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Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)
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Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)
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On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:

Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)

I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s) with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can ftp either direction
any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is bidirectional.
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Alan K.
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W dniu 9.06.2026 o 14:14, Alan K. pisze:

On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:

Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)

I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s) with
a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is bidirectional.

Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone, activate it and
you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no hassle, no problem.
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On 6/9/26 8:24 AM, RelicMonkey wrote:

W dniu 9.06.2026 o 14:14, Alan K. pisze:

On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:

Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>> to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)

I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s) with
a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can ftp
either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.

Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone, activate it and
you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no hassle, no problem.

I use File Manager Plus since I use it from my default file manger on the phone. It has
the obvious items like recent, new, images, and ftp of course. Either way it's wireless.
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Alan K. wrote:

On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:

Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)

I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
with a large F in front.

yep. that works, thanks. installed it on the phone, and can FTP both directions using a file manager. I used 'File Manager PCManFM'.

If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is bidirectional.

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RelicMonkey wrote:

W dniu 9.06.2026 o 14:14, Alan K. pisze:

On 6/9/26 7:07 AM, Axel wrote:

Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or
Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser >>>> to display and transfer files. :)

dammit! it only transfers one way, phone > Computer (sigh)

I use one called 'File Manager Plus'. The icon is a file folder(s)
with a large F in front.
If you understand FTP and can use something like filezilla, you can
ftp either direction any files from a browser to and from you phone.
It's a bit to get it setup, easier if you understand how, but it is
bidirectional.

Yep, just install FTP server from F-Droid on your phone,

it's not in Play Store. ??

activate it and you can transfer files bidirectionally. No wires, no
hassle, no problem.

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Le 09/06/2026 à 12:47, Axel a écrit :

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

we can NOT give solution for all because some pro don't pay for a free
world ! so for a private NAS you should wait...
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Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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Le 09/06/2026 à 12:47, Axel a écrit :

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

just one think....a you are sure your wifi 'll crypted ?
i know blue2 yes...but wifi wpa is not sucure isn't ?
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Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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Le 09/06/2026 à 12:47, Axel a écrit :

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

if you don't have neighbor hood at 50m...
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Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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Le 09/06/2026 à 12:47, Axel a écrit :

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

who have this idea ?
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Amicalement,

Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my
phone, let alone wireless.
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is
Bluetooth, never used it but that seems the most obvious to me.
Why didn't you try that?
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Edmund
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On Wed, 6/10/2026 2:53 AM, Edmund wrote:

On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator
to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that works just fine called File Transfer.
Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with
a browser to display and transfer files. :)

Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my phone, let alone wireless.
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is Bluetooth, never used it but
that seems the most obvious to me.

Why didn't you try that?

Bluetooth is 75KB per second.

It can transfer things, but it is pretty slow.

There used to be a function, where Bluetooth was the "path leader"
and set up the connection, and then the Wifi could be used in conjunction
with Bluetooth, to get that rate well above 75KB per second (over Wifi).
But that was too easy and useful, so that is canceled, so that
the thing used in its place is more of a nuisance and involves "externalities". That's the whole reason they did it, to make you depend on things outside
of the environment you're working in. That would be something
like WifiDirect (which I've used between two machines here, even
Windows can create a HotSpot for other devices to connect to, just
don't forget to write the password down). And that is rate limited,
so the transfer isn't all that fast. Linux should also be able to make
a Wifi Hotspot (so you don't need to own a Wifi router, to do things).

One reason for transfers, is when a smartphone takes pictures, it has
a DCIM directory, just like a digital camera. And you can transfer
a photo taken with the smartphone, from the DCIM directory. If a picture happened to be a 4000KB JPG, and the Bluetooth data rate is 75KB, the
transfer will take a bit of time, and you cannot afford to be impatient
at that speed. If you had 32GB of pictures to transfer over, the novelty of using Bluetooth for the job, would rapidly wear out.

When phones had an SD, you could transfer files onto an SD and
take that somewhere. But a lot of the conveniences on smartphones
have been removed in the name of "progress". Removing a headphone
jack being an example.

https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobile-devices/use-a-microsd-card-with-your-galaxy-phone-or-tablet/

The entire set of file systems, are not instant candidates for transfers.
Some directories are easy to get to (DCIM). Others are protected various
ways, and then you need more people from one of the phone groups to help
you.

