XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.msdos.batch.nt   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: andrew@spam.net   
      
   Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:52:03 +0800 :   
      
   >> As far as I recall, we still don't know the OP's Android USB settings.   
   >>    USB default settings   
   >   
   > Give me some time... too many ideas to try. :)   
      
   My suggestion is to try only one. WebDav. It's the best, in my experience.   
      
   I've tested *every* (free) suggestion (which didn't require making an   
   account) that was ever suggested (to my knowledge) on the Windows   
   newsgroup, so my advice below is based on this one question only:   
    "How could I map "This PC\Nokia 1234\Internal shared storage\"   
     to a drive (e.g. E:\)?"   
      
   By that question, I "assume" you mean:   
    "How could I map an Android phone filesystem to a Windows drive letter?"   
      
   That one question, I've been doing for years, where this newsgroup has   
   helped me do that, so to give back to the newsgroup, my suggestion is this:   
      
   1. Install any free WebDav server on your Android phone, where I recommend:   
         
      I notice it says it has ads. I don't see ads. I never see ads.   
      My version may be older or it could be my DNS server ad blocking.   
      
      There are other free WebDAV servers but that's the simplest, AFAIK.   
      
   2. Set it up the simplest way possible - use all the defaults as one   
      mistake in a path will screw you. Don't set up login/password either.   
      Wait until it's working fine before adding those complexities.   
      
      Note that nowhere does it say anywhere in any of these program   
      notes that they all default to "DavWWWRoot" meaning the home share.   
      
   3. Mount that default home share onto Windows, where I suggest you   
      set up Android Wi-Fi to your home LAN to be a static IP address.   
      C:\> net use P: \\192.168.0.2@8080\DavWWWRoot   
      
   Now your internal sd card is mounted as drive "P:" on Windows.   
   From there, you can get as fancy as you want to get.   
      
   For example, I've found I need a second WebDAV server to mount the external   
   sdcard, and then you need to know the Android linux path to that card,   
   which is why I format all my sdcards with the same volume label.   
      
   One of the accidentally amazing things about mounting Android file systems   
   onto Windows as a drive letter is, for some reason, even though you're not   
   rooted, you can read (and write to) most of the file system, even parts   
   which you can't even see directly from the phone itself.   
      
   If someone can explain that magic to me, I'd love to know why that happens.   
      
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