Android Phone File Transfer with USB is Very Slow

If your Android Phone transfers file very slowly when using USB, you can speed up the process by using ADB File Transfer with debugging mode.

See this link for more details.

2025/01/02 Update: The website is down now. Below are the main instructions in the original post (which can still be accessed through Internet Archive Wayback Machine).

• Enable USB Debugging on your phone
• Download Minimal ADB on your PC
• adb devices
• adb pull "/sdcard/path/to/file" "C:\location\on\computer"
• adb pull "/sdcard/" "C:\location\to\file"
• adb push "C:\goat.jpg" "/sdcard/"

Reference

• ADB File Transfer: The best way to manage your files | Pixel Spot