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need help connecting to pc before I go insane

After spending my entire Saturday trying in vain to get my win 7 laptop to recognize my captivate I've decided I need to reach out for some help.
Right when I gore my phone, without too much hassle I did the superoneclick root via my pc with great success. Did the lagfix after that and all was well. Go me right?
I used my phone for a little bit and decided that it was time to but sonera music and pictures on it. This is where it all went wrong.
For background, I have done up to this Point: tried both driver sets that are floating around (and exe and the version most often linked to in help threads with a simple setup file), Ive tried kies, I've tried going into device manager to manually locate the divers. Nada.
At this point the drivers with the setup file will no longer install because the install of the exe screwed up at some point. Windows is only showing the device as us composite hub or as a unknown device. I can sometimes get it to say Samsung android usbb device but it shows that it is in error and it still wot see the phone. Someone else asked me if I had used the mount option when I comes up in my notifications bar which I haven't because it never gives me the option. I've tried disabling launcherpro, undoing the root, undoing the lagfix, formatting and wiping user data on the phone, still nada. I've tried all usb modes. Nada.
First things first, can someone explain to me exactly what I should do in device manager to get the drivers in order? I'm pretty sure this is the root of my problem. Any idea on how to get rid of the erroneous drivers that are causing the driver setup to fail?
Any help would be great :S

Need to try and manually remove three old drivers, then try and re install. Id suggest using the ones design gears posted on his one click back to stock post
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I snipped this from one of my old posts in the Vibrant section...
For those of you having a problem with Windows 7 recognizing your Vibrant ... here is how I fixed it on my system.
*Note: You do not need to load any special USB drivers for your phone to be recognized in Mass Storage mode in Windows 7.
*Warning: You follow these instructions at your own risk ... no screaming at me if you try it and something gets screwed up!
1) Navigate your way into the Device Manager / Universal Serial Bus Controller
2) Uninstall the device(s) "USB Root Hub" (My system had 2 listed)
3) You will lose mouse and keyboard control (because you just removed the USB Hubs)
4) Reset your PC and allow Windows to boot normally.
5) Go back to the device manager and wait for all of the "!" marks to go away as windows re-installs the USB Hubs and reinitializes all of your devices.
6) Make sure your Vibrant is in mass storage mode and has USB debugging OFF
7) Plug in your Vibrant via the USB cable and be amazed as windows recognizes your device and assigns the drive letters. After you select the mount option on your phone you will have normal access via windows explorer.
Hope this helps some of you out there !!!
~Stresa
Sent from Samsung Vibrant

thanks for the good responses guys but both of those have failed. Odin cant even see my phone, same issue with superoneclick root. I even just tried on an enitrely different PC and got the same "device could not start" message.
tried deleting all the drivers for the USB devices. nada. still no connection

Subrock said:
After spending my entire Saturday trying in vain to get my win 7 laptop to recognize my captivate I've decided I need to reach out for some help.
Right when I gore my phone, without too much hassle I did the superoneclick root via my pc with great success. Did the lagfix after that and all was well. Go me right?
I used my phone for a little bit and decided that it was time to but sonera music and pictures on it. This is where it all went wrong.
For background, I have done up to this Point: tried both driver sets that are floating around (and exe and the version most often linked to in help threads with a simple setup file), Ive tried kies, I've tried going into device manager to manually locate the divers. Nada.
At this point the drivers with the setup file will no longer install because the install of the exe screwed up at some point. Windows is only showing the device as us composite hub or as a unknown device. I can sometimes get it to say Samsung android usbb device but it shows that it is in error and it still wot see the phone. Someone else asked me if I had used the mount option when I comes up in my notifications bar which I haven't because it never gives me the option. I've tried disabling launcherpro, undoing the root, undoing the lagfix, formatting and wiping user data on the phone, still nada. I've tried all usb modes. Nada.
First things first, can someone explain to me exactly what I should do in device manager to get the drivers in order? I'm pretty sure this is the root of my problem. Any idea on how to get rid of the erroneous drivers that are causing the driver setup to fail?
Any help would be great :S
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kies or mass storage?
for kies debugging in settings>aplications must be disabled. i dont remember what works better ask on connection or to have connection type preset in settings>applications>usbsettings. im on froyo which works a million times better, kies on jf6 was like a 90% fail rate. it just didn't work for me.
for mass storage you need to mount the phone from a message in the notification bar, even if it asks the connection type and you tick mass storage it will not be mounted, you still need to mount from the notification bar.
you can also mount the sdcards from the notification bar in debugging mode which bypasses the connection type setting in settings>applications>usbsettings.
i tend to leave debugging on in case i need adb to fix my phone, i only turn it off to use kies which is useful to fix my contacts when i have multiples (it's alot easier to fix 200+ contacts on a computer screen using a mouse and keyboard), or install an update if i choose to run the phone stock.

