Windows 10: can I connect my phone to Microsoft Your phone using a cable?

my computer does not have a bluetooth connection, so I would like to put it with a cable

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Windows Phone users Clubhouse

I think I'll put a list of people's favourite apps in the OP, starting with my own until I get some suggestions, but you can take a look at the Windows Phone app store at the top apps to see what's popular http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

You are both now added, welcome! *Toast :toast:

 

My Phone Explorer connecting advice

I will start with 3 and 6

"3.Connect the phone by USB and check it appears as a drive in File explorer & that you can browse it [you don't need MPE for this to work and any problems would probably mean the correct driver had not been installed]"

I presume you mean it should show up in the same way a Flash Drive does? It does not. But does it require OTG? I have OTG adapters to connect Flash Drives to the phone, but not an OTG cable for the PC, so I must get one. I used to connect via a cable to my Windows phone, but that did not support OTG. I often found it useful. If for some reason connecting phone and PC with a cable does not work I cannot use that method to connect with MPE.

"6. Do you get the same error whether it is a WiFi connection or USB connection? Or have you only tried USB so far?" As follows from 3, I have only connected with WiFi, not with USB.

I hope this makes sense to you! Despite what might be concluded from my response to 3. above, the PC did connect with the phone at the beginning, for about a day --- so it should be connecting now. Tomorrow I will try your other suggestions.

 

Cannot see phone files on computer


SOLVED. It was a well-hidden setting to change the USB type.

I have a new phone running Android Oreo. I have taken a few test photos and a couple of test videos. Some have been saved to the phone's internal storage and some to an SD Card.

I have connected the phone to a W10 computer using the USB cable supplied with the phone. Windows identifies the phone correctly and automatically installs the driver and the phone is then correctly listed in Explorer. If I click on the phone in Explorer, Windows displays a message "No files on this device" and consequently the file section of the Explorer window is empty. The phone displays that it is being charged from the USB port. Therefore it would seem that both Windows and the phone are reporting that the USB connection is working as expected.

My previous phone was a Windows phone and as expected the phone worked seamlessly with Windows computers. I am still finding my way around Android so I may have missed something obvious. The instruction in the phone User Guide is simply to "......connect the phone to the Windows computer using the supplied USB cable and after installing the drivers the files and folders on your phone will be accessible.....".

Well that does not seem to be quite correct....*Sad

Thanks for any suggestions.

T.