Despite being a smartphone of 2014, Motorola Droid Turbo is still a good choice for conventional Motorola users. From all perspectives like screen display, memory, camera, sound, battery- it can be a handy and vintage one for the fancy users.
Turbo has a main camera of 21 megapixels with an initial selfie camera. So, considering the overall camera performance, you, if you are passionate about mobile photography, can capture stunning snaps with great pleasure. Being not inclined to photography, you can even take ordinary pictures with awesomeness as per your need. But, after capturing photos, if you want to transfer those to your computer from your Droid, how will you do that?
No worries. As a tech freak, I researched it and gathered some feasible ways.
Let’s crack it.
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How to Transfer Photos or Videos from Droid Turbo to PC
After a family event or occasion, when you have too many pictures on your phone and perhaps you want to transfer all those safely to your computer.
Also, it can be the case that the internal storage or memory of your Droid Turbo is full, and that’s why you are compelled to transfer the photos or videos to your PC. This may happen frequently when you do not mount an external SD card on your phone. Whatever the reason is, anytime you may need to connect your phone to your desktop.
Here are the methods to transfer photos or videos from Droid Turbo to PC:
Using USB Cable
- Purchase a USB cable to connect your phone to your computer. If you got a cable while purchasing the phone, then use it.
- Take your cable and connect the two endpoints with respective ports on your devices.
- Wait a few seconds till you get the notification of establishing a connection between your computer and mobile.
- Navigate to File Explorer or go to My Computer. You will get a drive named Removable Disk.
- Double-click on Removable Disk. You will get a folder Internal Storage where all your mobile content is stored.
- Enter the folder Internal Storage.
- Check the folders where all your images or videos are stored. Mostly, you will find them in the DCIM folder.
- Copy all the content you want to transfer. For selecting all images or videos altogether, press Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C.
- Paste them to a convenient place on your computer. Use Ctrl+V as a shortcut.
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Though there are other ways, this one is the most familiar you will see others perform.
Using Google Photos
- Open the Google Photos app on your Motorola Droid. If the app is not there, download it from the Play Store.
- Log in with your Google account.
- Click on the Settings icon at the top left corner of your Droid screen.
- Select Save & Sync to save the changes and sync all photos.
- Open a browser on your computer.
- Go to Google Photos. There you will find all images and videos you just uploaded and synced.
- Download what you need and preserve them safely on your PC.
Your images have now been stored on Google Photos, and you can access them anywhere anytime by your computer or from other devices.
Notes
A couple of things you should keep in mind for a better user experience. They are:
- Try to keep all the image formats to jpeg.
- Image size should not exceed 16 megapixels.
- While syncing, use Wi-Fi instead of cellular data.
Using Google Drive
- Open the Google Drive application on your phone.
- Click on the Plus (+) icon at the bottom right corner above Files. A set of options will pop up.
- Tap on the option Upload.
- Show the location of the images on your phone that you want to transfer.
- Wait a few minutes. Gradually all the content will be uploaded to your Google Drive.
- Open the browser on your computer.
- Go to Google Drive.
- Open the folder where you just uploaded the content of your Droid Turbo.
- Select and download them as per your need.
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Using Dropbox
- Install the Dropbox application on your Motorola Droid Turbo and on your computer. Sign in to your account. Create an account if you do not have any.
- Select Transfer only via Wi-Fi when Dropbox will ask you to upload your photos.
- Select the pictures you want to save on Dropbox.
- Tap to the Share option.
- Click on Add to Dropbox.
Within a couple of minutes depending on your Wi-Fi speed, the photos will be added to your chosen folder on the Dropbox application. Now, open the application from your computer and sign in to your account there. From your computer, you will now be able to access all the photos you just uploaded.
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Using Third-party Applications
If you want, you can use some third-party applications as well to transfer your photos from Motorola Droid to your PC. There are readily available on Google Play Store. Open the Google Play Store app and type simply transfer photos on the search bar. You will find countless apps for this job.
But, data security is the most significant thing here to be cared about. Most of the apps are free, while a few are paid. So, check the benefits and losses of using paid or free app. You may go through the ratings and reviews that may help you to decide eventually.
How Do I Transfer Photos or Videos from PC
Transferring photos or videos from your PC to mobile is just a reverse process of that I just described. The steps here are also easygoing and smooth to follow.
Here are the steps to transfer photos or videos from PC:
- Connect your Motorola Droid Turbo to your computer via the USB cable you received.
- Open the File Explorer. You may use the shortcut of Windows+E.
- Double-click on the drive Removable Disk. You may get it by another name.
- Enter the Internal shared storage folder.
- Copy the images or videos from the computer and paste them here. Paste photos in the DCIM folder.
- Disconnect the USB cable from your computer if the process finishes.
That simply you can perform the task.
How to Transfer Music Files from Droid Turbo to PC
Almost similar to the transfer of photos and videos, audio files can also be transferred to your computer from Droid Turbo.
Here are the steps to transfer music files from droid turbo to PC:
- Connect your Motorola Droid Turbo to your computer via the USB cable you received.
- Open the File Explorer. You may use the shortcut of Windows+E.
- Double-click on the drive Removable Disk. You may get it by another name.
- Enter the Internal shared storage folder.
- Go to the Music folder.
- Copy the audio files from there and paste them into a convenient folder on your PC.
- Disconnect the USB cable from your computer if the process finishes.
The music files are now on your computer. So, enjoy the songs!
How to Transfer Music Files from PC
If you want to move your audio files from your desktop to your Droid Turbo, go through the following steps.
Here are the steps to transfer music files from PC to Droid:
- Connect your Motorola Droid Turbo to your computer via the USB cable you received.
- Open the File Explorer. You may use the shortcut of Windows+E.
- Navigate to the folder where the music files are.
- Copy those files by pressing Ctrl+A, and then Ctrl+C.
- Double-click on the drive Removable Disk. You may get it by another name.
- Enter the Internal shared storage folder.
- Go to the Music folder.
- Paste the audio files here you just copied from your PC. You may use the shortcut of Ctrl+V.
- Disconnect the USB cable from your computer when it finishes.
Final words
To sum up, as users have their mobile with them all the time, there is a high risk of losing it. Unintentionally, it may get impaired as well. Therefore, it is pretty essential to preserve photos, videos, songs, even important documents permanently on a computer so that you can retrieve them if required.
Throughout the discussion, the applications I mentioned will allow you to back up, and synchronize your files. You can even share your files with others’ devices. Enormous users reported me after being benefitted. Please, let me know what happened with you?
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