XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Algeria Horan  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >>> The time is independent of the number of movies stored on the first   
   >>> phone since the entire card is being moved from one phone to the other.   
      
   >> Hardly anyone uses a card to do that.   
      
   > The whole point of having the SD card is so that you can store   
   > data on that card, such as all your APKs and all your video files,   
   > and then so you can easily transfer that data to other devices.   
      
   In fact hardly anyone moves movies from phone to phone using sd cards.   
      
   > For example, I store APKs from multiple repositories (e.g., F-Droid   
   > & Google Play) on the expansion card, and I can easily install those   
   > APKs on other devices *without* having to enable F-Droid or Google   
   > Play on those other devices.   
      
   Irrelevant to what we were discussing, MOVIES and how long it takes to   
   put those on a particular phone using a card instead of a cable or wifi.   
      
   > Same with movies.   
      
   Nope, fuck all MOVE MOVIES FROM PHONE TO PHONE using a card.   
      
   Even kids mostly just airdrop them with idevices, something android can't   
   do.   
      
   > I can play scores of previously saved movies on any other device   
   > simply by popping the expansion card into another device.   
      
   Yes that is possible, but fuck all in fact do it like that BETWEEN PHONES.   
      
   > This works well between me and the wife because I'm   
   > technical enough to be able to download anything   
   > out there, while she is only technical enough to play it. :)   
      
   But it makes a lot more sense to move the movies to the phone   
   using a cable or wifi because that is MUCH FASTER overall.   
      
   I in fact do that myself, torrent them using the desktop   
   because I find it more convenient to torrent on the   
   desktop and then move it to the iphone or ipad using   
   a cable, because that is much faster than using an sd   
   card to move it to the phone or tablet.   
      
   I do use usb sticks for the others that play them on their PS3/4   
   or set top box because those arent portable enough and the   
   usb sticks are. And the usb sticks are much more convenient   
   to use than sd cards in phones and tablets too.   
      
   >> So was I, but you obviously have to put it on the   
   >> card in the first place and that is what takes the time.   
      
   > The sdcard sneakernet method works fine for APKs also,   
      
   But is a stupid approach instead of cable or wifi.   
      
   > which have to be installed anyway, and which take zero extra time to   
   > archive   
   > automagically to the expansion card with a free backup-and-restore   
   > utility.   
      
   Just as true of wifi and cable.   
      
   > But, I do agree that the movies have to be downloaded in   
   > the first place; however, you'd be amazed at how quickly   
   > the NewPipe utility downloads a 2-hour youtube video.   
      
   No I wouldn’t, because I do that myself just as quickly.   
      
   > I generally only download the audio, so it's even faster (much faster);   
   > but it's just a pushbutton in NewPipe and you can even close NewPipe   
   > and go on with your business because it downloads the entire movie   
   > (audio or video or both) in the background.   
      
   Yeah, but I get the youngest kid to do that himself. He mostly   
   does get his music from youtube and is quite capable of doing   
   that himself. No point in using an sd card at all.   
      
   > So, other than presumably slowing down the CPU, all the downloading   
   > (for both movies and APKs) is done in the background.   
      
   Irrelevant to what is being discussed, whether there is   
   any point in using a card in that situation. There isnt.   
      
   >>> It takes the same amount of time to transfer   
   >>> 10MB as it does to transfer 64GB that way.   
      
   >> But doesn't with the time it takes to put it on the card in the first   
   >> place.   
      
   > The downloading of APKs and movies is done in the background.   
   > I'm sure there's a background CPU/IO hit; but it's not noticeable.   
      
   No point in downloading it to a phone that isnt going to be the   
   phone the movies are played on and moving it to the phone the   
   movies are going to be played on using a card. Makes a lot more   
   sense to download it to the desktop and move it to the phone or   
   tablet using a cable or wifi once its been downloaded.   
      
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