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Captivate USB Drivers

Found them on a thread at Android Forums...
http://androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/123644-captivate-usb-drivers-links-here.html

let me be the 1st tho say thank you, now let the rooting begin!

Helpful...
Yes...this was helpful...

How long did it take for you guys to install these? I at one point had the install running for 40 minutes and it was only 35-maybe 40% complete by the progress bar. This can't be right?
I'm trying to install the 64-bit driver on Vista64.

The guys that "found" those drivers got the wrong ones. The correct ones are here. Sorry guys.
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/...ATT/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=support

thank you!!

These new drivers seem to actually install, but I STILL can't seem to access the device memory OR the SD card. I put the phone into USB Mass Storage mode and mounted the volumes in my pull down menu, my computer simply does not seem to recongize them.

ditto, comp doesn't recognize SD card.

Okay, over on androidforums we've now had 3 people who were able to get their phone to play nice when the switched to a USB port on the rear of the computer. No idea why, but that seems to be the only way I can get all my stuff working. If it's plugged into the front, I ahve issues with my external hard drive and mp3 player - and the phone itself seemed to be spotty. Now with it plugged into a rear USB port, everything works fine.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/124548-windows-cant-find-captivate.html

How do you load music & other files on this thing?

I plugged it into two different windows XP computers with the USB cord, but nothing shows up on my computer. I get some weird error on my phone, something like "PC connection unavailable ... blah blah blah ... idle screen ... blah blah ... close applications." I think this might be because I'm using LauncherPro. Why can't I just get a simple vanilla android build?

there are custom usb drivers, look for them in the how to root thread in android development subforum. After you dl them extract them somewhere and open up device mgr. U should see a usb device with a ? over it. Rightclick it and select update or install. Tell it that you want to select the location of the drivers and point it to where you extracted the drivers. You'll want to use the x86 ones if you have an intel 32bit winxp and the amd64 if u have an amd processor running windows xp.

OK.
Bring up your Settings pane and select Applications. In the Applications screen, select USB Settings and select Mass Storage. Now, when you connect the handset to your computer, pull down your notification bar and select USB Connected, it will bring up a prompt about mounting the volumes - press Mount. In the future you will just need to plug it in and mount the drives from the pull down menu.
You should be good to go. If not, try installing the Captivate drivers.
Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.

mesasone said:
OK.
Bring up your Settings pane and select Applications. In the Applications screen, select USB Settings and select Mass Storage. Now, when you connect the handset to your computer, pull down your notification bar and select USB Connected, it will bring up a prompt about mounting the volumes - press Mount. In the future you will just need to plug it in and mount the drives from the pull down menu.
You should be good to go. If not, try installing the Captivate drivers.
Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.
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Thanks! That was the ticket! Wow, am I relieved. Also, for any other newbies out there, it seems like you can just throw files at the drive and android will find them. I put mine under "SD", but I have a hunch you can just put them anywhere.
Also, I refuse to install any drivers for this phone, which is why I just used it like a generic usb drive. I honestly loved my iphone, but I hated that you had to use itunes with it. If I have to install anything on my computer to use my phone, android just lost an advantage to the iphone in my eyes.

mesasone said:
Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.
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I had this same problem and there is no way I could it plug into the back so I tried the USB plugs on my monitor and thankfully that worked. I don't know why this phone was made so difficult to connect to the computer and have it recognized as storage.

lebe0024 said:
Thanks! That was the ticket! Wow, am I relieved. Also, for any other newbies out there, it seems like you can just throw files at the drive and android will find them. I put mine under "SD", but I have a hunch you can just put them anywhere.
Also, I refuse to install any drivers for this phone, which is why I just used it like a generic usb drive. I honestly loved my iphone, but I hated that you had to use itunes with it. If I have to install anything on my computer to use my phone, android just lost an advantage to the iphone in my eyes.
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Yeah, I installed them trying to figure the damn thing about but I suspect they may only be needed if you want to tether via USB - not sure though.
PhonePhun said:
I had this same problem and there is no way I could it plug into the back so I tried the USB plugs on my monitor and thankfully that worked. I don't know why this phone was made so difficult to connect to the computer and have it recognized and storage.
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Weird, isn't it? It's inconvenient to have the cable in the rear, but it was the only way I could get everything to play nice. I'll have to pick up some spare cables for the charger, work, etc so I don't have to reach back there and pull it out when I need it elsewhere. Not a bad idea anyway.

