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I have two questions concerning making a connection to a PC and hope someone can help me out here.
After much experimenting, I was finally able to connect my I9000 to my PC, without using KIES. But it was short-lived.
I read about someone removing his micro SD card, making some changes to a setting and then connecting as Storage. Well that worked for me. Once.
Now I can't connect again (Win XP) either with the card inside or without it.
If someone can tell me how to have my PC recognize my I9000 that would be great.
My second question is concerning where files are stored on the I9000.
When I made my only connection, I couldn't see which folder I should be transferring my data files to.
For example my .xls files, or my .doc files, or my .txt files etc etc.?
There are many possible places to copy them to and I'm sure they need to be in the right folder.
TIA
I installed the latest Kies and from it's menu I selected "Driver Recovery" - this installs the latest drivers for your phone.
Then from the home screen select Settings - About Phone - USB Settings - Samsung Kies. Go back to the home screen and plug in your phone - you should be good to go.
You don't have to use the Kies program - the drivers the program installs will show your built-in phone storage and your sd card storage as two seperate volumes in Windows Explorer.
You can also use Window Media Player to sync your music etc.
Note - for the connection to work you have to be using the default TouchWiz launcher on your phone - if you're using LauncherPro or ADW Launcher you'll have to switch back to the TWLauncher - you can use Home Switcher from the market to do this easily.
plemen said:
I installed the latest Kies and from it's menu I selected "Driver Recovery" - this installs the latest drivers for your phone.
Then from the home screen select Settings - About Phone - USB Settings - Samsung Kies. Go back to the home screen and plug in your phone - you should be good to go.
You don't have to use the Kies program - the drivers the program installs will show your built-in phone storage and your sd card storage as two seperate volumes in Windows Explorer.
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I'm having a ***** of a time making a connection!
I gave in and installed KIES (said 160MB). It turned out to be over 2G and took over 30 minutes to install!!!
After all that it wouldn't recognize my phone!
I re-imaged my hard drive to get rid of the damn program because un-installing it sure didn't work.
So I'm back to square one. Any other ideas where I can get the necessary drivers for Win XP SP2 ?
TIA
Thats odd - I downloaded Kies and it is only 141mb - I have it in front of me... and while I don't use it for anything it seems to provide the latest drivers. If you look at one of the stickies there is a download for just the drivers... good luck.
MarkI9000 said:
I'm having a ***** of a time making a connection!
I gave in and installed KIES (said 160MB). It turned out to be over 2G and took over 30 minutes to install!!!
After all that it wouldn't recognize my phone!
I re-imaged my hard drive to get rid of the damn program because un-installing it sure didn't work.
So I'm back to square one. Any other ideas where I can get the necessary drivers for Win XP SP2 ?
TIA
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plemen said:
Thats odd - I downloaded Kies and it is only 141mb - I have it in front of me... and while I don't use it for anything it seems to provide the latest drivers. If you look at one of the stickies there is a download for just the drivers... good luck.
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Thanks I'll try to find the sticky for the download.
The actual download was 145 MB, but after it finished installing, (which involved an online install) it was more than 2G (I chose the complete install).
Running uninstall got rid of most of the program but not my disk space!
I couldn't find where the files were hiding and certainly wasn't going to mess inside my registry to get rid of stuff.
I tried downloading the drivers but that didn't help.
One of a multitude of problems:
I have my phone connected to PC now (PC doesn't know about phone though)
and I'm in debug mode for USB.
I try to open the App "My Files" and get this friggin' message:
"Your phone does not have a SD card inserted" !!!!
In other words in this state, it is telling me that it can't even recognize the internal SD card!
I've gotten other confusing messages like this one when I've had my 8G external SD card inserted into phone, I launch the App "My Files" and phone tells me there is no SD card inserted!!!
Frustrating!!
A fresh test.
First I insert my 8G micro SD card into my I9000.
Then I go into App "My Files" and I can only see the files on my newly inserted 8G micro SD card. I can't see the files on my internal 8G! (But I could see them using this app just before I inserted my micro card!!!)
Yes, both the internal and the external SD mem are mounted!
Next test. I connect my I9000 to my netbook (Win XP)
and of course my I9000 still isn't recognized by my netbook (it did just once a few days ago).
