I have a MacBook Pro 15" laptop running OSX 10.6.7. It will not recognize that my Droid-X phone is plugged into the USB ports Does anybody happen to have an experience diagnosing USB issues on this type of box?
Bill
i have same issue Bill. no solution yet could mean its incredibly simple (at least for a seasoned mac'er) or terribly difficult.
i'll post if i learn more.
~D
or maybe very simple. see
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3030344
now i knew that. 😉
this lets adb see my device, hope it addresses your question too.
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I do know and did have USB Debugging enabled on the Droid phone. PdaNet and other tools are pretty good about letting you know about that.
I found that my problem was the cable. I have three USB to micro cables. All of them allow the phone to charge. Two of them allow me to see the Phone's SD card as a disk.
Only the original Motorola cable that came with the phone (Droid X) works with PdaNet.
BTW: Now that Google has knuckled under to AT&T and VerizonWireless and hidden PdaNet unless you are a Sprint or T-Mobile user. But if you need it, you can still get it for iPhone or Droid from June Fabicks web site.
Bill
I was just dealing with this problem with my hubbie's phone (Samsung Galaxy Nexus - he's a Droid 😉) and after no luck in this forum or others, I finally figured out HOW to download my photos/videos withOUT having to install separate software, etc.
Here's how.....
1) Plug your phone into your computer (make sure the debugging is enabled, as talked about above)
2 ) Settings > Storage
3) In the uper righthand corner is a line with 3 vertical dots - click on this --- when clicked on, "USB computer connection" should appear - click on this
4) If you're just wanting to sync your photos, etc to your iPhoto click on "Camera (PTP)"; if you're wanting to sync other stuff, I think you need to click on the other "Media device (MTP)" option
--- Note: I was just needing to download photos/videos, so the PTP option was fine for me and worked great; however, if you're wanting to sync other things, you may want to select the MTP option and go to andriod.com/filetransfer to download the software for Mac.
Hope this helps! 😀
NOTE: Just tried doing this with an earlier version on Andriod on a different phone and this process didn't work... guess it's different for different devices :/
I already had USB debugging enabled and it still wouldnt recognize. Not sure if that has anything to with the fact I am running a custom rom. i went to android.com/filetransfer, dl'd the dmg file and everything works great.
I'm trying to load Android photos to Mac. Help?
Changed cables and it didn't help.
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
MacBook Pro will not recognize android phone. Any USB experts?
