Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
Axel wrote:
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s) with
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is bidirectional.
W dniu 9.06.2026 o˙14:14, Alan K. pisze:
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone, activate it and
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s) with
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>> to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can ftp
either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.
you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no hassle, no problem.
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is bidirectional.
W dniu 9.06.2026 o˙14:14, Alan K. pisze:
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone,
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>> to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.
activate it and you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no
hassle, no problem.
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:02:47 +1000, Axel <none@not.here> wrote:
RelicMonkey wrote:
W dniu 9.06.2026 o˙14:14, Alan K. pisze:
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone,
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and >>>>> install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>>> to display and transfer files. :)
dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.
it's not in Play Store. ??
activate it and you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no
hassle, no problem.
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:53:12 +0200, Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:
Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
phone, let alone wireless.
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is
Bluetooth, never used it but that seems the most obvious to me.
Why didn't you try that?
On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:
Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my phone, let alone wireless.
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator
to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that works just fine called File Transfer.
Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with
a browser to display and transfer files. :)
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is Bluetooth, never used it but
that seems the most obvious to me.
Why didn't you try that?
On Wed, 6/10/2026 2:53 AM, Edmund wrote:
On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:
Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my phone, let alone wireless.
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator
to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that works just fine called File Transfer.
Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with
a browser to display and transfer files. :)
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is Bluetooth, never used it but
that seems the most obvious to me.
Why didn't you try that?
Bluetooth is 75KB per second.
It can transfer things, but it is pretty slow.
There used to be a function, where Bluetooth was the "path leader"
and set up the connection, and then the Wifi could be used in conjunction with Bluetooth, to get that rate well above 75KB per second (over Wifi).
But that was too easy and useful, so that is canceled, so that
the thing used in its place is more of a nuisance and involves "externalities".
That's the whole reason they did it, to make you depend on things outside
of the environment you're working in. That would be something
like WifiDirect (which I've used between two machines here, even
Windows can create a HotSpot for other devices to connect to, just
don't forget to write the password down). And that is rate limited,
so the transfer isn't all that fast. Linux should also be able to make
a Wifi Hotspot (so you don't need to own a Wifi router, to do things).
One reason for transfers, is when a smartphone takes pictures, it has
a DCIM directory, just like a digital camera. And you can transfer
a photo taken with the smartphone, from the DCIM directory. If a picture happened to be a 4000KB JPG, and the Bluetooth data rate is 75KB, the transfer will take a bit of time, and you cannot afford to be impatient
at that speed. If you had 32GB of pictures to transfer over, the novelty of using Bluetooth for the job, would rapidly wear out.
When phones had an SD, you could transfer files onto an SD and
take that somewhere. But a lot of the conveniences on smartphones
have been removed in the name of "progress". Removing a headphone
jack being an example.
https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobile-devices/use-a-microsd-card-with-your-galaxy-phone-or-tablet/
The entire set of file systems, are not instant candidates for transfers. Some directories are easy to get to (DCIM). Others are protected various ways, and then you need more people from one of the phone groups to help
you.
You also have to switch the phone, so you've given "approval" for
some things to happen. If you were using MTP and a wired connection,
there would likely be some phone setting to enable MTP instead of ADB or
the like. When a thing doesn't work, you check the phone for a
permission recipe.
The phone is a USB OTG device, it can be a "host" when reading a USB hard drive,
it can be a "peripheral" when connected to a PC. Whereas a PC is only a Host and not an OTG. There is one RPi which has OTG capability, but it is
the lowest end RPi and the same feature is not on the RPi 5.
Paul
On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:06:32 -0000 (UTC), Ian Colquhoun ><icolquhoun.remove@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-09, Axel <none@not.here> wrote:
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
I quite like an app called LocalSend. It works on all major platforms, >including in a web browser. Simple.
https://localsend.org
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:02:47 +1000, Axel <none@not.here> wrote:F-Droid is a separate Android app repository, not part of the Play Store. You install the F-Droid client from fdroid.org first, then install the FTP server app from inside F-Droid.
RelicMonkey wrote:
W dniu 9.06.2026 o?˙14:14, Alan K. pisze:it's not in Play Store. ??
On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone,
Axel wrote:I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or >>>>>> Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that >>>>>> works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and >>>>>> install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>>>> to display and transfer files. :)dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.
activate it and you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no
hassle, no problem.
If you go that route, the workflow is usually:
* start the FTP/SFTP server app on the phone
* note the phone's IP address, port, username and password
* connect from Mint with FileZilla, or with the file manager using an
ftp:// or sftp:// URL
* stop the server when finished
Keep it to your own LAN, and avoid leaving anonymous FTP enabled.
If you would rather stay out of F-Droid, another thing to look at is LocalSend.
It has Android and Linux builds, is bidirectional, and does not need a cloud account. Also check that the phone and PC are on the same WiFi subnet and that
the router is not using AP/client isolation; that breaks a lot of these local-
transfer tools.
What phone do you have? I have a Samsung Galaxy and Samsung's default
file manager Samsung My Files has an add-o that allows you to access
samba shares on you LAN. If you have a Samsung just open My Files and
tap Network Storage and you will be prompted to add the network
extension. Then all you have to do is setup samba shares on your systems.
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