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Any favorite methods for transferring files from PCs?
For one-offs "adb push" seems good enough. For some more complicated transfers am trying out QtADB (0.8.1) with some success [1].
[1] Was helped tremendously via following comment:
1) When launched, QtADB displayed application window then crashed. Cause of problem is missing network resource, which raise SIGABRT in classes/updateapp.cpp, line 57 (function UpdateApp::gotWWW). Probably because QtADB version updates currently is not available. Perhaps QtADB 2.0 should check for resouce availability too and shouldn’t crash only because update server is missing. To avoid this problem in 0.8.1, automatic updates must be switched off. Open QtADB.conf (Linux users must look in /home//.config/Bracia) and set checkForUpdatesOnStart to “false” as displayed below:
checkForUpdatesOnStart=false
via Janis Baumanis' comment at:
http://qtadb.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/qtadb-0-8-1-fix/ (http://qtadb.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/qtadb-0-8-1-fix/)
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Can't you just mount the Android device as a USB drive and transfer the files using your File Manager of choice?
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That works for some phones, but not all. IIUC, many phones now implement MTP, and unfortunately, I haven't had good results with that.
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For some reason, connecting an Android phone (this has happened with three different ones) gives me a BSOD on my desktop (even after upgrading XP to Win7). So I've relied on WiFi transfer, having SMB shares on my desktop and pulling with the phone using ES File Explorer, which has worked out pretty well.
Until my new phone and KitKat. Now, file explorer apps are useless, because Android only lets the app that "owns" a directory write to it. I hate KitKat.
The only solutions I've found was to make my desktop computer an FTP server. The built-in explorer program still has write authority, and includes an FTP client. Alternately, open up the phone, remove the SD card, and write directly to that. Then put the SD card back in the phone.
Did I mention how much I hate KitKat?
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@CWuestefeld:
There is always Windows phone... ;D
Until now (and my needs have been simple) it is very easy to copy files/photos/music etc. to and from my Lumia 520 from a Windows PC.
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If you root your device, apps such as ES File Explorer can do just about anything you need them to do.
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The only solutions I've found was to make my desktop computer an FTP server.
-CWuestefeld
I've done the reverse too, make the phone behave as an FTP server -- FileExpert and other Android apps provide this functionality. Not too happy about unnecessary wireless connections or having to look after more servers though so I try to avoid this most of the time.
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I use two pretty comfortable ways of file transfer:
My Phone Explorer (a.k.a. MPE):
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
and Total Commander with the ADB plugin:
http://www.ghisler.com
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/android_adb.html
MPE is a really useful free tool for all windows and android users, I can heartily recommend it!
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@ewemoa et. al.:
There is a well hidden setting in most phones/tablets that let's you switch from MTP to Mass Storage:
Settings>Storage>Menu Button (the one with the three dots top right corner)>USB Computer Connection
There are three general pieces of advice I would like to give to people with driver/connection problems:
1.) Settings>Developer Options> Check "Allow Mock Locations" and "USB debugging" if you cannot connect thru ADB
2.) Use USBDeview from www.nirsoft.net to clean up unused or not working USB driver device entries (may help with BSODs etc.)
3.) Use Moborobo from www.Moborobo.com (could possibly be borderline spyware - so watch out for yourself) which brings it's own drivers and see if you can connect (will also do the file transfer thing - just beware of my warning re. possible spyware)
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I've been using DocsToGo (DataViz) with my Kindle Fire HD. Works fine.
The KFHD does have some MAJOR annoyances regarding file transfer. My fave calendar app is Pimlical. There is a Java PC version, and an Android version. The Android version does work on the Kindle, but apparently the Kindle is totally invisible to Java (and many other Windows apps) so I cannot use the sync utility...
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@kunkel321: I should preface this by saying I know zilch about Java, other than the fact that Pimlical/Desktop uses it, which is probably the only reason I still have Java on my computer. I wonder, though, whether the app WebDAV Pro will work on your Kindle, and if it does, whether you could sync between Pimlical/Desktop and Pimlical/Android using WebDav Pro. For months I used it for such syncing, since I couldn't get my Nexus 7 tablet to be seen on my Windows 7 computer any other way. I still use WebDAV to transfer files between the Nexus and my computer. I mention this FWIW, but I have no idea whether Java enters into the equation and thus makes this arrangement impossible for the Kindle.
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There is a well hidden setting in most phones/tablets that let's you switch from MTP to Mass Storage:
Settings>Storage>Menu Button (the one with the three dots top right corner)>USB Computer Connection
-brahman
Sounds interesting!