tried in every combination of modes, cant get it connect any possible way. I also dont get the option to mount it from the notification bar so perhaps I have a hardware issue.

Are you using the stock usb cable? I've had problems with some but not all generic cables.
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may not be what you want to hear
I actually had a similar problem, though not the same. My phone charges and I can use mass storage without issue, but I could not get Odin One Click updaters to ever "see" my phone. I tried every USB port on my box, tried several different driver sets (including the ones DG recommends). Eventually, I tried on a different computer. Odin saw it fine, updated no problems, first time out of the gate.
I know, I know, not everyone has access to two computers, and furthermore there "should" be no reason it can't work on a particular one, but for me, short of formatting my PC and reinstalling OS, I tried everything else I could think of.
Good luck, either way!

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I don't think there should be a logical reason as to why this would ever work, but Windows (and computers in general sometimes) has a tendency to surprise me like that... but what if you try removing the drivers by whatever automatic means you are provided with, and then check and remove them manually (if necessary), and finally run CCleaner or some other program with registry cleaning capabilities to give your PC that last little enema.
Then use DG's drivers and install them in whatever way he recommends (been a while since I installed the drivers). That's really all I can think of on the PC side... maybe putting a cheap little USB hub between your phone and your PC if you have one laying around as another mostly futile attempt.
Fair warning, it is possible for CCleaner to mess up your PC... any program that messes with the registry can potentially do so. I've never seen the program cause harm, but it is possible.

I've had the same problem with my Crappy from day one. I still somehow got SuperOneClick to Root my phone through multiple attempts. But if all you need to do is transfer files from your phone to PC, and vice versa. I would recommend Android Sync Manager. It can read most of the file systems in the phone, and transfers at a decent speed.

same here
One of my PCs recognizes Cappy with the same cable, OS, drivers. Other one doesn't.
So I ended up using "ADB Wireless" from Market. It works pretty good, slower than USB, but works.
Also - if you are willing to make your PC work - try fresh reinstall of Windows 7SP1 and disable driver update from Internet.

Since your just trying to put music and pictures on the phone, try Kies Air from the market. Install it on your phone then you can transfer files wirelessly with the browser from your computer.

USB Cable
gbrown2036 said:
Are you using the stock usb cable? I've had problems with some but not all generic cables.
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Definitely check the USB cable. I had this exact issue before. I checked drivers, did a bunch of un-installing and manual installing of drivers. Finally I tried my stock USB cable and all worked perfectly!

[Q] Computer no longer recognizes USB Disk drive!

