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[Q] Easy way to send files to Phone

Hi guys i was thinking how useful Chrome to Phone is and the ease that it has brought me, and i was wondering if there is a similar app that will allow me to send files from my pc to my phone (and maybe vice versa but am not too bothered about that).
Rather than using bluetooth, maybe an app that you could just right click on the file and give an option to send to a phone over the internet.
Does anyone know of an app like that?
Thanks in advance

Dropbox
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yeah i have dropbox, but you cant right click on the file and send it to phone, you have to copy the file into the dropbox folder and then go onto the dropbox app on your phone then navigate to it and then download it.
Thanks, but i am looking for something that will immediately download it straight to my phone, just like chrome to phone does with websites

DROPBOX
I think dropbox is the best you're going to get...the only this that is quicker than dropbox is adb one the computer but that defeats the whole not having to plug in anything.

There is also adbwireless (though not as user-friendly since you have to use the command line---there may be a script or something you can do to add the command to your right-click menu though). You can also run an FTP server on your phone using something like SwiFTP. Then just map your phone as a drive on your computer. Then it's just simple drag-and-drop.

well maybe if there arent any option it could be a great idea for a developer, i not being one, have no idea how to do that, but i think it could be a great app.

SugarSync lets you set up a folder that will automatically sync to your phone. It can be any directory you choose. Not quite as simple as chrome to phone but works similar to dropbox with 5GB free.

I use windows 7's built in bluetooth software to connect to an app called bluetooth file transfer on my phone. Of course, you need bluetooth hardware on you computer to do this.
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You could give WIFI Explorer a try. Connect your phone through WiFi and navigate to it's IP in your internet browser. You can upload/delete/copy/move files. Only disadvantage is that it's only for external storage access...
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-dooblou-wififileexplorerpro-Awzw.aspx

Samba File Sharing. Never used it myself, but heard good things.
There's also FileExpert. It can start a file server, that you browse to on your computer, then upload through an HTML form. (When started, it pops up the URL to use)
I usually use AndFTP, which requires me to have an ftp server running on my computer. All the browsing is then done from the phone.
Alternatively, SwiFTP is an ftp server for the phone - then you can run the client on your computer and browse from there.

SwiFTP gets a big +1 from me: Two minutes set-up, and then whenever the App/WiFi is open, your phone is accessible as a shared drive: I'm using this for everything but 500mb+ video transfers. I can just drag and drop e-books/APKs/etc from folder to folder and they're instantly on my phone.
On a related topic: CIFSmanager is a great App to browse your PC files from your phone, and then copy/paste any over. I use both daily

Wobstar said:
You could give WIFI Explorer a try. Connect your phone through WiFi and navigate to it's IP in your internet browser. You can upload/delete/copy/move files. Only disadvantage is that it's only for external storage access...
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-dooblou-wififileexplorerpro-Awzw.aspx
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+1 on this app also. It's not perfect by any means but there have been dozens of times I have just forgotten my usb cable or simply needed quick access to push or pull something off my SD. It's really a pretty decent app and it does get the job done quickly. It has a free and pro so you could always check out the free and see if its like what you want.

Without doubt the best solution is Awesome Drop
Chek it out, you won't regret it

willylatorre said:
Without doubt the best solution is Awesome Drop
Chek it out, you won't regret it
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This works great in the way is as simple as write the 4 numbers code and drop the file to the PC browser, but it's slower as it uses the upload speed (uploads the file to somewhere), so for large files is slow. Wifi Explorer is much faster because uses the speed of the router (which is different from the ADSL speed). FTP is also very faster.

How to transfer files to Transformer (preferably wirelessly and controlled from PC)

Hi, I want to be able to easily and quickly transfer files from my computer to the tablet. Preferably, wirelessly, and controlled from my computer. I hope we can discuss various solutions in this thread.
Here are the suggestions I and the other participants in this thread have come up with:
SD card: Possibly very fast, but I would need to plug/unplug the card every time, and maybe move files internally
FTP server on tablet: I have tried two FTP servers, both are very slow and stops after a few files.
Samba client on tablet: Should work OK, but I would then have to control it from the tablet
Samba server on tablet: Would be the perfect solution, but as far as I could find out, I need root (which is not yet possible on my B80)
USB connection: Fast and easy, but requires me to unplug the proprietary mad cable from the charger and into the tablet
DLNA: Buil-in support in both Transformer and Windows, but only supports streaming.
Dropbox: Simple and easy, but with space limitations.
SSH/SCP: QuickSSHd
WebDAV: ServersMan
What is your best solution?

Without root you don't have anymore options it seems to me.
Edit.....Thanks CaNsA......Dropbox, but its slow

You have exhausted all available options bar one......
Dropbox
And if its not good enough then create an app that will do what you want.
/end of thread.

