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MC28 - android handheld not recognized under MacOS
ncjay:
Not precisely an MC problem, but it's a roadblock for me...
I have acquired my first Android handheld, a Vastking M10 tablet running Android 11. It's nice and was quite inexpensive.
I "became a developer", required under Android 11 for USB file transfer. It mounts right away in the Windows 10 File Explorer, and MC's "Sync Handheld" kind of works (I'll post a separate thread about that in the Windows forum).
However, the same tablet is not recognized by MacOS 11.6. Not in Finder, not in the list of USB devices in the "About This Mac" system report, and not in /var/log/system.log. The Web offers up a few solutions, none of them particularly up to date except perhaps for OpenMTP (https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp) - is this even appropriate to enable interoperability with the MacOS version of MC28?
How have the JRiver developers, or others, overcome this obstacle?
Thanks
ncjay
bob:
--- Quote from: ncjay on September 25, 2021, 10:56:24 am ---Not precisely an MC problem, but it's a roadblock for me...
I have acquired my first Android handheld, a Vastking M10 tablet running Android 11. It's nice and was quite inexpensive.
I "became a developer", required under Android 11 for USB file transfer. It mounts right away in the Windows 10 File Explorer, and MC's "Sync Handheld" kind of works (I'll post a separate thread about that in the Windows forum).
However, the same tablet is not recognized by MacOS 11.6. Not in Finder, not in the list of USB devices in the "About This Mac" system report, and not in /var/log/system.log. The Web offers up a few solutions, none of them particularly up to date except perhaps for OpenMTP (https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp) - is this even appropriate to enable interoperability with the MacOS version of MC28?
How have the JRiver developers, or others, overcome this obstacle?
Thanks
ncjay
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It looks like you could use OpenMTP to move files to and from the device. That wouldn't involve MC at all.
You might look to see if you can enable mass storage support on your tablet. If you can't does it have a removable SDcard you could put in to a reader and configure MC to use as a handheld.
blgentry:
As far as I know, almost all versions of Android now require "Android File Transfer" to move files back and forth between the Android and a Mac.
https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
I haven't done this in years as I no longer use an Android device. Back when I did it, I had to do a handheld sync to a folder on my hard drive. Then, once that was complete, I would use Android File Transfer to copy the contents of that folder (on the Mac) over to the Android device. It's two steps and not nearly as elegant as direct. But it worked.
Good luck.
Brian.
bob:
--- Quote from: blgentry on September 27, 2021, 04:00:29 pm ---As far as I know, almost all versions of Android now require "Android File Transfer" to move files back and forth between the Android and a Mac.
https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
I haven't done this in years as I no longer use an Android device. Back when I did it, I had to do a handheld sync to a folder on my hard drive. Then, once that was complete, I would use Android File Transfer to copy the contents of that folder (on the Mac) over to the Android device. It's two steps and not nearly as elegant as direct. But it worked.
Good luck.
Brian.
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That's a great tip.
Also, I tried that OpenMTP and it's really nice.
ncjay:
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone, but none of this worked for me.
Is the root of the problem here that the Android's storage needs to mount in the finder to be detected as a handheld by MC, the way that it shows up in Explorer on Windows (and is then easily found by MC)?
If so, then I'm not sure there's any way to make this work, at least not with "internal storage" on the Android. (I have another SD card arriving tomorrow that I'll format as "portable storage" to see of that helps.). Whether or not OpenMTP is running, or Google's Android File Transfer, or if I remove the SD card and physically mount it on the Mac - it's not going to be read by MacOS (in fact I get an explicit message about that when physically mounting it), since when it's formatted as "internal storage" it's an encrypted ext4 filesystem.
If I'm thinking this through the right way, then there's no real way to get the device recognized by MC. Unless the "portable storage" option I mention above works, or someone else has another idea.
Thanks
ncjay
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