i have always enjoyed plugging my phone into my PC via a USB and having access to both SD cards. i am having no such luck with my new S8+
USB debugging: check
MTP: check
Smart Switch installation (drivers) on PC: check
What else am i missing? i cannot find answers anywhere.
So i plugged the card into my PC and accessed it, and now my phone won't recognizes it. i have put it in my old phone, it recognizes it and it allows me to transfer files between PC and card; i will be going back to my old phone until i can find a solution. i am just so frustrated right now, i can't even.
Samsung Galaxy S8+
WIndows 10
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Quick question,
I currently have the Epic, which requires a driver installed on the computer before the SD card will mount properly on a windows PC.
I use my phone to upload things for work now and then, and this is a major hassle for me.
I'm thinking of moving to the Galaxy S2 when it comes out in the US, and I was wondering if the S2 mounts properly without a driver?
It's sad to be jealous of friends with HTC phones that mount properly and don't need drivers installed to simply connect to a pc.
If you set it to 'usb debug mode', it auto installs and will come up as 2 card readers.
It even works on my car's head unit so it is in usb mass storage mode.
Without debug mode it'll be detected as a phone but I'm not sure what it'll come up as since all the pc ive connected it to have samsung Kies.
Personally I use widget apps like 'multi mount sd' so I can still use the phone while the usb is accessible by the pc.
Hi,
I can't access my computer's memory or the MicroSD card when I hook up the phone to my PC.
The phone recognizes the USB connection because it goes into Debug mode but there's nothing in the notifications bar to allow me to switch the phone into storage mode.
When I first hooked up the phone to the PC, Windows 7 tried to install a driver but failed. I think that might the issue. What driver do I have to install on the PC side to get this to work?
Or maybe its just a setting on the phone side I need to configure?
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have a Galaxy Tab SPH-P100 that I'm looking to root and update to Jelly Bean. The problem is, USB Debugging doesn't seem to work properly. I've tried connecting the Tab to my desktop and my laptop (both running Vista) and neither computer will recognize it. I've tried with USB Debugging enabled and disabled, with Micro SD mounted and unmounted. The only thing the computer recognizes is the Micro SD. The computer will actually assign a letter and it shows up as removable disk and the battery will charge, but that's it. I've run SuperOneClick and it just stops after step 5. I tried Odin and when you click on PDA, PHONE, or CSA, the only option I get is a Samsung folder leading to Kies. What am I doing wrong? The directions sound so simple.
when I plug in my I717 via USB in my desktop, windows sees it as Samsung Android device, but when I go into windows explorer, there's nothing to see (the usb or sd storage isnt listed at all) and I do have mtp usb storage activated on the phone and usb debug. I am running gingerbread touchwiz rom. I can see the phone and transfer files wirelessly with ES file explorer, but I cant access the sd card or the phones internal storage through usb windows explorer connection even though device management shows Samsung android device. Windows Device manager shows the phone with no yellow flags. anyone had this happen and found solution to share? thanks
You can try rebooting the computer, using different usb ports, using a different cable. I don't know if this works on gingerbread but I have used it on jellybean roms before when I've had trouble connecting... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch
Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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yep..have samsung drivers. also, about the app you linked above, I'd like to try it out but google play says its not compatible with my device (probably because I'm still on gingerbread). anywhere else I can download the apk and try manual install?
I think your problem is that you are connecting via MTP (media transfer protocol). You need to connect via USB mass storage. With your Note not connected to your PC, go into Settings, under Wireless and network look for USB utilities. Follow the phone's instructions for connecting to USB storage to your PC. Wait for the Windows autostart to read the phone storage. (My PC is XP and takes a minute or so.) Then you should see two new drives show on Windows Explorer. One is phone internal storage and the other is the phone's external SD card. Hope this works for you. Good luck!
I believe sonebwood is on the right track on this. I remember when the Note first came out I had to change something to get windows to see the drives. Is there any particular reason you keep the phone on gingerbread? ICS was a lot better and you can update to JB through Kies.
Today I installed Cyanogenmod for the first time. The install seems to work as my phone is working perfectly. I connected my phone up to my computer to put the GApps file onto it to install them (and also to put on my app backups), but something weird happened. I plugged my phone in and it was charging and my computer recognized that a device was plugged in, but I had no way to access the device. It was in MTP mode with USB debugging turned on. I tried to used ADB but when I used the "adb devices" command it said that no devices were plugged in. I have no way of getting anything onto my phone. I also realize that I messed up really badly by moving my backups off of my phone and onto my computer. What do I do?
EDIT: I managed to install the google apps by doing it directly from the phone, but I still cannot push the backup files from my computer to my phone.
I'm not sure how to solve your PC->Phone connection but you could get a MicroSD USB adapter, copy/move what you need to a MicroSD card, then put the card into the phone.