Smart phone, help with pics

redtom

Well-known Member

I'm relatively new to the smart phone.(yes there is still a few folks left just switching). Up to this point I'm only texting and calling and a little googling. I've taken pics which are in my gallery (Samsung). Is there an easy way to direct me how to get them to my PC? I'd like to put more pics on this site and especially like use it to post pics of for sale items I have. Up to this point I've used a digital camera for that.
 
I just send them in an email to myself. I do it at home when I am on WI-FI so I don't eat up my data plan.
 
Get the proper usb cable if you don?t have it and just connect it to your computer. It will appear as a drive and you can find your photos and copy them to your PC. Phone will also charge while plugged in.
 
I just got rid of the old flip phone myself. Not that I wanted to, it started to no longer work. I think the provided brought on some forced obsolesce.

The new smart phone, well, it's a learning challenge. Have no idea what all it will do. So far it will make and receive calls, tell me the time and date, and has a calculator.

Same thing the old phone did, but takes me twice as long...
 
Most of the wall charger cables are USB, unplug from wall adapter and plug into computer. The email method can be handy too, especially when away from home or your computer.
 
Get a gmail account even if you don't want the email functions. You will also get some free storage on photos.google.com. Then add your account to your phone and set it to automatically back up your photos to the photos.google.com server. Then on your computer you open your browser and go to photos.google.com, log in, and viola! You can then save them to the computer at your convenience. No cables involved.
 
redtom,

I use the charging/USB cable that came with my phone to transfer photos from my phone to my computer. (NOTE: if you email photos to yourself and IF you do NOT have wifi at home - then I think you will use a huge amount of your monthly data... and it could get expensive if you exceed your data limit.)

For step by step instructions I recommend Googling the manual for your phone...

For example my old phone was Samsung Galaxy S5 so I googled:
"user manual Samsung Galaxy S5"
and the computer brought up a downloadable PDF of my user manual.

Then you can either bookmark it, so you can access it via your bookmarks...
OR you can download it and save it as a file to your computer.

You will love the smartphone once you get used to it!!
When I first got mine - I nearly returned it.
Actually, I went to the store to return it...
but there was an 80+ year old woman in line ahead of me -
just googling and texting her little 'ol heart out
AND THAT made me determined to learn to use the darn thing.

Now I love the thing... and cannot imagine going back to a flip phone.
 
(quoted from post at 04:31:10 12/01/17) Get the proper usb cable if you don?t have it and just connect it to your computer. It will appear as a drive and you can find your photos and copy them to your PC. Phone will also charge while plugged in.

Whut he said... I just got a new LG phone has a Samsung used the Samsung cable hooked it to my phone from the PC I did have to figure out how to set it to load new pix only after it down loaded all my old pix I had transfer from the Samsung. I googled it, it came right up... Try google...
 
Another thing with your smarter than you phone;). I put a 64gig memory card in mine. Takes almost a year to fill maybe 2/3 of the card with photos, PDF files, manuals, etc. Go buy yourself a Western Digital Passport external drive. I have a two terrabite external. You will need to go through your laptop to down load your phone but you can dump everything into it with a little run time. Take a look on Ebay at number
332433376731. They now make 4Tb units for around $100.oo.
Remember many moons ago when Bill Gates said if you can ever fill up an 8gb hard drive you have way toooo much garbage in your computer??!!! I can fill that up with about 200 pictures from my professional camera.!!!
 
I don't have a cel phone. Seems like a scam to me. Phone is free then I pay forever for something I never use.
Transferring pictures is probably just a matter of getting the right cord.
 
I never use my home computer since I got a smart phone. Post all my photos straight from phone. I had to install a photo resizer app on my phone.
 
(quoted from post at 16:54:09 11/30/17) Get a gmail account even if you don't want the email functions. You will also get some free storage on photos.google.com. Then add your account to your phone and set it to automatically back up your photos to the photos.google.com server. Then on your computer you open your browser and go to photos.google.com, log in, and viola! You can then save them to the computer at your convenience. No cables involved.

Please! Do not set your phone to do automatic uploads to the cloud. Set it so that YOU choose which photos go out there for ALL the world to see. Yes, I know the cloud is SUPPOSED to be secure, but it ain't.
 
If it's an Android 'phone, there are lots of apps for transferring data across your wi-fi. I've been using one called AirDroid for awhile, but they have gotten so their ads cover what you're trying to do, and they are fading out the wi-fi-file-transfer in favor of "cloud" transfer, and I'm with Rusty there. Superbeam is another to look into.
 
(quoted from post at 16:54:09 11/30/17) Get a gmail account even if you don't want the email functions. You will also get some free storage on photos.google.com. Then add your account to your phone and set it to automatically back up your photos to the photos.google.com server. Then on your computer you open your browser and go to photos.google.com, log in, and viola! You can then save them to the computer at your convenience. No cables involved.

I've taken that a step further with a few I set up (people that wanted to edit and print from computer without thinking about it). Take a picture on the phone, then it automatically uploads, and when you turn on the computer it automatically downloads to the computer (no web browser). Works the other way too, put a photo on the computer, it goes to the phone.

Install Google Photos on the phone if it isn't ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos&hl=en ), either set it up to backup or you can manually press backup on photos you want, set the quality. Install Google Backup and Sync on the computer ( https://www.google.com/drive/download/backup-and-sync/ ), sign in, mess with settings. Go to http://drive.google.com/ on the computer, then click on the gear on the right side, setting, then down to "create a google photos folder" and check that, then done.

Here's an article http://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-protect-and-share-files-with-google-backup-and-sync
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:45 12/03/17)
(quoted from post at 16:54:09 11/30/17) Get a gmail account even if you don't want the email functions. You will also get some free storage on photos.google.com. Then add your account to your phone and set it to automatically back up your photos to the photos.google.com server. Then on your computer you open your browser and go to photos.google.com, log in, and viola! You can then save them to the computer at your convenience. No cables involved.

Please! Do not set your phone to do automatic uploads to the cloud. Set it so that YOU choose which photos go out there for ALL the world to see. Yes, I know the cloud is SUPPOSED to be secure, but it ain't.

And the cloud will end up costing you more money if you go beyond the small amount of space you get with the original package. If you want to pay more money for more cloud space that's up to you. I only have contacts backed up on the cloud. That way if I lose the phone I still have contacts I can bring down from the cloud. Pictures take up a lot of space.
 
And the cloud will end up costing you more money if you go beyond the small amount of space you get with the original package. If you want to pay more money for more cloud space that's up to you. I only have contacts backed up on the cloud. That way if I lose the phone I still have contacts I can bring down from the cloud. Pictures take up a lot of space.

The Google method that was mentioned gives 15GB free (plus sometimes free ways to add more, I have 19GB permanent space myself). Not a "lot", but not a "little" either (for free). Different phones and different pictures will have different file sizes, but let's say 5MB average, that's 3000 photos. If you let them compress your photos, it's unlimited and doesn't count toward that limit (here's a comparison I found for compressed images http://www.huffingtonpost.in/arpit-verma/bursting-the-myth-of-comp_b_8902076.html ). 100GB of space upgrade costs ~$2 per month. Also, you can use more than one account for more free space.

Of course, it shouldn't be the only backup method for important stuff (or used for sensitive stuff).
 

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