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My buddy wants to get into android, but he was curious if there was an app where he could control his computer remotely. Like tell it to download something?
That seems extreme and not feasible to me. Any apps out there close to this though?
I need to pull up gmote and see its capabilities.
s15274n said:
My buddy wants to get into android, but he was curious if there was an app where he could control his computer remotely. Like tell it to download something?
That seems extreme and not feasible to me. Any apps out there close to this though?
I need to pull up gmote and see its capabilities.
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I think that you might be able to control your computer with VNC but I haven't tried.
In regards to downloading... sure. There are a lot of torrent apps that will connect to your bittorrent clients (such as utorrent or whatever). You just need to make sure everything is set up properly.
Yeah, he has utorrent on his computer currently. So can he see his desktop on his droid and open up programs on his computer?
If so, that seems unreal to me. I looked and saw on gmotes site they had a beta that sounded like this.
Can anyone confirm? Thank you guys.
s15274n said:
Yeah, he has utorrent on his computer currently. So can he see his desktop on his droid and open up programs on his computer?
If so, that seems unreal to me. I looked and saw on gmotes site they had a beta that sounded like this.
Can anyone confirm? Thank you guys.
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If he's using a Windows Desktop, there is a RDP client on the App Market, just search for RDP. He will need to have his router setup to forward the proper ports (3389 TCP) to his computer for it to work, but I've used it to download things in a pinch, and copy it up to a webserver to download on my G1....
he's not gonna be doing anything ridiculous on it, remember there is a HUGE resolution difference b/t G1/DROID/Mobiles in general vs Computer Resolutions...
Okay, sounds very intriguing.
Let me word it differently though:
From his Droid, would he be able to see his desktop and scroll to uTorrent and tell it to download something, to his computer, not the droid.
You guys are awesome. I am floored that our G1 can do what you guys have told me. I obviously need to move beyond flashing roms and themes and learn what the guts can do.
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Okay, sounds very intriguing.
Let me word it differently though:
From his Droid, would he be able to see his desktop and scroll to uTorrent and tell it to download something, to his computer, not the droid.
You guys are awesome. I am floored that our G1 can do what you guys have told me. I obviously need to move beyond flashing roms and themes and learn what the guts can do.
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Really what it sounds like you're asking, is he can remotely connect to his desktop, use it to search for and download the torrent file, and open it in the torrent client...? Complete remote control of his computer from off-site...? I don't know about you guys, but I have to search for and find a torrent file from a tracking site (demonoid, thepiratebay, etc.) and d/l that, then open it in my torrent client (utorrent).
I don't think this is capable yet... but I'm interested to hear more about this from those that know.
Remote Desktop Client works just like RDP and will allow you to log into your computer at home from your android phone using your windows login. Once logged in you have your trackball to move the mouse and can do anything you could do sitting in front of your computer. Its a $15 app which is really high for android OS but its been more than worth $15 all the times its saved my butt.
I also use it to monitor my utorrent download remotely.
s15274n said:
Yeah, he has utorrent on his computer currently. So can he see his desktop on his droid and open up programs on his computer?
If so, that seems unreal to me. I looked and saw on gmotes site they had a beta that sounded like this.
Can anyone confirm? Thank you guys.
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If he has uTorrent then he can just set up the webui and forward his utorrent port on his/her router to the ip address of the computer. then download Transdroid (what I use because it has a decent widget) and set that up. TIP: use no-ip (or whatever) to set up a static ip address and change the name (like [email protected]) so you can just input that in the Default Server settings in the Transdroid preferences. It also uses isoHunt, Mininova, BT Junkie and even allows you to enter your own to search for new torrents. When you find one to download simply select it and it sends it to the computer. From there the uTorrent client will open the torrent that was sent and starts the download process. You can easily track the status of the active torrents on the client with it as well.
There are some out there that will even let you scan a barcode of a movie (useful if your in the video store) and it'll lookup the movie and send the torrent to your pc and it'll start downloading. If you have a decent enough internet connection you can go to the video store, scan a movie in the New Releases section, leave empty handed, get some Jack In The Box and by the time you get home the movie can already be on your computer ready to be viewed/burned. And it's not just for movies. It's for any other type of torrent.
hi guys,
Can you please let me know how do you sync the galaxy s with a mac? How do I transfer photos and stuff like that to a Mac computer?
Thanks for a detailed explanation as I'm new to this.
