Easily move photos to your Nexus smartphone or tablet from a Windows or Mac laptop
Google's Nexus Android smartphones and tablets are great devices. And here's our guide on how to transfer photos from a laptop to the Nexus 7, Nexus 4 and Nexus 10.
There are a number of options when it comes to transferring photos from a laptop to a Nexus device. Cloud storage apps like Dropbox and Sugarsync are one way or you could transfer them via Bluetooth if your laptop has is, though it is not the fastest way.
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By far the easiest way is to plug your Nexus into your laptop with the supplied USB cable and move the photos over in the same way you would with a USB stick or external hard drive.
Here are two guides on transferring photos to a Nexus device, one for those with an Apple Mac, and one for those running Windows.
Transfer photos from laptop to Nexus 7, Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 from Mac
Note. You will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Step One
Visit www.android.com/filetransfer, download the Android File Transfer software and install it.
Step Two
Plug your Nexus device into your Mac with the supplied cable.
Step Three
Launch the Android File Transfer software by double clicking on it. Then, browse folders and files on your Mac and transfer photos to your Nexus device.
Transfer photos from laptop to Nexus 7, Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 from Windows
Step One
For starters you'll need to plug your smartphone or tablet into the laptop or PC which has the files you want to transfer. Do this with the cable supplied with your device, most likely a microUSB cable.
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Step Two
Once you've plugged in your device, you should get a popup menu of options and your Nexus device will say 'connected as media device'. Here you can choose different ways of transferring content such as photos to our Nexus.
We recommend the 'Open device to view files' option, as long as you know where the files are located on your machine. It makes the Nexus smartphone or tablet act like any USB memory stick or external hard drive.
Note. If you're Nexus doesn't show up properly, go to the settings and select 'Connect as media device (MTP) or similar. This is normally accessible from the drop down notification menu.
Step Three
Now drag and drop the photos from your machine which you wish to transfer onto your Nexus smartphone or tablet with the Windows File Explorer. As standard there should be a photos folder labelled 'Pictures' in which to place them.
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Comments
mehreen sajid said: its very esay to transfer the all files to laptop to nexus 4 i thought its difficult thanks for the guidenes
mehreen sajid said: thank y vry much
Frank Velázquez said: Very true My wife is a hardcore Facebooker She does not like G and Idontthink she has any interest in it However she does use it as a picture hard drive Not try to say you are wrong just putting out there what I think is the easiest way
Rob said: And to my Ubuntu laptop
YoricHunt said: Or do it wirelessly using the excellent AirDroid app Works through a browser so is not OS dependant
Chris Martin said: Its a good suggestion but not everyone who has an Android phone actually uses Google Therefore we have gone for the classic method I did mention there are various ways of doing it
Frank Velázquez said: Chris Martinit seems to me that you are forgetting theeasiestway Why do you have to download file transfer tools or even plug in you phone Android device to your computer If you have an Android device you obviously will have a Google account So you just need to follow these steps1 From the computer that contain the pictures that you want to transfer go to Google 2 Then create an album or several with all the pictures that you want transfer DONE All your Android devices will be synced and you will be able to see all your picturesalbums from the Galleryapp