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Introduction
The most direct way to connect an Android tablet to a computer is by using a wire — specifically, the wire nestled at the core of a USB cable. You can do lots of things after making the USB connection, but everything starts with connecting the cable. Connecting the tablet to a computer. Feb 17, 2017 Android Mobile has a feature 'Tethering' to share your Android device data connection with your PC or laptop. Android 2.3 and higher version of Android offers USB cable internet connection for mobile to PC. Step by Step to use Android Mobile as a connection via USB cable.
As well as connecting your Android device to Droid Transfer over your local WiFi network, you can also connect your Android device to your computer using a USB cable.
To do this - you need to change some of the settings on your Android device so that Droid Transfer and Transfer Companion (running on your Android device) can communicate. This support article shows you how..
Enabling Developer Options on your Android Device.
- Generally, whenever you connect the USB the phone is in USB charging mode by default. To change to any other mode (file transfer mode in your case), go to the notification pane where a notification would tell you that usb is connected and charging. Tap on it and select the MTP or file transfer mode.
- Jul 19, 2019 Your Android phone's screen will appear in a window on your desktop. Use your mouse and keyboard to control it. When you're done, just unplug the USB cable. To start mirroring again in the future, just connect your phone to your computer with a USB cable and run the scrcpy.exe file once again.
Connect your Android device to your PC with a USB cable. Depending on your device, your phone may request permission for it to communicate with your PC. Click OK or Allow on any prompts showing on your Android Device.
Connect Android Tablet To Pc
You need to change some settings on your Android device so that 'Developer Mode' is enabled.
- Open your device settings and choose 'About phone', 'About device' or just 'About'.
- Look for the entry 'Build Number', or 'Build Version'. This entry may be under a further sub-menu called 'Software Information' or 'Software Info' on some devices.
- Tap the 'Build Number' entry five or six times. (No, really!)
Your device will show you how many taps are required to enable Developer Mode. When done your device will have Developer Mode enabled. - Go back to your main Settings menu - scroll down to the bottom, you should see a new entry called 'Developer Options'.
Congratulations! You're now a developer! ;)
Enable USB Debugging.
Just a couple more settings to change..
- Tap to open 'Developer Options'
- Make sure 'Developer Options' is set to ON.
- Scroll down to 'USB Debugging' and make sure that is enabled also. If it isn't, slide the toggle switch to the right to enable it.
- Depending on your Android device - a window may pop up on your phone asking you to verify that you want to enable USB Debugging. Click OK or Apply to allow USB Debugging to become enabled.
Download Transfer Companion to your Android Device.
Download Transfer Companion to your Android device from the Google Play Store. You need to be running at least version 1.58 of Transfer Companion - so check for updates if you have previously downloaded Transfer Companion to your Android device.
Download Droid Transfer to your PC.
On your Windows PC, go to this address to download Droid Transfer..
Run Droid Transfer on your PC
Run Droid Transfer on your PC and when you see the connect screen:
Connect your Android device to your PC with a USB cable. Depending on your device, your phone may request permission for it to communicate with your PC.
Click OK or Allow on any prompts showing on your Android Device.
When Droid Transfer detects your device, it will launch Transfer Companion on your Android device and begin to load your phones data through the USB cable.
Connect Android To Computer
Connection should now made between Droid Transfer and Transfer Companion and you can start managing and copying your Android Phone content using Droid Transfer on your PC.
Connect Android To Computer
Connection should now made between Droid Transfer and Transfer Companion and you can start managing and copying your Android Phone content using Droid Transfer on your PC.
If you're having troubles, check out our USB connection troubleshooting tips which will help you resolve any issues.
For recovering deleted, lost or formatted files (photos, videos, music) from your Android devices with any Photo Recovery software, you must connect your devices with PC in USB mode debugging. However, some Android users don't know how to do this. Here are some tips to help you connect different version Android devices to PC with USB Mass Storage Mode.
