Installation

Set up your tablet for file transfer

USB

• If you have Android 3.0 and a Mac you cant just plug the tablet in and connect anymore... "This connection uses the MTP protocol, which is not supported by Mac OS X natively" Android switch to MTP because often apps want to access the SDCARD and they couldn't access it at the same time as the computer.

 A main reason for using MTP rather than for example the USB mass-storage device class (MSC) is that the latter operates at the granularity of a mass storage device block (usually in practice, a FAT block), rather than at the logical file level. 
 In other words, the USB mass storage class is designed to '''give a host computer undifferentiated access''' to bulk mass storage, such as compact flash, rather than to a file system, which might be safely shared with the target device (except for specific files which the host might be modifying/accessing). In practice, therefore, when a USB host computer has mounted an MSC partition, it '''assumes absolute control of the storage, which then may not be safely modified by the device without risk of data corruption''' until the host computer has severed the connection.

• • Mac 10.5 or later
    • Mac and Linux systems have software packages to support it.
  • Windows
    • Windows Vista has built-in support for MTP.
    • Support for Media Transfer Protocol in Windows XP requires the installation of Windows Media Player 10 or higher.
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