What settings are needed to allow a USB to connect to a PC? (using USB C)
I have ‘allow USB’ set.
Is there some other necessary setting or permission I’m missing?
Wrong kind of cable?
Just trying to copy some files over.
The first time I tried, ‘FP5’ appeared as mounted on the PC but it showed as ‘empty’ and nothing worked.
Today I tried again and there is no connection between them at all. The PC is not aware of the phone, although the is a sound on phone when plugging in.
The ‘file transfer’ option is greyed out.
Default procedure:
Slide down from top of the screen once cable connection is physically installed
Find notification saying something about usb-connection
Tap link in notification to edit type of connection
Choose data transfer (or the like) or whatever connection you want to enable
(Default usb-connection can be changed in developper options in device settings)
No setting changes are needed to establish the connection, in other words the PC will register the phone as a connected device upon plugging it in. As mentioned the phone should prompt you for a connection type at which point you should select file transfer. Subsequently you can set the default through settings so it won’t ask again.
If that’s not happening it could be a cable or driver issue. You didn’t say what type of computer you’re trying to connect to, but for Windows the driver is built-in, no user action is required to set up the driver. There are “charge only” cables out there in the wild and you’ll get no connection with one of those. Try another cable, one that you know is good for data.
Ah, didn’t realise about the ‘slide down from top of screen’ bit. (new to Android)
Yes, it worked.
Got an error tho - Unable to open a folder for FP5… 'No such interface “org.gtk.vfs.Mount” on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/mount/1
But ignoring that seemed to work and was able to copy files over.
This on Linux Mint 20.3, btw.
Thanks for making that clear.
(Strangely, earlier on plugging in did nothing at all. I’ll ignore that as well – it works now
There was something in the settings that says ‘don’t allow USB’ which I found.
Linux Mint.
Did wonder about the cable but the answer above cleared up the problem. Noob here! …
