Connecting XP to Android 14

[Asp]

I have a new Motorola phone running Android 14.

I want to transfer files between it and my WinXP PC. My older phone, I just connect it via USB and it appears as a drive.

This, the phone pops up asking what USB mode it should use, "File transfer" or "Photo and video transfer". But at the same time, Windows has popped up "Camera detected" and shows a camera  in "My computer" and offers to connect it to Photoshop. No change regardless what I choose on the phone.

Anyway to get it to be a drive?

I did transfer files over wifi using Airdroid, but that is much slower than USB.

 

 

[windows2]

9 hours ago, Asp said:

I have a new Motorola phone running Android 14.

I want to transfer files between it and my WinXP PC. My older phone, I just connect it via USB and it appears as a drive.

This, the phone pops up asking what USB mode it should use, "File transfer" or "Photo and video transfer". But at the same time, Windows has popped up "Camera detected" and shows a camera  in "My computer" and offers to connect it to Photoshop. No change regardless what I choose on the phone.

Anyway to get it to be a drive?

I did transfer files over wifi using Airdroid, but that is much slower than USB.

 

 

You should to install Windows media player 11 at first , it has the UMDF 1.0 and the mtp driver.

[UCyborg]

14 hours ago, Asp said:

Anyway to get it to be a drive?

No.

Maybe if you can root the phone and the kernel's USB gadget still supports USB Mass Storage mode and is configurable through files, you could access FAT32/exFAT SD card that way, if you have it. Of course, you don't get to configure that through menus. Not sure about internal storage, as this is usually just a folder on an ext4 formatted partition. There's supposed to be VFAT emulation taking place, but I'm whether this means it could just be exposed to the PC through USB is another question, I never tried and can't say I have a clue what file (if it exists) would correspond to a block device representing internal storage.

 

As @windows2 said, you'll definitely need WMP11. Judging by Samsung Galaxy A15 I'm testing, you might have to convince Windows to configure it as MTP device. Out-of-the-box, it was detected as a camera. This is is the content of one of the folders listed through phone shell's ls command:

And this is how the folder appears in Explorer:

Besides default layout being centered towards working with cameras, eg. Date Taken and Picture Size columns, Camera Tasks on the left, no full path is shown in Address bar and folder names are truncated. Not good.

Likewise, its appearance in My Computer and its properties:

Anyway, head to Device Manager to find "the camera", open its Properties, then on Details tab, select Hardware Ids and note the first ID. You will need the part after USB\.

Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB, there you should find the key that corresponds to the ID noted earlier, inside that key, you should find another key (folder, if you like), if you select it, you should notice CompatibleIDs value on the right. You have to open that value and insert the following line at the beginning:

USB\MS_COMP_MTP

To be able to do that, you'll probably have to temporarily grant Administrators group (or your user) permissions to the key/folder containing CompatibleIDs, so right-click it->Permissions...->Add...->type Administrators->OK->tick Full Control->OK. After you're done modifying CompatibleIDs, you can remove the permissions.

Now you just have to go back to Device Manager, open "the camera" and trigger driver update, so Driver tab->Update Driver...then just accept the defaults to let the wizard configure it properly.

Final result:

[genieautravail]

@UCyborg

Is there a way to install the UMDF 1.0 and the mtp driver without WMP11 ?

Regards

[UCyborg]

No idea, I never tried. At least UMDF 1.0 installer is packed in an obvious way inside WMP11 installer, observable if you open it with 7-Zip.

[reboot12]

On 5/16/2024 at 11:16 PM, genieautravail said:

Is there a way to install the UMDF 1.0 and the mtp driver without WMP11 ?

Yes, install WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

[genieautravail]

@reboot12

Thank you very much for the trick.

Regards