There are many situations that require you to transfer some data to your phone's memory. In this article, we will talk about all the current methods for transferring files to mobile devices.

You can send files from your computer regardless of installed version Windows. However, in some cases you may need an Internet connection or special programs.

Method 1: Send via network

The simplest method of transferring files from a computer to a phone is to use cloud storage. Any web service convenient for you is perfect for these purposes, be it [email protected], Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Yandex Disk.

As for the transfer process itself, you will simply need to download the document from the PC version, and then download it on your mobile device.

Read more: How to use Google Drive, [email protected], Yandex Disk, Dropbox

As an alternative cloud storage You can resort to using an electronic mailbox. However, for these purposes you will need two accounts at once, from which you will need to log in on your PC and phone.

Method 2: Memory card

Many modern Android phones are equipped with additional storage - a slot for connecting a memory card. The drive itself is universal and allows you to connect not only to a smartphone, but also to a computer.

Note: Sometimes the phone may format the memory card so that the PC cannot read data from it.

This approach is the simplest in comparison with other options.

Method 3: Direct connection

With this method, you can transfer documents from your PC to your smartphone directly, ignoring the need to use external storage. This may require additional software.

Once you have established a connection between your computer and your mobile device, follow the steps from the previous method. After this, the documents can be viewed and used using any convenient file manager.

Method 4: Sync your phone with PC

If you are using an Android mobile device and you need to transfer not only public documents, but also some hidden files, you can synchronize. This approach is the most complex, but it will result in the ability to transfer files in both directions without significant restrictions.

As with Android, you can use special software to sync your iPhone with your computer. We talked about this in more detail in one of the instructions.

Smartphones on Android based occupy 80 percent of the total market mobile technology. Manufacturers use this OS because Google company provides it free of charge, which reduces the cost of releasing new models. Manufacturers themselves have the right to modify and make changes to the external Android view, as a result of which buyers have a choice between shells, add-ons and themes from different developers.
Transfer files from phone to computer and back

Using an Android device rarely causes problems for people. To transfer music from a computer to a phone, users connect the latter via a USB cable. However, the developers have provided three ways to transfer files. This is about wireless communication from PC and about use cloud technologies, so widely used today. Let's figure out how to transfer files from a computer to a phone.

How to transfer files from computer to phone via USB

To transfer music from your computer to your phone, you simply connect both devices to via USB cable included in delivery mobile device. The process then resembles working with standard folder on Windows:

• You should open the “Computer” folder.
• Find the mobile device memory there, identified as removable drive.
• Open phone memory and find content folder the right type(music, images).
• Open the folder from the PC memory where the files you want to copy are located.
• Using the context menu of the right mouse button or the key combination “Ctrl + C” and “Ctrl + V”, copy objects to the smartphone’s memory.

If you installed removable media in your phone, then in the folder Windows computer will display both the smartphone memory and the memory card inserted into it:

Connected media

Important: if a multimedia device is displayed in the Computer folder instead of a removable disk, this allows Windows to monitor the compatibility of files copied to the phone and report incompatibility. To record a movie from a computer or music onto your smartphone, take care of compatibility and convert the data to a supported format.

Also, when trying to download files to your phone from your computer, do not delete system folders in the phone memory or directories created by applications. This may affect the stable operation of the mobile device or render it unusable. If you are not sure what you are doing, then it is better to move the photo from your phone to your computer using a memory card.

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How to transfer files from computer to phone via WiFI

To download files from your computer to your phone using wireless connection, you will need to place both named devices on the same local network. Also install from Google Play AirDroid application, which in addition to copying multimedia allows you to control your smartphone remotely over the air.

Once you install the application on your phone or tablet, you will see the address that you should go to from the browser on your laptop. The site that opens is a smartphone control center:

Smartphone control center

To send a photo to your phone from your computer, drag it into the appropriate field, which opens by clicking on the “File” button. When connected via WiFi, sending content is as fast as via a USB cable.

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AirDroid does not require a phone driver. If you register on the application website, you will have access to controlling your smartphone without connecting to one network, but through a full-fledged Internet.

