I cannot get my Mac Book Pro to recognize the drive "disc chip" in the Droid X so cannot get the gallery feature to work. I have removed the battery and chip and replaced and formatted the disc to no avail. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks
I am having the exact same problem. Snow Leopard's disk utiility recognizes the Droid X, but it does not show up in the finder. Doubletwist even recognizes the phone, but that doesnt do me any good when I'm trying to move data that isnt movies, music, or photos. Any ideas on why this is going on? I'm going to have to return the phone if I can't even get simple data transfer to work.
Use a PC
Problem solved
/smartass
Hope I'm not repeating something you've already tried, but after hooking the X up to your Mac, did you drag down the status bar (where you'll see a USB icon), select "USB Connection", and check "USB Mass Storage?" I have full access to the card from my MB Pro.
Thanks for the response. I have tried that (and most everything else). I've done a soft reset, formatted the SD card, tried USB debugging, etc. I just don't understand why disk utility and Doubletwist sees it, but the finder doesn't. I may try wiping the phone, but I really don't want to.
The only other thing I can think of, other than a mounting problem of some kind, is to ask you if it's showing up on your desktop (NO NAME is what the volume shows on mine) but not in the Finder window. If, by some miracle, this is the case, you need to check External Devices in Finder>Preferences>Sidebar.
Sorry, I can't be more help. Mine has mounted just fine on 2 Macs (iMac and MB Pro, both on 10.6.4) since I put it into mass storage mode.
Just in case it helps, I thought I'd show the disk info I'm seeing as well.
DISK:
Name : Motorola MB810 Media Type : Disk Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record Disk Identifier : disk1 Media Name : Motorola MB810 Media Media Type : Generic Connection Bus : USB USB Serial Number : 015AB5D617010025 Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0/EHC2@1A,7 Writable : Yes Ejectable : Yes Location : External Total Capacity : 16.04 GB (16,039,018,496 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 0
VOLUME (NO NAME):
Name : NO NAME Type : Volume Disk Identifier : disk1s1 Mount Point : /Volumes/NO NAME File System : MS-DOS (FAT32) Connection Bus : USB Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0/EHC2@1A,7 Writable : Yes Capacity : 16.04 GB (16,038,952,448 Bytes) Free Space : 8.05 GB (8,048,476,160 Bytes) Used : 7.99 GB (7,986,511,872 Bytes) Number of Files : 0 Number of Folders : 0 Owners Enabled : No Can Turn Owners Off : No Can Be Formatted : Yes Bootable : No Supports Journaling : No Journaled : No Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 1
Here is what I did on my iMAC:
-Plug in DROID X via USB
-You'll hear your phone say "DROID"
-On the notification bar on your phone, you'll see the USB connection icon. Pull down the entire notificaton screen
-Tap on the new USB connection you made displayed
-Now you will see 4 options: PC MODE, WINDOWS MEDIA SYNC, USB MASS STORAGE, & CHARGE ONLY
-Select Charge ONLY then tap OK
-Now go back and pull down the notification bar again on your DROID X and tap on the USB connection again. You will receive the same list of choices againC MODE, WINDOWS MEDIA SYNC, USB MASS STORAGE, & CHARGE ONLY
-This time, select USB MASS STORAGE, then tap OK.
Now you will see the drive show up in FINDER and if you have any photos on your phone already, iPhoto will pop up and display the content to you.
What I did discover is while it is in USB MASS STOARGE mode, it still provides a charge.
Do not forget to EJECT the DROID via FINDER when your done so you don't corrupt your SD chip.
Hopefully this helps.
I am having the same problem. I tried all of that and it still won't recognize the card if it is in USB mass storage mode.
Maybe if you provide a step by step of what your doing I can help.
I've helped two strangers at Starbucks with this exact issue on Macbooks, with the steps I posted earlier, with no issue.
When you plug in the phone to your mac, the default for the USB connection is PC MODE.
Change it to CHARGE ONLY first then tap OK. Then go back and select USB MASS Storage then tap OK. And you should be golden.
If your devices menu is not expanded, expand it in FINDER and you should see a new device with generic name NO NAME.
Perhaps your SD card has been corrupted somehow?
The NO NAME folder shows up on my Mac but when I try to access it under Media Share, it says the card is missing and if I look under SD card and phone storage settings, it does not recognize the card. I tried moving some files into the folder on the Mac but it says it cannot because it's in use. Then when I disconnect it from the computer, the phone recognizes the card again when I look under SD Card and Storage. I tried doing what you suggested, and I also unmounted and reformatted it. If the card was corrupted, wouldn't the phone have problems with it? I guess I will have to take it into the store but I have a feeling they won't be much more help.
