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I have a lot of difficulty copying files to my Galaxy S3. My goal is to sync my music from MediaMonkey to my GS3. When I connect the phone, the computer sees it but the connection is incredibly slow! And it is the same thing if I copy files using Windows Explorer or MediaMonkey. The files start to copy, it takes maybe about 1 minute per song, and at some point it will slow down, then stop to progress and freeze.

I made sure I was using the stock USB cable provided with my device but I also tried 2 other cables with same results. The last thing I tried was to clear the cache partition then reboot. I also tried different USB ports on the PC (USB2 and 3, different controllers).

I'm out of ideas.

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  • Are you copying it to the phone, or the external SD card? If it's the latter, much faster if you plug it into an SD card reader/writer, or make sure you are in mass storage mode, instead of MTP.
    – geffchang
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 4:52
  • And in both cases, you might still wish to try it via WiFi, using e.g. FolderSync, Wifi File Transfer, WebSharing, or a similar app.
    – Izzy
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 6:01
  • @geffchang I'm copying to the phone internal memory so I cannot use mass storage.
    – jmbouffard
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 10:11
  • @Izzy I thought about using a wireless transfer method but MediaMonkey detects the device connected to USB and syncs the songs and playlists in the right format for the GS3. If I just copy files I'm not able to keep the playlists.
    – jmbouffard
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 10:14
  • I don't know MediaMonkey, but from your comment I assume it requires a "drive letter" to work. Maybe some "server" on your Android device could help accomplishing that via WiFi (I'm thinking about DavDrive, Droid NAS, and the like).
    – Izzy
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 11:23

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You can use Dropbox and other cloud based storage, very useful for moving files.

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  • Thanks for your comment. I use Dropbox myself as well but the issue I am trying to solve is the slow copy over USB. I would not be able to transfer 20+ Gb of data over the free Dropbox account anyway.
    – jmbouffard
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 17:22
  • And by the way I didn't mod down you answer. It is a valid alternative but just not suitable for what I want to achieve.
    – jmbouffard
    Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 17:23

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