Как подключить nexus 7 к windows 10

I was able to connect to my Nexus 7 as an FTP file server on my home network. There are several steps, but hopefully I can explain them well.

First, you need a file explorer program on your Nexus 7. The one I use is the free «ES File Explorer File Manager.» It includes a utility for making the tablet an FTP server.

Once ES File Explorer is installed, turn on the tablet’s WiFi to connect to your network. Open the ES File Explorer’s main menu, expand the ‘Network’ group, and tap ‘Remote Manager.’ You should see a screen that shows the tablet’s FTP address like this:
ftp://xxx.xxx.x.x:xxxx

From this same screen, activate the FTP function by tapping the «Turn on» button. (To get to this function more quickly in the future, tap the little ‘Settings’ icon at the bottom and click the «Create shortcut» option on the next screen. This will place a shortcut on your home screen.)

Now you have to create a new network place on your PC. Open «This PC» to show your Folders, Devices & drives, and Network locations. If you don’t see a Network locations group, it’s okay because we have to add at least one for it to show up.

Right-click in the window’s blank space and select «Add a network location.» Click NEXT, select «Choose a custom network location», and under «Internet or network address» type the FTP address you saw on your tablet, i.e. «ftp://xxx.xxx.x.x:xxxx» (Without the quotes.)

Click NEXT, check the box for «Log on anonymously», click NEXT, and give the link a friendly name like «Nexus 7» and click NEXT. When you click FINISH, a file explorer window should appear showing the file structure of your Nexus 7.

Or there’s a much simpler method than my previous post. (Don’t know why I didn’t think of it earlier.) My Nexus 7 is running Lollipop (5.1.1) and it can connect to my Windows 10 PC as a data storage device via the USB cable by making the following settings on the tablet:

On the tablet’s ‘Settings’ page, under the ‘Device’ group, click «Storage.» On the next screen click the 3 little dots in the upper right corner & tap on «USB computer connection.» Check the box for «Media device (MTP).»

Now, when you connect the tablet to the PC via USB, you should get a familiar popup asking what you want to do. Select «Open device to view files.»

Companion/Android/… on my desktop, and it looks as if that MIGHT solve the problem, if I sign up for a Microsoft account, which I have resisted hitherto. (Or have I done so, in signing up for this forum?!!)

This forum is not linked to Microsoft.

I have just dared return to this problem. I suspect there may have been an update on both Nexus and Windows 10 meantime, but somehow the problem is solved. The sequence is: Storage and USB/three little dots top r h corner/Help and feedback/Copy files to computer/Transfer files using USB cable/Windows Transfer/then follow the instructions. Many, many thanks Wegmand for setting me on the right path!

So glad you took another stab at the issue and posted the solution. I’m sure it will be helpful to others using the Android 6.0 version of the Nexus 7.

I have just dared return to this problem. I suspect there may have been an update on both Nexus and Windows 10 meantime, but somehow the problem is solved. The sequence is: Storage and USB/three little dots top r h corner/Help and feedback/Copy files to computer/Transfer files using USB cable/Windows Transfer/then follow the instructions. Many, many thanks Wegmand for setting me on the right path!

Thank you so much for the forum. Didn’t make the link between the Windows 10 upgrade on my PC and being unable to get a proper connection with my Nexus 7.

This is still a problem for me. I can set my Nexus 7 to MTP mode, and it shows up as «Internal Storage» just fine in Windows Explorer. The problem is when I go to the «Movies» folder it says «This Folder Is Empty» when I know for a fact that it isn’t. On Windows 7 it showed me the .mp4 files I had in that directory (I use a 3rd party app to play .mp4 files).

How do I get it to show me all the files in that directory?

I have just dared return to this problem. I suspect there may have been an update on both Nexus and Windows 10 meantime, but somehow the problem is solved. The sequence is: Storage and USB/three little dots top r h corner/Help and feedback/Copy files to computer/Transfer files using USB cable/Windows Transfer/then follow the instructions. Many, many thanks Wegmand for setting me on the right path!

Thank you so much for this post and getting an answer to this issue. So useful, thanks again.

Like with the previous post this is still a problem for me. I too can set my Nexus 7 to MTP mode, and it shows up as «Internal Storage» just fine in Windows Explorer. The problem is when I go to the «Movies» folder it says «This Folder Is Empty» when I know for a fact that it isn’t. In fact, all the folders say they are empty.

Thanks to wegmand’s instructions above I was able to connect to my Nexus 7 as an FTP file server on my home network — so MANY THANKS! However, I’m hoping this is just a workaround and would like to get it Windows to show me all the files in my directories would jumping through hoops.

Does anyone have an update on this issue? Thanks!