[Nikon] Android Phone FTP Wireless Upload

Connect your camera to your phone's personal hotspot, and use the camera's FTP function to transfer photos from the camera to the UPHOTO cloud.

Supported cameras: Z8, Z9

I. Phone Settings

1. Turn off your phone's WIFI

   • Steps to turn off: Go to Phone Settings -> WLAN or Wireless LAN

2. Turn on your phone's mobile network personal hotspot

   • Steps to turn on: Go to Phone Settings -> Mobile Network or Cellular Network -> Personal Hotspot
   • For some phones: Go to Phone Settings -> Personal Hotspot
   • You can also directly search for "Personal Hotspot" in "Settings"

   Note: The name and password of the personal hotspot must use simple letters and numbers, and should not contain "spaces" and "special characters". You can set the "AP Band" of the personal hotspot to the "5GHz band", which makes photo importing faster (some cameras do not support the 5GHz band, which will cause the phone's personal hotspot network to not be found).

3. Set the phone to be available after the screen is off (Android phones only).

   • Please refer to Android Settings for Shooting with Screen Off to set up according to your phone brand.

II. Obtain FTP Service Information

1. Open the "UPHOTO Live APP" and log in successfully.

2. In the APP album list, select the album you want to shoot, click the "Upload Now" button, and select "Wireless FTP Transmission".

   Note: If it is an Android phone, when using the "UPHOTO Live APP" for the first time, authorization requests for "Ignore battery optimization" and "Access photos and media content on your device" will pop up, please click "Allow". As shown below:

   
   
   

3. After selecting the photo upload group, you will enter the "Shoot and Upload" interface, which will display "FTP Service Information" by default. You can also manually click the "Disconnected" area in the upper left corner or the "Upload Settings" button in the upper right corner to display the FTP service information (this information will be used in subsequent camera settings). As shown below:

   

   Note: If the "IP Address" is not displayed or shows "0.0.0.0", it means the "IP Address" failed to be obtained. You can first check whether the "Phone WIFI" is turned off, or whether the "Personal Hotspot" is turned on. After confirming that there is no error, click the "Refresh" button to refresh again.

III. Camera Settings

1. Set the camera power to the maximum time to keep the camera always on. As shown below:

   

2. Set the photo format to JPEG or JPEG+RAW format.

3. Set the camera date and time to the current date and time.

4. Set "Wireless Network".

   1. Find "Connect to FTP server" in the "Network Menu" -> "Network settings" -> "Create profile" -> Select "Manual setup" -> "Wireless LAN" -> Select "Wireless". As shown below:

      

   2. After entering the "Wireless" setup interface,

      • Enter the name of the "Phone Personal Hotspot" in "SSID",
      • Enter the password of the "Phone Personal Hotspot" in "Password".

5. Set "FTP Server".

   1. Return to the "Manual setup" -> "Wireless LAN" interface, select "FTP" and enter. As shown below:

      

   2. After entering the "FTP" setup interface,

      • Set the "Server type" to "FTP",
      • Set the "Address" and "Port" to the "IP Address" and "Port" in the FTP information displayed in the UPHOTO APP respectively. As shown below:
      
      - Set "PASV mode" to "OFF", - Set "Anonymous login" to "OFF", - Set the "User ID" and "Password" to the "Username" and "Password" in the FTP information displayed in the UPHOTO APP respectively. As shown below:
      

   3. Return to the "Connect to FTP server" interface, if the network profile name is displayed with a green background, it means the connection is successful. As shown below:

      

6. Set "FTP Settings".

   1. Return to the "Connect to FTP server" interface, select "Options" and enter.

   2. Set "Auto send" to "ON",

   3. Set "Delete after send" to "OFF",

   4. Set "Send RAW + JPEG as" to "JPEG only". As shown below:

      

IV. Shoot and Upload

Half-press the camera shutter to enter Live View mode, and after taking a photo, the photo will automatically be transferred to the photo list of the "UPHOTO Live APP".

Demo Video

Common Problem Solving

1. Manually select photos to upload via FTP.

   1. Find "Connect to FTP server" in the "Network Menu" -> "Options" -> "Send folder" and enter. As shown below:

      

   2. In the "Send folder" interface, select the slot where JPEG photos are stored and enter. As shown below:

      

   3. Click OK to upload all images on the memory card. As shown below:

      

2. The camera is connected successfully, but the APP cannot recognize the photos in the camera.

   • Check if the camera's photo format is set to JPEG or JPEG+RAW format.
   • Format the memory card, take a new photo and try again.