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My phone keeps hanging while transferring pictures to the computer via USB, I tried as both a camera (PTP) and as a media device (MTP), it just gets stuck. While connected as a camera, and I select 'import new pictures', it scans all the Picasa temp folders and also downloads the thumbnails for the videos I took as well.
I tried deleting all pics/videos from the camera folder and took a few test shots, and it still gets stuck while transferring the pictures.
How do I fix this?
Dont know how to fix your problem but I can suggest AirDroid for transferring files.
Use adb for wired transferring... Mtp is piece of poop and I don't recommend it... Use either adb push to move to phone or adb pull to get file from the phone
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Bought a cable that adapts to USB so that I could put a memory stick into my NOTE
Plugged it in with a stick and after three file manager apps found out it was stored under SDcard USBstorage ------ funny location????
Anyway eventually found a file manager that could copy multiple files and sent a few down to the stick
All looked well ---- could see them on the stick
Pulled down the options and unloaded the stick.... took it out and put it in the PC
File manager could see it JPG files all looked well
Nothing pulls them up! They are not recognised at all despite the JPG extension
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Looked at the properties of the file and it says they are not JPG but JIFF images?
Tried rename it says it cant see the file - then creates a copy with the JIFF extension
Still noting will read them ???
anyone any ideas?
Any comment appreciated
pete
I just tested using ES File Explorer.
I copied a photo taken with the Note's camera to a USB stick, put it in my laptop and was able to view it fine in Windows explorer and using Picasa.
It had the same filename and extension as the phone.
If you copy other file types (a word doc or mp3 etc.) does the extension change also?
richlum said:
I just tested using ES File Explorer.
I copied a photo taken with the Note's camera to a USB stick, put it in my laptop and was able to view it fine in Windows explorer and using Picasa.
It had the same filename and extension as the phone.
If you copy other file types (a word doc or mp3 etc.) does the extension change also?
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No the extension does not change - I changed it to see if it could read it?
Tried linking the phone direct to the computer without the stick etc and the computer could see the phone and SD card OK ---- but when I tried to read them from the phone with XNView it seemed to not see them
Copies all the JPG files from the phone to the computer and they read OK?
Something weird?
Still baffled with the stick thing
Going around in circles - thought the stick would be a good way of backing up my photos when I was away from the PC - but it dont work?
pete
hmmm. that is weird. What file manager app are you using to copy to the USB stick?
If it's just backing up your photos that you want, drop box might be useful. It automatically backs up any photos I take.
It's a bit of a pain to have to go through dropbox to delete all of the "junk" photos that you don't really want to keep, but it's a simple solution that I don't have to think about and I'd rather do a little clean up every now and then, then lose a photo I really wanted.
You can set it to only back up over wifi, or both wifi and mobile data.
[edit] It's also weird that if you can't view pics on the phone via the PC.
I can connect via either MTP or external USB and browse my phone using Windows Explorer. If I double click on a photo in my DCIM folder it opens up on my PC using my default viewer (Picasa).
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richlum said:
hmmm. that is weird. What file manager app are you using to copy to the USB stick?
If it's just backing up your photos that you want, drop box might be useful. It automatically backs up any photos I take.
It's a bit of a pain to have to go through dropbox to delete all of the "junk" photos that you don't really want to keep, but it's a simple solution that I don't have to think about and I'd rather do a little clean up every now and then, then lose a photo I really wanted.
You can set it to only back up over wifi, or both wifi and mobile data.
[edit] It's also weird that if you can't view pics on the phone via the PC.
I can connect via either MTP or external USB and browse my phone using Windows Explorer. If I double click on a photo in my DCIM folder it opens up on my PC using my default viewer (Picasa).
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Think there must be a problem with the cable
Connected the phone direct with another cable and I can see the folders (directories) on that so at least I can do it that way!
Dropbox is a good idea will try that too
Thanks
pete
I have issue getting videos from phone to pc with usb connection. Normally with my evo3d I plug to my pc and go to my sdcard and pull videos. But on my sg3 it takes forever to get file and when I actually get file to pc there's a error. The video doesn't work. Sometimes when moving a file from sg3 pc a error pops up and say it can't be done. I help please.
