Recent content by Steelguitarlane

It appears that recent "advances" in Android have been hugely retrograde, and it REALLY does not want the user to have direct access to memory. The only success I've had is copying music to One Drive or Google Drive and using the internet to move the files, with me having little little say over...

No. You misunderstood me. I took my old files, and tried to use Google Music, Amazon Music, AND VLC to play them. VLC autoclosed, Google Music said "unable to play the file" and Amazon at least gave a specific error code. Also, all of the pictures and videos would show as listed, but no app...

The media isn't in my phone internal memory, it's on my computer. After a bit more googling, I'll try the USB debugging mode. It's important that, at one point, the computer sees the card and loads them

I find both Google and Moto frustrating. I'm a truck driver, I have a good quality headphones with mic, but the truck has ambient noise. When I try to configure them, it says "you can't use an external mic, unplug it and use the native mic": when I do, it says "your environment is too noisy...

I switched to a larger capacity SD card, and I used a card reader to copy the contents of the 16G to the hard drive of my Windows machine, then copied those files and a bunch more to the SD card of my new 128G card. I could see all the files, but every one failed to open (VLC would autoclose as...