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Android file transfer is implemented via the terrible ancient standard MTP[0] which has spotty support anywhere but Windows. I wish Android devices instead wor
by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Android file transfer is implemented via the terrible ancient standard MTP[0] which has spotty support anywhere but Windows.
I wish Android devices instead worked like iPods, which had a partition that mounted as a plain old USB/Firewire disk when plugged into a computer.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
- tannhaeuser 3y agoActually, old HTC and Samsung Android phones used to register as USB Mass Storage device, but Android changed that to MTP in version 5 or so.
- hansel_der 3y agoeven remember a time when my galaxy s4 mini would ask me how it should represent itself when connected via usb; also drivedroid to emulate a cdrom drive with an downloaded .iso in order to boot older computers that don't know how to usb. maybe i have been spoiled by the real computer in my pocket experience of custom rom's.
- KOTYAR 3y agoIt's so mondbogglibg what we still use it. With every phone becoming a camera phone, it's unusual NOT to have hungreds or even thousands of 2-3MB photos on your phone. But try to copy your Camera folder on a PC, - and Win Explorer acts like it has a heart attack! And it hasn't improved in entire freaking decade!