HowTo: Use MyPhoneExplorer under GNU/Linux (English Version)

Anmeldedatum: 07.04.2016 Beiträge: 1

Hi,
first of all many thanks for this HowTo, MPE is running smoothly on my debian system;-)

I want to remotly control my phone from my linux box, but when I open the 'control phone' window the windows screen is not shown, means there's only a black window
connection via USB/ADB is ok, also there are the three android buttons (home/back/menu) available and working. When I activate the 'enable mous on phone' this is also working, so 'only' the mobile screen is not shown.

Anyone any idea what's going wrong here?

My system:
debian jessie
MPE 1.8.7
Samsung S5, connected via ADB/USB

Thanks,
Uli

Anmeldedatum: 20.05.2016 Beiträge: 1

I'm trying to connect latest MPE 1.8.7 running under Wine on Fedora 23 x86_64 to a Nexus phone using a USB cable. The main issue I'm facing is the apparent conflict between the pre-packaged "adb.exe" (which comes installed with MPE) and the native adb from the OS.

MPE apparently wants to launch its own adb which adb, from inside wine, can't possibly connect to the phone (32 bit no USB drivers). Yet launching adb independently before MPE won't solve the problem because the adb launched by MPE will simply kill the existing adb server claiming it's out of date and then I'm back to start.

Has anybody been able to solve this?

Anmeldedatum: 10.07.2014 Beiträge: 5 Wohnort: Katowice

I have another problem because ADB did not want to work and I can not connect through BT
Mint 17.3

Anmeldedatum: 23.10.2013 Beiträge: 4

Thanks a lot fugazza for you guide!

I could successfully install MPE this way. But as soon as I update Wine, i get the following error when I try to run MPE again:

Code:

err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111
err:ole:create_server class {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} could be created for context 0x5

the only way i can get MPE running again is to rerun the setup described by fugazza.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Anmeldedatum: 08.11.2008 Beiträge: 110

DERIIIFranz hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Thanks a lot fugazza for you guide!

I could successfully install MPE this way. But as soon as I update Wine, i get the following error when I try to run MPE again:

Code:

err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111
err:ole:create_server class {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} could be created for context 0x5

the only way i can get MPE running again is to rerun the setup described by fugazza.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

I also had the problem that it stopped working after wine was updated. However running the following command did solve the problem.

Code:

env WINEPREFIX="MPE_Prefix" winetricks --force msxml3

Greetings Matthias

PS: your post gave me the idea to try that, as the Class-object ID in your errors refers to msxml objects

Anmeldedatum: 12.06.2017 Beiträge: 4

Anyone else having a problem with version 1.88 crashing right after startup? I got it installed and seems to start fine, then when I link my phone and it says "loading user data" it immediately crashes. Thereafter it won't stay running, everytime I start it, it runs for a minute, says loading user data, and crashes.

Any ideas will be appreciated - thanks!

Anmeldedatum: 30.09.2011 Beiträge: 26

I am helping a friend who has a Chromebook, to set up sync with her Android phone and trying to avoid the cloud/Google route.

I personally use Thunderbird and MPE on Windows.

My question is if she can use MPE Wine with Thunderbird Linux (she can enable Linux apps of course), or do they both have to be installed under Wine for this to work ?

What other contact/callender apps do people use on Linux in case there's a better option for her than Thunderbird ?

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

justcosmic1 hat Folgendes geschrieben:

I am helping a friend who has a Chromebook, to set up sync with her Android phone and trying to avoid the cloud/Google route.

I personally use Thunderbird and MPE on Windows.

My question is if she can use MPE Wine with Thunderbird Linux (she can enable Linux apps of course), or do they both have to be installed under Wine for this to work ?

What other contact/callender apps do people use on Linux in case there's a better option for her than Thunderbird ?

There are two linux strategies, both of which are non-trivial. With Thunderbird 78 as of this autumn I have failed, so far, to get either to work.

You can, with earlier versions, install MPE under wine, with Thunderbird under linux, and modify the MPE add-in to Thunderbird to make it work. That is described in another thread at https://www.fjsoft.at/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5835#top

Similarly you can, with earlier versions, install Thunderbird under wine as well as MPE, and install the MPE add-in to Thunderbird. Since I use Thunderbird under linux, I then made the Thunderbird under wine link to the Thunderbird under linux by linking the calendar and address book files from the wine profile to the linux profile.

There are several threads on these topics, but, as I say, I can't yet find a solution for Thunderbord 78. For the time being I have had to get a non-free solution using Birdiesync, and even that needed a patch to make it work under wine.

Anmeldedatum: 17.11.2013 Beiträge: 11

Just want to thank fugazza for his instructions (bottom of page 14)! I installed wine (5.0) winetricks (from Synaptic Package Manager), and MPE 1.8.14 on my Ubuntu 20.04-derived distro. I didn't have to "kill" any processes during install... First connect via WiFi worked fine. Currently syncing photos. Very grateful!

Anmeldedatum: 17.06.2011 Beiträge: 85

knottedknickers hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Just want to thank fugazza for his instructions (bottom of page 14)! I installed wine (5.0) winetricks (from Synaptic Package Manager), and MPE 1.8.14 on my Ubuntu 20.04-derived distro. I didn't have to "kill" any processes during install... First connect via WiFi worked fine. Currently syncing photos. Very grateful!

What version of Thunderbird are you running? Are you running it under linux or under wine? With Thunderbird 78 I cannot get it to work at all.

Anmeldedatum: 17.11.2013 Beiträge: 11