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[Q] Windows No Longer Recognizes Captivate

Hello all, I am turning to the Forums since I have spent 5 hours trying to resolve my problem.
Earlier today I installed Kies Mini on my computer in anticipation of the official AT&T Froyo. However, now my computer no longer recognizes my phone at all. It does not show up in the Device Manager, or anywhere.
I tried Uninstalling Kies Mini, Uninstalling the Drivers, Rebooting my phone. etc, etc. But Windows still will not recognize the phone as attached. It worked in the past and I would like for it to work again.
I am currently running Windows 7 64 bit. My Captivate is running Cog 3.4.

Try this:
Uninstall Kies Mini and all Drivers
Reinstall Kies Mini
Once installed turn on USB debugging on your phone and then plug it in, let it install all of the drivers.
Unplug your phone and shut it down
Once shut down activate download mode (hold up and down volume and plug in the USB) again it will install more drivers.
Once this is done unplug your phone, remove the battery and turn it back on, then restart your computer.

Uninstalled Kies Mini, and Samsung Drivers. Reboot
Installed Kies Mini.
Attached Phone to Computer. Nothing.
Also, Tried to Just boot my phone into Recovery Mode. But only boots into Clockwork Recovery. Can't Log into Stock Recovery
Update: Tried hooking up the phone to my XP machine. No Joy. XP did not recognize the device or try to install drivers.

Did you enable debugging?
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Yes, I placed it in Debug mode. When I plug in my Phone my Title Bar Shows the USB Debugging Android indicating that USB Debugging connected, the USB icon that says Copy files to From Computer. If I click on USB, it gives me the Green Connect Android, then the Orange One. But none of my computers recognize a USB device as connected.
I have tried it with Three different cables. I'm thinking that somehow the phone is not sending some message to Windows saying "Hey, I'm connected"

Did you use the correct drivers for the phone? Can't recall of the top of my head if I can use the standard captivate drivers for windows if your on cognition..
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I am having this exact same issue - only I updated from JH7 to Official 2.2 (for ****s n giggles) and now pc no longer recognizes phone. Went through the uninstall and reinstall and reboot.... no luck. I've never had this issue before...... ever.

I have tried almost everything i can think of. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Not in device manager
I have what appears to be a soft brick. I was running the i9000 drivers. I was trying to install the i897. At first Odin recognized my phone and I began to download. The Odin bootloader flash failed. No my computer (Win 7 64 bit) does not even see my phone. Nothing in device manager, not even an unrecognized device.
I can get my phone into download mode. Does anyone have an idea how I can get windows to see me again?

From my experience as long as you are in download mode and have odin opened up it when you connect it, odin should find the phone no problem for you to be able to flash something new to it.

davncari said:
I have what appears to be a soft brick. I was running the i9000 drivers. I was trying to install the i897. At first Odin recognized my phone and I began to download. The Odin bootloader flash failed. No my computer (Win 7 64 bit) does not even see my phone. Nothing in device manager, not even an unrecognized device.
I can get my phone into download mode. Does anyone have an idea how I can get windows to see me again?
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Have you rebooted the PC? Try to reinstall the drivers again. I had to reinstall the nexus s drivers but I have read some need to reinstall kies to get the drivers to work. Just keep at it. Try other USB ports. My phone wouldn't be recognized for about two weeks with trying everything. I tried new USB cables, drivers and all. Then finally it kind of worked and I went from download mode with a jig to phone!PC and then it took another reboot of the laptop and phone was able to get flashed again via the phone!PC screen. Just keep trying is all I can say.
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not reading in download mode?

ok. so I recently started using a different computer, it's windows vista. when I go to download mode, and plug the phone in the computer just says "usb device not recognized". I've got the latest drivers, and tried uninstalling then reinstalling again. any ideas as to what is going on?
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Multiple ports?
CM7

I've tried front and back usb ports,
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Try uninstall again.
Dl usb drivers but dont install. Save them to desktop
Plug in phone
Unknown device pops up, click on message. Click install custom drivers, navigate to where you saved uninstalled drivers are. Select
This has worked for some
CM7

Ok I uninstalled any versions of the drivers, when I plugged in my phone, the computer said unknown device as usual but it is automatically installing an "unknown device" driver. When I went to select the driver manually for it, it told me that there was no need to update and it didn't give me another option.

I should probably mention that originally, the computer recognized my internal sdcard when i mounted it. Now it isn't, and it won't recognize it in any mode.