I've navigated accordingly and can see a list that has some entries. One of them is MTP and the other is PTP -- it looks like I can choose between one or the other...but on the surface of it, it doesn't look like either is Mass Storage. I've tried this with two tablets with the same results and on one phone the menu button doesn't bring up a menu, unfortunately...
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Try this:
Settings>Developer Options> Check "Allow Mock Locations" and "USB debugging"
Did Mass Storage appear?
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I also would strongly advise everybody to check out the already mentioned
My Phone Explorer (a.k.a. MPE):
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
It is truly an amazing piece of software! Play around with it to find out all its possibilities.
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Try this:
Settings>Developer Options> Check "Allow Mock Locations" and "USB debugging"
Did Mass Storage appear?
-brahman
Unfortunately not -- tried on both tablets and the phone.
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Wired transfers are a real PITA with most of the newer Android phones because Google does not want users to be able to access the file system from outside Android. Wireless transfers are much easier because there are many Android file managers that allow you to browse a Windows network and transfer files in either direction.
Most of the time, I use the X-plore File Manager (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore) to transfer files to my Android devices.
If I want to move a lot of files in or out, or back things up, I will load an ftp server on the Android device - there are a number of them, but the one I've settled on is built into File Expert (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xcxin.fehd), another file manager. Then I can access the ftp server from a PC and transfer files -- I usually use Beyond Compare for this.
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For wireless I found the easiest least hassle app to be SuperBeam. They also have a PC version at http://superbe.am
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Another option, if the USB port on your device supports OTG (USB On The Go), is an OTG flash drive like this one (http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Voyager-Android-devices-CMFVG-64GB-NA/dp/B00HVT27B8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1402688201&sr=8-4&keywords=otg+flash+drive). It has a micro USB male plug in addition to the regular USB A plug and supports USB 3.0 on the PC side. You can also buy OTG cables for less than $10 that allow you to plug any USB flash drive into the Android device.
You will also need an app like Stickmount (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount) (requires root) or Nexus Media Importer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer) to read from the flash drive on the Android side.
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Another option, if the USB port on your device supports OTG (USB On The Go), is an OTG flash drive like this one (http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Voyager-Android-devices-CMFVG-64GB-NA/dp/B00HVT27B8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1402688201&sr=8-4&keywords=otg+flash+drive). It has a micro USB male plug in addition to the regular USB A plug and supports USB 3.0 on the PC side. You can also buy OTG cables for less than $10 that allow you to plug any USB flash drive into the Android device.
-xtabber
I use this approach sometimes -- on some devices root isn't needed to get this to work.
Am also a FileExpert user :)
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@CyberDiva: Thanks for the WebDav tip. I actually do remember reading about that in the Pimlical FAQs. The office location I've had for the last two years doesn't have wifi >:( so WebDav was not an option. Looks like I'm getting moved to a more "modern" space, with wifi, though. So in the Fall I might revisit WebDav.
Also I should add to my previous post--in case any Kindle Fire HD users read this--I actually rooted my device once. Rooting voids the one-year warranty, so it is not advised. I had assumed that this would allow Java to detect the KFHD, so I did it anyway, but it does NOT! Rooting a Kindle makes no difference in this regard. However rooting does give you access to the Google Play store which is pretty cool. I was rooted for four or five months, then Amazon updated the Kindle OS, and the root got wiped. I haven't gotten around to re-rooting.
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Lately I have had very positive experiences with Total Commander for Android (after installing SMB plugin) and Total Commander for Windows Phone. Shares on PC's can be easily read and written into. Couldn't care less about the PC version of TC, but on mobile devices it is utterly brilliant (when there is WiFi, of course).
I absolutely like it when I don't need to install crap clients from 3rd parties on my mobile and PC to access what I share on my PC.
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My wifi method is install a SSH Server (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.sshserver&hl=en) in my phone.
Then in my pc run WinSCP (https://winscp.net/eng/docs/lang:es) to transfer the files (Only to Documents folder because Android restrictions but later I move them with native file manager)
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I have cables with USB/microusb connectors. For music files it is easy since when I plug in my phone or tablet, Explorer shows the device as an MP3 Player. I can just drag and drop whole folder trees in.
For other files such as eBooks I have been using Google Drive with the Total Commander Drive Plugin as suggested by Shades. I tried the Lan plugin but it does not seem able to find my computer's name on the WiFi network.
Also I downloaded x-plore file manager in case it comes in handy later.
