In this video we show you how simple it is to transfer over your photos and
videos with a USB cable and answer the question is USB still a worthwhile
option. what's going on YouTube it's about time that I made an updated video
of this and that's transferring your photos and your videos from Android over
to PC so let's jump right in like it or not transferring over a USB cable is
still a viable option why you ask that is because if you have a computer or a
phone that doesn't have like a Wi-Fi connection or you don't have a Bluetooth
connection or anything like that you can still just plug in the cable and
transfer the photos or videos straight over before we get started you're gonna
want to obviously have three different things phone computer and the USB cable
now make sure that it does not only support the charge ability which is
basically every other cable but it also has the ability to transfer the data so
how do you know if the cable that you have actually supports data transfer if
you plug it into the computer and you plug it into the phone you're gonna get
a message on the phone indicating that it wants to set up like a mass storage
you need to enable that and that of course you'll get a connection and/or
driver installation on the computer the best thing to do is just use the cable
that came with the phone if you still have it if it's an older phone chances
are you're not going to but just look around and try different cables now
since I have already plugged in this phone I'm not gonna receive the message
that wants me to enable the MTP which is the mass transfer protocol or the mass
storage device I'm gonna go ahead and play it plug it in but you're gonna
notice the sound pay attention to the sound that's gonna indicate a connection
and then in the bottom right hand corner of this computer you're gonna see that I
have connected to the phone if you don't get that then you may want to try a
different cable or check the phone settings that everything is enabled
correctly and then watch I'm gonna plug it into the phone here boom bingo Bongo
we can see the connection in the bottom right hand corner which is hiding behind
me you can see that it says select to choose what happens with the device and
it has connected to the phone now that we're connected to the phone what we're
gonna want to do is bring up a Windows Explorer I'm just gonna click on the
file and it's gonna automatically take me to quick access but I don't want to
be in quick access I actually want to be in this PC go along the left-hand side
click on this PC and you notice that I am
nected right here because it says the galaxy si plus which is under devices
and drives if you don't have that you may need to just maximize that in order
to get that option what we're going to do now is we're gonna go into the device
that you've plugged in and we're gonna search for the videos or pictures that
you have now I have two options in here I have an SD card installed but I also
have phone storage so I have pictures in both places you may have the same if we
go in there you can see the two different options I have card and then I
have phone now if I go into phone you're gonna want to search for the DCIM if you
do not have an SD card this is where your pictures and your videos are going
to be stored which is going to be the DCIM folder which stands for digital
camera image if you go into there you've got camera restored screenshots you can
go into those and you can see the different types of files that are in
there if we backtrack a few if you do have an SD card installed the phone is
going to default save your pictures and videos to that so we're going to go back
a couple steps and we're gonna go into card here's where things can get a
little bit tricky if you've had photos or videos on your phone storage and you
move them over to the SD card dances are that you may have moved into a different
album which is exactly what's happened in my case here I move them from the
internal storage to the SD card and I put them under album one so I have
pictures in there however in this case I'm gonna go into DCIM and then I am
going to go into camera and you can see that I've got the main pictures here for
today's demonstration saved in this particular folder so I'm going to either
click and drag control a or if I just want to select individual ones I can
hold down control and select individual ones or I can click on one click on
shift and hold the other one and it will select everything in between I now have
all of the pictures that I want selected I'm just gonna drag them and drop them
into the pictures folder because I will worry about organizing and filing in
them later so I'm just gonna click on them hold and then I'm going to drag and
drop them into my pictures over here on the left hand side so if we go into the
pictures folder you can now see that those pictures that I have transferred
over are in this folder and like I said I will transfer them or organize them
later now the reverse of this is of course if I want to transfer photos from
my computer over to my android phone I'm gonna locate where those pictures are
I'm going to typically just right-click or select any of them that I have and
I'm just gonna click on copy find the phone and then I'm going to navigate
where I want these pictures say but since I've gone through
I've copied the ones that I do want to transfer over I'm just gonna right-click
in the space on the phone where I want those pictures and click on paste and
it's going to transfer them over and it transferred nearly instant thank you for
watching the video and spending some time with us today if you found the
video useful or liked it give it a like and a share and of course that brings us
to our question of the day do you still feel like the USB is a viable option
leave your answers in the comments section below the video and of course
while you're down there don't forget to smash tap or click that subscribe as
well as enable notification for future videos we will see you on the next one