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Resigned to carrying two devices

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sunsetandgower

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I give up. Have spent way too many hours trying to get my mac to acknowledge my epic as a drive. It did a couple of times, but for the most part the connection- when recognized at all - lasts for about 10 seconds.

The most bizarre part about this mystery is that yesterday morning I was able to mount the sd card and add music to it, but when I tried again last night, the Mac refused to recognize it.

I know it's not my computer as I'm having similar issues with my work macs, and from everything I'm reading, I'm not the ony one by a long shot who can't get their macs and androids to peacefully coexist.


I love this phone, it kills my iPhone - I'm just resigned to the fact that I still need to carry an iPod. I'm done spending hours and hours trying to get this
To work. None of the wifi apps work for me as I don't have playlistsin iTunes to transfer - I listen to full albums, and it is way too much of a pain. To scroll through my hundred or so of playlists to repeat this organization. I use a folder structure with nested playlists in iTunes that none of the recommended apps recognize.

So I will continue to carry my iPhone as an iPod, and wait to see what apple does with the new iPod line in the fall to determine how I want to proceed.

At least I can use audio galaxy on my phone when I'm at work:(

This is so beyond frustrating I have no words. Other than this issue the switch to android from the iPhone has been utterly perfect.
 
Have you tried a higher quality USB cable, such as those sold by monoprice.com? The stock Samsung cable is pretty marginal, but an inexpensive cable upgrade solves this problem for most people.
 
boomerbubba said:
Have you tried a higher quality USB cable, such as those sold by monoprice.com? The stock Samsung cable is pretty marginal, but an inexpensive cable upgrade solves this problem for most people.
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Is there a specific cable on that site I should use?

I'd also love to solve the mystery as to why my sd card could be read directly once, and now it won't. How utterly bizarre.
 
Your issue is the factory data cable. They are thin and poorly shielded so they tend to loose power which is critical to maintain data connection. I bought some off of ebay for $1. 50 each and havent had any issues since and i had chronic driver issues with my windows machines.
 
Assuming this will work, and based on the fact that the SD card actually mounted this morning, could anyone lead me in the direction of a 32 Gig SD card that will work with this phone? If I can get the phone mounted on my computer, and can transfer music by folder structure, this idea of replacing the ipod might actually work out.

I bought an SD card on Amazon this week, but it turned out not to be compatible with either my phone or my computer.
 
Another thing I do is remove the sd card from my phone, put it in its adapter and put it right in the computer. Your mac should have an sd slot. Quicker data transfer and no nonsense with cords or mounting.
 
I don't want to kind myself but the card mounting finally appears to be working! Now I just need to find a 32 gig card compatible. With this phone if I am going to replace my ipod with it.
 
rounsy222 said:
Your issue is the factory data cable. They are thin and poorly shielded so they tend to loose power which is critical to maintain data connection. I bought some off of ebay for $1. 50 each and havent had any issues since and i had chronic driver issues with my windows machines.
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What operating system is your Widows machine? And are you using a 64 bit machine?
 
I ordered the cables referenced in this thread so hopefully this will help with my mac issues. Regardless though for some reason mounting the SD card magically started working so it looks like I'm OK with storing music on my phone now.

I'm loving poweramp ass player so I'm glad Isaac able to get this to work. I'm heading to fry's today to investigate my options with a 32 gig SD card.
 
Of course, when I tried to insert the SD card into my macbook pro this morning, it wouldn't' read it. It's so hit or miss it's impossible to troubleshoot.

argh!!!!
 
rounsy222 said:
Your issue is the factory data cable. They are thin and poorly shielded so they tend to loose power which is critical to maintain data connection. I bought some off of ebay for $1. 50 each and havent had any issues since and i had chronic driver issues with my windows machines.
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it took me 3 epics before a sprint tech finally suggested it might be the cable. the stock cables they give out are junk. got a cable from amazon for cheap and it solved all my mounting issues. ive also heard black berry cables work well.
 
sevine said:
it took me 3 epics before a sprint tech finally suggested it might be the cable. the stock cables they give out are junk. got a cable from amazon for cheap and it solved all my mounting issues. ive also heard black berry cables work well.
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Ya bb and palm both have nice cables. Way thicker than stock here and you can actually feel them click in too.
 
sunsetandgower said:
I think the SD card issue is with my computer and not related to my phone not being able to hold a USB connection. After I rebooted my computer it read the SD card again without a problem.
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Man you just aren't having any luck. Glad it worked this time for ya.
 
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