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Android file transfer is implemented via the terrible ancient standard MTP[0] which has spotty support anywhere but Windows.

I wish Android devices instead worked like iPods, which had a partition that mounted as a plain old USB/Firewire disk when plugged into a computer.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol

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It's so mondbogglibg what we still use it. With every phone becoming a camera phone, it's unusual NOT to have hungreds or even thousands of 2-3MB photos on your phone. But try to copy your Camera folder on a PC, - and Win Explorer acts like it has a heart attack! And it hasn't improved in entire freaking decade!

Actually, old HTC and Samsung Android phones used to register as USB Mass Storage device, but Android changed that to MTP in version 5 or so.

even remember a time when my galaxy s4 mini would ask me how it should represent itself when connected via usb; also drivedroid to emulate a cdrom drive with an downloaded .iso in order to boot older computers that don't know how to usb.

maybe i have been spoiled by the real computer in my pocket experience of custom rom's.

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