Searched many a thread and can't find an answer to this. I've been able to successfully switch back and forth between USB charging and mounting the phone as a disk drive. I literally haven't changed anything important on my phone or computer today; I think I remember uninstalling a task manager this morning but that's about it. But this afternoon plugged it in, and the pop up asking what method to use (charging/sync/disk mount etc) came up as usual, (I have charging as default) and selected USB disk drive, and nothing changed! My laptop made the usual disconnecting/plugging in noise it makes when you put something in the USB ports, but this time my disk drive didn't automatically pop up. Instead, I was greeted with a "USB Device not recognized" message. What the hell?
Tried restarting the computer and phone several times, same results. Tried with debugging mode enabled and disabled; tried pulling the battery/sim/sd card out; the pop-up asking which USB method to use comes up everytime on my phone when I plug it in, but if I have disk drive selected it only charges.
Using Win7 64bit, I then tried to try uninstall and reinstall the HTC Sync drivers by going into "Uninstall Programs" on my computer and manually uninstalling both the "HTC BMP USB Driver" and the "HTC Driver Installer" that remain on my computer from when I rooted. When I tried clicking on and uninstalling either of them, I get a pop up error saying "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable." No idea what that means. I decided to try re-installing HTC sync, and then uninstalling HTC sync, hoping that the reinstallation would fix the drivers. Well now, I have HTC sync on my computer and that too now is uninstallable, it too gives me the "error opening installation log file" error when I try and uninstall it.
PLEASE HELP ANYONE?!!?

ManImCool said:
Searched many a thread and can't find an answer to this. I've been able to successfully switch back and forth between USB charging and mounting the phone as a disk drive. I literally haven't changed anything important on my phone or computer today; I think I remember uninstalling a task manager this morning but that's about it. But this afternoon plugged it in, and the pop up asking what method to use (charging/sync/disk mount etc) came up as usual, (I have charging as default) and selected USB disk drive, and nothing changed! My laptop made the usual disconnecting/plugging in noise it makes when you put something in the USB ports, but this time my disk drive didn't automatically pop up. Instead, I was greeted with a "USB Device not recognized" message. What the hell?
Tried restarting the computer and phone several times, same results. Tried with debugging mode enabled and disabled; tried pulling the battery/sim/sd card out; the pop-up asking which USB method to use comes up everytime on my phone when I plug it in, but if I have disk drive selected it only charges.
Using Win7 64bit, I then tried to try uninstall and reinstall the HTC Sync drivers by going into "Uninstall Programs" on my computer and manually uninstalling both the "HTC BMP USB Driver" and the "HTC Driver Installer" that remain on my computer from when I rooted. When I tried clicking on and uninstalling either of them, I get a pop up error saying "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable." No idea what that means. I decided to try re-installing HTC sync, and then uninstalling HTC sync, hoping that the reinstallation would fix the drivers. Well now, I have HTC sync on my computer and that too now is uninstallable, it too gives me the "error opening installation log file" error when I try and uninstall it.
PLEASE HELP ANYONE?!!?
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So you tried reinstalling it without trying to uninstall first, as in, installing *over* the current installation?
Is the version you're trying to install the newest one available?
You're logged in/running as admin, right?
Have you tried tracking down the installation log file it's having a problem with, as in, where it's looking for it/why it's not finding it in whatever location it's expecting it?
Sounds like the typical cryptic Windows bull**** that drives me nuts when it happens.
Just throwing some other ideas out there. I haven't run into this type of trouble since I've been on win 7 64bit, its actually been better with these types of problems than previous versions of Windows.

I have had this happen once. A restart of the phone solved it for me. If you have a card reader for the SD card, you could see if your computer will recognize it through the reader. It's also possible removing and re-installing the card will fix your issue.
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I was able to finally uninstall HTC Sync, and the two HTC drivers. Then I installed HTC Sync that I downloaded from this site
http://www.htc.com/us/support/inspire-att/downloads
So now my computer has sync and the 2 HTC drivers installed again. Logged in as admin. Have restarted my phone a billion times. It recognizes the micro SD card if I remove it from the phone and put it in a reader.

