i'm a mac user, need advice on how to make Sony bridge for mac detect my new Xperia S.
I have been trying for the past few hours and still not detectable.
Are you using Bridge for Mac 2.0? It's only been released a few hours ago and has a lot of new things!
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/tools/bridge-for-mac/
The Bridge for Mac works fine for Lion, but not Snow Leopard. Music sync always hang at 6th-8th mp3 and I can't delete files using the Phone Browser.
Can you update using bridge for Mac? I know it says you can but I just read something from android community that said otherwise.
You can since version 2.0!
Nice. Looks like a nice program for the Mac. Hope they add wifi sync.
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I've been using this app to sync my Outlook contacts to my other Sony Ericsson phone and now finally Android is supported. Check the developer's website
Thanks for the post re this. I used to use this all the time with my old SE phones. Just installed and chucked the client on the phone and connecting over WiFi is simple and works perfectly. Not only that but it's the easiest way of wirelessly transferring files to the phone too - instead of having to use FTP or Bluetooth (which stopped working for receiving files after the update to .174 it seems)
I was a big fan and frequent user of MPE for my w810i.
With my X10 & X10 Mini Pro really misses that app.
Tried it today an it works like a charm.
Thanks for the heads up !!!
Still no version for Mac OS...
I hope that someday there will come a time when humanity will understand that Windows is complete nonsense.
Hey XDA -
So this will be my first upgrade from using Sprint's HTC TP2 for the past year - it was a great phone and will continue to use it as a wifi router thanks to the nice ROM makers over at PPCgeeks. I am going to miss the stylus
Now my questions :
1. I've never used an android OS - is there a recommended "finger-friendly" Remote Desktop Application that will allow me to access my home pc laptop (windows xp pro)? - I am trying to launch a review course software from my mobile phone that requires Java Runtime Environment for Windows (which is installed on my laptop).
I'm a medical student trying to use my paid subscription to usmleworld.com board review questions. It's such a hassle to be always tied down to a laptop. So I am hoping I will be able to have better results on a faster phone and larger display as compared to my HTC-TP2 which was really choppy when trying to remote-desktop.
2. My contacts on my TP2 is via Windows Mobile 6.5OS and saved through "PIM Backup" - Is there a way I can transfer my contacts from this application to the Android OS?
3. I don't have an HDMI TV or HDMI ready Monitor. I have an external LCD VGA monitor. Was there anything I could connect to that with that so that I can get the HD Station to work?
* At this point, I am not sure if I am going to unlock/root anything as this is my first time using the OS. It took me many months to actually flash my TP2 and try a few ROMs but I love the features - mainly the wifi router options.
4. I've heard stories of android malware being pumped out - How can I prevent any malicious software from being installed on this phone? Is there an official market website apart from accessing the phone itself? Do you use antivirus/malware software for this device?
Anyone owns a Mac and the Xperia S?
My experience with the phone (firmware .73) and my Mac (OS X 10.7.3 Lion) is particularly bad:
Unable to perform drag and drop media transfer like previous Android devices.
The Official Mac Bridge is very buggy (Even on latest update ver2.1), will stuck when transferring lots of file, and does not work with lossless music
Unable to perform USB tethering
Don't get me wrong, the phone itself is great, but I just don't understand why it works bad on a Mac.
Please share your experience and possible fix, if any.
pixy132 said:
Don't get me wrong, the phone itself is great, but I just don't understand why it works bad on a Mac.
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I suspect a very high proportion of Mac users would choose an iPhone so the number of S users on OSX would be very small.
I have Mac but only sync one playlist at the time if I click on too many playlist then the phone just hang. No option for back up
Use wifi file explorer pro or swiftp to transfer files over wifi.
Scratchling said:
I suspect a very high proportion of Mac users would choose an iPhone so the number of S users on OSX would be very small.
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In fact I switched from iPhone 4 to XS...
I used to have a Huawei phone and a HP TouchPad.
Both works fine on a Mac, just this...
randy_c said:
I have Mac but only sync one playlist at the time if I click on too many playlist then the phone just hang. No option for back up
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I only created one huge playlist (containing about 800 songs).
But it also hang after syncinig half of the playlist.
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In fact I switched from iPhone 4 to XS...
I used to have a Huawei phone and a HP TouchPad.
Both works fine on a Mac, just this...
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I aslo switched from iPhone4 to Xperia S... and have exactly the same problems with copying music using Mac bridge... I even posted on the Sony forum for this and got a reply that asked for more information.. and after i gave it never heard from them again...
I now use double twist and air sync to copy music to my phone.
Mac bridge seems to work ok on other media files just not mp3's.
Really lame on Sony's part.
