How do you transfer files from PC to the smart phone?
A family member got the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. Awesome! I’m stuck with the original IPhone 3G. Time to save my pennies for a real phone.
Anyway, there is a web page with the info here (http://androidbeast.com/229/import-mp3-files-to-samsung-galaxy-s2-via-kies/). The manual as usual is useless in this topic.
Not to criticize that web page’s content, but the instructions are not too clear. My family member was stumped on the very first step. When I get time I will try to explain it for the non-tech user.
- The Skyrocket comes with a built-in app called KIES.
- You run that,
- connect your phone to the PC with the USB cable, or just wireless
- then on the PC you open a browser to a specific address that the KIES app is listening on. KIES will indicate the URL.
- After that, you get this user interface on the PC’s browser with a bunch of stuff so that you can pick what you want to transfer to the smartphone. KIES gives you access to much more, btw.
I guess it is ok. I’m an old school nerd, let me see the file system, and I’ll copy stuff, thank you, never mind with those straight jackets like iTunes, Microsoft Live, etc. Grumble, grumble. [Update: On my Samsung Galaxy Note, I just connected the USB cable and viola, had access to the Notes file system. Maybe this is possible on the Samsung Galaxy II, but it didn't work for me.]
An alternative is to use the sync capabilities that most mobile devices have. Good luck with that. My problem with Sync on mobile devices is that they are too intrusive and invariably slow everything down.
A tall tale
I once had a USB stick who’s sync wanted to sync everything, and I mean everything; it was pulling my soul right out of my body, I could see the ectoplasm pouring out. Luckily it was to a Windows PC, that ran out of memory and crashed. If not I would not be typing this post.
references
Santana & McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender – 03 – the life divine
Thank you for this information! it worked like a charm. I was able to upload my Password Safe file from my PC and open it on the Skyrocket.