Have you tried other ports on the laptop? Have you tried other devices in the port you plugged the phone into like a digital camera? Do you have access to a desktop to load the drivers in and see if it mounts? When you load the drivers it will load drivers first then ask you if you want to install htc sync. You can cancel out there and it won't install sync and the drivers will be installed just fine. Find another cable and see if that helps. Those would be what I would try.
Well when something like this happens I resort to rolling the system back to when it worked to see if that fixes things.
If you have system restore enabled roll it back a day and see if that helps. Open control panel in the search type system restore and there you can select it and see if you have any restore points. Restore the system back and see if it fixes it. If not and you tested the ports with another device and tried a different cable there very well could be an issue with the device.
Get a dropbox account and backup what ever you need to that and do a factory reset on the phone would be a last resort. I would keep the phone plugged in to a charger and use wifi for that if it comes down to it. If you are just needing to get something on the phone you can always use dropbox and then a file manager on the phone in the mean time till things get sorted.
I have used an app like this in the past and it works wonders. I hope you have a wifi connection at the house.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lyy.softdatacable&feature=search_result
These are all the steps I would have taken if an issue like this arose for me.

Tried all 4 of my USB ports, none of them work. All four of them work with other USB devices. I don't have access to another computer right now to try and see it it'll mount there yet. If it DOES work on another computer, is that better or worse than if it DOESNT? System restore isn't an option, unfortunately.
I'll try a factory reset as a last resort if it doesn't work on another computer. As far as using dropbox, what's wrong with using Titanium backup? Isn't dropbox just for data (which is stored on my SD card, and therefore not affected by a factory wipe/reset?) Or are you saying I need to wipe both my phone and reformat my microSD?

I tried using a different microSD card (that works in a reader) in the Inspire, and it too doesn't recognize the disk drive. Does this narrow down the problem to the phone? Is this a physical problem, or is it something that could potentially be fixed with a wipe and hard reset?

If your computer recognizes the SD cards, then it would seem to be the phone. A full wipe and hard reset is probably the next step. Good luck.
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Tried a hard reset. Well, I went to Settings --> SD & Phone Storage --> Factory data reset --> Reset phone (erase SD card was unchecked)
Same problems. Was this method thorough enough? Or do I need to tinker with completely erasing everything off of the phone including the rom, via clockwork mod recovery?

ManImCool said:
Tried a hard reset. Well, I went to Settings --> SD & Phone Storage --> Factory data reset --> Reset phone (erase SD card was unchecked)
Same problems. Was this method thorough enough? Or do I need to tinker with completely erasing everything off of the phone including the rom, via clockwork mod recovery?
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I have seen this very issue onllnot only on the Inspire but the captivate as well. Seems windows 7 has an issue with these drivers. What I did to fix it was this. 1. Uninstall all diver related software. 2. Reboot PC. 3. download the driver package from HTC. 4. plug in phone and go to device manager. 5. Manually select the drivers for it. Not saying it will work for you but it did for me when I was running Windows 7 premium 64

zelendel said:
I have seen this very issue onllnot only on the Inspire but the captivate as well. Seems windows 7 has an issue with these drivers. What I did to fix it was this. 1. Uninstall all diver related software. 2. Reboot PC. 3. download the driver package from HTC. 4. plug in phone and go to device manager. 5. Manually select the drivers for it. Not saying it will work for you but it did for me when I was running Windows 7 premium 64
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Thank you, but can you please elaborate and be a little more specific on steps 3-5? I don't want to download the wrong driver package... is it this one? http://www.htc.com/us/support/inspire-att/downloads
And how do I manually select the drivers in device manager... how do I know what drivers to select? Thanks!

By any chance have you tried a different cable?
I've had this issue when I used cheap cable I got on eBay. It would still charge the phone but my laptop wouldn't see it. Tried a different cable and issue was gone.
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I actually haven't been able to test the simplest solution by trying a different cable yet, since this is my first phone with microUSB ( I have approximately 759247892 miniUSB cables lying around the house from my past 10 HTC phones) so I only have the one microUSB cable. It is the OEM cable that comes with the wall charger though, but it would be sweet if it was just a faulty cable. Are you strongly recommending that I don't buy a cheap one off of ebay, and instead go to a brick and mortar store and buy a ATT/BestBuy/Fry's Electronics/Wherever one for twenty bucks or whatever they are charging these days? I will if I have to, but I'd obviously rather not... would you recommend a specific cable brand off of newegg?

