[jez_tranter]

Are you guys sure this is not simply a driver issue.

My wife was having heaps of trouble connecting her Galaxy S3 to our Mac (10.8.2).

I finally solved it with this solution:

1. Install Kies (I did this with the unzip package trick mentioned earlier in this thread)
2. Open Kies and Click Tools>Install Driver

This seems to solve the issue of Kies not connecting and with Android File Transfer not detecting a device. It would also explain why some have trouble and others not (if the driver had previously been installed)

On a side note to Dog5000 - your method of using USB Mass Storage was available on the Galaxy S2 - but no longer on the S3. It seems Samsung have gone completely to MTP with no Mass Storage option...

[Dog5000]

Are you guys sure this is not simply a driver issue.

My wife was having heaps of trouble connecting her Galaxy S3 to our Mac (10.8.2).

I finally solved it with this solution:

1. Install Kies (I did this with the unzip package trick mentioned earlier in this thread)
2. Open Kies and Click Tools>Install Driver

This seems to solve the issue of Kies not connecting and with Android File Transfer not detecting a device. It would also explain why some have trouble and others not (if the driver had previously been installed)

On a side note to Dog5000 - your method of using USB Mass Storage was available on the Galaxy S2 - but no longer on the S3. It seems Samsung have gone completely to MTP with no Mass Storage option...

Cool. That's what I thought when Qeeg500 posted the details. Nice reminder about installing the drivers. I moved Kies over to my Windows 7 VM. As long as the VM is not running I should be fine.

[thebandito]

You should utilize either the Google Music cloud (which allows for you to store 20,000 in their cloud for free) or the download the doubletwist player and the $4.99 doubletwist airsync app. I would go with Google Music because you access all your music library from any browser on any computer.

[kocharlotteko]

I think if you go to , then you can download the file, open it, and it will work. Hope this helps you. Also, if that doesn't work, I hear Kies is pretty good.