So, I’m one of those people who use my phone (Samsung Galaxy) for basically three things, calling and messaging people, navigation, and taking pictures. I was probably the last person in North America to get a smart phone (2 years ago), and I do not know how almost anything on it works except the above. I slowly grasped how to get photos that I took on my phone to download to my laptop, where I am more comfortable doing stuff – and now it won’t do it anymore!
Why the hell is that? It just tells me “sending failed”. Did I change some setting accidentally? I cannot find out what I suddenly am doing wrong.
Need as many details as you can give. For example, when you connect the phone to the computer, does it show up on the computer that it has been connected?
Is it connected to wifi or are you doing this via a cellular/data connection? If you aren’t using wifi and you have a data cap, you may have hit it.
Try browsing the internet, just to make sure whatever connection you’re on is still working.
Something I’ve found to be a lot easier than sending pictures directly to a computer is to upload them to a photo sharing site like imgur. Upload everything to that site, than you can access it from anywhere. For me personally, I hit the upload button, then go to my imgur page and download them. It’s an extra step, but it’s fast and works well for me.
I just sent a separate test email with a photo attached, from my phone to my laptop, came through fine. So the problem is in the little box where you select a photo from your “gallery”, and use their own file sharing software to send an emailed photo. That’s the only thing that doesn’t work any more.
In my experience, Wi-Fi transfers are such a crapshoot I’m suprised it has worked well up to this point.
If you don’t find another solution, USB cable transfers are about as easy as it gets–plug it in and the phone contents show up like another hard drive. Drag and drop files over.
I am going to see if I can find one of them cables. In our recent move many useful little objects disappeared and I might have to actually buy one. Sounds worth it though.
You can get one for a buck at a Dollar Tree in normal times. (Now, all the Dollar Trees might be closed, or people might be hoarding piles of peripheral cables amongst their mountain of toilet paper, who knows.)
Also, a seemingly little known fact about Android phones is that they can use USB devices. Get an adapter and you can copy your photos from your phone to a flash drive if you want to. (Or do other things, like use a keyboard, mouse, or game controller with the phone.)
I still don’t understand what you’re trying to do (i.e. what is the method that was working for you before, but is no longer working). Can you describe exactly what you were doing to transfer the photos?
Personally I think Google Photos is the easiest way to get photos off an Android phone - just install it and set it to back up all photos, and it’ll be available on the cloud (web).