I Can Transfer Pictures From My Phone to My Computer, but Not Vice-Versa

[SpongebobFan1994]

I'm currently running Mint 20.2 Cinnamon on my Lenovo Thinkpad X200 laptop/tablet, and I have a Kyocera DuraXV Extreme flip phone, which runs a stripped down version of Android 9 on it. There's a picture on my computer of my cat and her late "siblings", and I want to make that my wallpaper for my phone. By using my phone's USB cable, I've managed to copy and paste it from my computer, but whenever I go to my pictures on my phone, it doesn't recognize it being there. Being that uploading pictures from my phone works perfectly fine, why won't it work the other way around?

 

[NorthWest]

Another way perhaps of getting the image onto your phone is to email it to an email address that your phone can access.

 

[KGIII]

You can copy but not write. That oozes a permissions issue to me. If you can adjust the permissions and make them write accessible to all, then that might do the trick.

 

[Condobloke]

Take a photo of the pic on the computer with your phone

The set it as desktop on the phone

 

[KGIII]

I decided to poke around with an Android phone that I didn't care if it was ruined.

I can copy stuff to it just fine - especially through the file manager - dropping images into the DCIM folder or even into a folder called Pictures.

But, the permissions weren't restricting anything and I couldn't find any way to actually change them.