One tip slightly off topic, for a few bucks you can get a cable a few inches long with a female USB connector and a male miniUsb. When I have to type in a lot of stuff on my phone and get fed up with fat finger frustration I plug in my USB mouse using the adapter and click on the onscreen keys. It is way faster since it is pretty much impossible to miss a key with the mouse pointer. :)
One of these days perhaps I'll try a Bluetooth mouse. But this is good enough for emergencies. :)
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Anyone know how enable MTP mode on Galaxy S6? Can't get the phone being recognized by Samsung Kies even with USB debugging on-fsmanchies
Normally, (in almost all Android devices), you pull down the Notification Panel then tap on the one that says Connected as ... when you have the USB cable plugged in. That should take you to the option to set it for MTP, PTP, Mass Storage, or Charging.
When I have to type in a lot of stuff on my phone and get fed up with fat finger frustration I plug in my USB mouse using the adapter and click on the onscreen keys. It is way faster since it is pretty much impossible to miss a key with the mouse pointer. :)-MilesAhead
Get a cheap roll up USB silicon keyboard (http://www.amazon.com/Bolayu-Portable-Flexible-Silicone-Keyboard/dp/B01GNM3I3O/).
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^^^
Ialready have a usb keyboard. The mouse us easier.
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I found this page on Addictive Tips how to set default USB transfer type in Marshmallow:
http://www.addictivetips.com/android/how-to-set-the-default-usb-connection-type-in-android-6-0/
It would not let me change it to the USB Ethernet setting. But I was able to set it to MTP rather than PTP. Now when I plug it into my Windows Laptop it shows as a media player rather than just an MP3 player. In any case TeraCopy seems to have no issue with transfers at USB 2.0 speeds.
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^^^
Ialready have a usb keyboard. The mouse us easier.
-MilesAhead
With these can transfer data to computer ? as usual , installing a phone data transfer app on your computer or use Android manager , these phone transfer app can help user transfer data from Android to computer ,
-Tanksder
Thanks. I have noticed recently several Apps of the type you mention. After the initial panic I don't feel pressure to do much in the way of file transfer. Now and then I transfer a folder of MP3s. But I don't feel that much need to have all my eBooks on every device. I have them backed up to cloud and thumb drive. Lately I have been using the Kobo reader and it syncs very well across devices when reading from its online storage. It just gets a chapter at a time so even if I had to use phone data it's not much of a loss. I try to minimize phone data use because I only get 500 MB a month. I use Opera Max to block Apps like the transit trackers that want to just get the info without telling you the WiFi connection dropped etc..
But in the abstract I am interested why some Apps claim they can do fast transfer over Bluetooth when people generally say BT is very slow etc.. :)
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Anyone know how enable MTP mode on Galaxy S6? Can't get the phone being recognized by Samsung Kies even with USB debugging on-fsmanchies
Normally, (in almost all Android devices), you pull down the Notification Panel then tap on the one that says Connected as ... when you have the USB cable plugged in. That should take you to the option to set it for MTP, PTP, Mass Storage, or Charging.
When I have to type in a lot of stuff on my phone and get fed up with fat finger frustration I plug in my USB mouse using the adapter and click on the onscreen keys. It is way faster since it is pretty much impossible to miss a key with the mouse pointer. :)-MilesAhead
Get a cheap roll up USB silicon keyboard (http://www.amazon.com/Bolayu-Portable-Flexible-Silicone-Keyboard/dp/B01GNM3I3O/).
-4wd
I just got an iClever keyboard on prime day. I had an iGo stowaway before that, but I think because it's getting old in the tooth, even though it would connect, there were some idiosyncrasies.
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Anyone know how enable MTP mode on Galaxy S6? Can't get the phone being recognized by Samsung Kies even with USB debugging on-fsmanchies
Normally, (in almost all Android devices), you pull down the Notification Panel then tap on the one that says Connected as ... when you have the USB cable plugged in. That should take you to the option to set it for MTP, PTP, Mass Storage, or Charging.
When I have to type in a lot of stuff on my phone and get fed up with fat finger frustration I plug in my USB mouse using the adapter and click on the onscreen keys. It is way faster since it is pretty much impossible to miss a key with the mouse pointer. :)-MilesAhead
Get a cheap roll up USB silicon keyboard (http://www.amazon.com/Bolayu-Portable-Flexible-Silicone-Keyboard/dp/B01GNM3I3O/).
-4wd
I just got an iClever keyboard on prime day. I had an iGo stowaway before that, but I think because it's getting old in the tooth, even though it would connect, there were some idiosyncrasies.