Then I go into App "My Files" and guess what I get this time?
"Your phone does not have an SD card inserted" !!!
Yeah, tell me about it dear.
MarkI9000 said:
The actual download was 145 MB, but after it finished installing, (which involved an online install) it was more than 2G (I chose the complete install).
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Yeah, I know!
Talk about bloat! What does Kies actually do that requires that size?
I think Samsung must be taking the mickey!
They probably think their customers are total idiots...
MarkI9000 said:
I tried downloading the drivers but that didn't help.
One of a multitude of problems:
I have my phone connected to PC now (PC doesn't know about phone though)
and I'm in debug mode for USB.
I try to open the App "My Files" and get this friggin' message:
"Your phone does not have a SD card inserted" !!!!
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Maybe I misunderstand. Are you trying to connect to the PC in order to transfer some files to/from PC?
If so, put phone into 'Mass Storage Mode' (from 'Idle screen' > settings >About phone> USB settings> select mass storage.
Connect the usb cable, then pull down from top of screen and confirm to connect as mass storage.
Appologies if you already knew that
tk44uk said:
Maybe I misunderstand. Are you trying to connect to the PC in order to transfer some files to/from PC?
If so, put phone into 'Mass Storage Mode' (from 'Idle screen' > settings >About phone> USB settings> select mass storage.
Connect the usb cable, then pull down from top of screen and confirm to connect as mass storage.
Appologies if you already knew that
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Thanks for trying to help. Yes I already knew that, and have done it many times.
I can't help you but I have the same issue in XP SP3
Find 2 removable storage devices (Internal, SD External) but doesn't allow me to browse through either.
It makes sense not giving you access to the internal if the file system is not supported from windows but my sd external is fat32 so it should work.
Unfortunately you can't specify to only use one storage device through external usb connection.
I'd be good to know a workaround for this. I connect my phones to my headunit and it only takes fat32
I had the same experience. I was using AWD Launcher while I was trying to connect to my PC, SGS shows changing, but PC doesn't show anything. As soon as I changed to Samsung Launcher, PC detect my SGS.
so you're telling me that I need to install drivers? it won't be automatic external storage detection just like on a windows mobile device or even the newer iphone 3g onward?
wayne_zmh said:
I had the same experience. I was using AWD Launcher while I was trying to connect to my PC, SGS shows changing, but PC doesn't show anything. As soon as I changed to Samsung Launcher, PC detect my SGS.
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What is AWD Launcher and Samsung Launcher and where do you get them?
Thanks!
ado_civon said:
I can't help you but I have the same issue in XP SP3
Find 2 removable storage devices (Internal, SD External) but doesn't allow me to browse through either.
It makes sense not giving you access to the internal if the file system is not supported from windows but my sd external is fat32 so it should work.
Unfortunately you can't specify to only use one storage device through external usb connection.
I'd be good to know a workaround for this. I connect my phones to my headunit and it only takes fat32
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Interesting take on this ado.
At one point I was able to see 2 removable storage devices (Internal, SD External) on my desktop and netbook (both have Win XP SP2).
But, as happened to you, I couldn't get access to them when I clicked on them.
More info that might help with this puzzle:
I installed KIES (full install) and couldn't connect after selecting KIES on the phone).
I am not able to connect using Mass Storage mode either.
I was able to connect ONE time on the netbook and get into the phone folders. I believe this was after installing Samsung New PC Studio 3.
But after that, no dice.
When I first started trying to connect on the desktop and netbook I would get the typical Windows USB connection messages: unknown USB device, would you like to install drivers from this location? etc. etc.
That was good! It showed promise.
Then after a few times I stopped getting those messages from both devices. During that period, I made a partial connection on each device.
I could see two new drives (internal and external SD). But when I clicked on them it showed no space available. Braindead basically.
Something possibly related that I can't figure out at all.
When I go into 'My Files' /sdcard/ will only show SD internal IF my external SD card is not inside the phone. If my SD external card is inside the phone then it shows the SD external only, not the SD internal! Why?
Also very confusing: When I pull down the menu from the top on home screen and select Ongoing: USB connected: Select to copy files to/from computer, then it asks to Mount.
I choose Mount, go to 'My Files' and it says "Your phone does not have an SD card inside!" WTF? (It says that with or without an external SD card inside).
