Android Apps: Use AMDroid and Solid Explorer

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toothdevil: May 14, 2023

Are there any good apps that allow me to control my phone through windows using a PC? (I tried microsoft's phone link thing and it wouldn't allow me to use computer audio for voice calls) I have no idea what to trust on the Play store.

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toothdevil: May 14, 2023

Medullah posted:

If it's just calls you want to take on your PC instead of your phone you could always set up forwarding to a Google Voice number too

Ah I forgot about that, good idea.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

You can do it even without an app installed on the phone, here's an open source project that does it via ADB installed on your computer. Just needs you to enable USB debugging.
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/tree/master.
It mirrors the entire android screen to a window on your PC and you can interact with it just like you would on the phone itself by clicking in the window to send taps.

Audio works for playing music at least but I didn't test making any phonecalls.

Downside is it's a CLI tool but you can just make a .bat file to launch it instead of going through the console every time.
It even works wirelessly, but you have to either start with the device plugged in via usb or know the android's IP address on your local wifi to be able to connect. (Which probably means setting it up as a static IP in your router so it doesn't get a different address each time you come home and re-connect to the network)

Oh perfect this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 04:32

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