It's a little glitchy (you sometimes need to plug in a couple of times) but it works on the whole.
So you typically plug in your Samsung Galaxy or Pixel or similar, set the USB mode on the phone and then you're away, dragging and dropping media/documents in both directions, phone to Mac and back again.
#Windows phone 7 connector for mac 2017 install
On an Apple Mac, things are different in that there's no native MTP support (again, the protocol is a Microsoft-invented thing) so you have to install a small Google utility, Android File Transfer (AFT), and this runs with a drag and drop interface for anything you have connected. On a Windows PC, this is usually enough to have the Android phone appear in Windows Explorer and you're away. That done, these Android phones then also present a MTP interface. In the parallel world of Android phones, most of these default to 'charging only' when you plug them into a desktop of any kind - and there's an onus on the user to swipe down and then change the USB mode to 'Transfer files'. And it's worked perfectly with Windows on both ends for a decade, not surprising since MTP itself was a Microsoft invention in the first place! The idea being that the desktop (a Windows PC is the intention) then mounts the phone in its file system for the purposes of dragging and dropping media files/documents to the phone or from the phone. Windows phone devices (of any era) present a MTP (Media Transport/Transfer Protocol) interface to any connected desktop.
Now, I've known the theory behind this for ages.
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