New to android here and was wondering if someone could direct me to a good location where I could find information about installing ring tone, pics and general stuff from PC to phone. Sorry for being a newbie but I'm from the blackberry world. I have not found a very helpful place yet for how too's.
Thanks
Well you dont have to install blackbery desktop manager on these phones lol. Just plug your phone into your computer using your usb chord. Select mount as disk drive and send what ever you want from your comouter to the ohone. Shoukd show up on your computer as removable disk
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bmoreboy02 said:
Well you dont have to install blackbery desktop manager on these phones lol. Just plug your phone into your computer using your usb chord. Select mount as disk drive and send what ever you want from your comouter to the ohone. Shoukd show up on your computer as removable disk
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That's the way I do it, but you can also use HTC Sync.
thanks for the help. just wanted to make sure it was that easy before I get to deep into trouble,
And for ringtones, download ringdroid from the market its free, and you can make any song you have into a ringtone with it
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plzzz any one tell me ... other wise i hav to buy a new sd card tht sucks tho
use the usb cable to attach the phone to your pc and select mass storage mode. then drag and drop your files. you might have to pull the notification bar down on the phone and mount your phones internal memory first
Or you can use something like Android Commander, or Droid explorer, make sure your usb on the phone is in debugging mode ...
Awesome drop from the market. it's awesome.
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You could also use Drop Box. Allows you to sync files from your computer without even attaching it. (Simply install Drop Box onto your computer and than download the Drop Box app on your phone.)
You can sign up and get Drop Box here: http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEyMzc2MTQzOQ (If you use this link you and I will both get an additional 250MB of space).
Awesome drop works without having to install anything to your phone and you don't need to create an account
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So I have seen a few posts and done a few searches and have yet to find an answer to this one.
You can use a FAT32 formatted USB drive when using the webtop mod with the lapdock (and I assume the HD dock too), however trying this, I only appear to be able to browse this via the phone window, and copy from it to the local SD/SD-ext.
I can see no way to access this via the webtop itself allowing you to play sound/video/pictures from an external USB with the entertainment centre or even to just browse files with the webtop file browser.
Does anyone know if this is just something you cant do? Or am I missing something?
You're missing something. There's a file manager application in webtop mode. It's in the dock.
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You're missing something. There's a file manager application in webtop mode. It's in the dock.
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Hmmm, ok after rebooting the phone and plugging the usb drive in BEFORE opening the lapdock it is viewable in the file manager.
It seems however that if I plug it in while the lapdock is open it was only available via the phone window.
Anyway problem solved!
I wondered if it was possible, so when I connected it, it said cable connected on the phone. I was then able to mount storage like normal. Then in the setting-storage, I saw mount external storage, which then gave me access to the phone SD card. Pretty sweet, can transfer stuff very easily now.
nice find, this will definitely come in handy at times
Sweet, now I can transfer photos from my phone with ease! Great find!
Dropbox or AirDroid can transfer photos (and tons more) with ease & no cables needed
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Dropbox or AirDroid can transfer photos (and tons more) with ease & no cables needed
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True dat, but using a cable is usually faster speeds.
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Damn, tried to connect to the internal storage on my Galaxy Nexus. Didn't work.
thanks, I will keep this in mind when I need to do a quick transfer between my prime and my nexus (one)
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Damn, tried to connect to the internal storage on my Galaxy Nexus. Didn't work.
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thats because in Android 4 / Galaxy Nexus doesnt mount as a "normal" usb device anymore. it uses the MTP protocol instead, and it mostly sucks ;-)
Doesn't work for me either - HTC Desire HD.
No go on evo 3d, just charges
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js931 said:
thats because in Android 4 / Galaxy Nexus doesnt mount as a "normal" usb device anymore. it uses the MTP protocol instead, and it mostly sucks ;-)
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Yup. I can't stand MTP. I want to use Microsoft's Synctoy to sync files between my galaxy nexus and computer, and between my Prime and my computer, but Synctoy doesn't recognize MTP devices. Anyone else have another way to easily sync files on our MTP devices?
nyijedi said:
Yup. I can't stand MTP. I want to use Microsoft's Synctoy to sync files between my galaxy nexus and computer, and between my Prime and my computer, but Synctoy doesn't recognize MTP devices. Anyone else have another way to easily sync files on our MTP devices?
