I have a Mac and I have recently gone from my iPhone 4S to my Samsung Galaxy S3. I really love the phons hardware and battery life, the only two things I am having issue with are syncing my phone with iTunes and with iPhoto.
I tried SyncMate but found it just so incredible underwhelming that I wish I had never spent the money on it. I also have recently downloading The Missing Sync but it seems to be only able to sync via WiFi or Bluetooth oweing to the fact that the Mac can't mount the device as a drive. I don't want to root the device, anyone know of any other software solutions that are Mac compatible?
Everything else goes through the cloud for me.
For music use double twist. You can load your play list and everything from itunes. Can't really help with the photo situation
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I have a Mac and I have recently gone from my iPhone 4S to my Samsung Galaxy S3. I really love the phons hardware and battery life, the only two things I am having issue with are syncing my phone with iTunes and with iPhoto.
I tried SyncMate but found it just so incredible underwhelming that I wish I had never spent the money on it. I also have recently downloading The Missing Sync but it seems to be only able to sync via WiFi or Bluetooth oweing to the fact that the Mac can't mount the device as a drive. I don't want to root the device, anyone know of any other software solutions that are Mac compatible?
Everything else goes through the cloud for me.
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I am really not a fan of Double twist.. I would use iSyncr, it is way less bloated and does the same thing.
There was an article on the internet using Dropbox and some scripting to use iCloud and iTunes syncing. Think it was on cnet.
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Why not use Google Music to sync your tunes to the cloud allowing you to access them on your phone?
For photos, dropbox auto uploads photos.
This way you never need to plug your phone into your computer to sync
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Because like me he probably has all his photos already synced in iphoto and songs in itunes, so adding to his existing libraries without having to do anything extra would be nice. I did however uploaded a big chunk of my music to google music for access anywhere which is coming in handy especially on my runs during lunch.
I was in the same situation as the op. Coming from iphone4s to sgs3. Doubetwist made the transition super easy for me. Of course, you have to install airsync along with it as the current doubletwist software does not support usb transfer via MTP.
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Does anyone know any free sync tool for Android Phone?
Being a new user of Android phone, I have quickly browse through this site and find most discussions are about outlook sync, application backup or using iTunes for Android phone. Yet probably we can share information about the free sync tools that we can find on market, in one thread.
So far I have a HTC phone so the software comes with the phone is HTC Sync.
However it does not support playlist like the iTunes does. And also many features it doesn't seem to work up to my expectation.
I find another free software called Android Manager. However it only supports WiFi connection with PC. Well, no problem for me.
It supports synchronize my outlook contacts/calendar with my phone. But it doesn't support task/email sync. I am OK with it. I buy the phone not for my job but for personal entertainment.
The software did manage to edit/manage/backup my photo/video and most important of all playlist. Application installation, management and backup are also easy to do! I find it much easier to get started then the HTC sync as the interface is a bit like iTunes concept. Agreethat my previous phone iPhone 3G provides good user experience and its sync software iTunes is great! But my user experience with current Android phone is also wonderful! All I hope is to find a good PC tool and so far Android Manager is OK!
If anyone can share experiences about other PC sync tool which provide multi features like the original software, that will be really great!
an excellent app! it works pretty terrific in my G1. but the only bad thing is that it only supports wifi...as a free app, i still give it pretty nice credit tho...
HTC Sync don't support old Android phones in any way.
Juts like my HTC Dream.
I also don't think HTC will update the support for these old phones.
So I am using Android Manager WiFi as well.
I have WiFi AP at home and office,so that the wireless connection is quite convenient for me to sync my phone.
I like to use Wireless sync.
I even don't need to install the USB driver onto my PC to have a USB link.
There's been similar App requests before but mine is a little different.
I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet
- Allow me to browse my phones files with my tablet:
- See photos in the gallery off my phone- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.
I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet
Enable Wifi Tethering on your phone. Easy.