-wraith808
I bought a Periboard (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BU4OV50/) about a year ago, that I could use with either my phone or my tablet, so I could actually get work done away from home, when I don't feel like lugging my laptop. Combine it with a text expander app, I'm all set. :)
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Any favorite methods for transferring files from PCs?-ewemoa
I use payware Send2Phone (for Android) from AbelsSoft: https://www.abelssoft.de/en/mobile/Android/Send2Phone (https://www.abelssoft.de/en/mobile/Android/Send2Phone) and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.abelssoft.sendtophone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.abelssoft.sendtophone). Back then the offer for me was €10, but now it is €20. The free version allows for 2MB file size, the pay version allows for 100MB file size transfer. AES-256.
There is another version (from a different company) which I haven't tried, but with exact same name.
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Any favorite methods for transferring files from PCs?-ewemoa
These days, Solid Explorer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer2) ($0.20 during an App of the Week thing) plus it's FTP Server plugin (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer.plugins.ftpserver).
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The Android version of Total Commander with its LAN plugin. Works both with wire and WiFi and is free, but you can donate any money.
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The Android version of Total Commander with its LAN plugin. Works both with wire and WiFi and is free, but you can donate any money.
-Shades
:Thmbsup:
I used it successfully on both Lollipop and Marshmallow. Pretty straightforward.
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I just unmount my SD card, mount it on my computer, and do my transfers with DOpus. :)
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I just unmount my SD card, mount it on my computer, and do my transfers with DOpus. :)-wraith808
That too but since I have to pull the battery to get the uSD card out, I only use for big transfers, (eg. new ROMs).
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I just unmount my SD card, mount it on my computer, and do my transfers with DOpus. :)-wraith808
That too but since I have to pull the battery to get the uSD card out, I only use for big transfers, (eg. new ROMs).
-4wd
Mine is thankfully very easy to pull. But I made it harder by putting a case on it. Go figure.
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I recently had to figure out how to get about 4G of pdf files off my phone and onto my PC. Tried connecting the phone to the PC via USB, but discovered that unless the storage card is formatted as external storage, not all files will be accessible via USB. Some, most notably the ones I wanted to transfer, are not available to access if you have formatted the card as internal storage for your phone.
I ended up finding them on the phone with ES File Explorer (they were hidden in the application folder of the app where they were acquired from and not in my Downloads folder), then uploading them to Google Drive, which then automatically copied them to my PC, so that I could then delete them from my phone with ES File Explorer, move them to a different folder on the PC, and then delete them off my Google Drive.
And I really do have to thank Inspira Technologies, makers of my inexpensive Astrotab A10 tablet (https://www.amazon.com/Astro-Tab-A10-Marshmallow-Bluetooth/dp/B01B50DXEI), for introducing me to ES File Explorer. It came preinstalled on the tablet and I liked it so much that I installed it on my phone. :)
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I have been using a simple FTP server on my phone and then I connect to it using Total Commander/FileZilla/WinSCP.
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I've been pretty happy with airdroid.
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I've been pretty happy with airdroid.
-mouser
It looks interesting. I installed it on my phone. I'll try it out soon. :Thmbsup:
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Weird, I have used this method on my phone, which is a Huawei P8 with Android 6 (EMIU 4.0.3) and barely anything else installed, and this method works perfectly for me...I use my phone in the same way as I use an USB drive, when it is connected by WiFi or USB cable.
Works almost as easy and fast as on my previous Nokia Lumia phone (which was from an era when Microsoft still put the Nokia name on their Lumia devices).
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Desktop computers are usually not equipped with a wireless networking card. BlueTooth is also not a given on a desktop. And both of these connections are very slow when compared with transfer speeds accomplished by a cable. A cable already being used to slow-charge the battery in your phone. While writing this down, I realized that the smartphone I currently have been using for 7 months or so, has never been charged with the original phone charger, but with the exact same cable that has been charging my Lumia (still came branded as a Nokia) for four years.
There is no doubt in my mind that Wireless transfer is deemed more popular with the general populace, but when people would take the time to measure transfer speeds between a cable and wireless, they would favor a cabled connection. Then there is the bonus of the battery being charged as well. It takes about 2 hours to get my phone from 20% charge to fully charged.
Since my desktop has 8 USB ports readily available, I don't mind sacrificing one to have my USB transfer/charging cable permanently attached. In about 2 seconds or less my Android 6.0 phone is connected by USB and in my case the phone is configured to act as a standard pen drive after being connected this way. It might take just as long to set up a wireless connection between devices through a wireless connection, but that will drain your battery and takes longer.
WiFi is just a (and definitively not THE) solution for people that don't want to see a cable.