Use your Laptop to Explore your Mobile Files

6 Parts:

Things you will need to cover both types of connection

Browse mobile files while connected via USB cable

Browse mobile files while connected via WiFi

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Most people can benefit from utilizing a Laptop file manager to browse files located in their mobile. Doing so will give users the ability to search better and to organize, sort, copy and move files. This can be done through two types of connections: Cable and WiFi.

Please take note that OS files cannot be explored unless your mobile is ROOTED.

• Laptop
• Mobile
• USB cable
• ES File Manager application
• MyPhoneExplorer application
  • Note: Files appearing with a leading period like [ .data ] are OS and apps files, DO NOT MESS with them.

As stated above, unless your mobile is rooted, you cannot explore OS system files, and that would not be of significant importance to most people, unless you are highly educated in the IT field. So all you need to do is to connect your phone or mobile to your Laptop via your USB cable, check your phone screen, and you will see a window that asks you to select the preferred connection type. Choose "Disk Drive" or something similar. This term might differ a bit from one OS version to another. If you miss the connection window, the default connection type will be selected and the window will be closed. You can simply pull or sweep down the status menu or curtain for information.

Following are two examples of connections for two different operating systems.

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   First OS

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   With the status menu pulled down, you will see this:

   

   Tap on "USB Connected" (marked in red), and another window will appear.

   

   Now simply tap "Turn ON USB storage." Now your SD card is connected to your Laptop as any normal flash-pen.

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   Second OS

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   With the status menu pulled down, you will see this:

   

   As you can see, the default "Charge Only" connection has been selected. Tap on it and you can change the connection to "Disk drive" (marked in red).

   

   Now your SD card is connected to your Laptop.

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   After connecting

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   If it is your first time connecting to your Laptop, wait until the drivers for your mobile are found and installed. Then your Mobile SD card will operate like any normal Flash-Pen. You can browse, and use any operations like cut, copy, move, delete, etc.

   

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There is more than one approach you can take to browse your mobile files via WiFi. Here are a couple of examples:

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   ES File Explorer 3

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   Providing you have already had downloaded and installed ES File Explorer to your Android mobile, connect your mobile to the same WiFi network as your Laptop. Click here for more information: Explore and copy/move files from your Android Mobile to your Laptop/PC via WiFi

   
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