Galaxy S4 downloading pictures-UPDATE
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with an added mini SD card for storage. How do I get the pictures out of the phone without taking the back off and removing the SD card? I have tried hooking the phone ...
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BarneyS wrote:
I went to Best Buy today and the Samsung representative there took about 20 minutes to find out why a computer will not see my S4 as a drive. It always came up as a modem, just as it did on my two computers.
It seems that a program I have on the phone, PdaNet includes a program called FoxFi, which loads itself whether I want it to or not. I use that program to get online when we are camping out in the woods, which we do frequently, and do not have any WiFi. The program lets me use my phone as a hotspot without paying the exorbitant fee that Verizon charges to do so. I only use it for my own computer and only when we are away from home and no WiFi is available.
Since I do not want to get rid of the program it looks like I am destined to use the work around that I mentioned earlier. That is ok with me as the only time I will download pictures from the phone is when I am at home with my own WiFi going.
Thank you to all that attempted to help. I think wa8yxm came closest to the reason and the solution to the problem. The reason his solution did not work was because FoxFi kept turning itself back on automatically as long as a USB cord was plugged in. Even after turning it off, it came right back on. Weird!
Thanks again to everybody for attempting to help. :)
Barney
Go root your phone, and install SuperSu and Titanium Backup Pro, and you can go into Titanium Backup Pro and "Freeze" your FoxFi app or your PDANet app temporarily to allow your computer to recognize your phone while downloading photos. After you are finished downloading photos, go back in to Titanium Backup Pro, and "Unfreeze" the Foxfi app, and it will work again as usual.
