Photos get reduced when copied to PC using Windows 'Your Phone' app  

Ken,

When you try the USB connection, you should get a prompt on the phone that you have to accept. Did that happen?

Since WiFi works, sorting out USB is not essential. You can move straight on to setting it up - File menu, Settings. I could post my settings and notes about each of its sections if you like.


Setting up is done from File menu, Settings.

I also found Bluetooth speeds to be unbearably slow. I tried it only once then went back to WiFi & USB.

Denis

Already posted in my post #7 above

You can expand some or all of the groupings on the left.

- The user [i.e. phone] Handiest is in bold because that's what I am currently connected to.
- The Files Internal storage entry is in bold because that's what I am currently looking at.

Notice how obvious the green colouring I chose is. I'll comment on that further in my dits about Settings. If you have more than one phone you can set up a completely different lot of MPE Settings and make the colour scheme different in the hope of not getting confused while you are working.

The only ones that I regard as significant are:

Connect on startup - This just saves running MPE then manually by right-clicking on the entry in the User grouping [see UI post].

Start multi-sync - I leave this off because I might be running MPE just to check something or to copy across something and may not want to do a sync at the moment. MultiSync can be run manually form the Extras menu and that's what I do.

Colour scheme - Green - I used to have two or three phones to sync using MPE. I made their colour schemes different so I would not get confused between them. [Orange & violet are really shocking shades that stand out very clearly indeed]

Display format for names - This is for the Contacts view of the interface. I never use it but wanted to maintain the same first name - last name layout that I use in Outlook and elsewhere.

Calender settings - I never use the MPE Calendar view of the interface.

Calender settings, Calculate holidays - I leave this clear just to make sure nothing gets done that might get passed through to the Calendar I sync to the phone itself.

wiganken said:

Yes I did accept 'File Transfer' and a second time it asked again and I accepted 'Photo Transfer' but no joy. If you look at the first picture I posted you can see the 'Android ADB Interface' "Could not Start".

I tried copying photos via WiFi and it was 25X faster than Bluetooth so I am happy with that. Took only 1 minute instead of 25 minutes to copy over 145 MB photos.

I'll forget about USB and Bluetooth so I will now disable 'USB Debugging' on my phone.

Thanks for your help.

The 'Android ADB Interface' problem means you have not installed the appropriate driver.
- Mine is actually within a Device manager group Samsung phone
- Perhaps being in a non-branded group is also an indication of a problem? I can only speculate.
- The entry only appears for mine when connected by USB. When connected by WiFi it is not there so I don't see it as being a show stopper for setting up or using MPE.

I'm working through each section of setting up MPE so that File transfer problem might get sorted out by my examples.

Denis

I disabled both those notification entries at the bottom because I found them distracting.