Mik3D23 said:
I should probably mention that originally, the computer recognized my internal sdcard when i mounted it. Now it isn't, and it won't recognize it in any mode.
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what rom are you using now? does the driver you installed came from the stock eclair or froyo. I get the same message after flashing from stock to custom roms. I just plug my phone again and the pc automatically searches and installs driver from gt i900 driver. My old PC is running win xp with android sdk manager in it aside from the kies mini it has which already has the samsung drivers which supports stock roms.

definitely wrong drivers...If your computer recognize it in normal mode as in to mount internal sd card, but says unknown device in download mode than try to download USB drivers from somewhere else...
I have noticed this that drivers from samsung website doesnt support the download mode...I have faced this problem...mine would ask for gadget serial..so i use this drivers...http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml
Hope this helps

I'm running perception 10.4. I've tried several different download sources, and it doesn't read when I mount the sd card anymore. On my windows 7 computer it worked no matter what rom I had, and I didn't have to change drivers at all. I'll try that link and see what happens

Still won't work...

This happens to me all the time when attempting to flash back to stock. What I do is just keep doing battery pulls and switching usb ports. Eventually, it works!

OBatRFan said:
This happens to me all the time when attempting to flash back to stock. What I do is just keep doing battery pulls and switching usb ports. Eventually, it works!
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lol How long will that usually take until it works..

I've tried pulling the battery and switching ports at least 15 times.. nothing happens. windows installs an "unknown driver" automatically, and if I choose the galaxy s drivers for it, it says the driver isn't compatible for my device. It's not even recognizing it's a phone, or a mass storage device, or any other usb device it can be.

Unknown Device
Was this ever resolved? I have the same problem. Unknown Device in Download Mode. ADB works, PC recognizes phone in normal mode.
The phone shows up in Device Manager when in normal mode. If I use ADB to reboot download, the PC immediately drops the phone and displays unknown device in device manager.
Have tried complete uninstall/reinstall of drivers including regedit. NO JOY.
Running XP SP3. Any ideas?

after upgrading to gingerbread my pc thinks it is an i9000.
try those drivers.
i have no issues though.

[Q] Odin doesn't recognize phone

I have the latest samsung drivers installed, the phone is detected by Odin when it is on, but Odin doesn't detect it when the phone is in download mode?
If anyone can help or give any advice, thank you in advance.

Ja_guor said:
I have the latest samsung drivers installed, the phone is detected by Odin when it is on, but Odin doesn't detect it when the phone is in download mode?
If anyone can help or give any advice, thank you in advance.
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From what I can remember, when you put the phone in download mode and connect it using usb, it tries to install another driver on your pc.. was that successfully installed?
or you can remove the samsung drivers and then reinstall them and try doing the whole process again.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the samsung driver, but odin still doesn't recognize the phone when connected by USB.
I remember multiple drivers being installed when I first connected the phone, but I'm not sure if any of them were when I connected the phone in download mode. How would I check the drivers for this or uninstall/reinstall them?

Ja_guor said:
I uninstalled and reinstalled the samsung driver, but odin still doesn't recognize the phone when connected by USB.
I remember multiple drivers being installed when I first connected the phone, but I'm not sure if any of them were when I connected the phone in download mode. How would I check the drivers for this or uninstall/reinstall them?
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you could check in device manager of your windows for any devices for which drivers have not been installed..
should be just the drivers problem as odin recognizes when your phone is on

The only driver that seems to show up for when the phone is connected is "USB Mass Storage" device, which i uninstalled and reinstalled but odin and zadig of heimdall still don't detect as they should.
Do I have to have the USB settings of the phone in any particular mode?

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Did you install drivers separately or along with Kies?
I had the same issue a few days back and this solved it:
1. Uninstalling all Samsung (and Google) USB drivers
2. Uninstall Kies
3. Download and run "uninstall kies" (search on the Forum/Google for UnistallKies.zip/ UninstallKies.exe)
4. Download and install latest Kies
5. Put phone in download mode AND THEN connect to PC.
See if that solves it.

Something I found....
If you have Kies on your computer, make sure it's not running in the background. Go to the Task Manager > Processes and remove it. From memory, there are two Kies apps running in the background.
Once they've stopped proceessing, try the download mode, Odin thing again.
Babe
Hmmm... not typing fast enough.... And yes, make sure your phone is in USB mode, USB debugging enabled and from memory?...... I think you have to have the non-market apps (Unknown Sources) box ticked

Ja_guor said:
The only driver that seems to show up for when the phone is connected is "USB Mass Storage" device, which i uninstalled and reinstalled but odin and zadig of heimdall still don't detect as they should.
Do I have to have the USB settings of the phone in any particular mode?
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you have enabled usb debugging right?

Well I'm trying on another computer now, which did not have any of the drivers installed initially. I installed the latest samsung drivers WITHOUT Kies, and installed the drivers that come when the phone is connected in download mode.
Odin, both versions 1.85 and 1.3, does not detect the phone at all either on this other computer.

Oh gosh...nevermind, turns out I was in recovery mode and not download mode. Thank you for all your help though!

