Access to Android smartphones via MTP or via ADB protocol?

[pstein]

When I connect my Android smartphone via cable to my Windows computer then the Android device appears as new drive (without drive letter) in XYplorer.
Good.

The question now is:

Does XYplorer access this drive and perform file+folder operations (copy/move/rename/delete) via windows built-in MTP protocol or via additional adb -protocol (and adb.exe)?

MTP is slow, has many restrictions and is unreliable in comparison to adb.
So an access via adb would be great.

[Garonne]

Hasn't ADB been taken down by Google? As far as I remember, ADB isn't doing much good anymore... Or was it just backing up apps via ADB that got removed?

[pstein]

Google never considered to take down ADB.

The opposite is true: Its much faster than MTP protocol

[admin]

XY uses MTP at the moment. No current plans to change that.

[WirlyWirly]

ADB would be great, however if you're sharing a local network, what I like to do is run an FTP server on my phone and then use rclone to mount that server to my pc as a virtual drive.

That way, the files are accessible through XY, but I get the speed of FTP (~150MB/s). It's not great for playing/moving files from the phone's storage, but for other basic operations such as copy/paste/rename it works great.

You'll need to add your phone's server to rclone, after which you can run this command to mount it...

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OnePlus12|run lax("$PORTABLEAPPS\_programs_\Command\rClone\rclone.exe" mount --vfs-cache-mode writes OnePlus12:/ O:)
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