Regards,
DH
android <--> osx sync
Hi,
I am also looking for a solution to sync my SGS with mac osx. It seams that there are only commercial solutions at the moment. One of them is:
http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html
Kind regards
hqqh
is doubletwist not available on the mac?
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Doubletwist is available on the Mac but I find it very slow.
If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
There's no solution for syncing address book and calendar other than the missing sync or using google calendar and gmail.
There's no solution for backing up and upgrading your phone as yet.
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Jausse said:
Doubletwist is available on the Mac but I find it very slow.
If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
There's no solution for syncing address book and calendar other than the missing sync or using google calendar and gmail.
There's no solution for backing up and upgrading your phone as yet.
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You sure? You should just need to go to settings, about phone, usb settings, ask onconnection/mass storage..
You should but it doesn't work. You need to enable USB debugging otherwise it doesn't work.
Heh, I told someone to only sync at work due to similar issues. Maybe not the answer most of you want to hear, but as long as it helps 1 person think outside the box it's worth a post, right?
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If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
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That is not true, the iPhoto opens when I put galaxy to usb port and wait a moment so the memorycard/usb has connected. (never used usb debugging) My iPhoto popups automaticly after a while. and my two memorycard (internel/external) shown in desktop I use MBP mid 2009. iCal I have sync with my google account so sync between my iCal/Google calender/phone works perfect. The contact i havent try to sync with my mac because i dont need that. For the calender sync you dont need any app. Just set the setting right and it works.
If you want to sync everything and use wifi or something you should try some software for that, for example the software in previous post.
You're lucky. It doesn't work on mine. I use an iMac with Snow Leopard and everything is up to date. I've never been able to get the cards to mount without debugging enabled.
I use salling sync to sync music and video and photos
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I'm not lucky i read and learn
You sell the mac, get a pc
Bec07 said:
You sell the mac, get a pc
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A Mac is a PC... Now go hide in your cave .
As far as what I do with syncing my Mac:
Mail.app gets my mail from GMail and through a few IMAP-servers that support the IDLE extension (basically push for standard IMAP). As long as you don't use POP3 your mail will be in sync including read/replied flags
iCal.app calendars are synced through Google
Address Book.app contacts are synced through Google
When using Mass Storage mode Aperture picks up the device just fine here and lets me add anything I need to my library so for anyone who has issues with that I'd suggest doing a factory / data reset and get a recent firmware version.
For music right now I just use the Finder. iTunes is set to organise and maintain my library which means it's all neatly organised, bagged and tagged and just requires me to drop some folders on the Galaxy S. It's not ideal, I'd rather see the device in iTunes and drag-n-drop from there...
There are two ways however that could be helpful:
TunesSync: sync iTunes with Android (paid)
iTunes2android: command-line utility over usb/adb to accomplish the same (free)
daenney said:
A Mac is a PC... Now go hide in your cave .
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Ouch, you got me
Oh well just put win 7 on it
Bec07 said:
Ouch, you got me
Oh well just put win 7 on it
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Guys, can we stop with the whole Mac vs. Windows argument. The OP is here requesting help with using his SGS with a Mac, and this kind of argument doesn't really belong here, and distracts from the OP getting his issue resolved.
Sync Android with iPhoto Seamlessly
digitalhater said:
hi guys,
Can you please let me know how do you sync the galaxy s with a mac? How do I transfer photos and stuff like that to a Mac computer?
Thanks for a detailed explanation as I'm new to this.
Regards,
DH
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Check out this link for a step by step instructions to sync photos from your Samsung Galaxy to iPhoto. Once it is step up. The photos syncs automatically and it is truely cable free too.
baselearning.blogspot.sg/2012/08/sync-android-with-iphoto-seamlessly-for.html
Just discovered something awesome can't believe no one else has talked about this for the Thunderbolt yet but if you install the gingerbread music player (linked below) and then go into your Google account settings you'll now see an option to sync music. This syncs to Google's new cloud service and once done can be accessed even when your music is no longer on your phone.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I6Y7JF7K
**Edit the file extension and change from .mp3 to .apk**
Morlince
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http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...cinate-froyo-not-tested-2-1-a.html#post689185
This is a link for some good instructions on how to set it up. The instructions are for a facinate but should work the same.
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I have it working on my TB, I'm rooted with the lightning rom.