Ja_guor said:
Oh gosh...nevermind, turns out I was in recovery mode and not download mode. Thank you for all your help though!
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lol..

ishangoyal said:
From what I can remember, when you put the phone in download mode and connect it using usb, it tries to install another driver on your pc.. was that successfully installed?
or you can remove the samsung drivers and then reinstall them and try doing the whole process again.
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the driver that it tries to install fails in download mode ... i tried to reinstall drivers but it still shows the ! sign in device manager .. and shows the device as MSM7x27 .
on normal usb mode there is no issue and shows the driver as samsung ....
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ishangoyal said:
From what I can remember, when you put the phone in download mode and connect it using usb, it tries to install another driver on your pc.. was that successfully installed?
or you can remove the samsung drivers and then reinstall them and try doing the whole process again.
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hi, i am facing this issue ...driver doesnt install correctly when in download mode ... tried to update ..reinstall drivers but still no use ..
in device manager it shows as msm7
running windows 8
after a uninstall and reinstall and a new usb wire it shows unrecognized device with !

Odin and Samsung usb driver issues

So attempting to root I can not get my tmobile note 4 to be recognized by Odin when I enter downloading mode. I obviously tried installing samsung usb mobile driver, when I did a message window in Japanese with a red x appeared on my win 8.1 desktop. I tried different downloads of driver and even tried samsung site all give same error window. I then installed latest kies and it installed ok and recognized my note. I tried Odin and entered dl mode on note and still Odin doesn't recognize device. I uninstalled and reinstalled kies and driver but no luck. Is there a setting on my phone that's not allowing. I have usb Debug checked. When in dl mode it just says secure download enabled and then says entering udc. I am adb literate but new to odin. Any suggestions ...

Delete everything and start over. My laptop automatically downloads the drivers for me so not sure if your desktop will do the same.
If not, download drivers or just reinstall then and try it out and see if that works for you.

Well my fix was to go to a friend's house and use there pc. Tried everything and my win 8.1 did not like.

Removing or reinstalling Samsung drivers can be tricky. You did the right (easy) thing going to a different computer. Trying to use the same computer for an old and new Samsung device at the same time can easily cause your problem to happen. I found that you can't just switch between different versions of the drivers willy nilly. Perhaps the uninstaller routine doesn't work? Registry issue? Don't know.
If your win 8 pc can be rolled back to before you ever installed kies or a Samsung driver you might be able to get it to work using the correct (new) driver. That said, I'm still using the same driver I installed for my Note 2. Since it worked for the Note 4 and knowing what could happen, I left well enough alone!
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ACE S5830 hardbricked, drivers are not getting detected.

I just hardbricked my S5830 while trying to install cwm.
Actually I tried to install cwm without rooting the phone, and when i checked after this the phone was not going to recovery even samsung default recovery was gone.
Now there was no way through phone to install cwm. So i tried to factory reset the phone. My bad luck, phone is not getting on now.
The problem I am facing now is I am not able to use odin as drivers are not recognising the phone. It always gives drivers malfunctioned error. Even for the adb drivers too.
Has anybody faced this issue?
It is going to download mode. But in pc it is not recognising the phone. I installed all the available drivers.. But still the same.
Thank you in advance.

sie4kor said:
I just hardbricked my S5830 while trying to install cwm.
Actually I tried to install cwm without rooting the phone, and when i checked after this the phone was not going to recovery even samsung default recovery was gone.
Now there was no way through phone to install cwm. So i tried to factory reset the phone. My bad luck, phone is not getting on now.
The problem I am facing now is I am not able to use odin as drivers are not recognising the phone. It always gives drivers malfunctioned error. Even for the adb drivers too.
Has anybody faced this issue?
It is going to download mode. But in pc it is not recognising the phone. I installed all the available drivers.. But still the same.
Thank you in advance.
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Have a look in the rooting and troubleshooting threads.
If odin isn't recognising your phone then:
1/ drivers for "download-mode" not installed properly.
2/ phone is not actually in download-mode.
3/ usb cable or pc usb port is faulty.

Ri9000 said:
Have a look in the rooting and troubleshooting threads.
If odin isn't recognising your phone then:
1/ drivers for "download-mode" not installed properly.
2/ phone is not actually in download-mode.
3/ usb cable or pc usb port is faulty.
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I am glad you replied.
I think the drivers for download mode has not installed properly.
I searched in rooting and trouble shooting, couldnt find the proper drivers which detects. Even i installed windows 7 as someone mentioned in some thread. Still nothing worked.

sie4kor said:
I am glad you replied.
I think the drivers for download mode has not installed properly.
I searched in rooting and trouble shooting, couldnt find the proper drivers which detects. Even i installed windows 7 as someone mentioned in some thread. Still nothing worked.
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1/ All I can suggest is install drivers/ odin as administrator. Windows should detect running phone with "ding-dong" even in wrong mode.
2/ remove phone battery for 20 secs.
3/ replace battery.
4/ press and hold down home button, down-Volume & then press power for 4 secs, then release power.
5/ keep holding home and down-Volume (about 5 more secs) until screen flashes and "downloading" is displayed.
6/ release buttons, plug phone to pc, flash stock rom with odin.