Samsung Phone not recognized

I have a Samsung Fascinate Galaxy S phone that I am trying to transfer pictures over to my Mac. I plug the phone into the Mac, turn it on, but the IPhoto does not recognize it. The phone beeps, but the Mac, nothing. I also have a MacBook Pro 17' that I tried it on and it does the same thing. I bought the 13" at the end of November and it has the latest and greatest versions of Snow Leopard and ILife. Any help on getting it to transfer over?

MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 1, 2011 8:37 AM

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juliesitz

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Posted on Jan 1, 2012 4:28 PM

Good news! I have had the same problems with trying to get the photos from my samsung fascinate to my macbook pro. I FINALLY got it! Using the Bluetooth pair the phone and the mac. Then FROM THE PHONE go to your gallery and select all the pictures you want to transfer. Click Share and choose bluetooth. Then from your mac it will ask if you want to accept these files.

FYI, you DO have to have Bluetooth sharing enabled in your system preferneces/sharing. The pics went to my download folder, imported them into iphone and whala! I have been working on this forever and am so excited to finally figure it out! Hope it helps all of you.

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Apr 2, 2011 10:14 PM in response to Chyla22

Just got my fascinate (Galaxy S) and am having the same problem. Any solutions? I love the phone except for this!

Aug 12, 2011 3:32 PM in response to analog_ed

Kudos and Thanks to Analog_ed!!!!

This is the only trick that worked for me.

Nov 27, 2011 8:41 PM in response to Brent Darting

Try this:

http://192.168.1.103:8080/www/apps/KiesAir/main.gz.htm

KiesAir on your phone alows you to download onto your mac. I'm using the Galazy Note and it is working for me.

Mar 2, 2012 2:09 PM in response to STR22

Thanks, STR22. This worked.

Apr 5, 2012 9:42 PM in response to jkohio

I'm having the same problem and still haven't figured out a way to make my galaxy note (ATT) connect to my macbook pro. Hopefully someone finds a solution to this soon.

Osho1

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Feb 17, 2014 12:37 AM in response to Shabab28

The best way to do this is to download Android File Transfer from android.com/filetransfer

Download and install.

And you are done.

Akoji

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May 11, 2014 4:53 AM in response to chrys9

go to developer settings and enable USB DEBUGGING then try connecting to the android transfer app. Goodluck!

geetshah

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May 13, 2014 12:55 PM in response to STR22

Thanks it worked...

Jun 19, 2014 9:20 AM in response to Spikestrip

This is the answer! Over 600 photos and a dozen videos now successfully saved. Thank goodness!

Apr 27, 2016 5:19 AM in response to LarryHN

The perfect cure is Android File Transfer, download it from the web. It knock spots off of Samsung Kies.

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