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What Android 3.1 DIDN'T Fix!

Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.

scotty1024 said:
Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.
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The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.

what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?

vBulletin typing (like XDA) still sucks.

timrock said:
what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?
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It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?

jdclucidly said:
It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?
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why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.

timrock said:
why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.
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USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?

jdclucidly said:
USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?
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really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Hmmm, from Android Honeycomb 3.1 Details ...
...Android 3.1 still isn’t intended, at the operating system level, for managing external storage devices. This detail, which came out in conversations I had with Google engineers today, explains why the Android file system organization is, well, a mess...
“We don’t want to expose the user to file locations,” explained Hiroshi Lockheimer, director of engineering at Google. “How do you manage that as a user? The not-good answer is with the file browser.” Lockheimer says that many of the experiences I’ve seen so far are what individual hardware manufacturers have enabled, as opposed to what Google has provided natively. The good thing is that Lockheimer says Google is looking at ways to do this; but the problem hasn’t been solved yet...
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I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)

timrock said:
really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.
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He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.

Just-in-time said:
He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.
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Thank you. And i meant answer without the snide remark. Thanks again for explaining.
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i know just what you mean, however i quite enjoy having the (X)s to click to get rid of them. I would like to see a slide to delete in the notifications aswell

Dubar said:
I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)
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totally agree. there are lots of things i understand why they're waiting, but this? come on. i could clear all on my phone.

I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can mount my Xoom in linux using libmtp and mtpfs, however, it's slow, kludgy, and generally feels like it will flake out at any moment. Additionally, even when it's mounted, I can't seem to copy music across properly; it doesn't keep the folder structure. In fact, the directories are created and any non audio files are copied across fine, but every mp3/audio file is flatly dropped into the Music directory.
I tried to copy some music onto it from my fiancee's windows xp laptop and it worked ok (though the album art didn't appear).
The move away from mass storage to MTP is a massive disappointment for me. Mass storage has always been a big selling point for me when purchasing a device and for Google to switch to using a Windows specific protocol and consider it cross platform is a big letdown. MTP on mac requires a special app and on linux, support is dire, certainly for anything more complex than simply pulling images from a camera.
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I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.

New update for drag racing is really choppy, lile playing angry birds on a g1.... but samauri II and the other thd games run smooth...dont kmow if its 3.1 kernel cuz it plays fine on my mytouch4g
XOOM

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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If that is a motorola problem and xoom is a barebone system. Who's gonna fix it, how?

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.
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Change all the extension names in the song file name to .mp and it will allow the transfer
Then use something of your liking, I use astro file manager, and just add the 3 on the a tail end of the extension.
Its a b, but you can at least get a couple good songs on there.

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
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You're right, it's a cross-platform solution for transferring MEDIA, being the Media Transfer Protocol.
It's smart enough to detect the media files that it supports and put them in the right place. I prefer it over the old way, I hated having to unmount the sdcard every single time.
A poorly made Linux MTP library doesn't make it not cross-platform. It's an open standard for transferring media to USB devices.
It's not perfect, but it's great for a device like the Xoom where unmounting the internal memory is not desirable.
Honestly users get really confused by all of the extra directories when mounting an android sd-card anyways.

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Actually, it has been a big debate on rather it is Google's or Moto's issue, but I am sure that we all can agree that it needs to be fixed no mater whos issue it is.

[Q] Nexus 7 Unable to Transfer Files to Nexus 7

I've searched this thread and have seen a lot of people with the same problem but with no solution. Hopefully we can find one here...
I'm not entirely sure if I have the right drivers installed or this is just a bug, but when I plug my Nexus 7 into my computer (running Windows 7) it is recognized as a portable device. I can create folders and transfer .zip and .rar files but whenever I try to transfer over a .mkv file, Windows Explorer crashes and it fails. I can't find a solution to this anywhere. What is the problem? I've tried everything, turning on/off debugging. My Nexus 7 is rooted so I got all the drivers working for the toolkit. Is there something I'm missing here?
Any help will be appreciated! Thank you for your time!

