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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... Now the Android devices act more like an MP3 player, and less like a USB stick. "This connection uses the MTP protocol, which is not supported by Mac OS X natively" Android switched to MTP probably for 2 reasons
  1. Now the Android and the computer can access the SDCARD at the same time, you don't have to unmount it.
  2. Often the tablet had to rescan the device to find the new files you put on, now it wont have to.
 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.
  MTP saves the cost of re-scanning the entire disk every time the content is modified.
  • Mac 10.5 Leopard or later
  • Mac 10.4 Tiger
  • Linux
  • Windows
    • Most MTP-compatible devices do not appear through drive letter assignment in Windows Explorer, instead they will appear as "devices" in Windows Explorer.
    • 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.
  • Xoom User Guide

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