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Personally I miss Kitkat 4.4. That sweet, sweet Mass Storage mode made file management oh so easy. No trying to copy things around only to have it bitch at you that the device is busy, or the crippled replacement MTP making Windows lose its shit at the idea you might want to copy a filetype that wasn't on its approved list. God we've regressed.

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THIS!

MTP sucks hard and is slow and easy to overload with many files.

My 4.2 device was Umi X2 Chinese phone and I even hacked together couple Roms for such Meadiatek based devices back then. I remember my lightest ROM was like 250mb. With working PlayStore and all, but obviously only bare minimum included. Nowadays even the lightest custom Roms are 700mb+ . With Google apps and all easy 1.5GB and more.

Look at https://github.com/SelfAdjointOperator/better-adb-sync

forked from https://github.com/google/adb-sync

Uses a syntax like rsync via adb.

You're probably better off using adb. (Which does have its problems, like not handling copying directories well).

These days I just use a network file browser to copy files. Easier that way.

Ha! I love old school war stories like this.

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