This happens for me too, only with mkv files. I'm running Windows 7 64bit.
I've just resorted to keeping them on a USB stick and running through Stickmount.
If there's a solution it would be good to know.

miketn said:
... but whenever I try to transfer over a .mkv file, Windows Explorer crashes and it fails....
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Sounds like it might be a file size problem. Try transferring a much smaller mkv file and see what happens
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For me, file size doesn't matter. Even on a 154MB file Explorer crashes.

fangthorn said:
Sounds like it might be a file size problem. Try transferring a much smaller mkv file and see what happens
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Yeah, it's definitely not the size. I have tried various sizes of .mkv files and they all crash Windows Explorer

There's a bit more info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1364866.html
Uninstall DIVX. Doesn't fix anything for me as I don't have DIVX installed on my PC.
If the issue is with codecs on the PC then I'll just stay with running from USB.
If I change the file extension to .mkv_ it transfers, then just have to change it back once it's on the N7.

Timbermill said:
There's a bit more info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1364866.html
Uninstall DIVX. Doesn't fix anything for me as I don't have DIVX installed on my PC.
If the issue is with codecs on the PC then I'll just stay with running from USB.
If I change the file extension to .mkv_ it transfers, then just have to change it back once it's on the N7.
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This actually worked! I uninstalled DIVX and all of its components and now I could actually transfer them over without Windows Explorer crashing. Thank you.
For some reason it states that the device will not be able to read it and asks if I want to continue anyway, I just said yes cause I use MXPlayer to watch all my .mkv's.
Anyway, thanks again

miketn said:
For some reason it states that the device will not be able to read it and asks if I want to continue anyway, I just said yes cause I use MXPlayer to watch all my .mkv's.
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Cool. Yeah, don't worry about that message, that'll pop up for all sorts of files transferred on MTP.
Thanks for raising the question, it motivated me to find a better solution for myself

miketn said:
I've searched this thread and have seen a lot of people with the same problem but with no solution. Hopefully we can find one here...
I'm not entirely sure if I have the right drivers installed or this is just a bug, but when I plug my Nexus 7 into my computer (running Windows 7) it is recognized as a portable device. I can create folders and transfer .zip and .rar files but whenever I try to transfer over a .mkv file, Windows Explorer crashes and it fails. I can't find a solution to this anywhere. What is the problem? I've tried everything, turning on/off debugging. My Nexus 7 is rooted so I got all the drivers working for the toolkit. Is there something I'm missing here?
Any help will be appreciated! Thank you for your time!
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It's not just you. MTP sucks.
I recommend web-based (even local web-based) file sharing whenever possible. Wifi will actually be faster than MTP in a lot of cases.

I now have another problem that I just ran into. I don't want to start another thread so I'll just post it here, maybe you guys can help? Now when I finish watching an .mkv video, and delete it, it still stays on the device. Its gone from that directory/folder but it's still somewhere on the device because the space available did not change. Even when I reconnect it back to the computer the space available does not change. When I go to delete a file, it asks me if I want to delete it permanently, I click "yes" and it disappears but the space is still being used. Very confusing. Nothing in my recycling bin either.
Has anyone else ran into this problem?
EDIT - Never mind, I figured it out. You have to reboot your device so that all the files you deleted actually deletes. MTP does indeed suck... Is there any way I could get my nexus 7 to be mounted as a USB Mass Storage Device? Is there a custom ROM I could flash that has this feature?
Thank you for your time everyone

Yeah, MTP does suck. Not sure if you already know about SDrescan. I don't remember the technical explanation (something about rebuilding databases) but running this will show all of the files correctly in Windows Explorer. I figured I'd post it anyway in case someone comes across this thread and doesn't know about it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5iZXJvLnNkcmVzY2FuIl0.

miketn said:
This actually worked! I uninstalled DIVX and all of its components and now I could actually transfer them over without Windows Explorer crashing. Thank you.
For some reason it states that the device will not be able to read it and asks if I want to continue anyway, I just said yes cause I use MXPlayer to watch all my .mkv's.
Anyway, thanks again
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I agree to this, it was very frustrating to not transfer movies to my nexus without Windows crashing. After uninstalling Divx, it worked like a charm. Why would Divx be responsible for the crash?