After flashing Andromeda, Can't connect via USB to car stereo

I have a Pioneer FH-P8000BT head unit which supports USB mass storage devices. On stock eclair, it would find my external SD card, where all my music is, and play the files whenever I connected my Captivate(USB settings set to mass storage).
Now, on Andromeda, it says "USB N/A" when I connect the device. I have tried every combination of USB settings that I can find. I checked the phone to make sure that it says "Mass Storage On" or whatever, and even tried turning it off.
Anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
I can still play tunes over BT, but I liked the sound quality when playing on USB, and I like that my head unit displayed the song name and artist.

I have an avic f720bt and it wont see my phone either.. Im running Paragon 6.0 (2.2.1 based)
I had given up hope to have it connect like my winmo phone did...
Anyone have a fix??

bryan95502 said:
Anyone have a fix??
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I'm going to keep working at it, and I'll let you know if I find anything.

ScottyNuttz said:
I'm going to keep working at it, and I'll let you know if I find anything.
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I'm going to bump this nearly year old thread in the hopes that you found a solution and just forgot to post it here...
I'm using a Pioneer MVH-P8200BT with similar issues. I've been struggling with this for at least a year but now that ICS is coming around for the Captivate I'm wondering what has been accomplished or can be done now.

[Q] [Verizon] Disc Drive and External USB

Hi. I've searched but found no answer so here is my thread . So I am somewhat unhappy with how my Verizon GSIII is behaving. Since day 2 I learned I cannot connect this phone as a disc drive on WIndows or Linux. The only options I get when connected via USB to a computer are Media device (MTP) and Camera (PTP). My friend show me his ATT GSII last night. It connects as a disc drive (regular flash drive behavior).
When connecting an external HDD via USB Android should recognize that drive as a mass storage device. His ATT SIII did this, my Verizon SIII did not. I got the message in the notification area "USB Connect" followed by "USB Disconnected." Thankfully, I have no files I want to transfer onto my device as I'm coming from an HTC Incredible, but in the future I will want to browse my file system on my laptop.
Am I the only one here with these issues? I am not rooted.
-Justin
Edit: I found an article which looks like I can browse the external SD Card but not hte internal memory. This is only for root users however. Enable USB Mass Storage for root.
If your Galaxy S3 connects as mass storage, post the carrier.

My S3 shows up as separate internal and external devices when I plug it into my USB port and is listed as SCH-I535 when ejecting. However my Nexus show up as an MTP device when ejecting. Both devices are rooted.

So there may be hope. I'm going to root today, well try to. Can you link me to the ROM you flashed so I have a higher possibility of achieving what I want?
Will every build ROM found in the developer section here get rid of the OEM functionality?

I have the same 2 options as you when connecting to a PC, but, when connected windows will pop the "browse for files" instantly and the 2 drives will be displayed under Computer, one for the internal SD and for the external.
This was like this from the first time i plugged the phone in, before root, same after.
It actually seems like we get to skip the step of "Enable USB sharing" which I find great, plug in and the drives pop.

JMooney5115 said:
So there may be hope. I'm going to root today, well try to. Can you link me to the ROM you flashed so I have a higher possibility of achieving what I want?
Will every build ROM found in the developer section here get rid of the OEM functionality?
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I used root66 to do mine.
However I had access to both drives prior to doing the root update.

Both of you seem to have more luck than I'm having. When I plug it into Windows I had no way of browsing files. In (K)ubuntu when I plug it in a popup has an option to browse which takes me to 1 folder names 'USB PTP Class Camera' which I can get to the internal storage, but not the SD Card. I'll be making a trip to Verizon today for sure. It makes me wonder if a rooted stock image from Samsung would fix the issue.

Quick question.
Which drivers did you install?

Why do I need drivers, I'm not doing anything but reading the flash memory? It should just work in both Linux and Windows.

Note that the guide to enable UMS on the S3 is for the International version, not the US version. The US version doesn't yet have a UMS option.

You shouldn't (and don't) need drivers for the SD storage to show up on your computer.
Just to test it I connected my S3 to my gf's laptop running W7, both drives popped right away there too.

I just want to make a note: Can't remember exactly what I did but after a few drivers on my AT&T SGS III I am able to just plug into my computer and move files around.

Can anyone helo me transfer video files...pic files i can transfer but all the video files wint...i get an error message on the computer ( pc ) and my s3 says syncing and does nothing. Its a verizon gs3.

skillzo1: How are you trying to transfer these video files?
Madcat81 said:
Just to test it I connected my S3 to my gf's laptop running W7, both drives popped right away there too.
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Thanks for the test. Just to be sure, you have a Verizon S3?

JMooney5115 said:
Thanks for the test. Just to be sure, you have a Verizon S3?
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Sure do.