- See photos in the gallery off my phone
Easy, make sure you sync/upload all your camera pictures to Picasa Web Albums (All Google account come with it) And it'll show up on the Transformer in the stock Gallery app. You can use a program like Pixelpipe to auto upload every picture you take on your phone to upload to Picasa. Or you can do it yourself, check mark all your photos, share, select Picasa.
- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet
Why store music to your sd card? Get Amazon Cloud Drive (Free 2 gigs, buy an album and you get 20gigs free), upload your music to Cloud Drive, and use the Amazon MP3 app to listen to your music! Or, run AudioGalaxy on your computer, point it to your mp3 folder, and use AudioGalaxy to listen to your computer's music on your tablet/phone.
- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration
Contacts integration is already done with Google Contacts, auto syncs as long as your Google account is logged in. Making phone calls on your tablet? Seriously? Just grab your phone. This is sorry, but a stupid request
- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.
Keep your documents on Google Docs. Download the Google Docs app on your phone/tablet and you can have it on both.
Or better yet, Get DropBox also free. works on phone/tablet/pc/mac/everything. Modify one, and it comes across EVERYWHERE.
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.
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All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.
What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Plex, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.
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What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Pled, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.
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This would be a very useful function...
What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.
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What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.
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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
I suggest that you might have more luck posting this request in the general Android apps forum here.
You might also give an indication of how much you'd be prepared to pay for such an application!
Regards,
Dave
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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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Those of us not in the US have issues with that though :-(
It should be easy for Google to do though, as they could route all SMS as data to a phone on your Google account, then send it as SMS from there using the phone's regular contract.
An SMS app for the tablet that meant I could recieve texts on it and reply whilst keeping the phone in sync with what's being sent and received would easily be worth a fiver. And that's Stirling, too
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All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.
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The thing with your suggestions is that its a ton of different apps and lots of hoops to jump through.
I want one. single. app.
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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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That only circumvents the problem partially... then if I want everyone who has my (current) cell number to txt me directly to my phone (I can't hear the notifications I set in GV on my DX worth a crap!), I'd need to give them another number.
I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.
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I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.
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Try this out.
I think what the OP wants is definitely coming. But, read all of the posts by the OP on the thread I posted for the Sync SMS app and you will see some of the difficulties placed on the devs for such a project. Add in the large number of device manufacturers(custom software implementation b/c they refuse to use vanilla android)/different hardware (DroidX for example doesn't support infrastructure Wifi - only ad hoc) and types of connectivity (BT/WiFi/Cellular/USB) and it will become a very complicated project. I'm not saying it won't be done... I think it will be done. But, it is just a little ways farther off from happening. It'll take awhile for the software devs to work out the kinks and with Android/Honeycomb constantly evolving/constant hardware changes.... It makes this a daunting project for a single dev/small group.
Also, when it does come battery drain (constant polling for change in data) and data usage (carriers moving to tiered data plans) issues will have to be addressed. Many of the push API's are being figured out by devs so that will decrease the polling - but, data usage is only going to go up. I only had my TF for one day and I was having to watch my data over 3G because I knew if I continued to use it without worrying about getting onto Wifi I would go over my 2GB cap.....
The Sync SMS app dev has some good ideas and has been hard at work. I suggest reading his posts to better understand the difficulties.
@OP - it'll come with a little patience. In the meanwhile you can do what the second post suggested and use multiple solutions.
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I've tried Drobox and Ubuntu One, heard about Wuala too - but I still can't find an app with auto-sync for android for any cloud service. It's just too much hassle for me to manually upload files, that kinda defeats the whole purpose of having one folder, shared across varoius devices. On dropbox atm, using it for home and work PCs, but for my TF and phone it's not so convenient. And as far as I understand, Ubuntu One only auto-sync photos, and in a bit weird way... so that's not what I'm looking for.
So, maybe someone found anything like this, but with auto-sync? I don't trust third-party 'apps' with similar features like the one for dropbox, I'd prefer actual native app from cloud storage company itself. Hope it's still be free, but I'll consider buying one if it's really good. And I don't mind the name of that cloud service, there's a lot of them popped up recently, so I'm good with any of thouse.
