Why is the transfer speed so slow from my laptop to mobile phone on wired cable? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by hunt4peas@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have a gaming laptop and a phone, both of which have USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Gen 1 ports. I also use a USB 4 Type-C cable. Now, recently, I have downloaded music files of over 300GB. If I transfer them one by one, it takes a lot of time. Today, I compressed the folder to a single zip file, and the transfer finished in less than 20m. Why is that so?

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[-] autriyo@feddit.org 27 points 9 months ago

Androids storage doesn't show up as mass storage since quite a while ago. Instead it uses MTP which in my experience is slower and way less reliable.

Maybe that's also part of the reason?

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I think it's about MTP. It has always been slow and buggy in my experience.

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah, MTP is worthless. I always use adb push if I need to transfer a lot of stuff.

[-] autriyo@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is adb pull an option to get data off the phone?

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Yes, adb pull transfers from the phone to the computer.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Do you use any GUI program for this or just plain old cmd?

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Adb is a command line program. To copy your music folder from home on your PC to internal storage on your phone, you would just open a terminal abd type adb push ~/Music /sdcard. Pressing tab will autocomplete folder and file names. For some reason /sdcard on android is actually the internal storage. If you have an SD card, it will be in /storage/card_name, where card_name is the UUID of the partition on the card.

You do have to enable USB debugging on your phone before you can use adb to transfer files though.

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I'll try this out. Thanks.

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