How to browse files on device using bluetooth

I recently got my bluetooth between computer and phone to work well together, but now I need to browse files on my device... I found some older instructions here on askubuntu, that seem a little outdated. So I want to ask if instructions for fedora that I found googling, might be applicable for ubuntu 14.04 as well since the instructions are a bit more recent...

Is this combination of package installs sufficient to browse files on my device?

gvfs-obexftp
nautilus
bluez-gnome 

I tried these instructions:

Create a folder in `/media/mountpoint with root rights
Install obexfs
pair the phone with the PC
Get the device MAC and mount it with obexfs:
sudo mkdir /media/mountpoint
sudo apt-get install obexfs
hcitool scan
Scanning ...
8F:77:17:77:44:16 My Android Phone
obexfs -b 8F:77:17:77:44:16 /mountpoint

To unmount the device:

fusermount -u /mountpoint 

while I was able to mount the device, I couldn't actually and open the folder and browse files. The computer stated that I need root user permissions...

any thoughts?

2 Answers

Rookie mistake. My phone and my computer had the same exact user name "myuser"... that caused my issues. I changed the name of my phone, reboot phone and pc, now I can browse files and send files between devices no problem.

You can use the terminal to browse files on your bluetooth device. Bring up the terminal by Ctrl+Alt+t.

The cd command is used to change directory. The ls command is used to list files in current directory.

Removable devices are usually in the directory /media. To change directory to /media, enter the following: cd /media, then use the ls command to list the content of the /media directory. You should find your device name - I'll call it "device_name" in the command - in this directory. If you do, type in cd /device_name. After this just type in ls to list the content of the directory.

A short-cut would be: cd /media/device_name; ls