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UltraSane 6 days ago

USB transfer is by far the best way to transfer large amounts of data to and from phones.

codethief 6 days ago | parent [-]

Really? Ever since Android devices ceased to be regular USB storage devices and switched to MTP, this has never worked well for me. MTP is incredibly slow.

UltraSane 6 days ago | parent [-]

What method do you find to be faster?

roywiggins 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

MTP is so slow that when I have enough photos and videos on my phone, Windows will crap itself and stall out just trying to list the folder. It's functionally unusable and I don't know how I'd get those files off the phone if I didn't use literally anything else. If it was mass storage I could just rsync it over USB but it isn't so I can't.

I ended up using rclone on Windows with an rsync server running on the phone, I think sshd4a usually.

codethief 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pretty much any other: Connecting my phone to my computer as USB storage (when it was still possible), connecting a thumb drive to my phone, syncing files using Syncthing, using adb, …

kzshantonu 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Copyparty running in termux serving over USB tethering