CaNsA said:
You have exhausted all available options bar one......
Dropbox
And if its not good enough then create an app that will do what you want.
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Thanks for the tip, I just thought of another one that might have great potential: DLNA. Will explore later.
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Seriously?

Wifi File explorer here in free version, won't allow uploading files to Android, only downloading to the computer, but does a fine job once it's the paid one.
What FTP servers did you try? I admittedly used it ONLY on the Galaxy tab, but FTPServer worked very well for me. At least using Cyberduck as a client on the computer. For example, doing the opposite accessing an ftp server hosted on a computer, AndFTP gave me horribly low speeds. Free version anyway.
More options? Sure. SSH. I use QuickSSHd and again, still not tested on the TF.
Still not finished here, WebDAV in the form of something like ServersMan. Never really used it to be honest. But hey, still an idea right?
Also, give up on DLNA, at least partially. Depending on the client you might be able to only stream multimedia files instead of saving them. Keep in mind that there isn't any upload to a DLNA server, so you'd need a server on the computer (possibly a good one, not WMP) and control everything from the TF. "Everything" meaning pictures, music and videos shared by your server. Upside is that you can just stream stuff without using up space if that is fine with you... like watching a movie for example from bed. And you can get better results if using something that transcodes the files, I found to work very well Plex that however requires the paid app to connect to the Plex media server on your computer, might not be the best thing for you. Useless anyway if you need files that aren't multimedia. (notice so far no subtitles with Plex for Android, my only and actually huge, complaint)
On the TF side you could access the SMB shares on your network with ES File Explorer that works very well. But it's all done from the TF.
Now you have more options

Great post, I will update the first post and try the various solutions. I briefly tested DLNA, and reached the same conclusion. It's a shame, I suppose it wouldn't take much development effort to make file transferring possible when the auto discovery and data streaming implementation is done. Still, I guess that's not the purpose of DLNA.
I tested FTP Server and SwiFTP, both hung while transferring from Windows or WinSCP.
Also, I read that Dropbox supports direct transfer when the two clients are on the same network, great. However, I want to be able to transfer videos without caring about my Dropbox limit...

I use ES File Manager and transfer from my tablet, so far it's the best method.

I just use Samba on my TF and access it from my desktop

Install https://market.android.com/details?i....softdatacable to your transformer
Find a good ftp client on your computer (I use filezilla, there a setting for concurrent transfer, set it to max)
Run software data cable, open ftp client, enter ip and port and copy away

thebadfrog: I suppose you have rooted, then? Samba would be my preferred solution, but unfortunately, I can't root mine yet...

I have had good luck with File Expert. It is free and supports transferring using a web interface and ftp. I have mostly used the web interface which always has worked great.
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Actually, DropBox is great, but means you have to manually sync files you want.
DropSync solves that problem and makes Dropbox on the tablet work just like Dropbox on your PC/Mac with background syncing. I've been using it for 2 weeks now with no issues and virtually no battery impacts. If you pay you can configure the sync frequency. I have mine at 10 minutes, but a simple options click can force a sync if you really need it. You then have all your dropbox files on the TF.

I would say MyPhoneExplorer is what you need. You can copy or install from PC and it does much more.

I mostly use adb (adbwireless) to push files to the transformer. It seems to work fastest. There is a fuse file system available, so if you are using linux on the desktop you can even mount it. Very convenient!

Get ES File Explorer, go to LAN and point it to your computer's internal IP (requires it to be static)
Then you have access to all shared folders on your computer. Of course, this only works when you're connected to the same network, but I assumed that'd be the case anyway.

AlexTheStampede said:
Wifi File explorer here in free version, won't allow uploading files to Android, only downloading to the computer, but does a fine job once it's the paid one.
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They had it free on the Amazon market so I tried it. Worked quite well, I bought it (on the Android Market, I dont like how you need the amazon market installed and how slow it is with updates).

ES file explorer with the PC added as a server sharing the appropriate folders over network works pretty well for me!

+1 for ES File Explorer

Bluetooth
Today for the first time I used Bluetooth to send some e-books from my laptop to tablet. Not the fastest way , but convenient for smaller files, as it works without having to install or run seperate apps.
Great sugestions from all, much appreciated
Cheers,
Richard

ES File Explorer is great for what it does but it is not what the OP is looking for(Read the title)
+1 for My Phone Explorer, can transfer/delete/move files to sd,microsd, and internal hard drive.

