Android Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.05, by Herong Yang
Connect Phone SD Card to Computer via USB
This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the USB cable to connect SD card in the phone to the computer as a removable drive on the computer.
My Android phone also came with a USB cable that can be used to connect the SD card on my phone as a storage to my laptop for exchange files. Here is how it works:
1. Turn on my phone and my laptop. Then connect them with the USB cable.
2. On the phone, you will see the USB connection message:
USB connected You have connected your phone to your computer via USB. Select the button below if you want to copy files between your computer and your Android's SD card. [Turn on USB storage]
3. Tap on "Turn on USB storage". you will see a warning message saying that when the SD card is connected to the laptop as a USB storage to the laptop. Applications that are using the SD card will be stopped to avoid data corruption.
Turn on USB storage If you turn USB storage, some applications you are using will stop and may unavailable until you turn off USB storage. [OK] [Cancel]
4. Tap on "OK". You will see another message:
USB storage in use Before turn off USB storage, make sure you have unmounted {"ejected") your Android's SD card from your computer. [Turn off USB storage]
5. Look at the laptop now. You will see a removable drive E: is listed in the Windows Explorer.
6. Check the property of that removable drive E. You will see the total capacity is 5.57 GB. This matches the size of the internal SD card on my phone.
7. Copy some music .mp3 files from the laptop to the E:\Music folder
8. Eject the removable drive E: on the laptop.
10. Go back to the phone and tap "Turn off USB storage". You will see a quick message in the status bar saying "scanning media files". This tells me that Android is checking files that have been copied to the SD card.
11. Tap "Application" and "Music". Then select the music files copied from the laptop to enjoy the music on the phone.
Table of Contents
Installing JDK 1.8 on Windows System
Installation of Android SDK R24 and Emulator
Installing Apache Ant 1.9 on Windows System
Developing First Android Application - HelloAndroid
Android Application Package (APK) Files
Android Debug Bridge (adb) Tool
AboutAndroid - Application to Retrieve System Information
android.app.Activity Class and Activity Lifecycle
View Objects and Layout Resource Files
Using "adb logcat" Command for Debugging
Build Process and Package File Content
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Mini Tablet
USB Debugging Applications on Samsung Tablet
USB Debugging Applications on LG-V905R Tablet
About My LG-P925g Android Phone
Phone Memory and SD (Secure Digital) Card
Running Services - Background Processes
Running Applications - Background and Foreground Processes
Connect Phone to Computer using Bluetooth
►Connect Phone SD Card to Computer via USB
Using Wi-Fi Function to Reduce Data Cost
Setting up Gmail Access on Android Phone
Downloading and Installing from "Play Store"