Question Using phone to hotspot internet. How to setup laptop to xfer files from phone?

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Lifer
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android 10 phone, win10 laptop

i'm tired of hooking up usb cable to xfer files/pics between the phone and laptop. (im not doing google cloud.)
laptop has internet because i'm hotspotting my phone.

How do i connect the phone and laptop to xfer files?
 
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sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Don't think you can. But you could try i stalling a ftp server and see if it will work with phone in hotspot mode. My guess is it will not work, but you never know. You can definitely transfer to the phone if it is not in hotspot mode but connected to your lan.
 
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