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I tried going into "Media Device (MTP)" and then tried "Camera (PTP)". Neither seemed to work. Any ideas?
Specs: Mac OS X 10.7.4, 2008 pre-unibody Macbook Pro, unrooted T-mobile Galaxy S3 (white)
I tried for like 30 minutes to get my phone to work with a mac. Ended up using Airdroid and just transferring files over wifi.
I personally use wifi file transfer.
psykhotic said:
I tried for like 30 minutes to get my phone to work with a mac. Ended up using Airdroid and just transferring files over wifi.
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Thanks, Airdroid looks great. But for transferring large files, wi-fi is pretty painful. Just for the sake of brutal comparison, I found I was getting less than 1/10 the transfer speed (on video files 300-500mb) over wi-fi. Guess I'll have to get windows running on my mac again...unless there's a way to actually do file transfer over usb on my Mac..? (without cracking open my phone and removing the msd card)
I've run into the same issue myself. The phone is recognized, but nothing ever happens as far as the drives popping up.
Best workaround is to just use parallels if you have access to it...
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Another option is to pull the SD card and plug that into your Mac. Luckily I have a PC as well so I don't have to come up with a workaround.
I have drivers, used to be able to transfer files, now I can't transfer anything. debug on, debug off computer sees it yet I can't drop files.
Anyone see this??
Nevermind, had to reboot my computer.
Windows lol, gotta love them :thumbup:
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I tried to transfer a 1.8GB video, my PC read resource in use cannot transfer. Im unaware if the transfer was stopped due to fact of the video being "FullHD" 1400x??.
if anybody has an answer ,it would be appreciated
I've not got an Sd card in my swift so pictures are stored locally. I can see the picture files on the phone using astro file manager. The problem is when I connect to Pc via usb and set the connection to file transfer (or picture sync) windows doesn't see the folder so I can't transfer the pictures across. I can see they are in Dcim\camera using astro on the swift but that folder doesn't show in windows - I'm using windows 7. It can see whatapp/facebook images on the swift though. Drawing a blank as to what to do next. Anyone got any ideas. TIA
It won't solve the usb connection, but maybe you can work this around by uploading your photos to Google Photos or Drive from your phone, then downloading them from those websites on your PC.
Hope it helped (;
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I've not got an Sd card in my swift so pictures are stored locally. I can see the picture files on the phone using astro file manager. The problem is when I connect to Pc via usb and set the connection to file transfer (or picture sync) windows doesn't see the folder so I can't transfer the pictures across. I can see they are in Dcim\camera using astro on the swift but that folder doesn't show in windows - I'm using windows 7. It can see whatapp/facebook images on the swift though. Drawing a blank as to what to do next. Anyone got any ideas. TIA
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I have the same problem connecting a wileyfox swift mobike to a windows 10 laptop. It shows the wileyfox swift as an empty folder. I have tried Bluetooth successfully.
I had this problem also until I checked the following on my Swift:
Settings/Developer Options/Select USB Configuration
Mine was set to MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). To transfer photos it must be set to PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). When the phone is connected via USB to Windows 10 the icon showing in This PC should be a camera. The frustrating thing is that having selected PTP the phone seems to randomly change back to MTP or Charging on occasions so always, always check you have the appropriate configuration.
All I need to do now is figure out how to get the camera to save pictures on my SD card and not the internal memory in the first place. Can anyone help with that please?
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Just an update to my last reply:
I have found a quicker method of achieving this. When the phone is connected via usb swipe down from the top and the connectivity status is displayed. It is possible to change the connectivity status here instantly without the need to go into Settings. For some reason I can now transfer photos from either PTP or MTP. Perhaps in the past whenever I tried it was set to Charging and not MTP as I thought. (I did say it has a habit of randomly changing itself)
Thanks for this, just downloaded a thousand photos that I thought I'd only be able to get by emailing them to myself. Thanks again, Pete