Use this, then
I've found a handy-dandy 5-star app called "Airdroid!" (no, I don't work for 'em, they just solved some problems for me!) It's available on goog playstore for android, at least; didnt look to see about mac applications. Used with wifi, you put in it's address on your computer screen and your device will establish a connection and you can transfer whatever you want(I think) wirelessly! You don't even have to have them in the same room(I guess after you search for the address on your comp). I'm pretty much noobile, and I pulled it off, so I bet you can too! & when you hit the "charging cable is loose" issue(guess it's very common due to cheap parts) you can order a "Qi" charging 'base station' that you just lay your device on 7 it charges through the case! Just sayin...
miketn said:
I've searched this thread and have seen a lot of people with the same problem but with no solution. Hopefully we can find one here...
I'm not entirely sure if I have the right drivers installed or this is just a bug, but when I plug my Nexus 7 into my computer (running Windows 7) it is recognized as a portable device. I can create folders and transfer .zip and .rar files but whenever I try to transfer over a .mkv file, Windows Explorer crashes and it fails. I can't find a solution to this anywhere. What is the problem? I've tried everything, turning on/off debugging. My Nexus 7 is rooted so I got all the drivers working for the toolkit. Is there something I'm missing here?
Any help will be appreciated! Thank you for your time!
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[Q] G2 Media Transfer with Macs

Hey everyone,
I was looking to get an LG G2 but my only concern is that my primary computer is a Mac, and I see no compatible way for me to transfer media files (primarily music) from my computer to my phone. Other companies such as Samsung have Kies that works with Macs as well, or Sony that has Bridge for Mac compatibility, but LG doesn't have this alternative I believe.
Does anyone know of any alternatives I can use? As I really do want this phone.
Thanks in advance!

Not a problem. Use http://www.android.com/filetransfer/

izzuedotcom said:
Hey everyone,
I was looking to get an LG G2 but my only concern is that my primary computer is a Mac, and I see no compatible way for me to transfer media files (primarily music) from my computer to my phone. Other companies such as Samsung have Kies that works with Macs as well, or Sony that has Bridge for Mac compatibility, but LG doesn't have this alternative I believe.
Does anyone know of any alternatives I can use? As I really do want this phone.
Thanks in advance!
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Use google chrome on your mac and proceed to download and install the Google Music Manager.
Good Luck
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57582439-285/the-complete-guide-to-using-android-with-a-mac/

meln4ya said:
Use google chrome on your mac and proceed to download and install the Google Music Manager.
Good Luck
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57582439-285/the-complete-guide-to-using-android-with-a-mac/
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also, you can use the Terminal and the Android SDK, and 'adb push file locationOnPhone' to get files onto the phone.

Thanks for all your help!

meln4ya said:
Use google chrome on your mac and proceed to download and install the Google Music Manager.
Good Luck
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After checking out Google Music Manager I've noticed that I cannot use it in Canada, or as Google says "The Google Play music player is currently available in select territories." Do you happen to know when I would be able to use this alternative? Thanks again

I have used ISyncr for quite a while and a number of different Androids. It easily interfaces with itunes on my MacBook Pro. For file transfer I use Android Transfer you can easily drag and drop. Some limitations but overall works straight forward easy drag and drop.

I used DoubleTwist + AirTwist. I had it purchased a long time ago. Android File Transfer worked too but it would freeze randomly (on OSX 10.8.3).

Transfer photos and music from MAC to LGG2
This is really easy to do WITHOUT a third party application or a USB connection.
Just go to to your SETTINGS in the LG G2, then NETWORKS then tap on Share and Connect. Make sure Wireless Store is ON, then tap on it. You'll get a page with URLs on the bottom for Windows and Mac. Also a Username and Password.
On your MAC, click on the blue face FINDER and click on COMMAND K.
You'll get a little box, then type in the URL for MAC from your phone, click on ADD then click on URL in the second box . If it asks for the Username and Password, type those in too. Click on + then CONNECT.
Your phone will then pair with your MAC and you'll get a folder on your desktop for the phone. Open that up and click to open the SDCARD folder, you will see all the folders contained in your phone. Open the MUSIC or PICTURES folder, then copy your songs or pics to these folders. When you're done, check your phone. All that you've copied will be in your phone. My pics were all in folders, and this trsnsferred them all over in folders.
I stuffed about for days downloading all these programs that are supposed to connect up with the phone, waste of time, none of them worked. I even paid for 2 of them, so waste of money also. All the time, the function was sitting there in the phone !
Good Luck.

[Q] Looking for Pushbullet-like app

I'm looking for something like this: https://www.pushbullet.com/. It requires Android 4.0 or higher, so this itself won't work, but I'd love to have a one click send-to-nook app that I can use to send stuff from my laptop without a cable (especially for pdfs). I was never able to get Gapps working, so emailing myself won't do it. Anybody know of anything similar? Thanks!

