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Computer connection issue MAC

I used to be able to connect my Droid Incred to my mac powerbook. A pop up screen comes up and I select "ignore". Afterward, two drive icons would pop up (one for the device and another for the SD card). Now, for some reason, the computer doesn't seem to acknowledge my device. I plug/unplug and switch USB ports but still no go. Device is set for 'disk drive' as default connection type and it's supposed to ask me whenever I connect, but it doesn't. What happened??? Maybe I inadvertently deleted something?

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wp71401

hmmm...try setting your phone back to "charge only" for the default. Restart phone and Macbook (as a precaution) if you haven't already.

Be careful with this, if something is going screwy with how the computer is reading the SD card (which off chance could be) you might cause your SD card to have to be reformatted.

Make backups, try a different SD card in your phone maybe. Try connecting without an SD card in at all. It shouldn't just quit like that of course. I have not had any problems connecting to my Macbook (not jinxing myself) to date.

Same thing happens for me. Pop up, hit ignore, mount drives, go to it.

Good luck. Let me know how it turns out in case I need to be looking out for the same thing!

wp71401

perhaps a software auto-update from Apple cause the problem. Should examine if you updated between the last time it worked and now.

MastaCoz

Steve Jobs is mad at you for getting a Droid, then trying to put it on his MacBook to use. He forced it so your phone will never work again on the MacBook, until you get an iPhone and use that.

*snicker* Sorry dude, had to say it! Have you tried unmounting the phone then remounting it again? Rebooting the phone might help. Not much of a mac guy, unless the dragging the drive to the trash can will unmount the system...

julieyoon

Those thoughts had crossed my mind...several times.

JYoon

I received the following advice which I performed after "resetting" my phone (removed batter and SD card for a few minutes and then stuck them back in):

Dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password is 000000
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
Back out to home

Here is the article, http://www.incredibleforum.com/forum/htc-incredible-help/4749-connection-mac.html

Worked well for me. Icons reappeared on my mac desktop and I was able to easily drag/drop files onto the SD card.

Thanks for your input.

wp71401

that's interesting. That is the same advice people have been giving to disable the VCast Media Manager crap. Makes sense now why we keep getting the disk drive error every time the phone is plugged into the Mac after 2.2 update. Its trying to launch that garbage.

When you did this, did you notice that the error went away and it simply mounts the phone and SD drives??? I hope so.

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