The Win8 file explorer often hangs when using a Windows Phone 8 device connected via USB. And it's slow when it doesn't permanently hang. Is this a bug in Windows Phone 8 or should I try to access it with some other software?
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The Win8 file explorer often hangs when using a Windows Phone 8 device connected via USB. And it's slow when it doesn't permanently hang. Is this a bug in Windows Phone 8 or should I try to access it with some other software?
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I use to get that when I was using Windows 7 but not now with Windows 8, the one thing I am getting now with Windows 8 is that I have to sometimes restart the phone for Windows 8 to see it but I'm thinking its faulty USB drives on my PC.
The MTP host service on the phone is not the fastest or smoothest thing. I don't believe it is anything wrong with your phone in particular. Bear in mind that you aren't actually browsing the file system (as you would be with USB Mass Storage, or UMS); you're browsing a representation of it which is made available over Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). Unlike UMS, MTP requires code running on the phone to produce that representation, send it over the wire, and process data coming from the PC.
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Hi, I have a Nexus One with CyanogenMod 7.0.3 installed. My desktop computer is a Windows 7 computer with the Android SDK installed. My laptop is a Windows 7 computer without the SDK.
When I plug in the phone in the Laptop, and turn on USB storage on the phone, I see the phone contents. But on the Desktop I only see the phone under Device Manager.
I even uninstalled the SDK, but no change. I used both the original cable and other cable. Updated drivers. I'm at loss.
this happened to me too. A quick fix is to disable then enble the driver in device property. A permanent fix is to wipe and flash the phone again.
Hope that helps
You also may need to check and see what drive letter your device is connecting to. If your phone defaults to drive "G" and "G" was already being used by some other connected device, you will not see your phone. Check it under disk management.
Hi All,
Can I connect my HD7 via USB & see another removable mass storage drive being shown in Windows Explorer or Device being shown as Mobile Device.
Prior to HD7, I was using Nokia E72, HTC Touch (Elfin) and other phones. On all those phones, I could transfer file directly using Windows Explorer. But not in HD7.
HD7 doesn't even allow file through Bluetooh
Can any one help?
Thanks in advance.
hi priyarupesh
it depends on rom you have
custom roms now have app WM device centre, which allows you to transfer files over
cheers and have a gr8 day
thanks button is next to the qoute button
Hi Jhonny,
I have Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit OS on my laptop. I downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows vista 64-bit from Microsoft & installed on my laptop.
I kept my phone in on state, such that it should not switch off display, does not lock up etc..
Downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center App on my phone & started it.
Then I connected phone to Laptop.
WMDC in laptop, didn't connect to my phone.
I tried locating my phone in Laptop's Device Manager and found it is there under 2 devices, Portable Devices & Windows Phone USB Devices.
I thought, since zune is pitching in on connecting phone to laptop, I uninstalled Zune from laptop & tried again to connect.
In WMDC in laptop connection setting also, I selected USB to connect, but in-vain.
Am I missing something?
yes wrong one u downloaded
i think you need to download the one that in the thread in the hacking thread if i'm not wrong.
Hi Ttblondey,
Can you please provide the link.
Thanks,
Rupesh
Your looking for WPDM (Windows Phone Device Manager). Maybe your searching for the previous WMDM (Windows Mobile Device Manager).
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My Nokia 1020 runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
My laptop is running the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
When I connect my cell phone to the laptop using the USB cord,
the phone chimes and the computer chimes,
but the device does not appear in Windows Explorer C: drives.
I want to download photos using the latest build of Windows Live Photo Gallery 2012,
but the device does not show up.
This was working sporadically previously, but now it won't work at all.
My phone is turned on.
I tried unplugging and re-plugging the USB cord.
I tried rebooting and re-installing Windows Live Photo Gallery.
furjaw said:
My Nokia 1020 runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
My laptop is running the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
When I connect my cell phone to the laptop using the USB cord,
the phone chimes and the computer chimes,
but the device does not appear in Windows Explorer C: drives.
I want to download photos using the latest build of Windows Live Photo Gallery 2012,
but the device does not show up.
This was working sporadically previously, but now it won't work at all.
My phone is turned on.
I tried unplugging and re-plugging the USB cord.
I tried rebooting and re-installing Windows Live Photo Gallery.
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You obviously didn't install the drivers for it...
Rebooting my cell phone solved the problem.
Rebooting my cell phone solved the problem.