{REQ} File transfer via WiFi Android to Android

HI Guys .
I am looking for an app for android that can transfer files between android phones using WiFi.
As at work we some times need to transfer large files between phones. Bluetooth is too slow and it is a pain connecting the phone to a PC uploading the file then downloading the file to new phone.
Any ideas on this would be great. As this would save masses of amounts of time. Also it would need to be a direct transfer between phones as we have no router to connect to at work.
Thanks in advance
Jonathan

File expert has the option to share a file via wifi when you long press on a file. I can't test this phone to phone as I only have one Android handset here at the moment. Give it a try.
https://market.android.com/details?id=xcxin.filexpert
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you can use "Wi-fi Cast Lite" from lgworld or Try "IP Messenger" from Android Market.

or maybe use dropbox ?
This is the way i do it ...

Use wiFi File Transfer from the Market.
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Well, I think the simple is better. So why don't use FTP? As its name says is a File Transfer Protocol
I do use FTPServer, then if you're in Windows, you can use "Filezilla" as client. Maybe, you could thinks is much _effort_. But it's worth it.
Regards~

So far, the best and easiest app existing is fast file transfer -
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/transfer-files-fast-with-fast-file-transfer/
Download and usage instruction can also be read here-

jonathanfoster said:
HI Guys .
I am looking for an app for android that can transfer files between android phones using WiFi.
As at work we some times need to transfer large files between phones. Bluetooth is too slow and it is a pain connecting the phone to a PC uploading the file then downloading the file to new phone.
Any ideas on this would be great. As this would save masses of amounts of time. Also it would need to be a direct transfer between phones as we have no router to connect to at work.
Thanks in advance
Jonathan
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Use wifi file transfer..it uses wifi tethering for sharing files,freely....speed 3 mb/s...
Link Play Store Link:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/
de...stfiletransfer
download app,open and follow onscreen instructions...

[Q] FTP File Transfer from Moto G

FTP file transfer works on every phone I have used except the Moto G with Kit Kat. Have others gotten it to work?
For the FTP server on the android side, I have tried numerous apps, including ES File Explorer's Remote Manager feature. On the client side, I have tried numerous apps including FileZilla.
I have no problem establishing FTP connections, but the file transfers do not complete properly. It appears that on the android side it thinks it has sent the entire file, but on the PC side it thinks the last 5% or so still needs to be sent. With some FTP clients, they will request the file again and again and eventually it will get the entire thing, but it takes way too long.
When I use the exact same FTP servers and clients with Android Gingerbread devices, everything works perfectly.

In PC you can just share a folder over the network and connect to it via ES Explorer. I used to transfer that way and was good by then.
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With ES File Explorer and Filezilla I made all the transfers to (and from) Moto G. Never had a problem.

Have you tried changing the port (e.g. from ES File Explorer's 3721 to the standard port 21)?

goldfndr said:
Have you tried changing the port (e.g. from ES File Explorer's 3721 to the standard port 21)?
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Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. ES File Explorer only allows ports 1025-65534 for FTP. I'm not sure why it doesn't allow standard FTP port 21. Any ideas?

nijom said:
In PC you can just share a folder over the network and connect to it via ES Explorer. I used to transfer that way and was good by then.
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Thanks for the idea. I gave your suggestion a try, and it works, but it requires that I move (or copy) all files to be transferred into another folder before transferring. After transferring, then I need to delete all the copies. I'd like to avoid the extra steps, but I do sincerely appreciate your suggestion.
I've tried everything I can think of, and I just can't get FTP transfers to work as expected on this phone (see first post for what happens). There's gotta be a solution, especially given the report above that another user has no difficulty.

I figured it out!!! :victory:
After much pondering, thinking, and tinkering, I figured it out. It was a rule in iptables that blocked the linux kernel from accessing wifi.
Now as to why it needs access, I dunno. If you know, please enlighten.
The great news is that it works now! :cyclops:

What is the best app to transfer files wirelessly from phones to computer, vice versa

Thank you...............

johnnxiv said:
Thank you...............
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I think x-plore should do that well.
Hope it helps!

johnnxiv said:
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personally I'm doing it old school way using FTP, I recommend a simple app "FTP Server"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mbapp.ftpserver Works great and doesn't have a size limit

Try ShareIt
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenovo.anyshare.gps&hl=en(For Android)
shareit.lenovo.com/(For PC)

Anyone that already uses ES file explorer on their device can use it for this purpose, why install another app if you already have one that will do the job.
ES File explorer has many capabilities that the majority of the community overlooks. It is much more than just a file manager, its a complex tool once you look below the surface.

Share It is a good app which lets you transfer between your phones and system easily. Sometimes the speed might be an issue, but apart from that, the app has done a pretty good job whenever I have used it.

Re: Some method I have used
For bulk transfer, I would use Wifi Direct.
But as a developer I have to transfer multiple outputs to my pc, for that I am using Push bullet, which let you transfer the notification data to your pc so that you don't miss anything. You have to signin to your gmail and open the application on PC and sharing will be done. The good thing is no sync and connection issues have to take care of and everything is properly transferred and ready to use. Everytime an notification came, it is in my PC testing database.