ManImCool said:
I actually haven't been able to test the simplest solution by trying a different cable yet, since this is my first phone with microUSB ( I have approximately 759247892 miniUSB cables lying around the house from my past 10 HTC phones) so I only have the one microUSB cable. It is the OEM cable that comes with the wall charger though, but it would be sweet if it was just a faulty cable. Are you strongly recommending that I don't buy a cheap one off of ebay, and instead go to a brick and mortar store and buy a ATT/BestBuy/Fry's Electronics/Wherever one for twenty bucks or whatever they are charging these days? I will if I have to, but I'd obviously rather not... would you recommend a specific cable brand off of newegg?
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I think a cheap cable should be fine though the shipping was a little long. I needed a new car charger when I switched from the iPhone and it came with 5 cables. Only one gave me that issue. One note to take into account well maybe it was just the ones I bought but the phone always charged at USB speeds with the cheap cables. If I used the OEM itwould read it as AC and charge much faster
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Yeah I had a cheap car charger for this phone for about a week while waiting for the oem htc one to arrive in the mail, and it would charge at usb speeds, it'd ask me if I wanted to disk drive/charge only/etc...plugged into a car. Since then I received my oem car charger and it works great and that slow charging/prompt went away. I guess I'll invest in another cable, I'm bound to need more anyway. Hopefully it's that simple.
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Well, I got a new OEM HTC micro USB cable to test, and I am having the same problems, so it's not the cable.... any other suggestions? Is there any difference in doing a data reset vs going into clockword mod and doing a FULL erase of the device and then reinstalling a rom? I have yet to try testing if it'll work on another computer as well...

I suggest doing a full wipe in cw. Find another computer and load the drivers on that and try it. If it doesn't mount then its the phone and you will have seek att for a replacement

I have this problem and I don't even care anymore...lol gave up on it. Nothing fixed this problem. So I just try insertting the plug multiple times to make it work.
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I've tried
Reformatting my computer
Trying it on different operating systems(XP, vista, 7)
3 Different USB cables for smartphones.
Reinstall HTC DRIVER
New SD card and reformatted SD card.
Tried multiple roms
completely re-root the phone.
All these never fixed it. Somethigg must be wrong inside of my phone.
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I would definitely try another computer first. Still does it, full erase on cwm. Still persists, factory reset the darn thing. Finish the process of elimination before factory reset. As I have worked at 2 different Toyota dealers in Memphis, if a car had a problem that had multiple solutions, they would try all the easy solutions first before using the last resort solution. Imo, a factory reset is a last resort solution. If that still doesn't help, restore to stock and s-on the punk, and warranty the thing out. It sounds more like a phone hardware problem than anything else. Hope it helps!
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ZeroRilix said:
I would definitely try another computer first. Still does it, full erase on cwm. Still persists, factory reset the darn thing. Finish the process of elimination before factory reset. As I have worked at 2 different Toyota dealers in Memphis, if a car had a problem that had multiple solutions, they would try all the easy solutions first before using the last resort solution. Imo, a factory reset is a last resort solution. If that still doesn't help, restore to stock and s-on the punk, and warranty the thing out. It sounds more like a phone hardware problem than anything else. Hope it helps!
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Its been 5 months since I got this phone, do I still get my warranty if I S-ON and stock rom. Best to use Hack kit v11 to return to stock?
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[Q] PC won't recognize Transformer

