Introduction :
We all know how to copy files from PC to Android Device and vice-versa (I guess
)
But say, in some rarest of situations, where your phone is being recognized by PC on connection with USB cable, but for some reason, 'My Computer' or whatever File Explorer does not show your device, or doesn't lists files and directories of your phone, and you would want to transfer files, then this guide is for you.
I would have put the title, the one written below, but it won't fit in the Title
Transfer files from your PC to phone and vice-versa even if 'My Computer' does not recognize your phone properly.
However, PC must recognize it (when a notification sound is played on connection).
Requirements :
1. You
2. An Android Device.
3. A PC. (I will use windows 8 in this guide)
4. ADB installed on your PC and configured for your phone.
Procedure:
Let this be the situation
As you can see, My Computer says 'This folder is empty', but actually I have 2 main folders , sdcard0 and sdcard1
Now what you have to do is open ADB. To do that, Hold Shift+Right click on your ADB folder and then select 'Open Command Prompt window here'
First we will check whether ADB recognizes the Device, to do that, type :
If your device is recognized, the result will be
If it does not recognize, nothing will show up in the list.
Now, the main thing, to transfer file, I will be transfering 'Gallery.apk' to my sdcard0 main directory.
I have kept the Gallery.apk in C:\ for easy address.
Now the general format of the code:
Source address here is C:\ and target address is storage/sdcard0/
You can check for address of a location on your Phone by always viewing properties with a file explorer of a folder or a file.
So I type :
First, before executing it, I will show no Gallery.apk is present in referred directory
After typing the code, it should look like this :
Execute it.
On successful execution, it will look like
You can do the same thing to transfer files from Phone to PC
Code would be :
Remember, here source address will be the address of file present in your phone and destination address would be the desired location you would want to put the file in.
This should work even if your phone is not showed up in My Computer at all, but however PC detects it and so does adb.
Transferring multiple files will really be painful, but wait, trick is even here too.
Just press the up arrow key in command prompt and the last statement would appear, now just change address and your hard work is reduced to just work.
Cases when this won't work -
1. ADB is not configured. Head over to this thread to set up ADB. You can Google it more info.
2. ROM installed on your phone has storage issues (like mount problems).
If you feel this guide has helped, then there is no harm in pressing Thanks button
We all know how to copy files from PC to Android Device and vice-versa (I guess
)But say, in some rarest of situations, where your phone is being recognized by PC on connection with USB cable, but for some reason, 'My Computer' or whatever File Explorer does not show your device, or doesn't lists files and directories of your phone, and you would want to transfer files, then this guide is for you.
I would have put the title, the one written below, but it won't fit in the Title
Transfer files from your PC to phone and vice-versa even if 'My Computer' does not recognize your phone properly.
However, PC must recognize it (when a notification sound is played on connection).
Requirements :
1. You
2. An Android Device.
3. A PC. (I will use windows 8 in this guide)
4. ADB installed on your PC and configured for your phone.
Procedure:
Let this be the situation
As you can see, My Computer says 'This folder is empty', but actually I have 2 main folders , sdcard0 and sdcard1
Now what you have to do is open ADB. To do that, Hold Shift+Right click on your ADB folder and then select 'Open Command Prompt window here'
First we will check whether ADB recognizes the Device, to do that, type :
Code:
adb devicesIf your device is recognized, the result will be
If it does not recognize, nothing will show up in the list.
Now, the main thing, to transfer file, I will be transfering 'Gallery.apk' to my sdcard0 main directory.
I have kept the Gallery.apk in C:\ for easy address.
Now the general format of the code:
Code:
adb push <source address> <destination address>You can check for address of a location on your Phone by always viewing properties with a file explorer of a folder or a file.
So I type :
Code:
adb push C:\Gallery.apk storage/sdcard0/After typing the code, it should look like this :
Execute it.
On successful execution, it will look like
You can do the same thing to transfer files from Phone to PC
Code would be :
Code:
adb pull <source address> <destination address>This should work even if your phone is not showed up in My Computer at all, but however PC detects it and so does adb.
Transferring multiple files will really be painful, but wait, trick is even here too.
Just press the up arrow key in command prompt and the last statement would appear, now just change address and your hard work is reduced to just work
.Cases when this won't work -
1. ADB is not configured. Head over to this thread to set up ADB. You can Google it more info.
2. ROM installed on your phone has storage issues (like mount problems).
If you feel this guide has helped, then there is no harm in pressing Thanks button
