Windows phone bluetooth transfer

Just wondering: has anyone been able to Send a file from the computer to a Phone using Bluetooth "Send a File"? It does not work for me. I'm expecting a pop-up asking where to save the file but it never shows, then the request times out. Not a big deal for me since I have not done this in a long while but I'm sure it matters to many users.

Up until reading your question I had not transferred photos from PC to phone, so I tried it and was successful. But as you said, I did not get a popup window on the phone to ask where to store it - the programme just stored the transferred photo onto my phone and when I looked in "gallery" it showed up there.

I think one only gets a "popup" when transferring from phone to PC as the PC wants to know where to store it but the phone has only one place "Gallery". Thanks grayknight. I also accidently found this out after wasting 30 minutes getting "failed to send" messages from my phone.

Don't understand why Win 10 doesn't automatically detect an attempt by a connected device or unconnected device for that matter to send a file and ask the recipient a if they want to receive and 2 if they do, prompt for a folder to save to. I'm finding the whole Win10 interface to be quite clunky - I'd struggle to call this an upgrade to Win10 - more like a sideways, or worse, backward step.

In previous Windows versions, all that you needed to do was right click on the thumbnail, highlight 'send to' then pick 'via Bluetooth' and away you went, but now this option isn't available.

My phone is paired, my pc shows as paired on my phone, Bluetooth is on, on both devices and yet I cant even find the pathways to send anything either way??????????? I thought Windows 8 was bad, but I 'm finding Windows 10 very confused and dis-jointed. If I've got to have a wired connection to transfer files, I might as well get some of that Apple rubbish. Hi I have just upgraded laptop to Windows 10 from 8. The second try resulted in message on phone saying photo had not been sent.

My husband has a computer with windows 7 on it and the transfer works OK on that computer Frustrated Valerie. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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Permissions info. Installation Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices. Next, check your device and select Accept on the appearing confirmation dialog.

In most cases, you can find the sent files on the Download folder on your device storage. If you want to send files from the paired device to Windows 10, make sure you have enabled the Bluetooth on both Windows 10 laptop and your device.

Open the notification area on Windows 10 and right-click the Bluetooth icon and select Go to Settings. On the appearing window, scroll down to the Related settings section and select Send or receive files via Bluetooth.

On your device, say Android smartphone, select the files you want send to Windows 10 and share them via Bluetooth. Select your Windows 10 device on the available devices option and your Windows 10 laptop will start receiving the files. Return to the Bluetooth File Transfer dialog on Windows 10 to browse a location where you want to save the received files. Click the Finish button once you are done setting the location. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Sign in. Log into your account. The process is a bit cumbersome, but it works without any additional software on either device. The popular alternative is a cloud storage service. This will allow you to upload a file on your Windows PC and download it from the companion app on your Android device.

Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are popular cloud storage services that will work for this task. Now, go back to your Android device and open the OneDrive app. Select the file that you just uploaded. If this is your first time using OneDrive, you will be asked to grant the app access to your photos and media.

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