Also strange, when I chose Mount, it then starts to sever the USB connection with messages scrolling by at the top.
So to summarize (this is strictly from the phone's side)
when I connect via Mass Storage it seems to indicate that a USB connection is made. But when I select Mount, the USB connection is terminated!
Success, finally!
I wish I could tell you exactly what the magic bullet was, but it happened gradually. You know how you change something and it seems to help a little. So you change something else and it seems to be getting better?
Here are they key steps that I can remember:
-I went back and re-installed SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe.
There are no messages given after the install completes, they're just drivers, not a program.
-I put the I9000 into debug mode for USB connections (not sure if I need this now).
-After connecting the phone to WinXP I went to phone's home screen, notification window and selected the USB connection and chose to Mount the drive(s).
I can now see and access both the internal SD and the external SD! WOW!
if you want Kies just to manage and organize your phone, i found a better software for that than kies
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
So a driver instal is required. Bugger. I need my external storage to show up and be defaulted to first because it would be nice if I could connect to my headunit in car to get to my mp3's.
Maybe some sort of hack could help here
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@ado_civon: I'm not sure you do need to install the drivers.
My issue was that I was not getting the 'USB connected, touch to transfer files' status bar option.
I'm using Dark's ROM (based on Froyo) and don't see the Settings > About Phone > USB settings option. However, when I switched on Settings > Applications > Development > Enable USB debugging, and reconnected, I did get the status bar option.
Sadly, selecting this still did not let my computer (a Win XP machine at work, so I have no administrator rights) recognise the drive. Maybe it works for others, though. On my HTC Hero this works fine, so I'm still not sure why it won't work with the SGS
Following the advice of deleting any files with longer than 16 characters after the . in the filename.xxxxx
I finally managed to correctly install the MTP driver upon connecting my phone to the pc throught Kies mode. How ever Kies itself wont detect my phones, it keeps saying " connecting, please wait"
Also I tried to bypass Kies and only use the MSC.Thunder.FirmwareUpdate.exe - Shortcut file still that wont detect my phone. :/
Any help?
Unmount your External SD Card and try again.
Unmount your internal SD Card and try again.
Post your results.
are you sure you're using touchwiz, kies will not work with 3rd party launcher replacement apps.
Yes im using samsung tw interface, the default one, never installed any other interfaces. And I was on the home screen when I plug in the USB cabel, and selected Samsung Kies when the options popped up.
Unmount extern SD card, same result.
Unmount extern and intern SD card wont work, as the MTP screen keep flashing between the homescreen and the MTP screen
Remount the intern SD card, but have the extern SD unmount, gives same result as before. MTP working perferctly but Kies wont connect. neither does the MSC.Thunder.FirmwareUpdate.exe
did you apply lagfix? I used to have flashing between home and MTP when i moved back files from /dbdata/data to /data/data.
This is a known issue. It is caused by files with long name extensions residing on the SD card. If you have used Soundhound, delete the files in it's cache folder. If this does not help, mount the SD as a mass storage device and use windows search with the following: *.????????????*
This should show you the files with long extensions. Delete them (or backup if they are important) and try Kies again.
Hope this helps.
husq510 said:
did you apply lagfix? I used to have flashing between home and MTP when i moved back files from /dbdata/data to /data/data.
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Yes I used the 1 click lag fix.apk
What do you mean moving files from dbdata/data to data/data
NetCopAD said:
This is a known issue. It is caused by files with long name extensions residing on the SD card. If you have used Soundhound, delete the files in it's cache folder. If this does not help, mount the SD as a mass storage device and use windows search with the following: *.????????????*
This should show you the files with long extensions. Delete them (or backup if they are important) and try Kies again.
Hope this helps.
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I think you meant what I already did in my first post, deleting files with longer than 16 character in their extension, which is why MTP is running now that I did just that. But still my problem is that Kies wont connect.
Opps, sorry about that. Not enough sleep apparently :/
Try restarting the phone, reinstall drivers trough Kies, delete device info from the registry and then start Kies again and connect the phone.
NetCopAD said:
Opps, sorry about that. Not enough sleep apparently :/
Try restarting the phone, reinstall drivers trough Kies, delete device info from the registry and then start Kies again and connect the phone.
