Hello all, Im having some trouble figuring this out. And I need a lil help if someone could. I would like to be able to file share between my computer and my phone, and even stream movies, music to my phone via wifi. I have a dsl modem with wifi built in, its connected to my laptop with a wire. So is there any thing I can do to achieve this? ES File manager has FTP and LAN clients built in, cant I use that somehow to connect to my computer and transfer stuff? Thanks for any help
You can always use DoubleTwist with AirSync or Winamp. They are the 2 apps that I know will allow this. Also, try Dropbox.
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plug in the usb.. click disk drive
if you would like to transfer files wirelessly you have to install a media server on your pc.. i use serviio. then you have to find a program from the android store that will see the server on your pc from your phone and transfer files.
steevod79 said:
if you would like to transfer files wirelessly you have to install a media server on your pc.. i use serviio. then you have to find a program from the android store that will see the server on your pc from your phone and transfer files.
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ok, i installed serviio and its running, i chose which files to share, now what do I do? do I have to go into network sharing center and give it a name and pass or something like that?
I also have estrong file explorer and file expert which is supposed to connect to servers also.
Well you can just use Dropbox, its an app and also a program for PC...just sign in, and anything you put in it, you can access, whenever, anywhere (by singing into the app of course) .
Purchased a Wifi 32GB Xoom yesterday but wondering how to trasnfer video files onto it, I have it plugged into my laptop but it simply tells me that the format isn't compatible (AVI) how can I get these on my Xoom so I can use Rockplayer?
You're just transferring as if it's a hard drive, right. I put some mp4 and m4a files on mine using windows 7....it said they might not play and was I sure I wanted to go ahead so I just hit 'transfer anyway' and all was good.
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I'm using XP at the moment (work laptop) it doesn't come up as a hard drive it comes up as a "media device" and it won't allow me to copy those file over....
Okay so my main reasoning to purchasing this tablet was primarily based on the fact you can view pdf's for school like books and such...
Which brings me to the question of?...
Wireless Flash Drive?
Now i want to be able to wireless sync the tablet as a flash drive and transfer files for school instead of carrying around a flash drive is this possible by any means??... (Needs to be MAC compatible or no to little software towards the computer because i do not have Administrator Access on the computer side..)
Wireless streaming Solutions?
okay so i figured out a way to browse the files on my computer using my tablet using an application called File Manager but how do i stream video and music from my tablet the opposite way? (use my computers monitor and speakers wirelessly from the tablet?)
this might be what you are searching... make use of allshare...
http://androidforums.com/captivate-...ide-setting-up-dlna-allshare-windows-7-a.html
Is there a way to do this with xmb. ?.. I would like to really be abke to enable it on a mac not windows.... Im absolutely not a windows fan i wont touch it...
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likenota said:
Is there a way to do this with xmb. ?.. I would like to really be abke to enable it on a mac not windows.... Im absolutely not a windows fan i wont touch it...
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BubbleUPnP will probably do the trick, assuming you have a client on the computer that supports DLNA/UPnP streaming.
Thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118891
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(use my computers monitor and speakers wirelessly from the tablet?)
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Use "VLC Direct" you can stream music and video both ways... tablet to computer, or computer to tablet. Its not on the market right now, it got kicked off when google messed up there market and everyone accounts. go to vlcdirect.com, you should be able to download it from there and read about how to use it. Its a great app I use it daily
You do need the pro version to use all of the features
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likenota said:
Okay so my main reasoning to purchasing this tablet was primarily based on the fact you can view pdf's for school like books and such...
Which brings me to the question of?...
Wireless Flash Drive?
Now i want to be able to wireless sync the tablet as a flash drive and transfer files for school instead of carrying around a flash drive is this possible by any means??... (Needs to be MAC compatible or no to little software towards the computer because i do not have Administrator Access on the computer side..)
Wireless streaming Solutions?
okay so i figured out a way to browse the files on my computer using my tablet using an application called File Manager but how do i stream video and music from my tablet the opposite way? (use my computers monitor and speakers wirelessly from the tablet?)
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I couldn't get bubble upnp or skifta to work properly remotely. Try subsonic, it is java based and set up through a browser, so I think it should be Mac compatible. Works great to stream music and video to Android devices over 3g. As far as the files, maybe look into setting up a ftp server or just use dropbox
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I don't know what the deal is. Connected with the stock cord as an MTP device. I keep getting an error that windows explorer has stopped working whenever I try to put a movie on the micro sd card or the internal storage.
