Solve : photos from mobile phone?

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Answer» Am having difficulty transferring photos from my mobile phone (NOKIA model 113) to my laptop computer. The phone is connected to bluetooth, and the bluetooth icon appears both on my computer and on the phone itself. So all is in order here so far. I enter the small plastic CARD into the appropriate slot in the computer. I then open the COMPUTER icon on my desktop (I use Windows 8.1) and then I open the bluetooth icon. Usually this enables me to transfer the photos from my mobile to the laptop computer. However, all of a sudden I ma getting a warning reading "FTP LOST CONNECTION." What's this? I never got this warning before. A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ANYBODY READING THIS AND SOLVING MY PROBLEM.A fried of mine had a similar issue with a different model and he was able to get the images off the phone by using a USB tether. The same port used for recharging the phone also has the ability to communicate via USB, and so with a USB cable between the phone and his laptop he was able to get his photos off of it. Happy New Year and hopefully this info helps Quote from: Guzeppi on January 01, 2015, 10:54:10 AM ... I enter the small plastic card into the appropriate slot in the computer. I then open the COMPUTER icon on my desktop ... This sounds to me as if you are removing the microSD card from the phone and plugging it into a card reader on the computer. If that's what you're doing then Bluetooth isn't involved at all. If I am misunderstanding what you are saying can you please explain more about " the small plastic card into the appropriate slot". What small plastic card are you referring to? Personally, I use DropBox with my phone and computer. The pictures I take on my phone are then synched to my computer automatically.Thks for your prompt reply. My NOKIA 113 is equipped with a tiny black device installed inside the phone itself for transfer of photos from it to my laptop. (I don't know what this device is called! It measures approximately a square half-inch). Besides that, I was given by the dealer a small plastic chip (is it called a memory card?) which I was told to insert in the FRONT of the keyboard where there is a slot meant precisely to take this chip. This is what I called "a black plastic card in the appropriate slot" in my original question. Usually this works well and it is as easy as abc to send the photos from the mobile to tte computer without using any cable (or is it called a USB, the cable, I mean?). No anymore! Now, when I click on the blue tooth icon in MY COMPUTER (or, rather, COMPUTER without the "MY" as it is called in Windows 8.1) I get that annoying warning which reads "FTP LOST CONNECTION". Not being at all technically-minded, I have no idea what this FTP LOST CONNECTION means. How do I solve the problem plse? Thanks for your patience in HELPING me out. JoeDoes the "small plastic card" look like any of these pictures? [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Yes, it is like the first one of your three pictures and it is marked "SAMSUNG Lock MicroS Adapter" I have now installed FTP but still cannot get a connection. Thks again for courtesy and patience. JoeOK. We have now determined that the "small plastic card" is a microSD adapter. The dealer that sold it to you may have explained that you need to remove the memory card from your phone (it will look like the 3rd picture). There is a slot on the adapter where you can insert the memory card you removed from your phone. Once the memory card has been inserted into the adapter, then you can insert the adapter into the proper slot on your computer. Once everything is properly inserted, the memory card from your phone will appear as another drive in Windows Explorer on your computer and you will be able to copy your photos from it to a folder on your computer's hard drive. This process does not involve Bluetooth at all. Once you have copied the photos from the card you then remove the adapter from the computer, remove the memory card from the adapter and put the memory card back in your phone. You can also use Bluetooth to transfer your photos but you first need to "pair" your phone with your computer. Pairing is not difficult but you need to tell your computer to search for nearby Bluetooth devices and then SET your phone's Bluetooth so that it is "discoverable". Once the 2 devices find each other, you may be prompted to enter a code or confirm that the same code is displayed on each device. You only need to pair the devices once. After that you will need to set your computer to receive a file then send the file from the phone. It is kind of a pain since it can only send 1 file at a time which is the main reason I don't recommend moving your pictures using Bluetooth. If you use Bluetooth to transfer your photos then you do not need to insert "the small plastic card" since it serves no function during Bluetooth file transfers. From your post, it seems that this was working previously but has now stopped working. If I were you I would un-pair and then re-pair the phone with the computer to see if that solves the issue. