Top 3 ways to transfer files from PC to Android and vice versa without using USB cable

Worried about keeping your Android smartphone in sync with your PC and vice versa, now you can stay synchronized by following the below guidelines.

The article will provide Top 6 ways to transfer files, images, videos between your Android smartphone and PC without using USB cable.

Wireless File Transfer between Android Smartphone and PC using Bluetooth:

Remember the initial days when a smartphone was introduced. Then, Bluetooth was a boon and a perfect answer to transfer data to any smartphone. Most of the laptops today are Bluetooth enabled and hence Bluetooth helps to transfer the data between these two devices. Though, Bluetooth is not an ideal answer to transfer huge data, it can still be used for smaller data transfers.

Follow the below guidelines:

• Very first requirement here is to switch ON the Bluetooth of your PC. One can find the option of switching ON the Bluetooth in the system notification tray towards the right of taskbar.

• See to it that the Bluetooth of your Android device is also turned ON.

• Once the PC’s Bluetooth has been turned ON, navigate into devices and printers and then click on add a device.

• With this command, the PC would pick up the Android device, you need to select it and click Next button.

• The PC now displays a code to ensure it is connecting to the right device, which will appear on the screen of Android device.
  

• You would need to verify and match the codes and just continue.

• Click Next, the two devices would pair up and here you are ready to swap the data between your Android device and PC just the way you pair up and exchange data between your smartphones.

File Transfer between Android Smartphone and PC using Wi-Fi Network and Filedrop app:

Users need to have their computer and phone on the shared local wireless network. Using the Wi-Fi Network users can download files to and fro, from your smartphone or tablet over a wireless connection and without any USB cables or Cloud.

Though Google provides other apps for this purpose, one of the best apps that we would suggest is Filedrop, which is known to support the transfer of huge files at a much faster rate.

Follow the below guidelines :

• User need to first install the ‘Filedrop’ app on their Android device.

• Next download the companion software on your computer. Once the appropriate apps and software have been downloaded and installed, then start the program on both the devices and press the scan buttons.

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• Now, the computer would ask ‘what kind of device are you trying to connect’, once you provide the type of smartphone device it will now ask you to enter the device code.

• The device code is available under the ‘options icon’ in the device app. Once you enter this code, the computer pairs up with your Android device be it smartphone or tablet.

• To transfer the files from PC to Android device, one just needs to drag and drop the files into the companion software window on the PC.

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• Suppose if one wants to transfer the file from Android to PC, then you will have to tap the icon for PC in the app then either one can select the file browser option and navigate to the chosen documents or the other method is to choose the gallery option and select the multiple photos.

• Now, you will get a notification to transfer the file on destination device, immediately accept it and the task would start.

• On the PC a notification would appear in the tray section at the bottom, here you need to select and open the required file.

File Transfer between Android Smartphone and PC using Wireless Media Readers:

Modern smartphones are much more than just phones. With all the computing power these smartphones are nothing less than a powerful computer. Now, a person can even try accessing the company server and data safely by connecting to their NAS drive or wireless media reader over SMB protocol.

One of the major feature of the wireless media reader is that it can be accessed by multiple users at the same time and also it does not require internet connection. Besides, these can also act as power bank and help the tablet or smartphone to work for a longer time.

The NAS drive is loaded with media via SD card or USB drive and then it can be accessed via using the device’s Wi-Fi hotspot.