Transfer files to your phone via Bluetooth

If your PC is equipped with a Bluetooth module, you can use it to record music from your computer to your phone. To do this, turn on the modules on both devices and connect them. How to do this is written in the instructions for the device. Then it remains:

1. Find the file you want to send on your laptop.
2. Right-click on the object and select “Send”.
3. Click on the “Bluetooth” button.

Sync devices via Bluetooth

After completing this procedure, pay attention to the smartphone screen - there will be a proposal to accept the file from the laptop. If the PC and smartphone were previously connected via Bluetooth, the file will be received automatically.

Cloud storage for transferring files to your phone

When talking about how to transfer photos from your phone to your computer, you should definitely touch on the topic of cloud technologies. This is the transfer of information from one device first to the server, and then to another connected device.

In this way, settings are synchronized on devices with the same OS ( Windows smartphones 10 Mobile and devices with “ten”), and also files are transferred between platforms where the user is logged in under the same account.

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Standard for Android cloud service called Google Drive. Download and install the service client application on your phone and computer, log in under one account and work as with regular Windows folders.

On Android you can from Google Play, and for Windows you should download the installer from the official website of the selected service. As alternatives, consider:

• Microsoft's OneDrive, which comes pre-installed with Windows 10.
• Cloud Mail.ru.
• Yandex.Disk.
• DropBox.

Now you know how to transfer files from your computer to your phone.

You will need

• Phone driver
• USB cable
• USB bluetooth adapter
• Infrared USB port
• Card reader
• Access to the Internet

Instructions

The easiest and fastest way to transfer data from your phone to a computer is using a USB cable. To do this, connect via usb cable to the computer. If the system tells you that the device is unrecognized, install a special driver for your phone. A driver disc is usually included with the sale. After that, go to the “My Computer” folder and find your phone there. Now you can easily go to your phone’s memory card and from there everything you need.

If you have bluetooth, and it is built into your computer or you have usb bluetooth adapter, you can also connect your phone to your computer. To do this, turn on bluetooth on your cell phone and computer. Search on your computer bluetooth devices. Once the system finds your phone, point it with the mouse and establish a connection. The system may require you to enter a password. No problem - enter the same characters on your computer and phone. After this, the connection will be established and you will be able to exchange data.

If you have an infrared port on your phone and computer, you can transfer data through them. The actions will be almost the same as when connecting, the quality of the connection and the distance at which you can move the phone from the infrared port of the computer. The transfer speed with this connection is quite low.

If your phone has a removable memory card, you can use a card reader to transfer files. To do this, transfer all the necessary information from the phone’s internal memory to the external one. Then turn off your phone to avoid various system errors, and remove the removable memory card. Insert it into the card reader. You may need to use an adapter to do this. Connect the card reader to your computer. Wait until the system recognizes the connected device. After that, go to the “My Computer” folder and find your removable disk there. Now you can transfer files from your phone to your computer.

What if you don’t have any devices to communicate with your computer? In this case, use the Internet. From your phone, go to personal mail and attaching everything necessary files, send yourself a letter. Then go to your mail via your computer and, after waiting for the letter you sent, download it. Of course, you will have to spend money on traffic, but your data will be transferred.

Hi all! So, dear readers, in the last blog post we already had a conversation on how transfer files from computer on an Android phone. If you haven’t read this yet, then the best one has arrived.

And now we will consider a couple more very original ways solutions to this problem. Moreover, one of them will be standard, and the second, on the contrary, with the help third party application, which promises very cool features.

We connect the computer and the phone with it, then click on the “Enable USB storage” button on the latter and it’s done:

Now inner memory The device will be detected on the desktop computer as a regular flash drive:

So now you can safely transfer files back and forth. But this was a standard method, and I really wanted some cool solution. And it exists, and it’s completely free.

Therefore, meet friends, the application AirDroid- Android on Computer. You can immediately look at a very short annotation to it:

Okay, so what can this program actually do? The answer in this case will be very laconic - everything that a user of a mobile device can do while holding it in their hands. If you don’t believe me, here is a detailed list of some functions:

And all this, guys, is available completely free of charge. Wow, these words made the author of the article drool and his left eye began to twitch. So let's download the app faster from official store via this link:

Then we launch it and see a message in which we are asked to register on the site web.airdroid.com:

But pay attention to the screenshot above. The first address is needed for via the Internet, and the second for via WiFi. And mandatory registration is required only for the first case.