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Yeah now that worked, I had to finally reinstall drivers through Kies itself.
Now it's all peachy woot.
So to recap this is what I did.
* deleting all files with longer than 16 characters in the extension on internal SD.
* reinstall drivers in Kies.
voila.
squyerkul said:
Yeah now that worked, I had to finally reinstall drivers through Kies itself.
Now it's all peachy woot.
So to recap this is what I did.
* deleting all files with longer than 16 characters in the extension on internal SD.
* reinstall drivers in Kies.
voila.
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This worked for me, too. The drivers in my case had never installed at all. By deleting the files with more than 16 chars they then did install. I got the i9000 connected to Windows Vista Home Premium and Kies. The firmware update function then told me there was nothing to update.
All I can say is: Kies is one STUPID piece of software. Incredible.
I hope you guys here from XDA can help me solving a question I have about some errors I get when trying to backup the gameloft game's data on my PC and either nandroid backups created on the internal SD of my Galaxy Tab (something that usually happened with my old Galaxy S too).
I try both ways, with the Tab connected to Windows 7 in Mass Storage or Kies mode, but sometimes I get some weird errors (the file transfer stops and the USB connection hangs out, and sometimes, when I insist in trying to copy the file that gave me the error, the file ends up corrupting itself in the internal memory), but after turning the tab off and then on again, I can get the files normally and get no errors.
Does the internal SD memory of Galaxy series get corrupted that easily, the USB connection is poor or what?
The weird part is that this only happens copying files from the internal SD to PC. In the reverse way, I get no errors, so I don't believe it's a dock conector/USB cable problem, since it's a original and new USB cable that don't show any kind of problem when flashing roms, for example. I belive that if it was some kind of dock/usb cable problem I wouldn't be able to flash roms or transfer large files from PC to Tab without the same kind of errors showing up, right?
Did someone here experience the same errors I mentioned?
Thanks!
Nobody?
Have u updated ur Kies software becoz it installs latest USB drivers for ur Tab.
Yes, Kies is updated, but I dont think it matters when using usb mass storage mode...
Rooted tab? Read-write mode enabled?
Yes, rooted, and no read-write enabled for /system.
Hello guys,
I had CM7 running for a while because of its stability. However, I have used CM9 as well for a long time on my P990. Today, I was planning to revert back to CM9 and connected the phone to the computer but the internal memory nor the memory card shows up in my computer. I tried two different laptops and also reflashed cm7 which was already present in my memory card. Still no luck.
When I connect the phone, I get the bell, alert or whatever you want to call it from windows that it has detected that a usb device has connected. Though nothing shows up in my computer. USB Debugging is switched on. And I also press the notification on the phone which should allow me to transfer files between phone and computer.
Im out of ideas, please help.
Re-install the LG USB drivers, found here in the developers section.
I had the same problem when I flashed my phone and everytime I changed roms, I would have to install the drivers again.
korgndm said:
Re-install the LG USB drivers, found here in the developers section.
I had the same problem when I flashed my phone and everytime I changed roms, I would have to install the drivers again.
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And if reinstalling the drivers does not help for whatever reason, and if all that you're trying to do is to push the CM9 rom files from your PC to the SD on your phone, then try following the tip from XDA-TV using SSHDroid. It worked well for me.
http://youtu.be/UI70UYug_zQ
The example in the video is with a Ubuntu machine, but you can follow the same steps for using PC with Putty and WinSCP.
And I haven't tried this, but another alternative is using adbwireless available through Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...reless&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Hello!
a few days ago i dropped my phone and now only the lower right part of the touch screen works :| (it only has touch functions on the lower right)
my phones out of warranty and i'm probably not going to fix it, the only important thing for me is my data on the internal storage.
when i connect the phone to a computer it asks for the type of connection i want to the PC (charging only,MTP,MSC,MIDI) and because the touch screen doesn't work i can't choose MTP :|
is there anyway to access phones internal storage without choosing MTP mode on the phone?
thanks in advance
Leon5260 said:
Hello!
a few days ago i dropped my phone and now only the lower right part of the touch screen works :| (it only has touch functions on the lower right)
my phones out of warranty and i'm probably not going to fix it, the only important thing for me is my data on the internal storage.
when i connect the phone to a computer it asks for the type of connection i want to the PC (charging only,MTP,MSC,MIDI) and because the touch screen doesn't work i can't choose MTP :|
is there anyway to access phones internal storage without choosing MTP mode on the phone?
thanks in advance
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If you can work out a way to install recovery. Recovery can be managed by volume up/down and the power button as enter. There is a file manager in TWRP, you could copy the files onto ext sd card.
