A simple way to transfer photos from your phone toWindows without installing anything on either
 

PeterN wrote:
On 2/22/2018 12:07 AM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
I just accidentally ran into this very simple way to transfer photos from
your phone to Windows (and back) without installing anything on either

1. I gave a few $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus phablets as gifts over Christmas and
as a direct result I inherited a handful of new-to-me older Android phones,
even though my main phone is a circa 2012 S3 which works just fine for me
but which I mount on Windows to use in the native Windows file explorer
using the Windows "Add a network location" wizard.

2. One of that handful of old phones is a circa 2014 Moto G, running
Android 5.1, which I just plugged into Windows where I was surprised the
phone immediately showed up as its own "XT104" USB drive.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/1xt104_a.jpg

3. Clicking on that drive shows the entire available file system mount
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/2xt104b.jpg

4. That allows two way drag and drop between Windows and the phone
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/3xt104c.jpg

5. Plugging it in again, I noticed an option pops up for something called
"Photos", which, seems to search the Android phone for photos to upload.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/4xt104d.jpg

6. That native "Photos" app then provides thumbnails to select which photos
to upload to previously defined directories and file name conversions on
Windows.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/5xt104e.jpg

7. The result is that, without installing anything on either the phone or
on Windows, it seems I can import anything I like using this Photos native
app.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/6xt104f.jpg

Generally I don't use Windows native apps (because they generally suck),
but this one doesn't seem to show any obvious drawbacks yet.

So I simply present this as a working system, that just works without
installing anything on either the phone or Windows, and ask if you know of
a better method of bi-directional drag and drop between your phone &
Windows?



Yep. That works, I am not sure about iPhones though. i had iTunes
installed on my computers. So I don't know it that also works with
iPhones.


Use “AirDrop� for iPhone photo transfer

--
Zaidy036

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

Zaidy036 wrote:

Use ´AirDrop¡ for iPhone photo transfer

Except that this so-called AirDrop (which was bought from Android
developers) brand of ad-hoc file-transfer services doesn't even /work/ in
the real world...

NOTE: Apple simply says the real world is "not supported".

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

ultred ragnusen wrote:

Use ´AirDrop¡ for iPhone photo transfer

Except that this so-called AirDrop (which was bought from Android
developers) brand of ad-hoc file-transfer services doesn't even /work/ in
the real world...

NOTE: Apple simply says the real world is "not supported".

But, it's true that if the person who asked is safely ensconced within the
narrow confines of the walled garden, then the AirDrop brand (which was
bought from Android developers) of ad-hoc file-transfer services, will work
wonderfully.

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

In article , ultred
ragnusen wrote:

Except that this so-called AirDrop (which was bought from Android
developers)

once again, you do not understand what airdrop actually is. only the
*name* was bought, not the underlying technology, which android
recently added under a different name and it doesn't do anywhere near
as much.

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

nospam wrote:

Except that this so-called AirDrop (which was bought from Android
developers)

once again, you do not understand what airdrop actually is. only the
*name* was bought, not the underlying technology, which android
recently added under a different name and it doesn't do anywhere near
as much.

As usual, you don't comprehend my words, as you are very well aware that
I've searched extensively in the past /exactly/ what the word "AirDrop"
meant to the Android developers and to Apple, and where I've said /many
times/ that it's a meaningless trademarked bought-and-paid-for word that
can and does mean anything the owners want it to mean.

In the past, the meaningless word "AirDrop" stood for an assemblage of
Android marketing services, while Apple legal says specifically that it
stands for their particular assemblage of "ad hoc file transfer services".

We've had this discussion so many times that I know you're just arguing for
arguments sake, since you know full well all of this, since I've told you
very many times that the word "AirDrop" is a meaningless brand name that
Apple bought from Android developers which Apple can use to mean anything
they want it to mean (which is the nature of trademarks).

I've also pointed you to the web pages where Apple specifically states that
any third party (which includes us) legally should /always/ use the
descriptor provided (of ad hoc file transfer services) the first time in
any document that the name "AirDrop" is used, since only Apple, legally, is
allowed to just use the word all by itself.

You know all this ... so you're just playing your silly games, again.

