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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 |
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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". |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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