Under normal circumstances this should work great, but if you’d like you can use a dedicated FTP Client applications as well. ![]() In this example we will use your file browser as the FTP client – after all, it’s already installed on your computer. The server provides access to parts of it’s filesystem, so the client can download, upload, delete and rename files on the filesystem of the server. Your Android is a computer as well so that should do exactly what we want, and it works like a charm for copying files. For FTP to work however, you will need a FTP Server (on your Android Device) and a FTP Client (on your computer). Personally I think running an FTP server on your Android device is pretty elegant – no need for wires and no need for weird protocol support and totally Operating System independent.įTP stands for File Transfer Protocol – It’s an ancient (1971!) protocol to transfer files between two computers. Not using an USB Cable – All Android versions FTP Server You can download it from Google so you have the latest version. Of course you can download it here as well: Or AFT for short, is the tool I recommend and it’s provided for free by Google. The point of this article is that you can pick what works best for you personally. Since most of these applications are rather bloated with functionality I don’t even care for, I typically stay away from them, but that doesn’t mean that you should avoid them as well. I have heard good things and bad things about this approach, but key is to make sure that you always have the latest version of the software (most certainly when using Samsung KIES!). It can be slow at refreshing at times, yet copies relatively fast, and it does do the trick most of the time. XNJB is free and can be downloaded from the XNJB website. I’m not going to write much about XNJB as it was not designed with Android in mind – rather for the Creative Nomad MP3 Player.
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