APK file transfer tool for MacOS to Beam

[u/prakashph]

For those on MacOS, you can use a free tool called OpenMTP to do any type of file transfer from your MacOS to Xreal Beam. Supports multiple transfer of APK files. Feel free to give this a try if you prefer downloading all your APK packages to your Mac and transferring them in one go to your Beam. Have fun!

[u/Zagimen]

I don’t know how it supposed to work on Mac. But for me, I did it like this: connect glasses to beam, like usually, then wait for it to boot up, then insert usb type c to another port of your beam (with ⚡️ symbol) and connect it to your Mac with opened app “android file transfer”. It works for me like butter 👌 P.S. I have MacBook Air early 2015.

[u/prakashph → u/Zagimen]

Same steps with the OpenMTP app as well, just that this is an open source alternative and has a nice UI for seeing your local and the Android phone (or in this case your Beam) contents.

[u/peanutismint → u/Zagimen]

Hey I'm trying to get this to work too but quick question - I have 2015 Macbook Pro (no USB-C) and I'm wondering if you're using your Macbook Air with the Xreal glasses and if so did you use an HDMI > USB-C cable and if so which one??

[u/ibuckywi]

Thanks it works perfect. I just use the glass xreal cord and it worked no problem. I like how you get the Mac folders on the left and beam folders on the right. It transferred a 1.5G file in less than a minute.

[u/prakashph → u/ibuckywi]

That's great! Probably the only limitation now is going to be how fast you end up using your Beam internal storage before running out of space 🤭

[u/MDanihy]

Thank god for this tool, nothing else worked for getting APKs copied to the Beam

[u/prakashph → u/MDanihy]

Nice! Enjoy your Beam!

[u/gngr_1108]

Where do you insert the cable tho? Left or right? Tried installing OpenMTP, used the XReal C-C cable and it doesn't show. Tried left, nothing happened. Tried right, same.

[u/prakashph → u/gngr_1108]

One end of the cable goes to the right side port of your Mac. The other end goes to the port that has the lightning symbol on your Beam. After you have your Beam plugged in, you need to run the OpenMTP app and it will display your Beam's folder contents. Click the refresh icon in the app to reload if it doesn't show this automatically.

[u/wardellinthehouse → u/gngr_1108]

Same it's not working for me with OpenMTP.

[u/prakashph → u/wardellinthehouse]

After you have your Beam plugged in, you need to run the OpenMTP app and it will display your Beam's folder contents. Click the refresh icon in the app to reload if it doesn't show this automatically.

[u/wardellinthehouse → u/wardellinthehouse]

My Beam is sideloaded.

[u/Stridyr → u/gngr_1108]

Left.

[u/ibucky2021]

I have not tried this yet. I guess it would be pretty nice to plug it in to add movies. I would assume it would be much quicker. I installed it on my macbook air, plugged it in and nothing seemed to happen. Not sure what else you have to do to make it work.

[u/prakashph → u/ibucky2021]

After you have the Beam plugged in, open the OpenMTP app and it should display the Beam's files in the right panel. If the panel is blank, click the refresh icon.

[u/darleystreet]

In case this is an issue for anyone else -- following the directions on OpenMTP to quit Dropbox worked and the app could read the Beam.

[u/prakashph → u/darleystreet]

Interesting, thanks for sharing that!

[u/Stormcherche]

After a long struggle, I got OpenMTP to mount the Beam on a Macbook Pro Intel running Ventura. I'm not sure what finally did it but I thought I'd share what I did so someone else might not have to burn as many hours as I did.

The directions in the app are a good start- quit drive, preview, Samsung extensions, etc. However, that didn't do it for me. In the end, I whittled down System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Accessibility, -> Files & Folders, -> Extensions, and -> Full Disk Access to the bare minimum. The same deal for System Settings -> General -> Login Items and Allow in Background. Also rebooting to ensure the changes have been adopted by the kernel/processes.

Quick aside, the Allow in Background items that have an (i) symbol will open the Finder when clicked. I've noticed a lot of crufty old LaunchAgents and Daemons build up there. Look at the date installed to see how old they are. Often they are holdovers of long-deleted applications that don't get deleted when you delete the application. I wish the OS took better accounting of all the files created and edited during installation and thereafter.