I just got an Android phone – the Samsung Moment to be exact – and I wanted to sync my phone to my MacBook just like PC users could. However, it was easy and fast to figure out how to connect my Mac to my Android phone, and I can now sync files between my MacBook and Android phone! Here’s how:
- Restart your Android phone. (This step may be skipped by some users; others will find the computer doesn’t recognize the phone’s SD card without a restart of the phone.)
- Plug your USB cord that came with the phone to the phone, and connect to the Mac.
- Go to Settings > Applications > Development on your phone and click on USB Debugging.
- Drag down the notifications window and click on USB Connection. Click on Mount.
- Now you’ll see the drive “No Name” on your desktop. You can now copy files to/from your SD drive.
Be sure to eject the disk from your Mac when you are done using it, then unmount via the phone’s notifications dialog.




Thank you, Ellie. After searching the web for a way to connect my htc Droid Eris to my MacBook this was an easy way to do it.
Glad I could help, Steffen!