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I use DropBox to sync my photos from my phone to my computer. It works great and after INITIAL setup the files are synched to the computer from the phone automatically. Check out DropBox here: https://www.dropbox.com/tour Quote from: strollin on January 02, 2015, 09:42:52 PM OK. We have now determined that the "small plastic card" is a microSD adapter. The dealer that sold it to you may have explained that you need to remove the memory card from your phone (it will look like the 3rd picture). There is a slot on the adapter where you can insert the memory card you removed from your phone. Like in the left hand of this picture Thks again. Have decided to take up DROPBOX since you speak so highly of it. From what you tell me, the other two options you mention are too complicated for a slow learner that I am! I have successfully installed DROPBOX and I have gone to GETTING STARTED IN DROPBOX, but what is the next step? The window (image) I got when I opened GETTING STARTED which consists of a few messages on rectangular figures makes no sense to me. Have been trying to send you a screenshot of the said window but cannot manage it. Perhaps you can tell me what to do to send you the image which I have saved in MY PICTURES folder. JoeYou need to first create a DropBox account (it's free), then install the DropBox Windows client https://www.dropbox.com/install on your computer and the DropBox app https://www.dropbox.com/android on your phone. During setup you will be walked thru setting things up. Have you done those 3 things? You can attach an image to your post by using the "Attachments and other options" link that appears beneath the text input box when typing in a reply. You will then be able to browse to the MY PICTURES folder and select the image you wish to attach. If you have a place to upload your image to on the internet, you can insert an image directly into your post via a link to it using the "Insert image" icon (looks like a little picture) that appears above the text input box.Renewed thanks, but sorry to disappoint. Have received a notice on my taskbar saying dropbox has been successfully installed. The next thing I know is I am taken to another window where I am told that dropbox is being downloaded ! I click here and there, I wait, nothing happens.The mind boggles. Unless I get step-by-step easy to follow instructions, I am afraid I'll never make it. Of course, this is not your fault. You are being extremely kind and patient with me, but I feel like an idiot when tackling some new program on my computer. Perhaps it would be easier to go back to bluetooth? I have got the bluetooth icon both in my control panel and on the screen of my mobile phone. I have also downloaded PDF but I still keep getting that alarming warning "PDF LOST CONNECTION". Is there a way to reactivate this connection? When bluetooth was working well I never had to remove the memory card from the mobile to insert it in the adapter card. Why not now? Could it be that I am not connected to WIFI but to a wired connection on my laptop? If so, how to go back to WIFI connection? Do please rest assured of my gratitude for your unstinted help. Joe JoeSorry you can't seem to get DropBox working. I think the message you are seeing is telling you that DropBox is syncing your files since you say it is already installed. Do you see a DropBox icon on your Taskbar or in the System Tray? You can also check the location "C:\users\[your userid]\DropBox" to see if there are any files there. That is the default folder location for DropBox. Bluetooth is separate from wifi. Wifi is not needed to do Bluetooth transfers. The only thing I can think of to fix your Bluetooth issue is to un-pair and re-pair the computer and phone. Here is a link to explain how to pair a device with your Win 8 computer: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-add-a-bluetooth-gadget-to-a-windows-8-pc.html. Before that you need to remove your phone as a paired Bluetooth device. Open the Charms on the right-side of your screen, select "Settings->Change PC settings" which will take you to the "PC settings" screen. There select "PC and devices" then Bluetooth on the next screen. In the list of Bluetooth devices find your phone and click on it. A button should appear saying "Remove device". Click on that button to remove or un-pair your phone, then follow the instructions in the link above to pair the phone again. See my attaced screenshot. [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]

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Am having difficulty transferring photos from my mobile phone (NOKIA model 113) to my laptop computer.

