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Does this actually work for you with a recent Android phone? On my Moto G, this is more like: connect USB cable, wait 2 minutes while the computer is mounting
by avian 11y ago
Does this actually work for you with a recent Android phone?
On my Moto G, this is more like: connect USB cable, wait 2 minutes while the computer is mounting the MTP. See it fail. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Forgot to unlock screen on the phone. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Wait another 2 minutes. The drive mounts now. Select photos. Copy. Paste to hard drive. Wait 10 minutes while the computer is copying the files. See it fail with a cryptic error.
Utterly useless. From what I hear, this is a normal experience since Android switched from using USB mass storage to MTP.
- coolnow 11y agoOn a Nexus 5, sure, it works. Both Mac and PC. Sister's Moto G, same thing. Once on my Nexus 5 i got an error about copying a folder with lots of contents (some kind of backup i did i think). It forced me to archive it via a file manager on the phone and then transfer that instead. Only happened once though, and on Mac, which needs a standalone app to communicate with the device.
- ishtu 11y agoOS X Yosemite, OnePlus One with latest firmware: momental MTP mount and import with Photos app, no failures so far, no cryptic errors.
- loudmax 11y agoI use an app called AirDroid (https://www.airdroid.com/ https://www.airdroid.com/) to copy files to/from my Moto G. It works reasonably well in my experience. I have no idea what the benefit of MTP over USB mass storage was imagined to be.
- girvo 11y ago> I have no idea what the benefit of MTP over USB mass storage was imagined to be. Not having to unmount the phone when disconnecting, IIRC.
- tfigment 11y agoI looked at that but have you seen the permissions required. Wow. Change my contact list? I'm sure they have good reasons but I'm struggling with that for something I'm going to use for copying files. While I've gotten MTP to work ok its not a first class experience. Folders with many files (like photos) can take a long time to even start copying. I assumed that MTP was done due avoid patents over FAT32 with Microsoft or something.
- missing_cipher 11y agoIt's because you can edit contacts(edit, add, etc) from their web interface. I use it exclusively to transfer files, much faster then connecting a cable.
- cecilpl 11y agoThe reason they need permission to change your contact list is because Airdroid can change your contact list from your phone.
- obsurveyor 11y agoBut isn't Android software and the APIs designed to be extremely modular? This could be solved through a separate app that enables the functionality. Maybe if Google's app store supported this idea more extensively, we could choose the options that an app has access to instead of just trusting they're not going to abuse the privilege.
- fencepost 11y agoThe fact that the phone can continue to access storage while connected, so apps can get to their data (or apps moved to SD can continue to run).
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- Mahn 11y agoI can relate to this. I transfer my files via SSH/SFTP when I have to because MTP is just completely unreliable, sometimes it works but most of the time it's just unpredictable.
- harel 11y agoSamsung Galaxy S4 + Ubuntu. Plug USB, wait up to 2 sec to get folder on desktop + notification, copy files in few more seconds, done.