Hello all, has anyone tried to figure out how to copy files to and from the tablet on OSX Lion using USB cable?
I tried to figure out a way but nothing worked (and OSX not having USB networking didn't helped) beside using ADB to push files to the tablet (but VERY SLOW).
Lates Kies releases aren't working or even installing on Lion.
Suggestions highly apreciated.
Thx,
William
Try "File Expert" from Market and get a FTP client for Mac
Done that already, but transferring big files (e.g. HD movies) or a huge amount of files (e.g. music collections) takes too long (wasn't able to get more than 2.5~3MBps transfer rate).
Samsung has released an update for the Kies software for Mac to connect with Galaxy Tab 10.1. I'm a new user here, so I'm not allowed to give you a link (and have the 5 mins timeout). Just google for it.
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I can't get the Android File Transfer Application to recognise my S3.... I have connected my S3 via the usb cable to my mac in both camera and media modes...
What shall i do?
Are you running Mountain Lion by any chance. Its not compatible. Just as the latest version of kies does not work either. We will have to wait for an update sorry cant be of any more help.
Yes, I did search. I didn't find what I was looking for.
I have a Samsung Galaxy 5 player running gingerbread. I'm trying to access files on it from my WinXP box via wifi. This seems like it should be a very common thing to do, but I simply can't find it. If I plug it into a usb port, I can access the drives. Can this be done via wifi?
Again, I want to access the android from the PC. Not the other way around.
Thanks for any help.
Three possible solutions pop into my mind (I guess there are many more):
1) Use a ftp server on the phone and access the files using that.
2) Use AirDroid or a similar app. It will give you wireless access to your phone's file.
3) This includes something that you said you didn't necessarily want to do but should also work: Use an app such as ES File Explorer and connect to your Windows XP PC via network. You can share a folder over the network (with write access) and then you can copy files from your android to your pc. But I guess that is the least ideal solution of the above.
I hope that the apps mentioned above are available for your device and that a method works.
Thanks, Fabur. I'm sure one of them will work.
The reason that "android -> pc" isn't an option is that much of the time, I'm using it as a wifi camera to monitor what my dogs are doing elsewhere in the house. But it would be nice to be able to access the files on the player from my pc.
I checked the Samsung S3 on several occasions and could see the content of the sdcard0 (internal memory) and the removable SD card from the Windows Explorer on a desktop PC with Windows 7 using USB via the MTP protocol.
I did not download or delete anyting via USB.
I noticed both memories were a bit low on space and a few folders on the external card had files I could not understand, so I searched the Play Store for apps that would let me view details (like file and folder sizes) on the external sdcard. I used these apps to read the sdcard, but did not get any wiser.
I then obtained AirDroid from the Play Store and transferred files from S3 to the PC, but did not delete from or upload anything to the S3. AirDroid worked fine. I decided to use USB to delete S3 files a few days later. Before that I used the the PC for a couple days for reading online newspapers from Firefox, but did not do anything that should have changed the workings of the USB. There were a few Windows 7 updates (initiated at PC logoff) that progressed normally with no warnings about incompatible files etc. A few days later I noticed the USB connect to S3 had stopped working. For example I did not see the Auto-play dialog on the PC and nothing from the S3 showed in the Windows Explorer. I used the the USB data cable that came with the Samsung S3.
However, the the Windows Explorer USB connect still worked for a ZTE Blade III using the USB cable that came with the ZTE on the same PC.
Q1. how do I make Windows Explorer see the S3 again?
Q2. what may have been the cause? (can I download android apps or do something on the Windows 7 PC to help to pin-point the problem).
Ken
Q1. how do I make Windows Explorer see the S3 again?
Install Samsung USB drivers
jje
Thanks JJEgan,
What and from where should I download? The S3 USB connect was working for weeks. Could a faulty update from Microsoft have caused this? The S3 is not rooted.
I have downloaded from the Play Store that I assume contains well-behaved programs only, or are there play-store programs that are known to interfere with the USB by design/accident when they run. The PC Windows Explorer USB connect worked with the ZTE Blade 3 mobile after the S3 had gone wrong. If I install Samsung USB drivers is there a risk the ZTE USB connect would go wrong too/instead? I don't know what is required, so I might make the problem worse by downloading the wrong libraries or not doing it the right way.
Is there some program/app I can install on either the PC or Android that would pull in USB libraries and dependencies automatically, a bit like Synaptic package managers in Ubuntu?
For some weird reason I am unable to access files via Android File Transfer with usb cable. I never had any such problems with any other android device before. I just flashed S6 rom and still have same problem. Did anyone else face this? Any solution? Thanks.
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I'm having the same problem on my MacBook, but not my iMac. Both are on Yosemite 10.10.3. I have USB debugging enabled and all that, and still can't get Android File Transfer to work. I've toggled it to get it to reauthorize this mac, but still no luck. I'm going to have to play with the MacBook. On the iMac, I did have to complete remove Android File Transfer and all of it's preference files, reboot, reinstall AFT, and reauthorize the mac to get it working. I'm thinking since I have more users on my MacBook, that may have something to do with it, so I need to dig in both user files. I'll report back
Also, I can't use ADB. I'm getting that the device is offline on both macs.
i am having same issue with.
installed smart transfer and still same issue
I'm trying to access a share on a Mac from Android. The share is on a FAT32 external drive, and I can browse/access it from another Mac and from a PC. But when I try to connect from Android, I get an error on the username/password (same user/pass as I'm using from other Mac and from PC). This happens with both ES File Explorer and AndSMB. I've tried both checking and unchecking the "Windows File Sharing" checkbox on the Mac, using anonymous, and two different userids (one a login user, the other a "sharing-only" user). The Android tablet (Galaxy Note 12.2 running CyanogenMod 12.1/Android 5.1.1) can access Windows shares but I need to get to some stuff on the Mac. My phone (stock GS6) is the same--can access Windows and my router's USB share but not the Mac.
I'd like to use SMB instead of something like file transfer because I want to stream video from my Mac to my kids' android tablets on a long airplane flight.
Searching didn't turn up anything useful so I'd appreciate pointers to threads where this has been discussed.
TIA.
Bill