Connect Samsung Intensity Phone to MaBook Pro via USB?

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Connect Samsung Intensity Phone to MaBook Pro via USB?

Last year I got the Samsung Intensity cell phone (pretty basic phone but gets the job done). It came with a USB cord to connect to a PC, and I was wondering if there was any way to connect it to a MacBook Pro. When I try to plug it into my laptop, it just says that it's "connecting to PC" but then never connects. System Preferences does pop up and asks me if I want to create a new network configuration, but I don't know how I would go about setting that up (or if it would even work). My guess is that the phone's software only allows it to connect to a PC, but I figured I would try here to see if there's a work-around. Thank you for any ideas!

17" 2.66 GHz Macbook Pro (Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.4.11), 4GB SDRAM

Posted on Apr 9, 2010 5:35 PM

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Answer 1

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Apr 9, 2010 6:22 PM in response to Sarah Nelson2

A simple Google search would get you your answer a lot quicker...

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Answer 2

Apr 9, 2010 6:29 PM in response to sig

Already tried it, with no luck. Figured there was something I could do on my laptop (i.e. tinker with network preferences, or elsewhere), hence the posting here.

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Answer 3

Apr 13, 2010 9:44 PM in response to Sarah Nelson2

Same problem here Sarah.

Can this phone be synced with music from a Mac? Image capture launches which is fine (don't really care about that) but there seems to be no ability to add music from a Mac to it. Am I right?

The network preferences thing seems to me to be for wireless internet tethering for laptops. Cool but not useful for me ;{

Any help??

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Answer 4

Apr 28, 2010 5:50 PM in response to BeavisMcSleavis

Still no luck. From everything I've read, it's not possible on Samsung's end (meaning by tinkering with the phone) to sync the phone with a Mac in any way. iPhoto opens when I Plug it into my laptop, but that's it - I can't actually import any pictures, the phone doesn't show up as, for instance, a removable disc. iTunes does not open up. I was hoping there's something I could do on my laptop that would allow it to read the phone...but it's seeming like it's a lost cause.

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