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Tutorial: Moving Stuff Between Android and PC

pengu1 said:
Shouldn't you be able to plug in your device to a computer with a usb cable and see it in explorer? I see drive :D but when I click on it it says "Insert disc into drive :D". Is there something wrong or am I mis-informed?
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:oSame thing on my end, any ideas why? HTC 1x
 
Great tutorial! For those who'd like a little more in the way of security, I'd recommend getting SSHDroid on your phone and something like Cyberduck, FileZilla or WinSCP on your client PC if your operating system doesn't support SFTP natively in it's file manager.
 
No one has mentioned this yet...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba&hl=en

It's a great implementation of a SAMBA server... I got it up and running in no time...

It's got AP whitelists so that you only have shares on access points you choose

It uses every bit of wifi bandwidth it can, so it's fast for anything other than huge media files

It doesn't require any extra software on your computer (macs and windows support SMB shares out of the box)

You can Map Network Drive on your computer and access your phone files from a drive letter

You can open files on your phone in any windows program directly... just like it was a local disk...
 
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It sure simplifies things. But I think I am doing something wrong. My files get copied in a very disorderly manner. Afolder of over 500 slides of ques/ans gets copied disorderly....slide 1, then 10 etc. I have tried copying initially with the usb connected to my pc, the external drive and have even tried the webstorage( which took forever). All produced the same results. After this tutorial ,I ran to try again and its still same result. I am not tech savvy and I'v tried all I can. Can anyone PLS be kind enough to help? Will using an SD card be helpful?
 
I thought I had this down pat.
I am attempting to move some files from my phone to my laptop, via my WiFi home network.
1) My phone is connected to my home network.
2) I opened File Expert on my phone.
3) I first selected several files for transfer.
4) Clicked and held on one of the files to be transferred.
5) Selected, "Send File".
6) After a status bar had almost fully completed on my phone, I got the error msg., "No device found".
My laptop was already connected wirelessly to the network.
I have done this before, and it was simple then.
I did notice that I recieved no option on my phone as to where to send the file. It was my intent to send the files to a USB flash drive inserted into my laptop.
What could I have done wrong? I have changed no settings.
 
Okeedokee, thanks to Darkuni's most excellent tut (expect a fruit basket, dude), I was able to transfer files FROM my SGSII, and TO my laptop.
However, now I need to transfer files FROM my LAPTOP, then TO my SGSII.
Any thoughts on how to do this one?
I would prefer to do this via USB, as well.
 
AmyAndroid said:
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It sure simplifies things. But I think I am doing something wrong. My files get copied in a very disorderly manner. Afolder of over 500 slides of ques/ans gets copied disorderly....slide 1, then 10 etc. I have tried copying initially with the usb connected to my pc, the external drive and have even tried the webstorage( which took forever). All produced the same results. After this tutorial ,I ran to try again and its still same result. I am not tech savvy and I'v tried all I can. Can anyone PLS be kind enough to help? Will using an SD card be helpful?
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It sounds like your problem relates to the names of your files. Try changing the picture numbered '1' to '001' and see what happens. You have over 500? So you will need zeros before all of your numbers, thus making the numbers either at least 3, but preferably 4 digits total (so '1' may need to be '0001', thus helping you if you ever get into the thousands).

Go online and find a reliable batch file renaming software so that you don't have to manually rename (although only slightly) hundreds of files. But make sure you read all the instructions for that software! As you can imagine, you could end up with a mess if you do not use the software properly.


Explanation:
Many softwares read numbers in file names from left to right (alphabetized like an encyclopedia or phone book), rather than seeing the number as a whole. So when the computer reads '1' it places it with the other numbers that begin with '1', rather than knowing that it is simply a single digit number (like how in the encyclopedia, 'I' is the first letter in the 'I' section because it's organized alphabetically. It's not placed right after 'A' because it's short in length). Additionally, software organization will put that '1' first in the list of the other numbers because, for example, in an encyclopedia you will see that 'to' comes before 'too' because it doesn't have the last letter. Thus, adding the proper number of Zeros before the numbers you're using should remedy all of your problems.


Hope this helps!
 
Many thanks for this step by step for FE.

I am having trouble trying to connect my Superpad 7 fly touch to my Windows 7 Ultimate via USB connection without any joy and whilst researching, i cam across this thread. So i have
downloaded FE and also purchased the Pro key. I was suprised the key was only
 
Loaded this on my Samsung S3 and I can't figure out how to get access to the External SD card. I have tried the web way of doing things and the ftp way and I can't find anything but the internal SD card.

Perry
 
Sorry but you lost me. Are you saying that I can copy/move from the PC to the Phone ie S3 using Windows Explorer?

