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windows 10 says no files on my android
- Thread starter maiduguri
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n0tall0wed
Android Enthusiast
on your phone check your notification bar and set to files. By default it connects as charge only. also sometimes I would have to unplug and replug it back in to get it to work.
svim
Extreme Android User
Your phone is running the Android OS which uses the ext4 file system (a common Unix-based file system), your Windows PC is running, well Windows, and uses NTFS as its file system (a Windows only file system) -- two different operating systems and two different file systems. There's also an issue where your phone's internal storage is ext4 while a microSD card formatted as external (portable) will be FAT32 (or exFAT for larger capacity cards). So your Win10 PC only has very limited ability to view/access your phone's internal storage media, while still having a lot more access to the microSD card. It's all just a compatibility issue.
n0tall0wed
Android Enthusiast
actually that really has not alot to do with it. every Android phone I have owned except the H1611 works perfectly fine with windows 10. As I stated by default it is connected as charge only and you need to change it to mtp mode. if it still doesn't work unplug it and plug it back in. worked every time. Also if that was the the case when my external hard drive was plugged in Windows would have issues with that since the external is formated as ext4 yet when I plug it in no issues.
Your other option would be USB debugging.. Some PC's won't see anything when debugging is active, until ya turn it off