The phone is connected to bluetooth, and the bluetooth icon appears both on my computer and on the phone itself. So all is in
order here so far.

I enter the small plastic CARD into the appropriate slot in the computer. I then open the COMPUTER icon on my desktop (I use Windows 8.1) and then I open the bluetooth icon.

Usually this enables me to transfer the photos from my mobile to the laptop computer. However, all of a sudden I ma getting a warning reading "FTP LOST CONNECTION." What's this? I never got this warning before.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ANYBODY READING THIS AND SOLVING MY PROBLEM.A fried of mine had a similar issue with a different model and he was able to get the images off the phone by using a USB tether. The same port used for recharging the phone also has the ability to communicate via USB, and so with a USB cable between the phone and his laptop he was able to get his photos off of it.

Happy New Year and hopefully this info helps Quote from: Guzeppi on January 01, 2015, 10:54:10 AM

... I enter the small plastic card into the appropriate slot in the computer. I then open the COMPUTER icon on my desktop ...

This sounds to me as if you are removing the microSD card from the phone and plugging it into a card reader on the computer. If that's what you're doing then Bluetooth isn't involved at all.

If I am misunderstanding what you are saying can you please explain more about " the small plastic card into the appropriate slot". What small plastic card are you referring to?

Personally, I use DropBox with my phone and computer. The pictures I take on my phone are then synched to my computer automatically.Thks for your prompt reply.

My NOKIA 113 is equipped with a tiny black device installed inside the phone itself for transfer of photos from it to my laptop.
(I don't know what this device is called! It measures approximately a square half-inch).

Besides that, I was given by the dealer a small plastic chip (is it called a memory card?) which I was told to insert in the FRONT of the keyboard where there is a slot meant precisely to take this chip. This is what I called "a black plastic card in the appropriate slot" in my original question.

Usually this works well and it is as easy as abc to send the photos from the mobile to tte computer without using any cable
(or is it called a USB, the cable, I mean?).

No anymore! Now, when I click on the blue tooth icon in MY COMPUTER (or, rather, COMPUTER without the "MY" as it is called in Windows 8.1) I get that annoying warning which reads "FTP LOST CONNECTION".

Not being at all technically-minded, I have no idea what this FTP LOST CONNECTION means. How do I solve the problem plse?

Thanks for your patience in HELPING me out.

JoeDoes the "small plastic card" look like any of these pictures?

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Yes, it is like the first one of your three pictures and it is marked "SAMSUNG Lock MicroS Adapter"

I have now installed FTP but still cannot get a connection.

Thks again for courtesy and patience.

JoeOK. We have now determined that the "small plastic card" is a microSD adapter. The dealer that sold it to you may have explained that you need to remove the memory card from your phone (it will look like the 3rd picture). There is a slot on the adapter where you can insert the memory card you removed from your phone. Once the memory card has been inserted into the adapter, then you can insert the adapter into the proper slot on your computer. Once everything is properly inserted, the memory card from your phone will appear as another drive in Windows Explorer on your computer and you will be able to copy your photos from it to a folder on your computer's hard drive. This process does not involve Bluetooth at all. Once you have copied the photos from the card you then remove the adapter from the computer, remove the memory card from the adapter and put the memory card back in your phone.

You can also use Bluetooth to transfer your photos but you first need to "pair" your phone with your computer. Pairing is not difficult but you need to tell your computer to search for nearby Bluetooth devices and then SET your phone's Bluetooth so that it is "discoverable". Once the 2 devices find each other, you may be prompted to enter a code or confirm that the same code is displayed on each device. You only need to pair the devices once. After that you will need to set your computer to receive a file then send the file from the phone. It is kind of a pain since it can only send 1 file at a time which is the main reason I don't recommend moving your pictures using Bluetooth. If you use Bluetooth to transfer your photos then you do not need to insert "the small plastic card" since it serves no function during Bluetooth file transfers.

