Copying used to work just fine until today. From my PC I can see all the files in my phone just fine using the USB, so it's not like it's not being recognized. I've tried multiple cables, turned off my AV, tried different movie formats, I can delete phone files from my PC, I can transfer pictures from my PC to the phone. But it will not transfer MP4, MKV, AVI from my PC.
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did you enable any settings in developer settings? Also do you have drivers installed? I assume you do but just asking. You'll also want to make sure you have the correct selection here. Make sure use MTP
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Hello. I've done a lot of searchs to try and find an answer to my problem. I'm not able to transfer most video files from my PC to my 8525. I've tried to do it in Windows Media Player via sync and also just to drag and drop them into the memory card folder on the phone. Nothing seems to work. I have the same problem with .mp4 and .avi files. I have several video ipod formated files I would like to have on my 8525 but I can't get them there. I think they would play once they were there b/c CorePlayer seems to play anything I throw at it. I can watch .3gp files that I download online, but can't transfer anything from my PC. Cab and exe files transfer fine, just not large video files.
any advice? thanks!
I transferred Divx files to the MicroSD to be played with TCPMP. I found it sooo slow with active sync that I now pull the card, use a USB 2.0 card reader on the PC and load about three 400meg movies on a 2gig card leaving 500meg for GPS map data and email. Using the card reader takes about 3 minutes per movie, far better than active sync could ever do.
How do you transfer a movie to the Touch HD and get it to play?
I've got an .avi movie.
1h 32m
647MB
720 x 576
192 kbps
I've tried Syncing it using Windows Media 10.
Only about 5kbs transfers to the phone!?
I've tried copy & pasting via USB but nothing seems to happen.
Looks like it's transfering but taking an age and the progress bar doesn't move!!!
Is the file too big? Does the file have to be converted to another format?
Smaller .avi files play.
Any help here please?!
What playback software are you using?
Hi
When you connect your phone you usually have an option to do only a file transfer and not a sync.
I suggest you select that , then copy and paste your movie file to your microSD card.
I suppose its slow because the phone is syncing and transfering the file at the same time.
Hope This Helps
Jay
YUP agreed. All you do is select data transfer after connecting your phone via USB to your computer. Then go to my computer go to mobile device go to storage card then either drag and drop or copy and paste.
You can use a CardReader: in my opinion it is better solution if you must move big files.
D'rath
Big Thanks to everyone! It was doing my head in!!!
Waiting for your help, I continued to play around with the Touch HD.
Seems that when you connect the HTC Touch HD to the PC via USB, there's an option to choose between...
ActiveSync
Disk Drive
Internet Sharing.
When I tried to look at Mobile Device in My Computer (on the PC), I thought I'd somehow wiped the storage card . Looking again, I'd somehow chosen the Disk Drive option, and then in My Computer, another drive - Removable Disc (L) appeared holding my Touch HD storage card data.
I copy & pasted the movie (.avi) files from my PC hd to the (L) drive and the files transfered in the usual way.
Thanks again to all who took time out to advise. Hope my little guide can also help folk in a similar position!
i have a sandisk 16 gb microsd
my hd2 is in disk drive mode
i want to copy music to my hd2
this is the problem every time i try i can play 3 or 4 number from an album , the rest is unreadable or something like that
i tried mp3,wmv files
nothing helped
my card is fat32 formated
format through pc and hd2
nothing helped
try using activesync mode
settings->menu->all settings->connections->usb to pc->active sync
then go to my computer find your phone go to storage card and copy the files, perhaps this will make a difference.
The way I copy media files is by connecting via ActiveSync as jfmckenna says, then using Windows Media Player on the PC to sync my media files. This is easy if you use Windows Media Player as your main player on the PC.
After connecting your HD2 via ActiveSync, just whack up Windows Media Player and click on the 'Sync' tab near the top of the program, then just drag your music/media from the library on your computer to the 'Sync' column.
If you have files which aren't already in the library, just drag them from Windows Explorer into the library of Windows Media Player. The best bit is usually Windows Media Player will convert the file on the fly when syncing if the media file isn't compatible with your phone.
Hope this helps!!
personally i've had nothing but trouble using active sync or media player to copy music. the only way i transfer it now is by connecting in hard disk mode then drag and drop directly.
just goes to show what works for one doesn't for others.
Is anyone having difficulty getting certain types of files to transfer? Sometimes it'll stop transferring and I'll have to close explorer.exe. I tried using winamp to sync but I get an error message saying the files are incompatible, even though RockPlayer will work.
Need more info to help you out. What OS and version are you using. What type of video are you trying to transfer (size and format). Are you using the stock USB cable and are you using the USB on the front or back of you computer?
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Need more info to help you out. What OS and version are you using. What type of video are you trying to transfer (size and format). Are you using the stock USB cable and are you using the USB on the front or back of you computer?
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Win 7 ultimate. .mkv files which will play with RockPlayer, about 400mb each. I have to transfer them one at a time it looks like. Dragging the entire folder over freezes the copy process. Im using the stock cable which is inserted in a USB port in the back of my computer.
It might be the fact that the Xoom is recognized as a portable device and not an external drive. When copying over a folder does that warning message say it may not play on the device pop up?
Just out of curiosity, I have a Bravo with the new 2.2 android update, but I have had this problem even before the update.
I install a video file through Motorola Media Link, or just drag and drop without Media Link, or remove the memory card from the phone and use a card reader to install a video file. I have even changed the settings on the phone when connecting with a USB cable (USB Drive, Media link etc).
The video file cant be read by the stock media player or any media player programs I get from the Android market. I delete the file and try it several times different ways, and the video works. But it takes me hours to delete repeat until it works.
I have tried each time in turn thinking it is one certain setting that I am doing, but the setting that did work, now doesnt and one of the other ways does.
Is there something I'm missing? Please help if you have a fool proof way.
Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Is the video file a file in which can be played on a mobile device? MP4 is the most common, but not all mobile devices can play a wide variety of media files.