Solved Phone connection and sharing

Try3 · Apr 1, 2023

Ed,

Sorry but I cannot answer many Samsung phone questions. I just posted those facts that I happened to recall. I didn't combine mine, I just recalled the option as being presented.
I tried to buy another Samsung phone last year or the year before but they kept sending me faulty ones so I gave up with them.
[I monitored the frequency of their WiFi hotspots and they were unable to change to 5GHz despite the indicator in the phone saying they had.]

All the best,
Denis

SlicEnDicE · Apr 1, 2023

MisterEd said:
I stand corrected. I can see all the photos on my high end Samsung S21 5G phone. The problem is the interface. They only show photos in large preview form. It is hard to tell what photo was taken when you have to scroll through thousands of photos. If I could switch to another view like Details in Filer Explorer I could find older photos more easily. With the current interface I have to be content to just look for recent photos in Phone Link. Otherwise, I have to use something else like connecting using USB so that the much more flexible Windows File Explorer is available.

I agree with this. The UI is a tad inconvenient and slow/sluggish even.

What comes to files. I just plug in my phone via USB and copy over pretty much the whole file system. It's fast and then I can clean up and organize everything on my computer. For those files I know I don't need on my phone anymore I delete after copy.

Another thing I tend to do is do a full backup of my phone files and settings using Samsung Smart Switch on PC. I know the name is a bit confusing, as it's intended for moving stuff to new devices, but it works great as a backup tool.

glasskuter · Apr 1, 2023

Not a fix for phone link but a workaround. My husband never could get his to work. I suggested uploading the files to the cloud and then downloading them from the cloud to his computer. It works for him, but he doesn't take a lot of photos.