From your post, it seems that this was working previously but has now stopped working. If I were you I would un-pair and then re-pair the phone with the computer to see if that solves the issue.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I use DropBox to sync my photos from my phone to my computer. It works great and after INITIAL setup the files are synched to the computer from the phone automatically. Check out DropBox here: https://www.dropbox.com/tour

Quote from: strollin on January 02, 2015, 09:42:52 PM

OK. We have now determined that the "small plastic card" is a microSD adapter. The dealer that sold it to you may have explained that you need to remove the memory card from your phone (it will look like the 3rd picture). There is a slot on the adapter where you can insert the memory card you removed from your phone.

Like in the left hand of this picture

Thks again.

Have decided to take up DROPBOX since you speak so highly of it.

From what you tell me, the other two options you mention are too complicated for a slow learner that I am!

I have successfully installed DROPBOX and I have gone to GETTING STARTED IN DROPBOX, but what is the next step? The window (image) I got when I opened GETTING STARTED which consists of a few messages on rectangular figures makes no sense to me.

Have been trying to send you a screenshot of the said window but cannot manage it. Perhaps you can tell me what to do to send you the image which I have saved in MY PICTURES folder.

JoeYou need to first create a DropBox account (it's free), then install the DropBox Windows client https://www.dropbox.com/install on your computer and the DropBox app https://www.dropbox.com/android on your phone. During setup you will be walked thru setting things up. Have you done those 3 things?

You can attach an image to your post by using the "Attachments and other options" link that appears beneath the text input box when typing in a reply. You will then be able to browse to the MY PICTURES folder and select the image you wish to attach. If you have a place to upload your image to on the internet, you can insert an image directly into your post via a link to it using the "Insert image" icon (looks like a little picture) that appears above the text input box.Renewed thanks, but sorry to disappoint.

Have received a notice on my taskbar saying dropbox has been successfully installed. The next thing I know is I am taken to another window where I am told that dropbox is being downloaded ! I click here and there, I wait, nothing happens.The mind boggles.

Unless I get step-by-step easy to follow instructions, I am afraid I'll never make it. Of course, this is not your fault. You are being extremely kind and patient with me, but I feel like an idiot when tackling some new program on my computer.

Perhaps it would be easier to go back to bluetooth? I have got the bluetooth icon both in my control panel and on the screen of my mobile phone. I have also downloaded PDF but I still keep getting that alarming warning "PDF LOST CONNECTION".
Is there a way to reactivate this connection?

When bluetooth was working well I never had to remove the memory card from the mobile to insert it in the adapter card.
Why not now? Could it be that I am not connected to WIFI but to a wired connection on my laptop? If so, how to go back to WIFI connection?

Do please rest assured of my gratitude for your unstinted help.

Joe

JoeSorry you can't seem to get DropBox working. I think the message you are seeing is telling you that DropBox is syncing your files since you say it is already installed. Do you see a DropBox icon on your Taskbar or in the System Tray? You can also check the location "C:\users\[your userid]\DropBox" to see if there are any files there. That is the default folder location for DropBox.

Bluetooth is separate from wifi. Wifi is not needed to do Bluetooth transfers.

The only thing I can think of to fix your Bluetooth issue is to un-pair and re-pair the computer and phone. Here is a link to explain how to pair a device with your Win 8 computer: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-add-a-bluetooth-gadget-to-a-windows-8-pc.html. Before that you need to remove your phone as a paired Bluetooth device. Open the Charms on the right-side of your screen, select "Settings->Change PC settings" which will take you to the "PC settings" screen. There select "PC and devices" then Bluetooth on the next screen. In the list of Bluetooth devices find your phone and click on it. A button should appear saying "Remove device". Click on that button to remove or un-pair your phone, then follow the instructions in the link above to pair the phone again. See my attaced screenshot.

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