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Personally, the biggest thing for me is file management. I hate it that I can't just connect a device and copy files to and from it via USB. Now, I'm not sayin

Personally, the biggest thing for me is file management. I hate it that I can't just connect a device and copy files to and from it via USB. Now, I'm not saying that I need to see every file and folder on the iOS device, but exposing a data folder for each installed application would be a big help.

freehunter 14y ago
I was very surprised when I plugged in my Lumia 920 and a data folder popped up. I don't recall this existing in WP7, and it sure didn't exist on the Zune. It really can't be too hard or disruptive to allow this, the biggest reason I like it is for copying pictures from the phone without needing the Zune software or a network connection.
mixmastamyk 14y ago
It's getting worse. My Nexus 7 doesn't allow it either, although you can work around it and (use it as a flashdrive at least) by pretending it's a camera. I understand the problem is having a disk mounted by two OSs similtaneously. There is newer protocol called mtp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol) that is supposed to be the answer, but it isn't supported by older OSs. Feels like they reinvented the wheel though.
- revelation 14y ago
  MTP is a complete trainwreck. The main problem is that the support in Windows is absolutely useless. Copying a big file and want to continue exploring the contents? Nope. Any kind of simultaneous operation will just plain not work. There is a very odd warning if you copy over plain old data like zip files - it tells you that the device might not be able to play the content. You can still copy them over, at crappy speed. But then trying to read them again will often fail with a weird error that amounts to "The connection broke". Oh, and Explorer constantly locks up when dealing with MTP devices. It either plain crashes or waiting for data that is never coming, no matter, its blocking the GUI interactions for fucks sake, in 2013.
  - mixmastamyk 14y ago
    I believe it. Not sure what was wrong with ftp, sshfs, or even a smb lite?

freehunter 14y ago

I was very surprised when I plugged in my Lumia 920 and a data folder popped up. I don't recall this existing in WP7, and it sure didn't exist on the Zune. It really can't be too hard or disruptive to allow this, the biggest reason I like it is for copying pictures from the phone without needing the Zune software or a network connection.

mixmastamyk 14y ago

It's getting worse. My Nexus 7 doesn't allow it either, although you can work around it and (use it as a flashdrive at least) by pretending it's a camera. I understand the problem is having a disk mounted by two OSs similtaneously. There is newer protocol called mtp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol) that is supposed to be the answer, but it isn't supported by older OSs. Feels like they reinvented the wheel though.

revelation 14y ago
MTP is a complete trainwreck. The main problem is that the support in Windows is absolutely useless. Copying a big file and want to continue exploring the contents? Nope. Any kind of simultaneous operation will just plain not work. There is a very odd warning if you copy over plain old data like zip files - it tells you that the device might not be able to play the content. You can still copy them over, at crappy speed. But then trying to read them again will often fail with a weird error that amounts to "The connection broke". Oh, and Explorer constantly locks up when dealing with MTP devices. It either plain crashes or waiting for data that is never coming, no matter, its blocking the GUI interactions for fucks sake, in 2013.
- mixmastamyk 14y ago
  I believe it. Not sure what was wrong with ftp, sshfs, or even a smb lite?