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Help Android File Transfer Help Mac -> S5
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Your S5 - it has options for the connection? Try pictures or picture sharing - sorry, I don't recall the Samsung name, I believe it'll be in notifications when you connect.
Hi, is this article any use to you? Phil (Apologies if you have already tried this)
Connecting your Galaxy S5 USB memory on a Mac is also easy. If you have been a Nexus device user on a Mac previously, then this Galaxy S5 should be no different for you. Make sure you have a Galaxy S5 and a micro-USB data cable (preferably, the one that came with the phone). Follow these quick steps:
Connecting your Galaxy S5 USB memory on a Mac is also easy. If you have been a Nexus device user on a Mac previously, then this Galaxy S5 should be no different for you. Make sure you have a Galaxy S5 and a micro-USB data cable (preferably, the one that came with the phone). Follow these quick steps:
- Recommended: Download and install Samsung USB drivers first for Galaxy S5 G900!
- Download Android File Transfer and install it on Mac OS X.
- Connect your Galaxy S5 with the USB cable.
- Wait for the phone to get connected and drivers to be installed.
- Android File Transfer window will automatically open up with your internal phone memory directories.
Linux and Mac OS X don't use drivers.
Yeah - Apple keeps screwing with stuff that can interfere with Android File Transfer, so it can be working, get update, it breaks, get update, it works again - and it's inconsistent across phones.
To make it worse, Samsung keeps borking with part of the MTP handshake message that Microsoft forgives on devices but a straight-up, specification-compliant-only MTP won't deal with. HTC has borked that part too from time to time.
So, often twiddling with the usb connection type on the phone, when available, is enough to kick AFT on a Mac into working.
The latest Linux MTP inclusion (a few years ago you had to add it on, just like you still do on a Mac) seem to be more robust.
Anyway - when you do get AFT working on Mac, it kinda sucks. It's separate from the Finder (aka the Mac version of Windows Explorer) and it has endless look and feel limitations - I promise it's something you wouldn't like on Windows either.
Anyway - there are paid apps that do better, here's one or so I'm told - http://www.sync-mac.com/mtp-sync.html
And I like paying for a good app as much as the next guy but paying just to move files around irks me so I go for other.
AirDroid is ok, but I've found that syncing what I need via Dropbox or Drive is just far easier, always works, and the only downside is it takes longer for larger files. Which - is why they invented my coffee pot lol, I just go make coffee or something if I have to wait a minute.
To make it worse, Samsung keeps borking with part of the MTP handshake message that Microsoft forgives on devices but a straight-up, specification-compliant-only MTP won't deal with. HTC has borked that part too from time to time.
So, often twiddling with the usb connection type on the phone, when available, is enough to kick AFT on a Mac into working.
The latest Linux MTP inclusion (a few years ago you had to add it on, just like you still do on a Mac) seem to be more robust.
Anyway - when you do get AFT working on Mac, it kinda sucks. It's separate from the Finder (aka the Mac version of Windows Explorer) and it has endless look and feel limitations - I promise it's something you wouldn't like on Windows either.
Anyway - there are paid apps that do better, here's one or so I'm told - http://www.sync-mac.com/mtp-sync.html
And I like paying for a good app as much as the next guy but paying just to move files around irks me so I go for other.
AirDroid is ok, but I've found that syncing what I need via Dropbox or Drive is just far easier, always works, and the only downside is it takes longer for larger files. Which - is why they invented my coffee pot lol, I just go make coffee or something if I have to wait a minute.