I'm using bootcamp, just so I can use the XS to it's fullest.
Here here!
I'm on a Mac too.
And yes. Mac Bridge is just too slow...
it's very funny, it's like they gave 0 support to mac users for this... very disappointing.
OK. So apparently Sony DID try to fix some bugs in the Mac Bridge.
Ver. 2.1 (current) added more options on the Mac Bridge, and it seems the playlist problem works better. Although OS X's Image Capture will not read the device, there's now a direct import photo to folder in the latest version of Mac Bridge.
I am still unable put my entire playlist into the phone though, as the Mac Bridge hangs again when it has transferred about 80% of my songs. I also don't seem to find a workable wired solution for drag-drop file transfer.
Finally, was anyone able to perform backup through the Mac Bridge?
I tried two times and every step return "Failed".
Come on Sony... :-(
pixy132 said:
OK. So apparently Sony DID try to fix some bugs in the Mac Bridge.
Ver. 2.1 (current) added more options on the Mac Bridge, and it seems the playlist problem works better. Although OS X's Image Capture will not read the device, there's now a direct import photo to folder in the latest version of Mac Bridge.
I am still unable put my entire playlist into the phone though, as the Mac Bridge hangs again when it has transferred about 80% of my songs. I also don't seem to find a workable wired solution for drag-drop file transfer.
Finally, was anyone able to perform backup through the Mac Bridge?
I tried two times and every step return "Failed".
Come on Sony... :-(
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I thought for awhile that Sony Bridge hangs when transferring songs, but it works for me. Give it a little patience
The problem i have though is that when a new song is added to the playlist and Sony Bridge detects it and sync it to the phone, the phone itself doesnt update the playlist but will have the new songs added.
I was able to perform backup through MacBridge but it seems like it uses a lot of the Macs resources when doing this.
Mac users are always eternally complaining about one thing or another.
I work for a hardware and software rental company and we only ever get Mac users calling in with issues.
I don't understand you guys, you buy an inferior platform that struggles to deal with a computing ecosystem that was built around windows.
I hope making the switch from IOS to Android will reveal something to you Apple fan. The simple truth they make very basic devices which only work well if you stay within the jurisdiction of Apple.
Next time get a flipping PC like 98% of the flipping world.
Stop using a minority device and wonder why developers don't spend enough optimizing their kit for this deluded minority.
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zodiac100 said:
Mac users are always eternally complaining about one thing or another.
I work for a hardware and software rental company and we only ever get Mac users calling in with issues.
I don't understand you guys, you buy an inferior platform that struggles to deal with a computing ecosystem that was built around windows.
I hope making the switch from IOS to Android will reveal something to you Apple fan. The simple truth they make very basic devices which only work well if you stay within the jurisdiction of Apple.
Next time get a flipping PC like 98% of the flipping world.
Stop using a minority device and wonder why developers don't spend enough optimizing their kit for this deluded minority.
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Right, just because I complain about *SONY*'s software makes me another mac complain retard, huh?
To be honest, I've been on a Mac for more than a year, with no problem on both hardware and software at all, while I clearly remember my Windows 7 desktop hangs occasionally just for many basic stuff. My last Android device works great with my Mac too, so it's not a Mac problem in any sense.
I don't really want to argue with you about OS (it's pointless) here, but please let me remind you that this is a Mac discussion/support thread, if you have nothing useful to say, just leave, no one force you to reply.
pixy132 said:
Right, just because I complain about *SONY*'s software makes me another mac complain retard, huh?
To be honest, I've been on a Mac for more than a year, with no problem on both hardware and software at all, while I clearly remember my Windows 7 desktop hangs occasionally just for many basic stuff. My last Android device works great with my Mac too, so it's not a Mac problem in any sense.
I don't really want to argue with you about OS (it's pointless) here, but please let me remind you that this is a Mac discussion/support thread, if you have nothing useful to say, just leave, no one force you to reply.
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I'd rather have a platform that hangs occasionally than one that throws up issues and doesn't work at all with a lot of stuff. If you haven't had any issues with your Mac, that's probably because you've so far stuck to basic computing.
Like I said, Macs regularly throw up issues connecting to third party hardware and I know because I spend many hours each week dealing with these problems.
There is absolutely nothing you can say to change this opinion.
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I had been using Double Twist with my other Android devices but found that the Sony didn't always show up in the menu, so I started to use Isyncr. It works well enough but some songs for some unknown reason won't make it through. I had to remove some songs from my playlist that were causing this and then it was ok. But Double Twist does not see these playlists now so I have to use the built-in app, Rocket player, or PowerAmp. I just use the stock music app now.
