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HTC Desire & "Bluetooth File Transfer" app

Hi folks, would really appreciate a bit of advice from someone who knows a bit more than me about these things.

My girlfriend's old phone has stopped working properly (half of the buttons wont work). It's a samsung sgh-e250. And she wants to get some old videos off it (which are on the phone, not the micro sd card, and the buttons which are working won't let her transfer them).

Anyway, using the limited buttons, I have managed to approve a bluetooth connection between it and my desire, and using the app I should be able to browse her files and pull them onto my phone.

I seem to have half-managed this, but even though I can browse all her folders etc, the only files I'm able to "see" and transfer are her mp3s, as the videos, photos, etc do not show up on my phone at all, even though they are there on hers.

Hope that makes sense, and does anyone have any ideas how I can sort this? They're pics and vids of her old cats so I'd really like like to recover them for her.
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  • suited-aces
    suited-aces Posts: 1,938 Forumite
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    Has anybody got any ideas?
    I'm not bad at golf, I just get better value for money when I take more shots!
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Has it got a USB mass storage connection that may work better .

    jje
  • Try Astro from android market, I think that has a bt addon. Failing that has she a cable and software for the phone to try from pc
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  • suited-aces
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    The cable's long lost I'm afraid. I could nab a second one on ebay, but if I rememebr correctly, it was only any memory cards which show as up as storage on the computer, not sure I'd be able to get to the phone's internal memory
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  • suited-aces
    suited-aces Posts: 1,938 Forumite
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    Bizarre, i can't even get teh mp3s with Astro, "java.io.IOException: java.ioException Connection Refused"
    I'm not bad at golf, I just get better value for money when I take more shots!
  • davester
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    do you have wifi and internet connection? setup dropbox for free on the PC and phone, you have a 2GB free limit you upload from your pc the files, then just login with android and the files are all there waiting for you to download to the SD card. Delete the files from the dropbox folder and replace with more files you want to transfer.. Other than a 2GB dropbox limit at anyone time.

    Dropbox is totally free it works not much difference to and folder on your computer. You can also get friends to set up accounts and then make a within dropbox folder they can access, to drop things into for you to see or for you to share with them.
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