1. On Android 5. 0 & higher, to access external SD card, in app settings, click mount folder, select "custom" and then select the external SD card in the next screen.
2. Use the FTP Server to transfer files, photos, movies, songs etc... to/from your android device using a FTP client like FileZilla. 3.
3. If you dont have a FTP client, you could download Filezilla from You can also access the ftp server from windows file explorer.
4. The default port number is configured to 2221 and can be changed from settings screen.
5. Port number should be greater than 1024 as binding to ports like 21 will not be possible on non-rooted phones.
6. Convert your android phone/tablet into a FTP Server!
7. For security reasons, anonymous access is not enabled by default.
8. Use this free app to host your own FTP Server on your phone/tablet.
9. It can be enabled from settings screen.
10. Please email feedback/bugs to the support email-id.
11. Please note that FTPS and SFTP are not the same.
1. Plus, there doesn't seem to be a cap on speed, so there are times files transfer faster wirelessly than they do over USB.This worked great and allowed me to easily keep my files backed up after and Android updated prevented my phone from connecting to my computer.
2. But using the FTP server for wireless backups between my phone and PC isn’t working because the backup program wants to overwrite all files on phone due to the time offsets.
3. I was very happy in the beginning and even downloaded Filezilla because I was having problems with my file explorer in windows 10, I don't know what went wrong but now I just deleted the app because it went totally useless, If someone can help me getting the app to work right then I'm all for it.!!!!I don't know about the latest version.
4. I do wish there was a way to see if active transfers were going on, so it start the download in my computer walk away and know when it is safe to turn to server off.Used to work on Google TV, after update to Android TV 12 does not work anymore.
5. I can use some help.Good if you don't have/feel like using a cable to transfer files, but in my experience, it will randomly disconnect you from your client.
6. The date and time of files (created, modified, etc) differ between a wired connection to my phone and the FTP connection.
7. Not a huge deal in that regard, but i'm having a problem reconnecting to the server and having the root folder update from the client also.
8. I find myself downloading a lot of files on my phone, and I'm too lazy to dig out a cable to transfer them to my PC.
9. Now I can pop open an app like FileZilla on my computer and pull those files off my phone without any hassle.
10. Not sure if it's a problem on the client side yet but trying to reconnect doesn't refresh the root directory on connect, in a new tab or otherwise, or after restarting the server.
11. When I try to transfer a file or folder from my PC to my phone however, it appears to do the move, but when I check the phone, there's nothing there.