Cannot Fairphone 6 e/OS connect to Mac

Help Fairphone 6
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Followed all the steps to connect my Fairphone 6 e/OS to my Mac in order to transfer foto’s

  • cable OK
  • FP in USB - transfer data mode
  • get the message on my homescreen that datatransfer in allowed

…but my Mac does not “recognise” my FP. I then downloaded OpenMTP, as suggested in one of the FP FAQ files, but that did not improve the situation, Mac still not recognmized…. Any tips?

Weird: my PC does recognize my FP and I can transfer foto’s to it..

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Forgive me for perhaps ‘asking the obvious’, but your description of the situation made me wonder, did you actually open OpenMTP, on the Mac?

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Definitely! But I get the message in OpenMTP that my phone is not connected…Follow the OpenMTP instructions to no avail.

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Bought a new cable. Can connect to Mac and to the Photo app on a MAC… But this is truely INSANE.

Mac finds new photos and starts to import them, but every time I connect my phone there are literaly hundreds of new photo’s that I never took and that are not visible in the Gallery on my phone. I now importged 500+ pics of Azerbeidjan and The Hague. Will call support, this is getting spooky…. How can photo’s be exported/imported that are not even visible on my Fp???

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Still puzzled. Can it be that my Mac downloads every pic on the phone? I searched for Azerbeizjan and The Hague on my phone the day of my call above. Can it be that there were pics in my cache that my Mac downloaded??

Now first exporting my pics to Dropbox or in UBUNTU on another computer and then importing them on my Mac. Bit tedious…

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With the Mac and Fairphone both on the same Wifi network you can also use an app called LocalSend without a cable.

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I had a similar issue today: Another Android phone with LineageOS worked fine with OpenMTP on macOS, but the /e/OS-Fairphone 6 wouldn’t (same cable, same Mac, MTP Mode: Kalam).

Disabling USB Hotplug in OpenMTP solved the issue for me. No pictures of Azerbaijan for me, though! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Roel & Red

Thanx, will try after I come back from a holiday. Will keep you (all) posted.

Tom

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While I am not sure in what direction the transfer was meant to go, here are my two thoughts with regard to USB cable transfers between Android and Mac.

  • Is “File Transfer” (or “Data Transfer” – don’t know the exact English wording right now) set as the USB mode after the cable is connected (to both the Fairphone and the Mac)? This should become accessible by swiping down in/from the top bar on the screen then.
  • My own experience: Even with a working connection and using OpenMTP, transfers of a large number of files from the Mac to the Fairphone keep aborting out of the blue. Recommendation: Create an archive (.zip file) from all the files you want to send to the Fairphone first, then send that one .zip file (instead of the individual files). Should be far less prone to aborted transfers this way.
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I hope it’s not too obvious, but another thing that might be worth to keep in mind is to quit Preview on macOS. That just made the difference for me with my Fairphone 6 today.

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I cannot install localsend on my fp6… it downloads, appears to fail to install, then immediately says ‘retry?’ Anyone else ?

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Dear Roel

Nothing works on this phone… :wink:

  • Retried cable conection and OpenMTP but MTP does not connect to my phone that is “busy”.
  • Downloaded LocalSend to my Mac (fine) but cannot download it to my FP6 e/os. It keep repeating Try again.
  • When I open the app on my Mac it cannot see my FP.

Any other options?

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I retried OpenMTP. Don’t know whjy, but It works now.

Do not forgor to locate your FP. In the upper left corner of OpenMTP where the four lines are. Drop menu down and choose “Removable disk”.

Locate the file on your FP in which the fotos are and copy..

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I was finally able to install it via f-droid (but not via app lounge)