Files transfers are painfully slow and I really don't want to have to eject the sd card every time. And then put it back in and transfer from sd card to internal storage.
Am I missing something here? I have the drivers installed and I can see the tf300 in "my computer". And can access it, its just when I go to transfer something.
Can you push it through adb?
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Can you push it through adb?
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I'm a complete noob when it comes to ADB.
I have always avoided it. Right now I am using the SD card swap around method. I assume it should work under MTP with windows explorer right?
you can transfer thru wifi but of course it's slower.
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you can transfer thru wifi but of course it's slower.
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Yah with multiple gigs I think its faster to use the sd card.
I've had the same problem when transferring large files over 1gb. I think this problem is due to the very low write and read speed in the tablet.
I was encountering problems when copying directly from a network share to my tablet/SD card, but when I copied the files to my PC first, and then to my tablet it worked fine.
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I was encountering problems when copying directly from a network share to my tablet/SD card, but when I copied the files to my PC first, and then to my tablet it worked fine.
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Thanks I think I also only tried from a network share. I'll have to transfer it to my pc first and try that.
Are you ripping dvds and putting them on the tablet? If so, I am struggling with getting a playable file. I have been using Handbrake and tried every setting. There are many posts of people doing it and even when I follow their settings the file comes out scrambled. Anyone have a tried and true app or method?
TIA
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Did transferring to the computer then the SD card work ok? Right now I have a 16 gig SD card and Im trying to transfer a 4.5 gig .m2ts video file from a portable hard drive and I get the message that the SD card is too small even though theres 10 gigs left.
I think the network share thing was the issue. I just plugged in and transferred some files that were local and it went fine.
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Did transferring to the computer then the SD card work ok? Right now I have a 16 gig SD card and Im trying to transfer a 4.5 gig .m2ts video file from a portable hard drive and I get the message that the SD card is too small even though theres 10 gigs left.
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The sdcard is probably formatted in fat32. Which has a max file limit size of 4gb's. Last night I had to trim the credits off of a movie to get it to just fit under the limit.
looks like you guys have a lot of big files,
i honestly rarely have a file bigger than 2GB, except for some installer-files (like microsoft windows, adobe creative suite)
for movies my files are usually under 1GB
Looks like I spoke too soon. Some PDF files worked through explorer. But even from a local drive I tried one 2.5gb MKV and I got the same error. Kind of annoying but oh well I can deal with it.
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Looks like I spoke too soon. Some PDF files worked through explorer. But even from a local drive I tried one 2.5gb MKV and I got the same error. Kind of annoying but oh well I can deal with it.
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See thats the weird thing. I had some movies saved as .M4V which are a little over 4 gigs, they transferred over fine. But for some reason it doesnt like storing .m2ts files.
same issue as lightsout
I just noticed the same issue when trying to copy a movie file from my win7 pc to the internal storage over the usb cable. I don't have an SD card installed. I've just realized that it goes fine for avi's. I copied a 1.5GB avi over and it went fairly quickly, but if I try to copy mkv files - I get the Windows Explorer error. This frustrates me.:crying:
Any ideas?
No error here with USB stock v30 and rooted but most mkvs I send are just under or at 1gb which is what handbrake gives me when transcoding a DVD. I do get a warning each time that the video may not work but I just ignore it and the video plays fine once transferred. Using win7 at the other end.
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Well that's the difference, then? Maybe I need to root....??? The mkv files were under 1gb.
Certainly couldn't hurt anything but the last time I sent a video file I was not rooted. I have since put root on but have not had the need for video since then. Perhaps I should try to be sure it still works
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So you're saying that you were able to move mkv files without root?
Correct and other than a windows 7 warning that it might not play it transferred like any other file. Transfer time sucked on USB 2 connection but I'm hearing that is common on this tablet. I have not sent any video files since I rooted but I don't see why that would matter. Tablet was in media mode.
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I recently put a 3GB mp4 file of a TV show I wanted to watch onto my Nexus 7 2013. Because I couldn't download it straight to my tablet (2GB file size limit) I tried copying it onto a USB stick and transferring it to the Nexus with an OTG cable which worked fine. I watched the show earlier today then deleted the file from my Nexus in windows explorer but this caused the Nexus/explorer to crash.
Now I can't access the tablet through windows explorer anymore. Trying to open it just disconnects it as a USB device. I wondered if deleting such a large file has made problems with the file system on the tablet and windows is struggling to read it? Anyone seen anything like this before or have any suggestions on how to repair it?