Comments on: Samsung Moment to MacBook USB Connection Problem Solved

By: luis

luis — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33:53 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this man. It worked. Thanks again

By: Maya

Maya — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:39 +0000

OMG!!! Thank you so much, I was ready to give up on my MAC and my Moment. Now it works!! I am excited. I was able to transfer all my music and pics!! Yay!

By: Chi

Chi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:37:44 +0000

Just got the Moment and could not get it connected to my Mac. I was so irritated that I was going to return the phone. Your suggestion worked like a charm and saved my phone from being bounced off the floor. Thanks for your post. Your my hero!!

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:38:00 +0000

Thank you! I'm loving my phone that much more!

By: Jai

Jai — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:45:12 +0000

Want to add my thanks as well. I was pretty bummed about how incompatible the Moment was with my Mac, but your instructions have changed all that. Thank you as well to McPace who suggested powering the phone down because without doing that the usb connection was not found.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:36:30 +0000

Reboot your phone. Occasionally I can't get a connection and a reboot of the phone does the trick.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:30:08 +0000

This worked for me the first week I had the phone, but tonight I tried it again and I am getting neither a connection on the mac or a notification on the moment. Any suggestions?

By: xxa

xxa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:29:43 +0000

Thank you very much. It work for me.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:04:54 +0000

"Does anyone know how to tether a Moment to a Mac Book pro???" - As far as I know, PDAnet works.

Update: I'm sure PDAnet from http://www.junefabrics.com works. You need to download a client for your laptop and a client for your phone. It's a really easy set-up. There's a free 30-day trial. After the trial expires you need to buy a license. You do not need to hack your phone or get root on it. You download the phone client from the Android marketplace and it works fine on unmodded phones.

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:13:07 +0000

That was both awesome and simple! Now to use my phone as a modem without getting billed for it. Does anyone know how to tether a Moment to a Mac Book pro???

By: Johnny Negretti

Johnny Negretti — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:16:20 +0000

THANK A BUNCH! Worked like a charm!

By: papanestor

papanestor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:33:04 +0000

Did all the required settings and STILL no USB indicator on the phone or MAC. The problem: all micro USB cables are NOT created equal. The connection worked at the Sprint store yesterday with THEIR cable, but this morning using my USB, nothing. Drove to store, used theirs again and there is was: USB functioning. For what it is worth, don't go crazy, but take you laptop and phone with you to find the correct micro USB that will work.

By: DV

DV — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:22:49 +0000

How old is your computer? I think there may be a minor issue with Mac's USB too. I have a machine with 10.5 and a machine with 10.6. Both see the phone in the system profiler. The Snow Leopard machine also gives me dialog for a network connection but no love from the phone. Both of these machines are first-gen IntelMacs though and I have a sneaking suspicion that there's something funny with them due to that which makes them not work like more modern macs do. It's probably the phone's fault. It likely doesn't see a certain chipset or something, but it's very sad-making. I have a microSD reader in my macbook so I can get around the problem but I'm not happy. The other possibility of course is that there's a subset of Moment hardware which fails and some of us get lucky and others don't.

By: brandon lomax

brandon lomax — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:06:42 +0000

thank you so much im an iphone user myself but my brother is had just bought this phone and made my life harder but thank you for making me look smart lol the pressure was on me.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:15:54 +0000

You need to mount the card each time when you connect the phone, and unmount it before you disconnect the phone. You should also eject the drive on the PC before unmounting. On occasion, if the phone's been on a while, it still might not recognize the USB connection and you'll need to reboot the phone.