Plugging in android phone to Mac

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Hi everyone,

I plugged in a friend's android phone to my Mac and the Mac could not detect the device. What can I do to resolve this?
 
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Did it prompt you to allow mass storage access?
 
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If the Android phone isn't offering your permissions to use mass storage it's never going to connect.

Do a restart on the phone, try another cable.
 
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It pretty much depends on the phone. My LG didn't give me any problems but this Motorola I get "This disk cannot be used", even with the Motorola drivers and their software. That's why I recommended Airdroid.
 

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OS X doesn't natively support YAFFS2 (the Android filesystem) whereas Windows does (hence why you see it mounted in Windows) so you need to use a third party program such as Google's Android File Transfer.
 

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