Neat idea--less cumbersome than Dropbox for that purpose. How about something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smarterdroid.wififiletransfer
Says it's compatible with my Nook--doesn't mean it will work. There seem to be a few similar. Google "wireless send file to android app"
Meanwhile, I need to look at that
Update: I tried the app and I like how it works...but: when I transferred a book into the internal My Files folder it did not show up in the Library, even after a refresh. Under the My Files tab it did appear but could not be read. So I tried a transfer to the My Files folder on the sdcard. That showed up in the Library right away. Not sure if the process can be tweaked, but it's worth looking at more closely. It may be worth noting that ES File Explorer has an ftp interface (news to me but I found it) but it's not as user-friendly as the WiFi Transfer app.

If you have a dropbox account you can use dropsync instead of the official app, it can sync entire directories so it works much like the desktop client.
However, it doesn't do direct over-the-wifi transfer, so perhaps that's not what you're looking for.

Try airdroid,not exactly one click but drag and drop
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[Q] How to share a Nexus Player directory?

Hi,
any idea how to setup a Samba share on a NP without root?
I tried WEBDAV Server (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver), but it fails to start.
Any other idea?
I'ld like to be able to copy files (Kodi stuff) from my Windows PC to my NP to sync settings/addons.
thx

Sorry, can't help you but I've also always wondered how to "share" a directory in a Android Device. Would be of great benefit for my Tablet and Phone, etc... to transfer files over a local LAN. Keeping an eye on this one to see if anyone has an answer.

I have no idea if it will work on androidTV but for my phone i always use SambaDroid
great little app

serpentxx said:
I have no idea if it will work on androidTV but for my phone i always use SambaDroid
great little app
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I will try sideloading it...
thx for the hint...

serpentxx said:
I have no idea if it will work on androidTV but for my phone i always use SambaDroid
great little app
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thanks for that. Just installed it on my Nexus6 and can't get the service to "Start" however. Once I figure what the heck is wrong, this will probably be exactly what I'm looking for!

After getting tired of opening ES File Explorer and enabling FTP access everytime, I started using 'SSH Server' (available on Play Store), which loads on boot (after you tick the right boxes to do so) so I can access my Nexus Player storage via SFTP from my Openelec box and my MacBook. I'm sure there are other options, but this one's enough for what I need.

serpentxx said:
I have no idea if it will work on androidTV but for my phone i always use SambaDroid
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Sambadroid needs root to run...
is there any easy way to root apart from adb/fastboot...?

nd4spdviper said:
After getting tired of opening ES File Explorer and enabling FTP access everytime, I started using 'SSH Server' (available on Play Store), which loads on boot (after you tick the right boxes to do so) so I can access my Nexus Player storage via SFTP from my Openelec box and my MacBook. I'm sure there are other options, but this one's enough for what I need.
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I will try.
thx!

shadow_empire1 said:
Sambadroid needs root to run...
is there any easy way to root apart from adb/fastboot...?
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It needs root AND SEL set to "permissive" on Marshmallow. That's why I can't get it to work. I had it working on an old tablet (because there is no way I'm setting SEL mode to "permissive" anymore) and tried to transfer a file, all sorts of errors and when it did work, it was VERY slow.
So this app, really not useful.

nd4spdviper said:
After getting tired of opening ES File Explorer and enabling FTP access everytime, I started using 'SSH Server' (available on Play Store), which loads on boot (after you tick the right boxes to do so) so I can access my Nexus Player storage via SFTP from my Openelec box and my MacBook. I'm sure there are other options, but this one's enough for what I need.
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SSH Server is the perfect solution!
thx its working great!

shadow_empire1 said:
SSH Server is the perfect solution!
thx its working great!
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Glad I could help. I myself I'm new at this, just got my Nexus Player last saturday I've been using Android for the past 4 months after a life on iOS. However, I love how this sort of stuff can be done on this OS!

If you have ES File Explorer open on 2 devices on the same LAN you can just send from 1 to the other directly.

kuroneko007 said:
If you have ES File Explorer open on 2 devices on the same LAN you can just send from 1 to the other directly.
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That's true, yes. But there is no ES File Explorer for your PC / MAC, so sending files from a PC to a Android device won't work that way. (unless you count installing bluestacks emulator and running ES that way from a PC)