Maybole Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 My sister-in-law has an Oppo Smartphone and recently took a few photos which she wanted me to print out. (My prin.ter can do it on to proper photo paper). No matter what I tried I could not get the phone to talk to my Linux Mint laptop. (It would not talk to a Windows 7 device either) I was using a miniUSB to Computer USB cable. Please give suggestions and/or guidance on how to overcome this. Also Grand daughter has an Apple device and I would like it to communicate with my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
userabcd Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 How to transfer files from android to a linux pc (This works on Manjaro for me but should be the same in Mint): Plug cable (USB C or micro USB) into phone and connect the USB A end to the PC You should see a pop up on the android phone or a notification in the notification bar. Open that and select transfer files. In the PC file manager, select the android Phone and you can navigate to the phones DCIM folder where the photos are stored. Open the folder and files and print what you need. I don't know if Windows 7 can do this but on windows 10 the procedure above works the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salerno Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Maybole said: No matter what I tried I could not get the phone to talk to my Linux Mint laptop. What do you mean by getting them to talk, did you try Bluetooth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Use Telegram which has clients for mobiles as well as all computer platforms. Then just upload the photos to yourself. Otherwise, use email (best) as it maintains image size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topt Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 On 4/18/2021 at 11:11 PM, Maybole said: No matter what I tried I could not get the phone to talk to my Linux Mint laptop. (It would not talk to a Windows 7 device either) I was using a miniUSB to Computer USB cable. Sorry if this is redundant but on my phone you have to go into settings - developer options - default USB configuration and choose a setting there (I have it set to file transfer) - initially I had the same issue as you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumballl Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 The OP did not mention the type of printer he has. Using an HP app, I can print photos to my printer directly from my iPhone. I suppose something similar can be done with Android-based phones; see here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hp.android.printservice&hl=en_US&gl=US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 I recently had a need to transfer photos from Android phone to linux PC plugging in the phone via USB was not successful I suppose because of no drivers issue ( I though it was working before with these 2 pieces of equipment but it's years since I tried) so instead of faffing around trying to install drivers I installed a "Wifi FTP server" app on the phone from Google playstore and then connected to that FTP share with Dolphin file explorer from the linux machine obviously both machines where on the same Wifi network works very well. As a side note I could also transfer files direct (phone to phone) to an ancient Samsung phone which had FTP option in its "MyFiles" app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 And after further "research" I found I'd forgotten that using "Thunar" file manager on my linux pc works just fine when an Android phone is connected to usb as opposed to "Dolphin" file manager which doesn't recognise the devices at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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