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AUG-2.2.0-100 Android User’s Guide
Connecting to a computer via USB
You can connect your phone to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music,
pictures, and other files between your phone’s SD card and the computer.
Warning! When connecting your phone to a computer and mounting its SD card, you must fol-
low your computer’s instructions for connecting and disconnecting USB devices, to
avoid damaging or corrupting the files on your SD card.
You can’t share your phone’s data connection and SD card via USB at the same time.
If you are using USB tethering, you must turn that off first. See “Sharing your phone’s
mobile data connection” on page 62.
To connect your phone to a computer via USB
1 Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port
on your computer.
You receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2 Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.
For details on working with the Notifications panel, see “Managing notifications”
on page 27.
3 Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want
to transfer files.
When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen indicates that USB
storage is in use and you receive a notification.
Your phone’s SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer. You can now copy
files to and from the SD card. For more information, see the documentation for
your computer.
During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your phone, so you can’t use
applications that rely on the SD card, such as Camera, Gallery, and Music. You also
can’t share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
To disconnect your phone from the computer
Warning! Carefully follow your computer’s instructions to unmount the SD card and disconnect
USB devices correctly, to avoid losing information on the card.
1 Unmount the SD card on your computer.
2 Open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
3 Touch Turn off USB storage in the screen that opens.