "Gallery" in which there are several Albums-catalogs.
Unfortunately, the Gallery catalog is not visible and from the catalogs contained in it only the ones I mentioned, i.e. PhotosEdior, are visible
and Screenshots. If I move or copy photos from other LG G5 catalogs to the listed computers, I can see them!
But it is difficult to keep pics in one of these two albums or even both, or for the computer to see them and to be able to send (copy), move or copy them to these albums.
Hence the question I have, why does the computer not see the root of the smartphone or the Gallery and also does not see all the albums in it, only the two listed?
Can it be changed?

You don't have PTP mode instead of MTP on your phone? That would explain why it only shows you photos. The "mass storage" option will not be found and it has not been used in telephones for years.

I was looking and I do not know where in this phone the modes are set I have not seen anywhere either PTP or MTP mode. Where does it fit and change in LG G5?
I only came to the fact that the computer can only see the pics stored in the internal memory and does not see those saved on the memory card (does not see the memory card) and each time when I want to save pics or other files from the memory card to the disk, I will not remove it from the phone and he didn't put it in the laptop slot.

Take out this card and connect through the reader directly to the USB port of the computer, it will be easier.

Of course it will be easier. It will be even easier to insert this card into the laptop's memory card slot. Only that it requires each time removing the memory card and after copying, reinserting it into the phone, which in any case can damage the memory card or even the plugs on the phone.
Thank you, but if it cannot be resolved otherwise, I prefer to copy the photos to the directory in the phone's internal memory and copy the photos that have already been copied to it.
Best regards and thank you for your good will.

andrea70 wrote:

I was looking and I do not know where in this phone the modes are set I have not seen anywhere either PTP or MTP mode. Where does it fit and change in LG G5?

Usually, when connected to a computer, a notification appears on the screen of the phone with information in what mode the phone is connected. After clicking on it you can select the mode.

Of course, something like this is shown, but there are such options to choose from:
Charging this phone.
Power supply - recharge the connected device,
It transfers files, documents and multimedia files to the connected device,
It transfers photos and videos of the connected device.
Whether I choose the last or the last but one option does not change anything. The laptop only sees what is stored in the phone's internal memory.
I wonder if there is a LG G5 user on the forum who managed this problem?

The next to last option should be selected. This is MTP. Lately it's PTP and then you can see only photos and can skip the memory card. It is possible that the problem lies in the implementation of the MTP protocol in the file manager. It would be worth checking how another phone will behave, but I bet that you should look for solutions to the Linux distribution forum you are using because it will rather be a problem on this side.

Finally, you can manage using applications like AirDroid (or an FTP server installed on your phone and running only for the purpose of transferring files) that allow you to transfer data via WiFi, within the same network where the computer and phone are, without connecting anything.

Thanks for the clarification.
I will try what will happen after using the penultimate option - MTP. If that doesn't change anything, I will have fun with moving
for the time of copying photos to the phone's memory. I do not think that the fault was on the Linux side because Android is nothing but Linux (or its smartphone-adapted version).

andrea70 wrote:

I do not think that the fault was on the Linux side because Android is nothing but Linux (or its smartphone-adapted version).

It doesn't matter. The implementation of MTP depends on the file manager. In Linux, this depends on the "desktop" used. In KDE it can work, in XFCE it can work differently, in Mate it may not work at all or it does not work properly under a given distribution, therefore also a suggestion to search for a problem on the page / forum / wiki of the given distribution. Maybe it's a little thing and maybe it just won't work.

Either way, if you have both a computer and a phone connected to the same network, I would recommend either to install an FTP server and then connect to the phone using any FTP client, or some file manager that can connect to the computer via the SMB / CIFS protocol be NFS. Ultimately, fewer combinations, less chance of some mistake, etc.

blahfff thank you.
Indeed, it turned out that on the penultimate option, MTP, the computer saw both the internal memory and the memory card and photos stored on it.
Until now, I was not interested in smartphone software, which, moreover, changed with the passage of the period for which I had a contract with the operator.
It turned out that it is worth to go deeper into this and the help of more advanced users of "cells" is invaluable here.
I hope that my questions and help that was given to me will help other less advanced users in this matter.
So I'm closing the topic.