Author: Nick Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] android to linux file transfer (WAS: How well does "ADB"
work?
On 4/22/26 6:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Didier Kryn via Dng wrote:
> ...
> ...
>> Pluging an USB memory stick is simple and not more harmfull than
>> connecting the power supply; it has a small draw-back, which is that
>> Android, like Windows, writes junk files and directories of its own on the
>> memory stick. The easiest way to transfer to/from Linux is definitely the
>> wifi interface; and it is clean: no junk is written.
> what *is* the wifi interface? How do I use it? I need to transfer files from
> an android phone to a devuan laptop.
>
> -- hendrik Why do you not use mtp to transfer files? https://wiki.debian.org/mtp.