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Did you have any trouble installing? I can't get it to work for me. I'm rooted and on Drod's latest rom and kernel
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Did you have any trouble installing? I can't get it to work for me. I'm rooted and on Drod's latest rom and kernel
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I just finished installing and running it, currently syncing to the 'cloud'. I didn't have any problems so far that I can see. I left my music in my isyncr folder and the player recognized it right away. I'm running Perfect Storm v1.2.
Im confused, it sycns what is on your droid to the cloud or what you have on your library at home?
z2akuma said:
Im confused, it sycns what is on your droid to the cloud or what you have on your library at home?
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On your phone. Then you can delete from your SD once you have it in the cloud..
Do we have a size limit?
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I'm getting "there is a problem parsing this package". I'll try the download again.
No size limit that I know about yet. I know I have over a couple gig.
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I cant seem to get mine working. The option in my accounts&sync is not there. Also, when I click account in the music app, nothing shows up.
Could it be that I didnt delete the older version of google music and have both installed?
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Just discovered something awesome can't believe no one else has talked about this for the Thunderbolt yet but if you install the gingerbread music player (linked below) and then go into your Google account settings you'll now see an option to sync music. This syncs to Google's new cloud service and once done can be accessed even when your music is no longer on your phone.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I6Y7JF7K
**Edit the file extension and change from .mp3 to .apk**
Morlince
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Works great on chingy51o's perfect storm. Thanks for the find.
jcastagnino said:
I cant seem to get mine working. The option in my accounts&sync is not there. Also, when I click account in the music app, nothing shows up.
Could it be that I didnt delete the older version of google music and have both installed?
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I think that's it. On my X I had to uninstall the Gingerbread Music Leak before the new one would work.
It has a nice UI but I do not think there is a cloud to upload too. I only have about 25 songs and it has been syncing for 3 hours. I also signed into my google account and there is nothing there under settings that would appear to be syncing with my phone.
I see that its just an apk, do I have to be rooted for this to work.
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It has a nice UI but I do not think there is a cloud to upload too. I only have about 25 songs and it has been syncing for 3 hours. I also signed into my google account and there is nothing there under settings that would appear to be syncing with my phone.
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I must agree with this. I have about the same number of songs and it just keeps on syncing. My path is sdcard/media/music just like the other thread said it needed to be for it to sync with the cloud and it's been syncing all night. I even did a reboot, removed the songs from my sdcard and then tried to stream them from the "cloud" and nothing shows up.
It's a nice music player but does not seem to be fully functional cloud sync at this time, (at least for me).
How is this different from AirSync for DoubleTwist app apart from being free? Also, do you think this will work okay in a non 4G area?
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Why not get the Subsonic app. You can store music and videos on your home computer and watch & listen on your phone. The player is very nice, allows you to keep your SD card free and clear, it's free (small donation appreciated from dev and gives a few more options on the server side) and you can store as much as your PC can handle. Oh yeah, it's compatible with almost any platform.
-SubSonic-
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
I have been using this for over two years and have never had much problems. The only thing you really need is a static IP which I easily averted by creating a domain that uses DNSEXIT as its name servers. DNSEXIT uses your IP address for your domain and has an app you install on your server that updates the IP address everytime it changes so that your IP credentials are always correct. DNSEXIT is also a free service and I have been using this as well for the same length of time. Perfect combination if you ask me.
Just sayin'
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Why not get the Subsonic app. You can store music and videos on your home computer and watch & listen on your phone. The player is very nice, allows you to keep your SD card free and clear, it's free (small donation appreciated from dev and gives a few more options on the server side) and you can store as much as your PC can handle. Oh yeah, it's compatible with almost any platform.
-SubSonic-
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
I have been using this for over two years and have never had much problems. The only thing you really need is a static IP which I easily averted by creating a domain that uses DNSEXIT as its name servers. DNSEXIT uses your IP address for your domain and has an app you install on your server that updates the IP address everytime it changes so that your IP credentials are always correct. DNSEXIT is also a free service and I have been using this as well for the same length of time. Perfect combination if you ask me.
Just sayin'
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Been using this for years.. Works great! But it is a Streaming server vs I think the Google sync actually copies the physical media to your phone. With Subsonic if you dont have a signal you dont have access to you library. Unless Ive been doing something wrong, and not using subsonic to its full potential?
