Transferring files from phone

vandermerwe wrote:
Can you not browse to frontview on your phone? If you could you could see if the phone is visible as a drive and setup a backup job and program the backup button to run it. You should find Frontview at the ipaddressofnas/admin. Presumably you must have setup the nas at some point in the past?

He can't see what the actual mount point turns out to be, because the phone display is locked out when you enable the USB connection mode. Even if you can swipe past that, some phone functions are disabled when it is in USB mode - and I think web browsing is one of them. So it would be hard to create the backup job (you'd need to guess on the destination name).

Your method requires him to
(a) move the files he wants to transfer to the phone into a xfer share using the web ui
(b) connect the phone to the NAS, and enable the USB connection
(c) press the backup button
(d) guess when the transfer is complete, because there is no way to see that it is. (I think)
(e) disconnect the phone and migrate the data to the correct location in the phone with ES file manager.

I've run Frontview from my Galaxy S4 - it is not easy, because the UI was never designed for that screen size. You need to continually zoom up to make the controls large enough to touch, and then zoom down so you have enough context to see the screen. Running the http share interface (https://nasname/shares) is just as bad.

Anyway, if I were in his shoes, I'd use ES File Manager wirelessly, and get some coffee or something while it is copying.