Have a look a SugarSync. On the Android app, you can choose what folders to auto sync. And it also let's you 'push' files to another device on your account. A really nice feature.
The app FolderSync claims it can do it. Try it out in the market!
Aye but the access from GNU/Linux and *BSD leaves a bit to be desired for SurgarSync, last I looked.
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FolderSync is only one way - DropSync is 2 way and works well. You specify which folders of your dropbox account sync where.
Is moderating still one way? I'lltry droppsync. I want to use my box.com account though!
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Hello Skyrocket forum, I hail from the Galaxy Nexus forum!
I tried a search (and oddly) found nothing but,
I bought my girlfriend a white skyrocket (which she loves). I used to use a galaxy s 1 but obviously this is a different ball game. I was wondering if the newest US Kies software can sync your entire itunes library. (she is on a mac) I know there are other apps to do this as well, but I am trying to make it as simple for her as possible since she is coming from using an iPhone for the last 4 years (I am so proud haha)
if not, I'll take her through the google music route
Thanks for the help guys!
u can use kies to manually upload the files, but there are eazier faster ways of copying (over usb). I recommend google music
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Hello Skyrocket forum, I hail from the Galaxy Nexus forum!
I tried a search (and oddly) found nothing but,
I bought my girlfriend a white skyrocket (which she loves). I used to use a galaxy s 1 but obviously this is a different ball game. I was wondering if the newest US Kies software can sync your entire itunes library. (she is on a mac) I know there are other apps to do this as well, but I am trying to make it as simple for her as possible since she is coming from using an iPhone for the last 4 years (I am so proud haha)
if not, I'll take her through the google music route
Thanks for the help guys!
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I still think doubletwist is the easiest way for the iphone/ios converts. It installs on a pc and reads the itunes library and has an interface for synchronization that is playlist based etc. Not sure if they have a mac client though. It is automatic and they even have a paid wifi version in case you got her into icloud and she likes wireless sync.
I realize this might be more of an apple question but i feel like ive already searched to the ends of the interweb on apple forums and gotten nowhere and when i ask a question over there the only answer i seem to get is "shouldve bought an ipad"... So I'm wondering if there is a way to sync an itunes library with an android device without a computer? As far as i know, all of the common apps out there (doubletwist, airbind, etc) need to be set up on a computer first. Im trying to bypass this step with my little brothers iphone 5 and a rooted android tablet with ICS. I bouht him the tablet for xmas, but decided to give it to him early when his laptop was stolen earlier this week. He doesnt live near me or i would let him use my laptop to sync with his itunes. Is this even possible? Or will he need to find a computer? Please help!!!
There's doubleTwist player on Play Store which I've heard is pretty awesome at syncing iTunes- all for free. If you dkm't need a whole new player then there's quite a few other apps on market, not sure how reliable they are though...
Soryuu, thanks for the reply. My understanding is that you still need a mac or Windows computer to set up doubletwist I initially? Or am I wrong? Can I do this with just an iPhone and an android device??
Edit: Yeah, you need a desktop to work doubleTwist/Airsync and so on.
An iPhone and an Android device?
I don't think there's any easy solution to this except using cloud storage like Google Drive or something- which would be slow enough on its own- and even then, depending on how many songs you have it'd be a tediously slow process downloading them onto the tablet. If you are using cloud storage... I've never used iPhones so I don't know but can they make zips out of files? If you can that may make it slightly easier- zip the music up (if possible), upload to the cloud and then download it as one package.
There is this app that seems to work like NFC: http://m.wikihow.com/Use-Bump-Between-an-iPhone-and-Android
But 1.) Not sure about tablets- I assume so if its that popular of an app but there was no mention and
2.) Apparently its semi-functional according to some of the reviews I've seen.
I guess you could try it out and see what happens.
Other than that I don't think there's much else...
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