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AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
Connecting to a computer via USB
You can connect your phone to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music,
pictures, and other files between your phone and the computer. Your phone stores
these files in internal USB storage or on a removable SD card, depending on your
model of phone (see your phone’s owner’s guide for details about its features).
Warning! When connecting your phone to a computer and mounting its USB storage or SD
card, you must follow your computer’s instructions for connecting and disconnecting
USB devices, to avoid damaging or corrupting files.
If you are using USB tethering, you must turn that off before you can use USB to
transfer files between your phone and computer. See “Sharing your phone’s mobile
data connection” on page 69.
Connect your phone to a computer via USB
1 Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port
on your computer.
You receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2 Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.
For details on working with the Notifications panel, see “Managing notifications”
on page 29.
3 Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want
to transfer files.
When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen indicates that USB
storage is in use and you receive a notification.
Your phone’s USB storage or SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer. You
can now copy files back and forth. For more information, see the documentation
for your computer.
During this time, you can’t access the USB storage or SD card from your phone, so
you can’t use applications that rely on them, such as Camera, Gallery, and Music.
You also can’t share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
Disconnect your phone from the computer
Warning! Carefully follow your computer’s instructions to unmount the USB storage or SD card
and disconnect USB devices correctly, to avoid losing information.