Where to get drivers for Android smartphone file transfer to PC

[Lucia Gallo]

Which is the correct Android driver to install on Windows
in order to copy camera files from the LG-P769 to the PC?

When I plug in my LG Optimus L9 Android cellphone to the USB
port on my Windows XP PC, the T-Mobile phone tells Windows
to pop up a message to either install the 206MB LG tool suite,
or just the 12MB MTP driver.

LG Suite of tools:
tool.xcdn.gdms.lge.com LGPCSuite_Setup.exe

MTP Driver:
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/client/WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

[Lucia Gallo]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 09:57:11 -0700, Lucia Gallo wrote:

> LG Suite of tools:
> tool.xcdn.gdms.lge.com LGPCSuite_Setup.exe

It wasn't easy to find the URL of the LG suite:
http://tool.xcdn.gdms.lge.com/swdata/MOBILESYNC/GO/P5.3.14.20140117/LGPCSuite/Autorun/LGPCSuite_Setup.exe

I was able to get that URL by hitting escape when the IE
browser popped up for about a second, in order to freeze
the browser before it went to just a download window which
didn't have the full URL in it.

Since the LG Optimus L9 SD card is useless (you can't
transfer or move apps or data to it), the simplest way to
get data off the L9 would be to use the USB cable.

Given I must choose between the two methods, which
would you suggest I download onto the PC for transferring
files by USB cable?

MTP driver?
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/client/WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

LG Suite?
http://tool.xcdn.gdms.lge.com/swdata/MOBILESYNC/GO/P5.3.14.20140117/LGPCSuite/Autorun/LGPCSuite_Setup.exe

[John McGaw]

I am surprised than any Android device cannot transfer files natively -- no
additional programs or drivers required. The few I've tried simply showed
up as an external USB memory device when I plugged them into my Windows PC.
If all you want to do is transfer pictures then the MTP driver should do
the trick though. Are you sure that there isn't some setting on your phone
which tells it how to react when it is connected via the USB cable?

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Lucia Gallo:

>Which is the correct Android driver to install on Windows
>in order to copy camera files from the LG-P769 to the PC?

I gave up on hardwire file transfers. WiFi transfers are just too
easy.
--
Pete Cresswell

[s|b]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:06:30 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> I gave up on hardwire file transfers. WiFi transfers are just too
> easy.

As if simply connecting a USB cable is too much of a hassle... It works
just fine with my Galaxy S4 Mini.

--
s|b

[Lucia Gallo]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:09:55 -0400, John McGaw wrote:

> Are you sure that there isn't some setting on your phone
> which tells it how to react when it is connected via the USB cable?

I would show you a screenshot of the LG menu that asks
when you plug a device in, but I can't get the screenshot
off the phone onto my PC.

So, I will tell you (in words) what happens:

0. You power on and unlock the T-Mobile LG Optimus L9.
1. You connect the micro-USB cable to the WinXP SP3 laptop.
2. On the smartphone, a menu titled "USB connection type" pops up.
3. It has a (o) circle that you must choose one of four options:
a. Charge only (Charge with a USB cable)
b. Media sync (MTP)
c. LG Software (Connect to PC software for LG mobile)
d. Camera (PTP)

When I select "Media Sync", the WinXP PC pops up a message
to download the MTP software located at
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/client/WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

If I change the selection on the phone to "LG Software",
a different box pops up on the WinXP PC asking to download
http://tool.xcdn.gdms.lge.com/swdata/MOBILESYNC/GO/P5.3.14.20140117/LGPCSuite/Autorun/LGPCSuite_Setup.exe

So, my question is basically which would you suggest?

[Lucia Gallo]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 18:14:50 +0000 (UTC), Dustin wrote:

> I've got an LG phone running Android v2.x series.

Didn't they remove USB capability in Ice Cream Sandwich?
This LG Optimus L9 has Android 4.1.2.
USB mode is no longer available in that Android.

So, I have to add the MTP drivers or the LG software
suite, but before I do, I'm asking for advice.

[Lucia Gallo]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:06:30 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> WiFi transfers are just too easy.

I tried "Kies Air" but the fact it would only transfer
a single file at a time drove me absolutely crazy.

So, I gave up on WiFi transfer.

If there was an /easy/ way to transfer hundreds of
files by WiFi, that would be a different story though.

[Gene E. Bloch]

My 4.1.2 phone has no problem with USB. It worked OK 4 hours 9 minutes
ago, i.e., the last time I synced.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[Gene E. Bloch]

Both, then try them to see if either one works.

I'd guess Media Sync, but I (fortunately, apparently) don't have an LG
phone, so I can't test.

It looks to me like the other selection might require you to install the
LG software, but then I have not the slightest idea what that SW is or
what it can do.

[Whiskers]

If you want "b. Media sync (MTP)" I think you'll need the MTP driver for
your computer. If you want the fancy "c. LG Software (Connect to PC
software for LG mobile)" instead of using whatever tools you already
have on your computer, install it. Here's what LG have to say about
that package:

<http://www.lg.com/uk/support/pc-suite> "LG PC Suite: Manage Your
Photos, Videos and Music | LG UK"

I wouldn't be surprised if you need both, in practice, depending on
what you want to do with the phone and computer connected.

--
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

[Whiskers]

The stumbling block in this instance is the obsolete Windows XP system,
which didn't come with "Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)" drivers already
installed - because MTP hadn't been invented when XP escaped.

Early Android systems (up to version 2.something I think) detect a
USB connection and offer the user 'charge only' or 'disk drive' (and
possibly 'sync' or 'tether' if the OEM included those features).
Choosing the 'disk drive' option would make the Android device 'unmount'
its MicroSD card and make it available to the computer as a 'USB
external storage device'; when the computer had finished with it and
unmounted it ('you may now safely remove your device') you could unplug
the phone, which would then check its MicroSD card and if possible
re-mount it and make the contents available on the phone again.

But computers can do /all sorts/ of things to external storage devices,
and Android phones also like to do interesting things with them
(especially if they use them as extensions to built-in storage) so you
could really mess up your Android phone if you weren't careful. That's
why MTP is now used instead; the computer has no access to the phone's
MicroSD card at all - all it can do is read and write files via the
phone's own operating system, which should make it much harder for the
human to muck anything up beyond the point at which 'nothing works'.

[Alek Trishan]

TotalCommander has a LAN plugin that lets you transfer multiple files
over your WiFi network.

[John G]

Lucia Gallo expressed precisely :

Seems to me DROPBOX is the easy way to go.
Photos transfer to computer as soon as phone is on network. l-)

--
John G

[Char Jackson]

Dropbox is my preferred method...

--

Char Jackson

[Wolfgang Barth]

Am 04.04.2014 22:18, schrieb Lucia Gallo:
> So, I gave up on WiFi transfer.
>
> If there was an /easy/ way to transfer hundreds of
> files by WiFi, that would be a different story though.
>

What about Airdroid?

Or an ftp app? Dropbox uploads to the cloud and back, you need internet
access. With ftp and airdroid you need only local WLAN.

[Wolfgang Barth]

Am 04.04.2014 22:18, schrieb Lucia Gallo:>

> So, I gave up on WiFi transfer.
>
> If there was an /easy/ way to transfer hundreds of
> files by WiFi, that would be a different story though.
>

[cvy...@gmail.com]

>
> MTP Driver:
> http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/client/WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

thats a slow ass download, wow

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In article <f93ff44d-2c7c-4f7f...@googlegroups.com>,

it's something at your end.

that downloaded in a few seconds here.