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

In article , ultred
ragnusen wrote:


Except that this so-called AirDrop (which was bought from Android
developers)

once again, you do not understand what airdrop actually is. only the
*name* was bought, not the underlying technology, which android
recently added under a different name and it doesn't do anywhere near
as much.

As usual, you don't comprehend my words,

other way around. you don't comprehend what others tell you.

as you are very well aware that
I've searched extensively in the past /exactly/ what the word "AirDrop"
meant to the Android developers and to Apple,

you only searched on the word. you have *zero* understanding about the
underlying technology (and not much more than that about the word).



You know all this ... so you're just playing your silly games, again.

that would be you.

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

nospam wrote:

You know all this ... so you're just playing your silly games, again.

that would be you.

Pot, kettle, black.

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

In message , ultred ragnusen
writes:
nospam wrote:

You know all this ... so you're just playing your silly games, again.

that would be you.

Pot, kettle, black.

This can mean that the pot is as bad as the kettle - but doesn't mean
the kettle is clean!

Or in other words: just because the accuser may be equally guilty,
doesn't mean an accusation isn't a valid one. "Two wrongs don't make a
right" as they say.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman, "that'll be
ATP." (Quoted in) The Independent, 2013-7-13

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windowswithout installing anything on either
 

On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd like
a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.

--
“The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs,
the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.�
Warren Buffet

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
 

In message , Alan Browne
writes:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.

(Would have emailed but your signature doesn't say how to demunge your
address:) yes, I thought so! I certainly didn't create it: it was from a
list of something like 100 best jokes, or 20 best puns, or something, in
the Independent (a British newspaper) some years ago.

Probably lost on non-UK readers though (-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

[What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? -
Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windowswithout installing anything on either
 

On 2018-03-03 15:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Alan Browne
writes:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Â*A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
likeÂ* a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.

(Would have emailed but your signature doesn't say how to demunge your
address:) yes, I thought so! I certainly didn't create it: it was from a
list of something like 100 best jokes, or 20 best puns, or something, in
the Independent (a British newspaper) some years ago.

Probably lost on non-UK readers though (-:

I got the "eighty p." easily enough. I had to look up the substance to
find the clever bit.

--
“The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs,
the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.�
Warren Buffet

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows withoutinstalling anything on either
 

Alan Browne wrote:
On 2018-03-03 15:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Alan
Browne writes:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.

(Would have emailed but your signature doesn't say how to demunge your
address:) yes, I thought so! I certainly didn't create it: it was from
a list of something like 100 best jokes, or 20 best puns, or
something, in the Independent (a British newspaper) some years ago.

Probably lost on non-UK readers though (-:

I got the "eighty p." easily enough. I had to look up the substance to
find the clever bit.


A little Google gets the process rolling...

"bioluminescence-for-beverages
... Since ATP is a proxy for how much bacteria is present
"

That's not how you make beer of course :-)

That suggests the biochemist is aware that a beer would
be rich in ATP, as it's a marker of some sort of "activity" (fermentation???).

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topi...-beer-14372813

"ATP is a versatile molecule used by enzymes and other proteins
in many cellular processes. It is required for many chemical reactions,
such as sugar degradation and fermentation (Voet & Voet 2004)"

It suggests the biochemist has been in the lab too long,
and needs a break :-)

Paul

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windowswithout installing anything on either
 

On 3/3/2018 9:51 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.


Groan

--
PeterN

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windowswithout installing anything on either
 

On 3/3/2018 3:35 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Alan Browne
writes:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Â*A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
likeÂ* a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.

(Would have emailed but your signature doesn't say how to demunge your
address:) yes, I thought so! I certainly didn't create it: it was from a
list of something like 100 best jokes, or 20 best puns, or something, in
the Independent (a British newspaper) some years ago.

Probably lost on non-UK readers though (-:

Not if they were involved in healthcare. ;-)
I was not a healthcare provider, but had many clients who were.

--
PeterN

A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windowswithout installing anything on either
 

On 2018-03-04 15:16, PeterN wrote:
On 3/3/2018 9:51 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2018-03-03 08:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd
like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman,
"that'll be
ATP."

Exceptionally clever.


Groan

Not sure you dug far enough.

--
“The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs,
the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.�
Warren Buffet