HTC G2 manual Connecting to a computer via USB, To connect your phone to a computer via USB

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Connecting to a computer via USB

You can connect your phone to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music, pictures, and other files between your phone’s SD card and the computer.

Warning! When connecting your phone to a computer and mounting its SD card, you must follow your computer’s instructions for connecting and disconnecting USB devices, to avoid damaging or corrupting the files on your SD card.

To connect your phone to a computer via USB

1Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port on your computer.

You receive a notification that the USB is connected.

2Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.

For details on working with the Notifications panel, see “Managing notifications” on page 40.

3Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files.

When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen indicates that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.

Your phone’s SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer. You can now copy files to and from the SD card. For more information, see the documentation for your computer.

During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your phone, so you can’t use applications that rely on the SD card, such as Camera, Gallery, and Music. You also can’t share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.

To disconnect your phone from the computer

Warning! Carefully follow your computer’s instructions to unmount the SD card and disconnect USB devices correctly, to avoid losing informa- tion on the card.

1Unmount the SD card on your computer.

2Open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.

3Touch Turn off USB storage in the screen that opens.

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