Transferring wirelessly is faster, until I get a 5 or 10 Gbit/s usb c nic.īut even then I'd plug it into the network and use the tool nid32 told me allt to make transfers easier. Easily send via drag-n-drop or right-click and select Send with Quick Share. Send photos, screenshots, videos and documents to your Android device using Quick Share. Securely transfer files from your PC to your Android device and take them on the go. Curate this topic Add this topic to your repo. Make emailing yourself a thing of the past. Add a description, image, and links to the wifi-file-transfer topic page so that developers can more easily learn about it. Sometimes large datasets made up out of thousands of smaller files. 3MGWifiFT is a wifi file transfer android app used to share data through wifi to any mobile phone, computer, tablet & laptop. Got several of those, and each drive appears as it's own usb device.īasically it chokes the USB to 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) on a few of the drives and on the transfers to the tablet. In the Bluetooth Settings window, select Add Bluetooth or other device. like that one but ones supporting 10 Gbit/s. Once Bluetooth is enabled, right-click the icon in the System Tray and select Add a Bluetooth Device. As you can see, you have the option to wirelessly transfer.
Your desktop should now automatically detect your phone. (Image credit: Future) Select the option to enable. Click the Nearby sharing page on the right side. Open LocalSend on your desktop and on your phone. To enable Nearby sharing feature on Windows 11, use these steps: Open Settings. Reason being the server has A LOT of hard drives connected to it through USB. Go to GoogleStore or Appstore and download and install LocalSend on your mobile device. And wireless is faster in my case a lot of the time. In my case it's a S8 ultra tablet, not a phone. Android File Transfer should open automatically (though you may need to open it at times manually). I've got a server that is not connected to a display, sometimes i use a cable and remote desktop to transfer. Go ahead and connect the mobile device to the Mac by using a USB cable. It won’t reconnect automatically, simply because it suddenly no longer finds the device! KDE Connect is simply unreliable.Īs an app, it does many zillions things, but it fails at the most basic task, which is flawlessly detecting other devices and reconnecting to them when they are discoverable.Sometimes it's just a couple of GB, sometimes it's a lot more. We never know how to run/use an app unless we are in the secrecy: What’s the pass port number, please? Also, because apparently, the dev supposes we do not dare to run a firewall! It’d be much simpler if the dev set a warning in the settings telling us to open the required ports.įinally, KDE Connect is a complete nightmare when it comes to reconnecting after network disconnexion. That’s one of the most irritating issue when dabbling with such an app. After launching the Droid Transfer app on both PC and Android, use the Scan QR Code option in the companion app. It’s either that or being f…d up by Apple or its Windows competitor.Īpparently, we have to guess or be in the mind of the dev to know that the following ports have to be opened, both on TCP and UDP: 1714:1764, because it’s not even mentioned in the app. First, you need the Droid Transfer software on your PC and the Droid Transfer companion app on your Android phone. I’m a Linux user for long, but my experience is that when we have to make Linux communicate with other devices using their respective apps that detect each other, it never works during the first attempts.
And when you do search on that topic, you’ve got so many results! So, this app is basically designed to detect other devices that are on the same network, and in the end it never works. How ridiculous it is! Works on macOS, but not on my KDE desktop. So, what? Same network, firewall deactivated, no problem for macOS app version to see Android, but for Linux, it’s a nightmare. Of course, my Pixel and Linux computer are on same network. Ensure both devices are on the same WiFi network. The intuitive interface welcomes you to a world of seamless file transfers. What do I have to do? I de-activated the firewall in an attempt to make it work. Visit the Google Play Store and download FoneTool on both your sending and receiving Android devices. Blazing fast data transfer No quality loss All file formats supported Easy and modern UI. On my Linux, it’s not even dectecting my Pixel and vice-versa. Transfer data and manage your files from your phone on your PC - fast, secure, no additional software needed.
On macOS, I can send to Android, but cannot receive from Android: file receiving pop-up window stuck at not doing anything endlessly. KDE Connect! This app never works properly.