Copy files from Android phone using ADB - Quicker than MTP

calendar Sep 21, 2019 · 1 min read · ANDROID ADB MTP  ·
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When backing up photos form my Android phone i found that the phone didn't present as a mass storage device, it would only appear as a MTP\PTP device and the file copy speed was terrible.

So some research led me to using the ADB command, you'll need to enable USB debugging before this will work.

Find your files

1adb shell ls /storage/

Back em up

1adb pull /storage/self/primary/DCIM/Camera /home/user/photos/