Android file transfer

LG Optimus 4x HD (P880)

Mac mini (Late 2012) OS X Yosemite

Was able to connect my smartphone via USB with AFT to my Mac mini after turning off USB Debugging in Developer Settings on my smartphone.

Johnathan Burger wrote:

First time you try to sync, you have to manually open the file transfer app.

Make sure the phone is in ptp mode(camera) and you have USB debugging on.

I can connect and access the internal storage, I just can't access the external micro-sd card.

Sorry, I haven't been able to grab anyone's 3S at work to try this out. At least, with the microSD card, you can pop it into a card reader (I have one that's barely bigger than the card that I keep on my keychain). Bit of a pain if you're using a case, though.

Any device that has an external SD card should not use the Android file transfer app. It is only for android devices that don't have USB mount storage, and use MTP and PTP instead. Mac does not natively support MTP and PTP, so that's why the app was created

It is definitely Mountain Lion causing the problem and not any of the hardware.

I just purchased 2 Samsung Galaxy S IIIs.

I have 3 different MAC machines. Two with Mountain Lion, one with Snow Leopard.

Neither machine (Mac Book Pro - iMac 27inch) with Mountain Lion will detect the Galaxy using the Android Filetransfer, however the phone states it is connected to a PC via USB.

My MAC Mini that still uses Snow Leopard works fine with the Amdroid file transfer and both Galaxies.

AND I use VMWare to emulate Windows 7 on both of the Mountain Lion machines, with the WIndows 7 running, when I plug a Galaxy into the MAC's USB port, WIndows/VMWare Fusion prompts me to connect to either the MAC or the WIndows system. Choosing Windows, the phone is readily recognized in Windows when Connect as a Camer is selected in the phones pull down 'Ongoing' information settings.

I would have purchased two new iPhone 5s but since I purchased a new iPad 2 last December, and that has since been outdated in less than a year with Retina displays and 4g, I figured I get something less expensive, with more memory, and that runs Flash for now.

Hope this helps anyone having problems.

This may or may not help anyone, but I've found after the most recent update to Lion I have to trick the OS into mounting the phone as a mass storage device.

Since the last update to 10.7.5 (at least that's when I noticed it) if I just plug it in, it now does the dreaded "Connected as a media device" thing, which means it's doing nothing since the Android File Transfer app can't see it at this point.

What I do nowdays...(eyeroll)... is go into Settings -> USB Utilities, under USB mass storage I hit the Connect storage to PC button, which will show me a popup prompting me to connect the USB. When I do, I get the classic notification and screen allowing me to turn on USB storage which will give me access to both the internal storage and the MicroSD.

I'm pretty disappointed by both Apple's recent "QA" issues, and Google/Samsung for making us do this tapdance in the first place. It's been more than a decade since I plugged my first mobile device into my first Apple laptop; you'd think this sort of silliness would be behind us these days.

Hi

Here's a solution that worked for me: wipe Kies clean. If you uninstall Kies and remove all related files, AFT will work again.

I didn't understand why it worked once, and wouldn't work again. I actually installed Kies between my first successfull try, and my 2nd try

Regards

People: I FOUND A SOLUTION... WORKS!!!

MY CELLPHONE IS IN MTB MODE... 🙂

CELLPHONE

1 - GO TO YOUR ANDROID AND DOWNLOAD A APP CALL SERVIDOR FTP;

2 - RUN THE SERVIDOR FTP AND GO TO THE SETTINGS;

3 - GO TO INTERFACE AND CHOOSE ALL;

4 - MARK THE OPTION: ANONYMOUS USER;

5 - PRESS BACK AND SEE THE ALL ADRESS, LIKE MY EXAMPLE: "FTP://192.168.1.104:2221"

MAC

1 - DOWNLOAD THE FILEZILLA: http://ow.ly/fbLBC

2 - INSTALL AND OPEN IT;

3 - IN HOST SPACE, PUT THE ADRESS THAT YOU SEE IN YOUR ANDROID WITHOUT "FPT://"

MY EXAMPLE: 192.168.1.104 - TAKE THIS INFORMATION IN YOUR CELLPHONE NOW...

4 - IN DOOR SPACE, PUT THE DOOR THAT YOU SEE IN YOUR ANDROID;

MY EXAMPLE: 2221 - TAKE THIS INFORMATION IN YOUR CELLPHONE NOW...

5 - PRESS QUICKLY CONETION;

🙂

Exactly, thats the solution! I also have tried for months both Android file transfer and Kies. Installing uninstalling etc. It never worked. Kies Air worked before Maverick.

So, the solution: Airdroid, works fine, but do not use to long file or foldernames when uploading.

Hi!

I had the same problem and tried everything. Trying to find a solution for months. I ended up using Airdroid on the Samsung S4 and I could transfer files nicely. Just avoid to long file names. I hope that does it for you to.

Ken,

I too am all MAC with a Samsung GS3.

My solution was to use Airdroid for wireless transfers. It works well, and have transfered hundreds of photos back and forth between my phone and MACs.

Fortunately I haven't had an SD card meltdown, yet... 😝.

I don't even bother with Kies.

Cheers.

Hey Erik, could you please provide some context for your instructions? I see it was in response to Carlos on page 2 of this 8-page thread, dated Nov 10, 2012 -- quite a while ago.

(1) ANDROID FILE TRANSFER

I'm using a Samsung Galxy S3 and I long ago solved my USB cable connect to Mac problems by using the solution found here on one of the many threads like this one on Apple Discussions: •installing Android File Transfer (from here: http://www.android.com/filetransfer/ ) for use on my Mac computer. •enabling it to work by removing Samsung Kies from my Mac •refreshing Android File Transfer, and unplugging/replugging the USB cable. This provides a file directory interface on your Mac displaying contents of your Android device's SD card, and also if you have an external SD card, that too.

(2) YOUR METHOD: FTP BETWEEN YOUR MAC AND ANDROID DEVICE via SAFARI BROWSER ???

Is that what your solution is doing? FTP from Android device to Mac?

If so, are there advantages to your method vs Android File Transfer? Thank you.

uninstalling Kies worked for me

Nope, it didn't detect my HTC Rezound. The phone and the SD card both appeared on the desktop and DropBox recognized it for photo syncing.

If you really feel the need for an app, I'd see if Marks Space's Mising Sync is updated for Mountain Lion. Not free but, when I've used it in the past, it's been excellent.

With my Nexus 7, which uses MTP and PTP, which means you must use the Android File Transfer app, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. If it doesn't work, I just force quit the app and start it again.