Glossary

Pdevices

Phone-to-computer transfer

A copy from a phone to a computer, over a cable, a share sheet, or an upload.

How it works

The phone may suspend a wireless upload. A cable is dull and reliable. Photo permissions block a browser. HEIC may not open on the computer. Convert on purpose.

A 1.4 GB clip uploads from a phone browser, dies on lock, and resumes on the desk computer's browser after the user picks the file again. A cable copy the next time finishes without resume logic.

How it differs

Phone-to-computer is not computer-to-phone. The permission prompts differ.

Optimized photo libraries send a preview unless you ask for the original.

Ask for the original.

On the ticket

  • The practical close is a log line: time, actor, byte count, result.
  • Without that line the transfer is a story.
  • With it, the next person can see whether this door did what the ticket claimed.
  • If the path is shared, say so in the partner profile so a later change does not silently pick a different limit, key, or region.
  • On a real ticket, write down the door, the byte count, and the clock.
  • For phone to computer transfer, that means naming the host or bucket, the expected size, and the time the other side must have a complete file.
  • A progress bar is not that record.
  • A 200 response that arrives before the complete call is not that record.
  • If a retry is allowed, say how many and whether it resumes.
  • If a person must approve the send, name the person.
  • Partners who receive phone to computer transfer files should match on hash or size before they import.
  • A same-length corrupt file passes a size check and fails a hash.
  • Keep the published hash off the only channel an attacker can edit, or treat it as a corruption check rather than a substitution check.
  • When the path changes, new key, new region, new cap, update the profile the same day so the next run does not use a stale limit.