Well I tried and couldn't get this to work and I downloaded this app called StartTalking it's a voice command app and I said play music and it said it needed a program called mSpot so I downloaded it and it has streaming as well as wireless syncing 5gb for free or 40gb for like $4 a month so pretty good and it has a pretty decent interface also I love the instant download feature it like databases your music and if you want you can download it to your phone from your computer! http://www.mspot.com
According to SamsungJohn, Mac Kies Beta is out:
https://twitter.com/#!/SamsungJohn/status/83735635332055040
Have at it folks!
Captainkrtek said:
According to SamsungJohn, Mac Kies Beta is out:
https://twitter.com/#!/SamsungJohn/status/83735635332055040
Have at it folks!
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Initial impressions and notations:
1) It works, finally. As a Mac user, I can say it's certainly nice to have SOMETHING that allows me to move files from my Mac to the tab without going through FTP or HTTP services.
2) With the above said, it's VERY limited. For example, it'll let you delete off the device, however copying to the device is a bit primitive, and it's very limited, like it'll only copy the movie files with the extensions it wants you to be able to copy.
3) Not sure why it doesn't put Movies in the Movies folder (it puts them in "Videos" folder), as with Audio\Songs too. So weird, like one team worked on the project that was completely apart from the rest of the Samsung Android world.
4) The overall functionality seems lagging... and it doesn't offer any sort integration with iTunes or Google Music or any other third party interface... so for music it's utterly worthless faces with competition from Doubletwist....
But overall it's a good very preliminary attempt for Mac integration by Samsung. It's a necessity for them since their #1 competitor which is iPad is very compatible with PC and iPad, in a very user friendly way. Thus far, this is the biggest issue with the Tab 10.1 for me... media sync, and media compatibility. Sammy really has to overcome these before it stands a chance to go mainstream against the iPad.
bella92108 said:
Initial impressions and notations:
1) It works, finally. As a Mac user, I can say it's certainly nice to have SOMETHING that allows me to move files from my Mac to the tab without going through FTP or HTTP services.
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how did you get it to work? im an avid mac and android user and i cant figure it out
jatoprieto said:
how did you get it to work? im an avid mac and android user and i cant figure it out
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Did you download the one in the OP's link? I've downloaded their past versions and they haven't worked witth the Tab, only this newest beta release does. It works by just plugging into the galaxy tab, lol.
bella92108 said:
Did you download the one in the OP's link? I've downloaded their past versions and they haven't worked witth the Tab, only this newest beta release does. It works by just plugging into the galaxy tab, lol.
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yes i did, i didnt have any previous versions.
ps i restarted the computer and it works now.
thanks
jatoprieto said:
yes i did, i didnt have any previous versions.
ps i restarted the computer and it works now.
thanks
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Nice! It's nothing amazing, but it's something I suppose. If nothing else you can now rename your device through your mac, hahaha. It's worthless for video x-fer to me because it doesn't even use the default movies folder lol.
But hopefully it's a sign that Sammy is getting on board with making syncing easier for us all.
bella92108 said:
Nice! It's nothing amazing, but it's something I suppose. If nothing else you can now rename your device through your mac, hahaha. It's worthless for video x-fer to me because it doesn't even use the default movies folder lol.
But hopefully it's a sign that Sammy is getting on board with making syncing easier for us all.
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im transferring a movie now. do you think we could move it from on folder to another using a file explorer app?
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im transferring a movie now. do you think we could move it from on folder to another using a file explorer app?
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Yeah of course you can move it but do you want to have to go in and move it every time you transfer to it? Easier just to use an FTP app and drop it directly where you want it the first time, hehe.
And I don't like that it only lets you transfer the most common of movies, not formats it doesn't like, haha
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Yeah of course you can move it but do you want to have to go in and move it every time you transfer to it? Easier just to use an FTP app and drop it directly where you want it the first time, hehe.
And I don't like that it only lets you transfer the most common of movies, not formats it doesn't like, haha
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Amen to FTP. Been preaching it for the past week, but seems like folks weren't listening. Oh well.
Fyahstarter said:
Amen to FTP. Been preaching it for the past week, but seems like folks weren't listening. Oh well.
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It's certainly not ideal to FTP into a device over WiFi (54mbps on average with a Wireless G router), when we have a USB cable mashed into the bottom of the phone (300-400mbps on average). It's convenient to manage syncing of a file here or there via wifi\ftp, but certainly not conducive to large file transfers.