ICS devices use MTP to transfer files, not UMS. I have a verizon S3 and the drives appear when I plug it in. I had USB debug mode enabled and when I plugged it in it automatically downloaded and installed drivers and worked after that. You shouldn't need root to do all of this.

kthung, thanks for that tid-bit of information. Now how do I do this in Linux? I can browse internal memory, but not my micro SD card via USB.

JMooney5115 said:
kthung, thanks for that tid-bit of information. Now how do I do this in Linux? I can browse internal memory, but not my micro SD card via USB.
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Hmm unfortunately I don't really know anything about linux. Maybe check this thread out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243

can't connect the Tf700 as mass storage

Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?

kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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I could be wrong but iirc i've read somewhere that in order to charge it from USB you have to power off your device first.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2

kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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There's simply not enough power coming from the USB port.
The reason why connecting failed is because XP doesn't support the MTP connection, which the Infinity uses, from the beginning.
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kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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Just for reference for new users reading through this thread: you cannot access an Android 4.x+ device as a USB Mass Storage device AT ALL -- this was sacrificed for the more stable and safe MTP connection. The latter should work if you install the drivers, as the OP already has found out.

MartyHulskemper said:
Just for reference for new users reading through this thread: you cannot access an Android 4.x+ device as a USB Mass Storage device AT ALL -- this was sacrificed for the more stable and safe MTP connection. The latter should work if you install the drivers, as the OP already has found out.
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I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.

pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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I reckon that's because the SGSII is not a original 4.0 device. It came with 2.3 on the market.
However I don't know if the manufacturers are still allowed to use it in their new devices.

pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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This is because the SGS2 was not released with ICS. It was upgraded to ICS. The real reason why UMS is not available on native ICS devices (aside from mounting external SD cards with UMS) is because Google decided to use one large volume for the internal storage instead of several. Devices that were upgraded to ICS after being release still have several volumes instead of one. Trying to rewrite the partition table during an update would be destructive, causing the loss of all data, and no manufacturer would want to do that to their customer's devices.

darkkterror said:
This is because the SGS2 was not released with ICS. It was upgraded to ICS. The real reason why UMS is not available on native ICS devices (aside from mounting external SD cards with UMS) is because Google decided to use one large volume for the internal storage instead of several. Devices that were upgraded to ICS after being release still have several volumes instead of one. Trying to rewrite the partition table during an update would be destructive, causing the loss of all data, and no manufacturer would want to do that to their customer's devices.
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When updating with kies it would copy personal data to the computer and restore that data after the update was complete. I wonder if the S3 has this functionality (usb mode). I know with the S2 there was a big deal about upgrading to ICS because it had to repartition everything, lots of warnings about losing data on the phone, never stopped us we just made backups and away we go. I dont see how the prime is much different, the USB mode COULD be put into it the same way it was put into the samsung roms, doesnt even need to be default, just there for those people like me that prefer it.

kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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Works fine under Win 7, tablet connected as media device, and i can confrim that the charging icon is active when connected and in config menu under battery says: charging.
kind regards,

profiler270 said:
Works fine under Win 7, tablet connected as media device, and i can confrim that the charging icon is active when connected and in config menu under battery says: charging.
kind regards,
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As I said XP doesn't support MTP devices. Win 7 does it though.
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pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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As said above, MTP mode is standard in ICS and UMS is no longer supported (and indeed the reason was the single-volume approach, and the fact that MTP makes the filesystem available to the host computer without the need for unmounting, and thus eliminates the risk for introducing filesystem errors on the host -- the Android system keeps everything under control and access to the filesystem is transparent to the host.)
Obviously, anything can be hacked together, and there are apps that seem to able to provide UMS mode.
Not a matter of disagreeing, but unfortunate reality.
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pileot said:
When updating with kies it would copy personal data to the computer and restore that data after the update was complete. I wonder if the S3 has this functionality (usb mode). I know with the S2 there was a big deal about upgrading to ICS because it had to repartition everything, lots of warnings about losing data on the phone, never stopped us we just made backups and away we go. I dont see how the prime is much different, the USB mode COULD be put into it the same way it was put into the samsung roms, doesnt even need to be default, just there for those people like me that prefer it.
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By the way, I strongly prefer UMS mode as well, since the computers at work (hospital) are pretty much closed-off to anything included installing any software or drivers, and they disallow MTP. Previously, I could at least access my SGS2 as a thumb drive, but with my current ROM (RootBox ICS) that's no longer an option.

Nebucatnetzer said:
As I said XP doesn't support MTP devices. Win 7 does it though.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Windows XP does support MTP, but one would need to have Windows Media Player 10 or later installed (WMP10 added MTP).

hello kubeb
If you still searching, refer to my story on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861444
wish you succes