The usb socket on my phone is dead. One day it worked, one day it didn’t. I have tried multiple leads and PCs but all combinations work with Tamsin’s phone and none with mine.
Hmmm.
I said to Tamsin that this would not affect me much but she said
“what about photos?”
Argh.
But I then realised that the solution was right in front of me. I’d downgraded from ICS betas to CyanogenMod 7.1 and in the process reinstalled dropbox. Dropbox had said I could upload photos automatically if I wanted. I ticked that option and these are now synched to my PC as soon as I log in. Ages ago I wrote a vb script that sorts my pictures in to folders by date. I quickly copied it to the dropbox folder, made a few changes and set it to run on login. I changed the script to wait a couple of minutes to give dropbox time to sync and robertsyourfathersbrother.
Seems to work. Now I don’t have to ever copy them manually. I will have to set up Tamsin’s to do the same.
Other things I lose are plugging the phone in as a hard drive (not so bad as I can always take out the SD card or FTP to it) and ADB (though ADB over WiFi appears to work). Not sure what else.
Follow up: It started working again a few tries later. Then I destroyed the phone falling off a ladder. The new phone works fine too.
