I have a Pixel phone that for some reason always disconnects when I try to transfer files over USB to my laptop. it is almost full of pics and videos since I can’t really transfer them off. I finally filled the phone up and had to make space, so I figured out the method I’m going to use from now on to transfer files on and off my phone.
I set my phone up to be a simple little WebDAV server. This allows me to very easily map it as a network drive in windows and transfer files at will.
I downloaded HTTP File Server (+WebDAV ) on my phone. Then I opened it and clicked the “Start button to start the server. Obviously you have to give this app file permissions for it to work.
Then on my PC, I mapped the drive by right-clicking the “This PC” and selected “Map Network Drive:
Then type in the address from the HTTP Server app.
Once this is done you can access the file from the phone via whatever drive letter you selected when you mapped it. In the above image the drive is the Y:/