You also have to switch the phone, so you've given "approval" for
some things to happen. If you were using MTP and a wired connection,
there would likely be some phone setting to enable MTP instead of ADB or
the like. When a thing doesn't work, you check the phone for a
permission recipe.

The phone is a USB OTG device, it can be a "host" when reading a USB hard drive,
it can be a "peripheral" when connected to a PC. Whereas a PC is only a Host and not an OTG. There is one RPi which has OTG capability, but it is
the lowest end RPi and the same feature is not on the RPi 5.

Paul
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On 6/10/26 9:37 AM, Paul wrote:

On Wed, 6/10/2026 2:53 AM, Edmund wrote:

On 6/9/26 12:47 PM, Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator
to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that works just fine called File Transfer.
Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with
a browser to display and transfer files. :)

Well I never had the need to frequently transfer files from or to my phone, let alone wireless.
But if I wanted it wireless the first thing that comes to mind is Bluetooth, never used it but
that seems the most obvious to me.

Why didn't you try that?

Bluetooth is 75KB per second.

It can transfer things, but it is pretty slow.

There used to be a function, where Bluetooth was the "path leader"
and set up the connection, and then the Wifi could be used in conjunction with Bluetooth, to get that rate well above 75KB per second (over Wifi).
But that was too easy and useful, so that is canceled, so that
the thing used in its place is more of a nuisance and involves "externalities".
That's the whole reason they did it, to make you depend on things outside
of the environment you're working in. That would be something
like WifiDirect (which I've used between two machines here, even
Windows can create a HotSpot for other devices to connect to, just
don't forget to write the password down). And that is rate limited,
so the transfer isn't all that fast. Linux should also be able to make
a Wifi Hotspot (so you don't need to own a Wifi router, to do things).

One reason for transfers, is when a smartphone takes pictures, it has
a DCIM directory, just like a digital camera. And you can transfer
a photo taken with the smartphone, from the DCIM directory. If a picture happened to be a 4000KB JPG, and the Bluetooth data rate is 75KB, the transfer will take a bit of time, and you cannot afford to be impatient
at that speed. If you had 32GB of pictures to transfer over, the novelty of using Bluetooth for the job, would rapidly wear out.

When phones had an SD, you could transfer files onto an SD and
take that somewhere. But a lot of the conveniences on smartphones
have been removed in the name of "progress". Removing a headphone
jack being an example.

https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobile-devices/use-a-microsd-card-with-your-galaxy-phone-or-tablet/

The entire set of file systems, are not instant candidates for transfers. Some directories are easy to get to (DCIM). Others are protected various ways, and then you need more people from one of the phone groups to help
you.

You also have to switch the phone, so you've given "approval" for
some things to happen. If you were using MTP and a wired connection,
there would likely be some phone setting to enable MTP instead of ADB or
the like. When a thing doesn't work, you check the phone for a
permission recipe.

The phone is a USB OTG device, it can be a "host" when reading a USB hard drive,
it can be a "peripheral" when connected to a PC. Whereas a PC is only a Host and not an OTG. There is one RPi which has OTG capability, but it is
the lowest end RPi and the same feature is not on the RPi 5.

Paul

75 kB? OK say no more :-)

I simply a USB cable for my transfers.
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On 2026-06-09, Axel <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

I quite like an app called LocalSend. It works on all major platforms, including in a web browser. Simple.

https://localsend.org
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Axel wrote:

Hi all. despite many efforts I've been unable to get KDE connect or Warpinator to work on LM 22.3. However, I've discovered an app that
works just fine called File Transfer. Download it from Play Store and
install it on your phone and run it and it will connect with a browser
to display and transfer files. :)

What phone do you have? I have a Samsung Galaxy and Samsung's default
file manager Samsung My Files has an add-o that allows you to access
samba shares on you LAN. If you have a Samsung just open My Files and
tap Network Storage and you will be prompted to add the network
extension. Then all you have to do is setup samba shares on your systems.
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