Hopefully since Samsung Kies is available for Mac, a developer will seize the opportunity to adapt an app like Doubletwist to whatever technology Kies uses ... tho my guess is Sammy has a strong position against 3rd party use of it... ugh.
I'd happily pay $10 for a method of USB iTunes Music and VIDEO syncing. Would make my life a lot easier.
I haven't gotten my Tab yet, but will this be essential if I am to root via my Mac? (i.e., will adb connect or see the device on the Mac without the new Kies beta?)
I download and install that kies pkg, but when i connect the SGT only show a "samsung modem" and nothing happen, i disabled usb debug and the tablet say kies is connected but my mac dont do anything, any ideas?
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omg what a big jerk haha i didnt see the Kies app forgot this.
Hey folks
Firstly, I'm a newbie and not technically minded at all - so please if you can help pretend im your gran and make the advice idiot proof
I've just received my HTC One today... first time with an Android phone. So far it all looks good but after 5/6 years of trying to fix my problem, I'm ready to smash the phone against a wall... searched online for answers without any proper solution.
I have an iMac which stores all my music, pics, vids etc... of which I have MANY!
iTunes stores all my media except iPhoto which looks after all my pictures, which are nicely organised in separate event folders.
I want to be able to choose which of my 10billion iTunes songs to put onto my HTC One so I can play on the Music app wherever I am. Easy I would have thought - appears not. No idea how to transfer my itunes songs to the phone. I can't seem to mount the phone following instructions i find online, the USB settings I'm seeing mention nothing about mounting!
As for my pictures on iPhoto... again can't find an easy way of choosing which of my events I want to sync with the phone... the HTC sync manager seems to want to import and reorganise 28 years worth of my pictures into it's own date format which is just a mess. I want to work with iPhoto not this HTC sync manager
PLEASE can someone help me. Please please please..;..
I recommend you use & read this.
http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1649773
Yeah it's really a pain working with MTP on Mac since it's sort of a microsoft protocol. I myself also hate this. Damn google.
Shouldn't have bought a s**ty computer.
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I've been using iSyncr on various Androids for years - it's simply awesome. It syncs your iTunes library via Wifi from your Mac to your Android. Purchase iSyncr in the Play Store and download the free Mac app. You have complete control over which playlists it syncs.
Photos is a different story. I haven't had much luck there with 2-way sync (I'm sure there are 3rd party solutions). To sync pics I take on my phone with iPhoto automatically, I use a combination of Dropbox and a very simple Applescript that automatically imports new pictures placed in my Dropbox "Camera Upload" folder. Works great.
Just to add to the above, I moved my on-device photo sync to box.com today because I had a 50GB free account there. I downloaded an app called FolderSync ($2.95 in the play store) which will automatically sync files (including photos) to Box.com as well as other cloud-based services such as Google Drive, Sugarsync, etc. Just gives you more options for cloud storage that is then synched back to your Mac.
I added a new Automator script to import the Photos in box.com into iPhoto and it worked immediately.
Foldersync has two-way sync (back to your Phone). It's probably possible to write a script to copy your most recently imported photos to your cloud storage, but that's a little more involved than I need. This is of course only for the case where you add photos from say a Digital Camera and you want them automatically synched to your phone.
james_d_84 said:
Hey folks
Firstly, I'm a newbie and not technically minded at all - so please if you can help pretend im your gran and make the advice idiot proof
I've just received my HTC One today... first time with an Android phone. So far it all looks good but after 5/6 years of trying to fix my problem, I'm ready to smash the phone against a wall... searched online for answers without any proper solution.
I have an iMac which stores all my music, pics, vids etc... of which I have MANY!
iTunes stores all my media except iPhoto which looks after all my pictures, which are nicely organised in separate event folders.
I want to be able to choose which of my 10billion iTunes songs to put onto my HTC One so I can play on the Music app wherever I am. Easy I would have thought - appears not. No idea how to transfer my itunes songs to the phone. I can't seem to mount the phone following instructions i find online, the USB settings I'm seeing mention nothing about mounting!
As for my pictures on iPhoto... again can't find an easy way of choosing which of my events I want to sync with the phone... the HTC sync manager seems to want to import and reorganise 28 years worth of my pictures into it's own date format which is just a mess. I want to work with iPhoto not this HTC sync manager
PLEASE can someone help me. Please please please..;..
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I have relatively the same issue.