As for file access, I happen to be running Parallels, and therefore I can mount the phone on my mac, and as my Windows Desktop can "see" my Mac disk, it's very easy to access the phone. But I agree, it's stupid to have to do this.
The Sony Bridge was goofy for me - I would see for example a duplicate Music folder and music folder (note the case difference) and one folder was spawning duplicates. Deleted one and the other disappeared too! Who knows was weirdness was happening. So I didn't use it. As for photos, I just copy manually; forget syncing to iPhoto, but that's how I always did it for all my other devices.
Rgds
Ken
Ive tried to look at how to create such a thing but im stumped at the first hurdle to be hoest.
Are there or is there anything available or under developemtn to control wifi enabled lighting that is not phillips HUE?
I have Easybulb lights at home which use an iphone/android app to control them. Currently im using my work tablet (android) orthe Mrs' iPad.
some kind developer has made a windows app (non windows 8) which is pretty good for my pc and my windows tablet, but i cant seem to get anythign on my phone to do the job.
'Apparently'.... all the coding is available online for what is needed - it needs to send UDP data to an ip address of the wifi bridge via a GUI.
any suggestions are most welcomed?
Hello everyone,
It's been a long time since I have viewed the XDA forums. A brief background of what I was working to accomplish was to activate and use an Android wear device without pairing to a phone. I did not find any articles online or procedures for this. What this method allows you to do is pair, fetch software, and get notifications (email etc.), via your PC. The basic test setup is running Android x86 v4.4-RC2 as a virtual machine under Parallels on a Macbook Pro. Steps are listed below. Hope this helps in others endeavors.
1. Initially install Parallels desktop. (Virtualbox was tested but would not work with the Bluetooth hardware_
2. Run the pre-configured experimental Android VM from Parallels initially creating the virtual machine.
3. After successfully installing the new Android VM bundled download Android x86 v4.4-RC2 iso.
4. Shutdown the initially created VM and mount the iso to a virtual cd drive. Set boot order to start with cd first.
5. After startup in grub go to the install Android option (last one)
6. During the install allow formatting of the virtual drive and overwrite the initial operating system that was installed with the new version.
7. After startup of the new virtual machine with the correct image setup your Google account to access the play store.
8. Download Google Wear and install.
9. Go to the vm settings while running and check to share both Bluetooth and web cam USB devices.
10. Go to settings in the Android VM and then Bluetooth. Attempt to pair with the watch.
11. A prompt will come up in the actual OS to pair with the watch, this is ok click on pair in the main os.
12. The main os will say the watch is not connected but the guest Android VM will now recognize the watch and start the pairing process.
13. Once pairing is complete simply use all functions that would normally be used in the virtual machine.
13a. In order to receive text message notifications by your computer when paired use a carriers text app such as Verizons connect app.
Mac OS X Yosemite Parallels Android Virtual Machine Smart watch Bluetooth Pairing
matrixfatalerror said:
Hello everyone,
It's been a long time since I have viewed the XDA forums. A brief background of what I was working to accomplish was to activate and use an Android wear device without pairing to a phone. I did not find any articles online or procedures for this. What this method allows you to do is pair, fetch software, and get notifications (email etc.), via your PC. The basic test setup is running Android x86 v4.4-RC2 as a virtual machine under Parallels on a Macbook Pro. Steps are listed below. Hope this helps in others endeavors.
1. Initially install Parallels desktop. (Virtualbox was tested but would not work with the Bluetooth hardware_
2. Run the pre-configured experimental Android VM from Parallels initially creating the virtual machine.
3. After successfully installing the new Android VM bundled download Android x86 v4.4-RC2 iso.
4. Shutdown the initially created VM and mount the iso to a virtual cd drive. Set boot order to start with cd first.
5. After startup in grub go to the install Android option (last one)
6. During the install allow formatting of the virtual drive and overwrite the initial operating system that was installed with the new version.
7. After startup of the new virtual machine with the correct image setup your Google account to access the play store.
8. Download Google Wear and install.
9. Go to the vm settings while running and check to share both Bluetooth and web cam USB devices.
10. Go to settings in the Android VM and then Bluetooth. Attempt to pair with the watch.
11. A prompt will come up in the actual OS to pair with the watch, this is ok click on pair in the main os.
12. The main os will say the watch is not connected but the guest Android VM will now recognize the watch and start the pairing process.
13. Once pairing is complete simply use all functions that would normally be used in the virtual machine.
13a. In order to receive text message notifications by your computer when paired use a carriers text app such as Verizons connect app.
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Hi! I registered just to say thanks, and this post gives me hope.
However, my Android install still refuses to turn on the bluetooth and it flips back to off whenever I turn it on.
