Friday, 7 June 2013

How to sync an Android phone to your Mac?

Description
It is common to sync an iPhone with a Mac. But, syncing an Android phone with OS X is not very easy. Let’s discuss the method below.

Solution:

Below are the steps to sync an Android phone to your Mac:
1.       
      To sync contacts
For syncing your phone with your Google account, you need to make syncing enabled. For this, go to settings>Accounts>Google and then give your email address. Check that Sync Contacts box is checked. After this, open the Address Book App on your Mac and go to Address Book>Preferences>Accounts and then choose On My Mac. Out of the two boxes, one is ‘Synchronize to yahoo’ and another is ‘Synchronize to Google’. Selecting the Synchronize to Google box, you can press Accept in the pop-up box and then enter your Gmail address and password. Now, you can easily see the sync symbol in your Mac’s menubar. Click it and choose Sync Now.
2.      
      To Sync Calender
For this, open the iCal app on your Mac and then navigate to iCal>preferences>Accounts. Now, you can click the plus(+) symbol given in the lower left corner and add calendar to iCal. Set ‘Account Type’ to Automatic and then fill Gmail address & password. At the end, click Create.
3.       
      To Sync Media
The easy way to sync media, music, videos, photos and podcasts is DoubleTwist. This app is commonly known as iTunes for Android. Android devices that have USB mass storage mode enabled can work with DoubleTwist for regular USB syncing.  For using DoubleTwist, download and install Free DoubleTwist desktop app on your Mac. On opening it for the first time, it will scan your iTunes and then import media content. This import should be done manually. After this, download the DoubleTwist app to your Android phone. Then connect it with a USB cable to your Mac and follow the instructions given on the screen to mount your phone to your computer.
4.       
     To Sync Files
By using Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, SkyDrive or SugarSync, you can easily sync documents and spreadsheets between your Android phone and Mac. Taking example of Dropbox, download this app on the Android phone. Sign in to Dropbox with the required account info and then place any file in your Dropbox folder which is automatically synced between your devices.
5.      
      To Sync everything
The simple way of syncing everything is to use Google’s own apps for email, calendaring, photos and contacts. Using the Web-based Google account, you can enable syncing to your Android by selecting Settings> Accounts> Google. After this, enter your Google account.

Well, by going through the above steps you can completely understand the method of syncing your Android phone to Mac.

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