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there is an awesome app called FolderSync on the Market. It also has a lite version. You can sync via (s)ftp, dropbox and about a dozen other services!
I have it set up so it syncs my photos to my PC when i'm connected to my home network and also to transfer files from a certain folder on my PC to the tablet.
Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite
I plug the phone in and it opens the 'what do I want to do' screen and then closes it right away. And then just keeps doing this over and over every few seconds. Anyone else notice this?
I've had mixed results. Earlier today at work, on my Win7 machine, I plugged that bad boy up and it immediately found the phone and loaded the drivers. The phone then appeared in Windows Explorer as "EVO" and when clicked on, expanded to show the contents of the memory accessible to the user. There is about 10 gb free on my phone.
At home now, is a different story. I'm running XP Pro and can't seem to get the right drivers installed. I'm tinkering with it now but am not sure what to expect. I've also installed Airdroid, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
Update: Still no joy getting MTP to work, so I tried Airdroid and it works beautifully.
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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I'll give it a shot.
Thanks
it wont let me copy a .apk over to device
luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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This worked for me. I'm using xp pro and it couldn't seem to find the phone with the HTC cable provided so i tried an old BB cable i had lying around and strangely enough it worked
Used the cable that came with it instead of my regular Evo cable and it worked fine. Weird.
did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!
Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.
I think HTC stated that file mounting on the evo lte is different than the one x. If you wanna transfer files, im pretty sure you have to use HTC sync. If you have a memory card though, that should be able to mount as a removable device.
hope i helped
Hmmm. I see that in Astro but not when I plug it in
It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.
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did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!
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It's still a bug and should be reported. I plugged my 3D into the same cable on the same hub and it was able to dump the whole SD card over that connection, so there's something wrong with the E4GLTE if it can't handle the same setup.
I have a 32gb card and mounted as a disk drive just fine. HTC sync is for internal storage maybe?
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You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.
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It put it as /sdcard2 in my brothers phone
depending on how you're looking at it, it will either be listed as /sdcard2/ or as ext-sdcard
they both mean the same thing. the /sdcard/ by itself is internal.
any ringtones you want to put in need to be in a /ringtones/ folder, doesn't matter whether you make it in the internal or external available space
same thing goes for /alarms/ and /notifications/
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Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
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You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
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I see what you mean. I didn't see the 'Add' button at first. However that just seems to list ALL music on the device which is a bit of a pain due to the amount of music on my card. I ended up moving the ringtones to my SD card then just Astro to move them over to the internal storage. Not the quickest method, but seems to be better for keeping everything organized.
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BPHusker said:
It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.
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It's really dumb, but don't pick one of the two big choices at the top. Pick "Media Sync" in the smaller text options below those. As long as your pc is up to date, you should see "Evo" show up under my computer.
Can't transfer pictures on my cell phone to my computer.
I have the special cable to use between my cell phone and my computer, but no go.
Any help greatly appreciated...
Pete
pcs2011 said:
Can't transfer pictures on my cell phone to my computer.
I have the special cable to use between my cell phone and my computer, but no go.
Any help greatly appreciated...
Pete
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Google HiSuite and install that
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pcs2011 said:
Can't transfer pictures on my cell phone to my computer.
I have the special cable to use between my cell phone and my computer, but no go.
Any help greatly appreciated...
Pete
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Installing HiSuite as superbass311 suggested will install the USB driver for phone so phone can communicate with PC correctly to read internal storage and external storage/micro SD card.
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If you don't need to transfer files often and the files are small you might also want to check out Pushbullet (https://www.pushbullet.com/) although you will need to install it on your phone and your pc it will also allow you to transfer files as long as the file size is smaller than 25mb.
There's also something simple like Dropbox for PC and the app which will sync your photos.
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Goggle Photos on you phone and your PC. Set it to sync. Is that so hard?