| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 150519 | 2022-03-09 01:55:00 | Download photos from smart phone | Brucem (8688) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1484803 | 2022-03-09 01:55:00 | My niece has a fairly elderly Samsung "smart phone" which is full of photos. She doesn't have a computer, and wants to download the photos to an 1Tb external HDD that she has. Is there any way to do this other than email them to a computer, and then to the HDD? The HDD had a USB 3 port. | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1484804 | 2022-03-09 02:54:00 | Plug the phone and HDD into a computer and allow the computer to transfer the photos to the HDD then drag and drop or copy and paste the photos you want to transfer. A pop-up should appear on the phone asking for permissions, allow whatever. I always make a new folder and put the transferred photos or files in that. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1484805 | 2022-03-09 03:06:00 | She doesn't have a computer,....... Does she have access to a computer, or know someone with a computer she can use. No point in emailing all the photos if no computer to get the emails & copy to USB. If she has alot of photos , emailing them all isnt a good way to do this . She could install a SDCard in the phone & copy them to that . Or upload them to Cloud storage (dropbox, google drive , onedrive) If she can get access to a computer , there are plenty of EASY options. Otherwise , its not going be be simple, unless there are very few photos |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1484806 | 2022-03-09 03:46:00 | It can be done by the looks, direct connection, BUT also a lot of mucking about and possibly need to buy hardware. If you google "Connect external Drive to Phone" You'll get several examples. Like this video.www.youtube.com As well as this one www.youtube.com <--- Better description As 1101 posted "If she can get access to a computer , there are plenty of EASY options." :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1484807 | 2022-03-09 03:52:00 | Interesting, I have an old Samsung 3g with photos on it. W10 and XP don't want to trsfr photos over. Thought Uncle might have been able to do that to his computer and download to external drive. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1484808 | 2022-03-09 04:54:00 | Depending how elderly the phone is you may need to hunt around the settings to find a way to enable USB file transfer. Newer phones do this fairly automatically it wasn't always that way. Still needs a PC but it's honestly the best bet. I'd be wary connecting an external drive to the phone as well especially if it powers directly from the port, I fried a tablet that way once. I think the drive drew more power than the tablet could supply. One fairly easy option if you can find an OTG adapter to allow a regular USB flash drive to connect to the phone then copy to that and then from that to the drive using a PC (again). Again it depends how old the phone is, not all support OTG. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1484809 | 2022-03-10 01:58:00 | Interesting, I have an old Samsung 3g with photos on it. W10 and XP don't want to trsfr photos over. Thought Uncle might have been able to do that to his computer and download to external drive. lurking. wooow, silly me!, with W10 I keep forgetting to give it time to wake up and think about what it is doing. Brucem it will work. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1 | |||||