For Android 2.1 to 2.3.7
For Android 4.0 to 4.1.2
For Android 4.2 or newer Android 6,7
Click to watch the video tutorial here.
- How to use USB Mass Storage mode in Android 2.1-2.3.7
If you use Android 2.1-2.3.7 devices like Sony Xperia Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S/S2,Motorola Droid RAZR, Droid 4, LG Optimus L3, HTC Rezound, HTC Sensation, HTC Desire, Kindle Fire, etc, follow simple instructions to connect your device in the mass storage mode.
1. Turn on USB debugging by click Menu > Setting > Applications > Development > USB debugging
2. Plug the supplied USB cable into your PC and connect it to your device. A USB icon will appear in the status bar when the device has been recognized.
3. In the main screen of your Android device, use your finger to pull down the top status bar. Then touch USB Connected.
4. Touch Connect USB storage.
Then tap 'Ok'. When the green Android icon turn orange, the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Connect Android 4.0-4.1.2 device in USB mass storage mode
For Android 4.0-4.1.2 devices such as Samsung Galaxy S/S2/S3 or Nexus,HTC Desire X/V/C, HTC One X/V/S,LG Optimus L5/7/9,Optimus G,Motorola Droid RAZR,Sony Xperia V/T, Kindle Fire HD, etc, you can connect them to PC in USB debugging mode with the below guide.
Galaxy S2 (Android 4.0) as example.
1: Open the 'Setting' > 'More…'
2: Search then Tap on 'USB utilities'
3: Check the option: 'Connect Storage to PC'
Then plug the USB cable into the device and connect to your computer. The 'USB connected' screen with the large green Android icon will appear. Tap on 'Connect USB storage'. A confirmation dialog box will appear. Tap 'OK'. The green Android icon will turn orange, indicating that the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Turn on USB Mass Storage mode in Android 4.2 or later versions Android 6/7/8
You will be dismayed to see that there is no USB Debugging option in Android 4.2 or the latest Android 6, Android 7, Android 8 smartphone or tablets like Nexus 4, Nexus 5X/6P,Google Nexus 10,Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S4, Galaxy Note 5, Huawei Mate 10/9, Huawei Honor 9, Xiaomi Mi6, Mi 5X, Mi Mix 2, Redmi 5X, Sony Xperia Z5/M5, LG G5, HTC One M9/M8, etc. Here is a way to turn it on since it is very well hidden!
1: Go to Settings -> About Phone/Tablet or Settings -> About Phone -> Software info
2: Go to 'Build Number' at the end of the Scroll list.
3: Tap on 'Build Number' repeatedly (7 times). On your third tap you should see message indicating that you only have 4 more taps to go to ‘become a developer'. Keep tapping until you are a developer.
4. Now Developer Option will be included in setting list of yours now. Go to 'Develop Options' to check USB debugging > OK. Done.
Adobe products for video editing. Tip: When you connect your Android to computer for the first time, you can check 'Always allow from this computer' with the pop up before clicking 'OK' to finish.
Tip: For some android devices, you also need to select mode 'Photos' or 'Files' in 'Notifications'.
And then you can see your andriod phone icon in PC. 'Computer'-'Portable devices' as below.
Notes:
1. After debugging, you connect android device to computer with the factory USB cable at the first time, Windows will look for and install the associated driver automatically. Please waiting a moment for the drive installing, then you can get a pop-up interface and a USB icon will appear in the PC status bar.
2. If your android device doesn't work as USB debugging mode in PC, try to check and change the USB cable.
Some USB cables only can be used to charge, but can't to transmit data. So use the factory USB cable or that supports USB data transfers!
After connecting your device to PC with USB Mass Storage mass, or connect the memory card through your computer's card reader. Then you can recover deleted photos, videos from devices.
Note: If you still can't connect your Android devices to PC with USB debugging mode with this method, you should search an android USB Drive apps in official site of your phone. For example: Samsung Android USB Driver or install the Android Debug Bridge, etc.