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    From MajorLanGod@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 22 20:14:53 2023
    I've still got my Gogle Nexu 7 2013 running Android 6.1. I tried hooking it
    up to my Win 11 laptop to move some files but it never appeared. It's been
    so long ago I don't even remember if that is possible. Help!

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  • From Bodger@21:1/5 to MajorLanGod on Tue Aug 22 20:07:08 2023
    On 8/22/2023 4:14 PM, MajorLanGod wrote:
    I've still got my Gogle Nexu 7 2013 running Android 6.1. I tried hooking it up to my Win 11 laptop to move some files but it never appeared. It's been
    so long ago I don't even remember if that is possible. Help!

    Possible? Almost a certainty. I've been transferring files back and forth
    since I had my Nexus S back in the dark ages. Right now I can't remember
    the methods I've used over the years. Lately it has just been "tell the
    phone to allow data transfer" and it just automagically appears in File Explorer as a drive but I can't remember if it has always been that way.

    If nobody else comes up with a good answer I'll try to dig up some old
    phones from the archives (can't guarantee to Android 6.1 though) and see
    what I can figure out.

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  • From Neil@21:1/5 to Charles Jack Jones on Tue Aug 22 21:15:50 2023
    On 8/22/2023 9:11 PM, Charles Jack Jones wrote:
    First I change the cable.
    Then I reload the driver.
    Sometimes I just reboot the PC (because the USB gets confused).

    Another option is to mount the Android phone onto Windows over Wi-Fi.
    It can be "networked" as a network drive or "mounted" as a drive letter.

    No driver needed (as far as I know) as no cables are involved.
    You can even use adb to connect to the phone for drag & drop with scrcpy.

    There are many (many!) other choices if you have troubles with USB.
    All of which were covered in detail many times in the c.m.a. archives.
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    regards,
    Neil

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  • From Charles Jack Jones@21:1/5 to Bodger on Wed Aug 23 03:11:57 2023
    On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:07:08 -0400, Bodger wrote:

    If nobody else comes up with a good answer I'll try to dig up some old
    phones from the archives (can't guarantee to Android 6.1 though) and see
    what I can figure out.

    It happens all the time for me. Maybe once every six months or so.

    Each time it could be something different, from a bad cable, to the driver
    just screws up (don't ask me why or how that happens).

    First I change the cable.
    Then I reload the driver.
    Sometimes I just reboot the PC (because the USB gets confused).

    Each manufacturer has their own Android driver for Windows, but there's
    also a generic driver you can get from the Google web site.

    I remember downloading all the drivers from the Android Studio site.
    They have them there because having the correct drivers is critical for
    loading and running software over Android studio & adb.

    Rarely you'll need to debug the PC USB situation, which can be done with
    <https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html>
    <https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html>

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