Im using 4.4 R2 on Parallells 10 (the latest update). I've selected Webcams and Bluetooth in the Parallels config settings, but my Pebble software still cant connect.
Could you give a bit more detail (Steps 9, 10 and 11) on how to turn on the bluetooth? (maybe with a couple screenshots).
I'm using a Summer 2012 13" macbook pro 2.5GHz Core I5 with 16gb RAM Yosemite. My VM has 2GB RAM
Cheers!
I want to make sure this works before I go out and actually buy an LG G Watch R (The dopest looking smartwatch in existence)
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I restarted the VM and the BlueTooth is working now!!
WTF!!!
I first Paired the Pebble to the Macbook Pro, then the VM found it in the bluetooth menu and now I'm connected!
Awesome!!
ummm, am I missing something or will this just allow connection via Bluetooth to a computer that sits at home and will never leave so your watch will never connect more than 50ft away? I love the idea but what does this accomplish? Not bashing, more curious
swyner said:
ummm, am I missing something or will this just allow connection via Bluetooth to a computer that sits at home and will never leave so your watch will never connect more than 50ft away? I love the idea but what does this accomplish? Not bashing, more curious
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Well, Debugging for one. Second, I only own an iPhone, but I love the LG G Watch R, and there is no way in hell I'm buying an Android phone. So I use the VM to activate it and load watch faces, and now I have a cool watch on my wrist with various faces.
The Idea that I HAVE to use it with my phone is ridiculous. I can use it however I want to! Like the iPod Nano 6th gen I still own with a Lunatik watch strap, it's the cool factor for me right now, until I can use android wear with my iPhone
Hi, I am able to install, and run Android 4.4 on parallels on my mac. However, once I enable bluetooth for the android OS it does not find my watch, let alone any of the other bluetooth devices in my apartment. Do you know if there is any way to force the OS to find a device? Or perhaps it really isn't connecting with my computer's bluetooth device at all?
I purchased an LG G Watch R and I started it up by pairing with an android in the store, and I was able to pair the watch to the macbook itself, but not through the android OS running on parallels. Am I missing anything here?
Thank you!
how you install apk to watch?)
Pairing problems
smartwatchLG said:
Hi, I am able to install, and run Android 4.4 on parallels on my mac. However, once I enable bluetooth for the android OS it does not find my watch, let alone any of the other bluetooth devices in my apartment. Do you know if there is any way to force the OS to find a device? Or perhaps it really isn't connecting with my computer's bluetooth device at all?
I purchased an LG G Watch R and I started it up by pairing with an android in the store, and I was able to pair the watch to the macbook itself, but not through the android OS running on parallels. Am I missing anything here?
Thank you!
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Hi there,
I'm started reading this forum and this thread cause I also have no android device. I've the same problems connecting a moto 360 to the Android VM on parallels.
My Mac is paired with the watch but the VM not.
Did anyone has a hint how to share the Mac Bluetooth with the Android VM so the smart watch is in the Android VM?
@smartwatchLG Could you connect your watch now?
same problem as others. I get everything installed and moto paired with macbook, but it wont connect to vm. I know bluetooth is working on vm because it detetects my iphone but not my watch for some reason.
Ok, something I found out is that if you are like me and previously synced your watch with another device then you must reset the watch for this to work.
@matrixfatalerror
Thanks a lot mate, got the Moto 360 up and running.
Only 1 Question left. Did you manage to get the "Moto Connect App" working? Every time I open it and try to change the Watch Face Settings it keeps crashing. Would love to use personalized custom Watch Faces.
Best
faymus said:
same problem as others. I get everything installed and moto paired with macbook, but it wont connect to vm. I know bluetooth is working on vm because it detetects my iphone but not my watch for some reason.
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i have some question
my parallel can't show any bluetooth .. my lg g watch or iPhone
what setting i must change
thanks for this howto - work for me on a macbook air with yosemite. Only challenge was to get bluetooth connection established but took a while until I had it connected through the VM with passcode given in OSX.
Installation of shiitakeo android for ios worked as well as the motorola extras
Have you gone into settings and turned Bluetooth on inside your parallels android install.
Here is a video tutorial that I made based off of your instructions. Great job on figuring this out BTW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VzWq4BiOEE
Hope you like.
Having problems embedding the video.. Anyone know why? I'm using the [ youtube ] tags.
dabears said:
@matrixfatalerror
Thanks a lot mate, got the Moto 360 up and running.
Only 1 Question left. Did you manage to get the "Moto Connect App" working? Every time I open it and try to change the Watch Face Settings it keeps crashing. Would love to use personalized custom Watch Faces.
Best
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I'm having the same problem Anyone know of a fix?
Could I use this update my Moto360 software??
Thanks
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