![]() ![]() While the Incredible is by no means anything short a top-notch smartphone, the HTC EVO 4G is definitely a game changer. First, I warned prospective buyers of the HTC Droid Incredible for Verizon Wireless that the device would become outdated quickly. Overall it’s worth it and I’m very happy with it all.It’s been about a month since I first picked up my Sprint HTC EVO 4G at Google I/O 2010 and since then a few things have happened. Took a bit of poking around here and there to get it all working. That’s it for everything at this point! Not too bad. You’ll then see a phone icon on your Menu Bar on your Mac. At this point the phone is setup and ready to go On Evo device, go to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> and select USB debugging. Then downloaded and installed the Mac client from Downloaded and installed from Android Market on my phone directly. Will update post when I do find something.įor tethering I used PdaNet. So I am still looking for something to replace. I used to use 1Password (love it!) for iPhone/Mac, but they don’t have an Android version yet unfortunately. You can then go ahead and add iTunes playlists from within doubleTwist to your device SD card. Anyways, connect your Evo device to Mac via USB, select “Disk drive” again (iPhoto will launch again, don’t unmount from iPhone, because then it will unmount from doubleTwist. Pretty straightforward to use and has a similar interface to iTunes. This will automatically launch iPhoto and you can sync as you do normally with your iPhoneįor Music (iTunes), the only easy way I found was to download a free app called doubleTwist ( ). That’s it!!Ĭonnect your Evo/Android to your Mac via the USB, then select “Disk drive: Mount as disk drive” on the “Connect to PC” app options on your phone. Open iCal on Mac and go to Preferences -> Accounts -> Hit the + button to add a new account -> Select “Google” for Account type drop-down menu and put your Google account information. The one thing I had to differently which I wasn’t doing before was to add my Gmail Calendar to iCal (to keep it sync’d with my Macbook Pro). When setting up the mail accounts on the phone, it will automatically download all the calendar events to the phone from both. ![]() I have 2 emails (personal/gmail and work/exchange). So all good there.Ĭalendar was straightforward. I have also tested that changes made on my Evo, make it to my Google Contacts and eventually to my Address Book on my Mac. I found that a lot of times you have to sign out of your Google account on your web browser and sign back in for the changes to take place. Sync after Configuring Settings in Address Book This assumes that you setup your Google Account on your phone already (from home screen on your phone -> Settings -> Accounts & sync -> Add account -> Select Sync calendar, contacts and Gmail After you do this, it will sync up to Google Contacts and then to your phone (automatically). Strange, but it uses the same sync mechanism as MobileMe. Then click on synchronization icon on Menu Bar on Mac (see pic below) and click on Sync Now. Sync with Google contacts by opening up Address Book on Mac -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Synchronize with Google -> Input Google account info If you have any weird issues/duplication, make sure to clean it all up in Address Book first after you do one final iPhone sync (if you have an iPhone) So here is how I got everything working together: Huge app selection (same as Apple iPhone) Ability to tether my device to my Macbook Pro (free of charge)ĥ. Better coverage for the network/carrier (Sprint)Ģ. So I decided to make the move over to Sprint and the HTC EVO 4G.Īs of now, I’m REALLY happy I did. I would literally get several dropped calls a day – completely unacceptable. Reason of course for leaving the iPhone is due to the horrible AT&T service. In this case, there were numerous hurdles that I had to jump to get it properly working. Of course, I’m used to the iPhone where everything just works together. There were numerous challenges I faced when trying to setup my new HTC EVO 4G device with my Macbook Pro – primarily for syncing purposes. ![]()
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