To connect the Android phone you have to make sure it's properly mounted to your computer. (stop laughing, this isn't a Beavis and Butthead video )

Really. When you connect your Android's USB cable to your computer, you'll notice a small USB icon that appears on the top left of your phone's screen. Touch it and drag it down the screen with your finger. You'll be presented with a "USB connected" notification. Tap the "USB connected" notification, then select "Mount". Do so and you're ready to sync. If you skip this step and fail to mount your phone, the Android may show up in doubleTwist but will not sync, giving you a sync failed message.

Go to http://www.mount-android.com using Safari/Chrome/Firefox to see animated instructions on how to mount your Android phone.[/size]

To sync photos, videos and music between your device and a Windows PC:

1. Plug the USB cable into your computer
2. The device will show up as "HTC Android" under Devices on the doubleTwist sidebar
3. Click on the device -- not the individual folders for pictures, videos or music (these are for viewing the content on your device)
4. Click on the Photos, Music or Video tab (inside the main doubleTwist window) to configure your sync preferences

Select the checkbox "Sync photos with this device" if you want to sync photos.
Select the checkbox "Sync music with this device" if you want to sync music.
Select the checkbox "Sync video with this device" if you want to sync video.

Choose between syncing "All photos" and specific photo folders
Choose between syncing "All music" and specific music playlists
Choose between syncing "All video" and specific video folders

5. When all is in place, click Sync on the bottom right and sit back and let doubleTwist do all the heavy lifting. doubleTwist will remember your settings so you only need to do this once (or whenever you want to change your sync preferences)

To sync photos, videos and music between your device and your Mac:

Simply drag and drop items or playlists from your media library to the Android phone. Easy as pie!


Note: We've found that we don't correctly detect the Android devices if USB debugging is turned on (Settings, Applications, Development, USB Debugging"). This is a setting likely to only be used by developers, but be aware of the impact of having this enabled.

Visual instructions on how to connect the G1 to your PC or Mac: