downloading photos from mobile to pc

facade

Hopefully the G5 is on a recent version of android, so

Plug one end of the usb cable into the pc, and the other into the phone.

The phone makes a noise and a pop-up appears asking you to choose ready for, transfer files, transfer photos  .

While you go to find your glasses to read it, it goes away  so I've never pressed it, but I'd press transfer files.

however, put your finger at the top of the screen and drag down.

Somewhere in the massive list of notifications there will be one that says "Charging the device via USB"

Poke the down arrow alongside it and it expands to reveal "tap for more options". So tap it and USB preferences appears.

Ignore everything except right at the bottom it says "Use USB for"

Stab File transfer  and the phone will make a noise.

Meanwhile, over at the PC in This PC a picture of the phone appears with the name of the phone under it.

Right click and do something to actually see the right click options - I think you click "more options". Import pictures & videos is one of the options

Or double left click on the picture of the phone

double left click on  Internal shared storage

double left click on the DCIM folder

double left click on the camera folder

and your photos appear.

Brie

@facade
that's a heck of a lot of stabbing!  better make sure I have my glasses on so I stab the right things and not the OH.