Connecting your beloved Droid to your computer so you can download and upload files like images, videos, voice recording, audiobooks etc is relatively easy on most computers
- You’ll need your USB cable that connects to your phone, or charger if you have the combined USB cable/power adapter setup
- Simply connected the Android droid phone to the PC, hopefully your computer will install the correct driver, if not and you see an alert about missing driver or you see a yellow exclamation mark, if not proceed to step #3. If the device is installed, you should be able to skip to step #4.
- If your computer is not showing the droid in the “My computer” or Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Devices and Printers area, or you have a yellow ! exclamation mark, and it says driver not installed then go here to Motorola’s web site and download the Motorola USB Drivers and install the correct one for your operating system. You may want to install the Motorola Media Link Free Program sync desktop program instead as an option. You’ll know it’s install correctly the driver installs and you get a windows notice that the device is now installed correctly.
- Now to actually fully connect you need to go your droid and there should be a new USB icon in your alerts, click that and then click the “Turn on USB storage” button, now you should get a windows autoplay alert like when you connect a camera etc asking you want you want to do, or if you want to do that every time you connect.
- Now you should be able access Your Android phone by going to “My Computer” and opening and browsing throw the droid folders. The location of files may vary depending on which files you’re looking for and which version of the Droid you have
- Images and Videos on my Droid are stored here “DCIM\Camera”
- Some of your other apps like audible, or napster etc should have their own folders too if you need to upload or download any of these files manually
Other considerations
- You can optionally try out the Motorola Media Link Free Program to sync your files, images, videos etc between your device and computer PC as well. In my next post I will be reviewing Media Link desktop program to see how well it works or not.
- If you installed an SD card on your Droid Phone you’ll need to Mount/Unmount i.e “access the storage space” possibly also when connecting to your PC. Just like when accessing the native storage space on the Droid like we did in step #4 there should also be an icon on the droid alert bar up top that a showing the USB connection. Don’t forget to dismount the USB connection when you’re finished or you won’t be able to see your SD card when using your Droid after it’s been connected to the PC.
- Also on the Motorola driver page is a link to download the “charging drivers”, I didn’t have a problem with either vista or windows 7 charging I simply just plugged in the USB cable to the computer and it would charge no problem, but if you have any trouble try installing the “charging drivers”
