Download Android File Transfer
Download Android File Transfer to your computer. Remove the USB wall charger adapter from your phone charger, so that you have just the USB cable. Connect the phone to your computer's USB port with the charging cable. Open Mac Finder. Look for the Android File Transfer on the list of drives. Double click the Android.
Your smartphone is — and with Android, part of that PC-like muscle means being able to plug your phone into any Windows or Mac system and drag and drop files either way. Unlike iPhones, Android devices allow you to access their file systems directly, without the need for any cumbersome interfaces or complicated procedures. In fact, transferring files to or from an Android device is basically no different than plugging an external hard drive into your computer and moving data to or from it.
Further reading: All you need is your phone, your computer and a cable to connect 'em — with micro-USB or USB-C on the phone side and USB-A or USB-C on the computer side, depending on the specifics of your devices. (Most newer high-end Android phones use, whereas most pre-2016 devices and many current budget-level phones have the older micro-USB standard. USB-A, meanwhile, is the traditional connector port you're used to seeing on computers, while some newer models like have USB-C.) There's a decent chance that the same cable that connects your phone to its wall charger will work.
More information:. Here's what you need to do next, depending on whether you have a Windows or a Mac system: Android file transfers for Windows computers With Windows, things are as simple as can be. Just plug your phone into any open USB port on the computer, then turn on your phone's screen and unlock the device. Swipe your finger down from the top of the screen, and you should see a notification about the current USB connection. At this point, it'll probably tell you your phone is connected only for charging.
JR Raphael / IDG After you connect your phone to your computer, a notification will let you prepare it for transferring files. Tap the notification and select 'Transfer files' in the menu that appears. Now, on your desktop, open up a File Explorer window using the method that makes the most sense for your Windows configuration:. click the File Explorer icon in your taskbar.
open the Start menu and click Computer. click the Computer or My Computer icon on your desktop Then look for an icon representing your phone alongside other portable devices and drives. Click or double-click that icon, and ta-da! You're staring at your Android phone's internal storage. You can now click around and browse folders, drag and drop files between your phone and PC or manipulate the data in any way you want. JR Raphael / IDG Your Android phone's storage looks like any regular hard drive when viewed from a computer. Further reading: Android file transfers for Mac computers Got a Mac?
The Android file transfer process is a bit more complicated for you — but fear not, for it's still pretty darn easy. The main difference is that before things will work, you'll need to download and install an official Google program called. To use the program, your Mac must be running OS X 10.5 or later, and your Android device must have Android 3.0 or later - something that should pretty much be a given with any reasonably recent Android product. Once that's in place on your Mac, just plug your phone into your computer, turn on your phone's screen and unlock the device, and then look for the same USB status notification described above. Tap the notification and select 'Transfer files.'
The Android File Transfer program should then automatically open on your Mac, and you should be able to browse your phone's storage and transfer files to your heart's content. Don’t like cables? Hey, wait a minute — aren’t there apps and cloud services for this sort of thing?
Android File Transfer
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