Agree that this is much more convenient than entering a tedious set of numbers in the browser. Well, comrades, now a vast field of functions opens up before us, including from computer to phone:

If you click the “More details” button on the main screen, you get access to all the insides of the mobile device:

As you can see for yourself, here you can call contacts, send messages, work with installed applications, listen to music, and also watch pictures. For example, this is what SMS correspondence looks like on a computer screen:

And here is the photo gallery:

There is also a call log:

Well, and, in fact, the option to transfer files in both directions:

In general, there is a lot here. If you start describing in detail the entire arsenal of functions in one article, you might not be able to complete it in a day. So now let’s briefly go over a couple more and that’ll be it.

By the way, you can connect to your phone without any problems. Moreover, switching between rear and front is available. So, what does the wife do there:

If you still go through a simple registration on the official website, the “Find Phone” function becomes available. You look and it will help, at an uneven hour:

AirDroid can also work like, distributing the Internet to everyone. In short, as you can see, there is a lot here. But, as it turned out later, some functions in the application are only available for money. Here they are:

But again, in in this case it's only about remote connection via the Internet. In the local version, everything will be much more fun. And the prices, to be honest, are quite affordable:

So whoever needs it, subscribe and buy. And in order for us to transfer files from a computer to an Android phone, money. Everything is allowed for that. On this good point, let's say goodbye and in conclusion, as always, a very cool video.

Hello everyone, today I want to talk about how transfer file via phone to a computer, I think everyone who has a smartphone has encountered this problem, people write to me more than once that when buying a new device they have these problems. Let's look at the methods for solving it and the pitfalls that the manufacturers of your mobile device have given you. I look forward to your questions and suggestions in the comments below.

How to transfer a file via phone

And so I have an Android phone, it has a built-in 32 gigabyte memory, I was on vacation and completely filled it up. Having tried to transfer data from my phone via a USB cable, I realized that I simply couldn’t see half of the photos. available files, but on the phone they opened easily, she helped me in getting them out free utility for copying files to a computer from a phone called ES Explorer.

Application es Explorer

And so the es Explorer application, like all the others, can be downloaded and installed from Google Market. You can also download it as an apk file and then install it without an account google posts. This program will help us connect your phone to one local network via wi-fi and Personal Computer or laptop. As a result, you will be able to transfer files from your computer to your smartphone, and vice versa. First of all, let's install the software. Enter in Google search Market letters es and the search engine will immediately offer you the right option.

The installation process, as in any other cases, is no different.

Setting up a data network

And so in order to transfer a file via phone to computer we will need to complete two steps: make settings on the computer if we copy from the phone to the computer and look at the option when we see everything on the computer file structure phone.

And so first of all, we connect your phone to wifi router so that it gets into the same local network as the computer. Next, launch es Explorer. Choose remote access.

As you can see, I have a Wi-Fi connection, click the Enable button below.

es explorer will give you an ftp server address like ftp://ip address:3721. This is what we will use to access from the computer to the phone.

If you click on the wheel icon at the top, you will be taken to the ftp settings. Here you can set a login and password for access, since by default access is anonymous, you can change the port number.

Transfer a file from phone to computer

Now let's copy in reverse, the same es guide will help us. In the beginning, you need to do certain things on the computer.

First, find out the IP address. This can be done using the ipconfig command on the command line. For me it is 192.168.0.77.

Select Advanced sharing options.

Make sure the checkbox is enabled:

• Turn on general access so that network users can read and write files in shared folders (you will need to enter your computer login and password)
• You can enable password-free mode by checking the Disable password-protected sharing checkbox.

Now let’s create a new folder 123 on any of the local drives and make it accessible over the network to everyone. Go to folder properties and click share

We see everything a shared folder created, click ready.

We are all now starting to transfer files from Android phone to your computer, for this open the section LAN Network in es Explorer.

You will see a network section where you will see available computers in local network, for me it is ADMINKO.

If your devices do not appear right away, you can click the search button at the top.

Choose required device, my computer is ADMINKO, and I see folder 123, which I created earlier. As you can see, the IP address is 192.168.0.77.

For example, let's create a folder called Hello

Checking the new folder

As you can see, we got access to the computer from the phone, now you can copy any files you want.