Didgesteve said:
If you can work out a way to install recovery. Recovery can be managed by volume up/down and the power button as enter. There is a file manager in TWRP, you could copy the files onto ext sd card.
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Look,since you 're on 6.0.1 you can't fix it...I'll give you the steps to fix it by downgrading.BEFORE PROCEEDING I MUST TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL MAYBE NEED A MOUSE AND A USB OTG CABLE TO SETUP THE PHONE AFTER DOWNGRADING!
Step 1) download Flashtool and then use Xperifirm(it's built-in) to download a Lollipop firmware,no matter which one,since you won't fix the phone again.
Step 2) Install the drivers for Z3 compact from the Flashtool/drivers and then Install the firmware to your phone using Flashtool,it will guide you.
Step 3) Boot the phone once the firmware installation is done.
Step 4) Connect the usb otg cable on your phone's micro-usb port and then connect the mouse on the otg cable to set-up the Phone.After that connect the Phone to your PC via the usb cable.
Step 5) If the files you want to copy and backup, are on your phone's storage then connect your phone to PC and copy the files you need from your Phone 's Storage,otherwise grab the files from your SD Card.
I hope this helps you!
PS.don't throw your phone to the garbage since it can still be used with a mouse.
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Look,since you 're on 6.0.1 you can't fix it...I'll give you the steps to fix it by downgrading.BEFORE PROCEEDING I MUST TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL MAYBE NEED A MOUSE AND A USB OTG CABLE TO SETUP THE PHONE AFTER DOWNGRADING!
Step 1) download Flashtool and then use Xperifirm(it's built-in) to download a Lollipop firmware,no matter which one,since you won't fix the phone again.
Step 2) Install the drivers for Z3 compact from the Flashtool/drivers and then Install the firmware to your phone using Flashtool,it will guide you.
Step 3) Boot the phone once the firmware installation is done.
Step 4) Connect the usb otg cable on your phone's micro-usb port and then connect the mouse on the otg cable to set-up the Phone.After that connect the Phone to your PC via the usb cable.
Step 5) If the files you want to copy and backup, are on your phone's storage then connect your phone to PC and copy the files you need from your Phone 's Storage,otherwise grab the files from your SD Card.
I hope this helps you!
PS.don't throw your phone to the garbage since it can still be used with a mouse.
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But if you flash with Flashtool I believe it does wipe the internal storage
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But if you flash with Flashtool I believe it does wipe the internal storage
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Oh yes you 're right i forgot that...then the process changes...
You must use otg cable and,using a file manager, move your files from internal storage to your SD card...then you can move your files from your SD card to your PC using a card reader or something...
I'm not sure if flashing without wiping data will cause bootloop or not, so the above method is the safest
kwstas 13 said:
Oh yes you 're right i forgot that...then the process changes...
You must use otg cable and,using a file manager, move your files from internal storage to your SD card...then you can move your files from your SD card to your PC using a card reader or something...
I'm not sure if flashing without wiping data will cause bootloop or not, so the above method is the safest
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The otg cable is very cheap you can find them for less then 10 bucks I had 2 of them and my brother steals them he doesnt even use them like I do but anyways yeah otg cable is the way to go
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use mouse and some file manager that allows wifi copy
Fix for your problem
Leon5260 said:
Hello!
a few days ago i dropped my phone and now only the lower right part of the touch screen works :| (it only has touch functions on the lower right)
my phones out of warranty and i'm probably not going to fix it, the only important thing for me is my data on the internal storage.
when i connect the phone to a computer it asks for the type of connection i want to the PC (charging only,MTP,MSC,MIDI) and because the touch screen doesn't work i can't choose MTP :|
is there anyway to access phones internal storage without choosing MTP mode on the phone?
thanks in advance
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Use a OTG cable , then connect a common mouse ( wired ) and then connect to phone aswell , so you can use the mouse inside ur phone without using touchscreen. hope it helps