Paul wrote:

> I tried a number of experiments with Bluetooth, and sometimes
> I ended up Paired, but the stupid thing insisted on not
> being Connected,

Hi Paul,
You have immense hardware experience on Windows PCs that I don't have,
which I respect, so I want to let you know that I too tried all the (free,
ad free, login free) bluetooth methods ever suggested on this newsgroup.

They all work... for a while... and then they have issues... probably due
to me not understanding how Windows networking works (as they're mostly ad
hoc networks, as far as I can tell) - but I'm not a networking expert.

Certainly the OP isn't a networking expert either, so I don't suggest ad
hoc networks for the OP's issue. I suggest a known good data-enabled USB
cable.

I suggested that from the first post the op made on the Android newsgroup.

Having tested likely dozens of proposed (free, ad free, login free)
solutions for copying files back and forth between Windows/Linux & Android,
my suggestion for the simplest most reliable methods were, from the start:

1. USB cable (mtp, drivers, data-aware cable, etc.)
2. WebDav server (for mounting the Android filesys as a drive over Wi-Fi)
<https://i.postimg.cc/hjkVFyqJ/scrcpy07.jpg> Android mnt as drive lette

There are plenty of others; all of which I've tested, most of which I've
written tutorials for; but I said to the OP from the start that those two
methods are, in my humble experience, the simplest & most reliable.
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Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to always add technical value to this newsgroup.

On 1/21/2023 1:25 PM, Andy Burnelli wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>
>> I tried a number of experiments with Bluetooth, and sometimes
>> I ended up Paired, but the stupid thing insisted on not
>> being Connected,
>
> Hi Paul,
> You have immense hardware experience on Windows PCs that I don't have,
> which I respect, so I want to let you know that I too tried all the (free,
> ad free, login free) bluetooth methods ever suggested on this newsgroup.
>
> They all work... for a while... and then they have issues... probably due
> to me not understanding how Windows networking works (as they're mostly ad
> hoc networks, as far as I can tell) - but I'm not a networking expert.
>
> Certainly the OP isn't a networking expert either, so I don't suggest ad
> hoc networks for the OP's issue. I suggest a known good data-enabled USB
> cable.
>
> I suggested that from the first post the op made on the Android newsgroup.
>
> Having tested likely dozens of proposed (free, ad free, login free)
> solutions for copying files back and forth between Windows/Linux & Android,
> my suggestion for the simplest most reliable methods were, from the start:
>
> 1. USB cable (mtp, drivers, data-aware cable, etc.)
> 2. WebDav server (for mounting the Android filesys as a drive over Wi-Fi)
>   <https://i.postimg.cc/hjkVFyqJ/scrcpy07.jpg> Android mnt as drive lette
>
> There are plenty of others; all of which I've tested, most of which I've
> written tutorials for; but I said to the OP from the start that those two
> methods are, in my humble experience, the simplest & most reliable.

The last status report I saw, he is able to copy now.

So "mission accomplished, with the usual Tracphone flair" :-)

Paul

Paul wrote:

> The last status report I saw, he is able to copy now.
>
> So "mission accomplished, with the usual Tracphone flair" :-)

Hi Paul,
Thanks for that update as I'm slowly wending my way through the posts,
as I gave up on this thread but when I saw you had posted, I always
look at your posts for added value (which you always add, as do I).

What I love about you, is you do what I do, which is you pour your
heart and soul into helping people, and in doing so, you teach the
rest of us (who wish to learn from you).

In fact, I just downloaded the formatter you recommended, so here are
the relevant URLs (because my goal always is if I do the work, then
others should be able to follow me with _less_ effort than it took me to do).

Here is the output of your suggestion with that "less effort" added a bit.
Thanks for suggesting this particular formatter, although I wonder why
formatting even matters given sdcards work in Android out of the box.

-----< begin log file for the Ridgecrop FAT formatter >-----
*Fat32 is pretty simple, so it occurred to me to write a fast format routine to do the job.*
Note that the 32GB limit is a limit of the formatter in Windows XP.
FAT32 itself should be OK to 2TB, limited by a 32 bit sector count in the boot sector.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200424145132/http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm>
<http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm>
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200410224838if_/http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip>
Name: fat32format.zip
Size: 23501 bytes (22 KiB)
SHA256: 812A33F01C7D73A1E4B89427C01B6BF967DC8D8EF3671200F381B130356B3068
Extracted to a single file:
Name: fat32format.exe
Size: 49218 bytes (48 KiB)
SHA256: D5320A127374AF23139730F0D01AEE8195E5FE15B63C35D48D80930ABBF7F5CB

*Windows GUI version of fat32format*
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200410225115if_/http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm>
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200410225128if_/http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.exe>
Name: guiformat.exe
Size: 77824 bytes (76 KiB)
SHA256: 647FB4F5108AF632C3D52FEC34934922C50C70585697504E92FB80B3B7D05EE3
-----< end log file for the Ridgecrop FAT formatter >-----
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Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to add value for Paul's suggested fatformatter.