I should have thought of that!
I have a new Z3C and want to use the Wireless Media Transfer option but I cannot get the device to pair with a Windows 7 x64 PC (I've tried two PCs now). I have the device in MTP mode, but when I right-click on "Xperia Z3 Compact" and choose the "Network Configuration" option the wizard hangs while trying to transfer the settings. I even installed PC Companion, and made sure everything is up-to-date but I just cannot get it to work.
I want to use this feature so I can access my micro SD card without messing with the flaps: transferring music and tag editing using mp3tag are essential to me and I don't want to wear out those delicate little flaps!
Well I tried pairing wireless with Win. 7 and failed too, don't know exactly what's the problem. My suggestion would be to use ES explorer though. You can add your PC to the LAN tab by entering the internal IP and just copy to the internal memory (no SD card access thanks to Google). From there the preinstalled File Commander can move your music to SD.
rec71 said:
I have a new Z3C and want to use the Wireless Media Transfer option but I cannot get the device to pair with a Windows 7 x64 PC (I've tried two PCs now). I have the device in MTP mode, but when I right-click on "Xperia Z3 Compact" and choose the "Network Configuration" option the wizard hangs while trying to transfer the settings. ...
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Had the same issue on Win7, hang while transferring settings. On the 3rd attempt it did pair successfully. I noticed that windows was installing a device driver on the first pairing attempt, maybe that just needed to complete first.
The Transfer Settings stage does take a while, so it may just look like it's hanging. How long did you try it? Also you may need to allow portable devices access in your firewall (as the popup advises).
I left it a good 10 minutes. No drivers were being installed and no firewall popups appeared (I don't use the Windows software firewall).
Same here (64bit) win 8.1 I let it run until the 'can't complete' dialogue shows
Having the same issue here - anyone else fixed it until now ?
It happens to me at first... But if you will make screen time out more like 10 + min, while pairing configuration it does connect. Its because of screen goes off then it wont connect.
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What helped me was making sure the screen didn't turn off, might be an idea too to temp disable Stamina while it goes through its process, it does take a while.
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What helped me was making sure the screen didn't turn off, might be an idea too to temp disable Stamina while it goes through its process, it does take a while.
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Yup, that was it - and ofcourse no vpn active..
This worked for me
rec71 said:
I have a new Z3C and want to use the Wireless Media Transfer option but I cannot get the device to pair with a Windows 7 x64 PC (I've tried two PCs now). I have the device in MTP mode, but when I right-click on "Xperia Z3 Compact" and choose the "Network Configuration" option the wizard hangs while trying to transfer the settings. I even installed PC Companion, and made sure everything is up-to-date but I just cannot get it to work.
I want to use this feature so I can access my micro SD card without messing with the flaps: transferring music and tag editing using mp3tag are essential to me and I don't want to wear out those delicate little flaps!
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I had the same problem, solved it this way (hope I remember correctly)
on phone:
- set screen sleep to 30 minutes (Settings - Display - Sleep)
- turn off stamina mode (Settings - Power Management)
-plug into PC with USB
on PC:
- "Computer", right click "Xperia Z3 Compact" and select "Network Configuration"
- Click through with "Next/OK" until you get the screen that says something about "transfering settings" (or something like that) where it seemed to hang on previous attempts.
...and now the most important part - WALK AWAY!! Make a sandwich or something, come back in 30 mins and all should be OK - it's not actually hanging, just looks unresponsive while it does it's thing - be patient.
Good luck!
I did pair with PC using USB. The problem I have is that it hangs for 1 or 2 minutes while trying to connect to PC with WI-FI. Then it fails. I try for like 15 times, then for no reason it works. It only happens when I'm using my home wi-fi. I tried to connect with a friend's wifi, and it worked in a few seconds.
I'm having increasing difficulty connecting my phone to any of my pcs. It started with additional time being taken for the pc to recognize the device. Now I get lots of freezes if I try to navigate to the internal or sd card, sometimes freezing up windows explorer. Recently, I have been unable to create new folders on the device from windows without freezing up windows explorer and now my files and folders are not populating correctly. I named a folder ppsspp on my device, it shows up in windows as "New Folder" across several devices and freezes the explorer if I try to interact with it.
Today I am unable to transfer anything to my device and connecting to the pc just freezes up explorer about 4 out of 5 times I connect it. Any advice? I't like my phone's connection to PCs are consistently degrading.