I like using a direct USB cable instead of wireless, etc.

I can see the phone ie SPH-L710 in WE. I can see the card but can not create folders. How can I just do it like I do a flash drive? Just connect the phone and do like a flash drive NO?

Being an old man, I get lost at about 3 steps. I like the KISS principle, Keep it simple stupid. You procedure was WAYYYYYYYYYY too long. Can you break it down to about 2 or 3 steps like open WE, navigate to the internal sd card, drag and drop?

Thanks for your time and effort. ya am that old, komputer is the nick..when a puter was 2 fingers and a string. Talk about mass memory!
 
RavinGill said:
:oSame thing on my end, any ideas why? HTC 1x
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I do the same thing but I do see the phone, ie S3 in Windows Explorer it is under SPH-L710.

Bad thing is can not create new folders. Does not give me the option when I right click on it.

on the left of WE, I see. computer> Boot drive C> SPH-L710> ' Under it I see Card and Phone

When I right click on Card ( to create a new folder like I do in windows) a window pops up with the following

collapse

open in new windows

format

properties

What am I doing wrong?

Guess I could take the sd card out, put it in a card reader and the open it using WE?

Why can I not do it like I do on my desktop windows? I connect a flash drive, open WE and there it is. I can drag and drop I can even use freefilesync to sync between 2 drives. Can it be done with pc and phone that way? thanks
 
HELP!!!! How do I transfer pictures from my Samsung Galaxy S phone's internal SIMS card to my new external formatted SIMS card? and from the external SIMS card to my computer?
 
If you have a Samsung phone you can download and install Kies and use your USB cable to transfer files from internal to external card and to the PC.

http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/

There is a free app that will let you connect to computers on your WiFi network. You have to have your phone set to access your WiFi network and have sharing enabled on your computers. I can access all my computers and my server and download stuff back and forth using ES File Explorer.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop

Perry
 
ya very useful information "darkuni" I was searching for a longer time for the method of transferring the files form Android to PC. Finally today I got it. Thanks for your valuable time.
 
Here are two programs one can use to do secure file transfer protocol SFTP.

The Windows 7 32/64 program is Winscp and putty

WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source free sFTP/FTP client for Windows and the prefered choice for remote file management and editing. WinSCP documentation.

Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
Download & Install WinSCP

Download the Windows installer from the WinSCP Download Page.
After successfully downloading the file execute it to install the program, your best bet is to run a typical install.
After the installation of WinSCP we can also integrate PuTTY, which can be downloaded here.
Save the putty.exe file in the WinSCP folder tree C:\Program Files\WinSCP\PuTTY

Configuring PuTTy Integration

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

Open WinSCP
Select Preferences from the left tree
Then click on the Preferences button
Select Applications under Integration from the left tree
Browse to the location where you saved the putty.exe file typically

"C:\Program Files\WinSCP\PuTTY\putty.exe"
Note:You can use the Windows variables for instance %PROGRAMFILES% to specify the path to your Program Files folder.
When done click OK.

Choosing a Preferred Editor

WinSCP allows for defining preferred editors based on file extensions to add, remove, edit remote files.

Open WinSCP
Select Preferences from the left tree
Then click on the Preferences button
Select Editors in the left tree
Then select the add button
Within the Add Editor popup window make the appropriate changes and select the OK button

Using WinSCP

The first time use of WinSCP requires connection information to login to your server:

Start WinSCP
Enter the hostname or IP number of your server (Tablet or Phone)
Set the port number to 53522.
Enter your credentials (username=root and associated password).
Click Save
Click Login



and the tablet/phone app is Server Ultimate

Select SSH Server type

Server Name= as desired
Use port 53522

Be sure you add a Server Ultimate user
user=root (must be root)
password=as desired

Be sure to set Winscp port to the same 53522

When you start WinSCP, Winscp will also open a Terminal Shell Window
and log you in automatically.

Once you learn WinSCP you will be a pro @ file systems....

You can SFTP to your phone from anywhere in the world.
You would need to forward your router WanIP to the phoneIP on
port 53522.

Enjoy...
 
Before I read this post, I've been using my Firefox browser in conjunction with the WiFi File Transfer app on my Galaxy Nexus to copy files back and forth. Is this basically equivalent to what's described here? I'm trying to find out if a switch would be desirable? Note: the only thing I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Properties on the phone side (using this app) to check size, date, etc.
Pete
 
I have been able to access my home network through WiFi using ES File Explorer. You just download the app and go to LAN then hit the search icon and it finds everything on my network. I can download and upload anything I want. Of course you have to enable sharing. Usually I upload and download from Window Home Server.

Perry
 
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