Ok, I am MAD. This is unsolvable. I can't figure it out.
When I plug the Transformer into the PC, the PC won't detect it. It did a couple of days ago. I plugged it in to move some files over. It showed up as a drive before, but not anymore. The TF is brand new from Christmas, and it actually worked just fine Christmas day (I was able to transfer over some photos).
Two things happened between then and now that I can think of:
1. I used a System Restore to go back a few days because of a bluescreen issue that is unrelated and that I solved. It only went back literally one day, though.
2. I tried to delete some of the stock apps installed on the transformer. Not through root trickery or whatnot (I'm not even rooted or modified in any way). Just by going to the app market and trying to remove some crap (of course I couldn't).
I plug it in. Windows says "detecting driver," then it says it failed. USB debug mode is on. So I went into device manager. It shows up as "MTP Device" or maybe just "MTP," and Device manager gives it a question mark. So I went to Asus's site, downloaded the USB drivers, and installed those. No go. So I turned off Debug mode. No go. If I have debug mode on and plug it in and go to Windows Update, it shows an update for "Asus MTP Device" or something like that. I do the update and it gives me an error, saying the device is not connected. It is.
I've even installed the stupid Asus Sync Suite. It decided I wanted like five different startup programs. Revo Uninstaller made quick work of them, stupid bloatware.
So I've made no progress. Not sure why I could do it before, but I can't anymore. One thing that was weird when it WAS working was that my computer didn't get USB 2.0 transfer speeds from the device. Music copied agonizingly slow and my PC told me that "this device can perform faster if plugged into USB 2.0," even though all my ports are 2.0.
Currently, all that happens when I plug it in is Device Manager shows "MTP Device." HOWEVER, something interesting. When it's plugged in, the "safely remove hardware" icon shows up in the tray. If I click it, I see "Eee Pad Transformer." So the PC DOES detect the device, it just can't access its storage.
I'm on a Win7 PC that I built. I'm totally updated. The Eeepad is totally updated.
Oh, one last thing... I *might* have gone into the filesystem explorer app that came preinstalled to the device. I noticed that there were some folders from apps that I had installed but then uninstalled, and that bugged me, because if I uninstall a program I don't want that folder laying around. So I deleted some. But none were preinstalled apps. Things like Angry Birds, apps that I installed.
I read some thread in my google searches about something like UMDF or whatever. I tried that, but it seemed to only work for people with Vista or XP. The exe wouldn't even run on my system.
if anyone can figure this out, they'd have my eternal thanks.
You guys are awesome,
wontstoptalkng
ps,
I read through this thread a bajillion times:
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...ormer-manual-usb-drivers-sync-software-2.html
I tried the method used in post 12, which is what worked for the OP. It didn't work for me, either because that method doesn't work on Win7 or it doesn't work on a 64bit os.

[Q] Trouble connecting with usb to computer

First of all, my wife and I have the same phones, both stock infuse, bought the same day. I can connect her's to computer via usb and computer immediately will recognize it as an additional drive, including the sd card as another. I am able to do anything I want with it (with or without debugging enabled). So drivers and everything else is ok. When I plug mine in, (same cable, same port), it only charges and does not even acknowledge it is there, even in device manager, not there, with or without debugging enabled). I have disabled my Lookout and AVG. Any suggestions on changing any of the setting on the phone that I could have tinkered with and not realized it? Both are stock unrooted phones. I called ATT who advised to do a master reset. I would really like to try about anything else first. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

emrmcrn said:
First of all, my wife and I have the same phones, both stock infuse, bought the same day. I can connect her's to computer via usb and computer immediately will recognize it as an additional drive, including the sd card as another. I am able to do anything I want with it (with or without debugging enabled). So drivers and everything else is ok. When I plug mine in, (same cable, same port), it only charges and does not even acknowledge it is there, even in device manager, not there, with or without debugging enabled). I have disabled my Lookout and AVG. Any suggestions on changing any of the setting on the phone that I could have tinkered with and not realized it? Both are stock unrooted phones. I called ATT who advised to do a master reset. I would really like to try about anything else first. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Is everything on the two phones the same?
Is there an app that you are running that did something to USB recognition?
Sometime a simple reboot may clear the issue. I did not see you listed that.
Have you tried taking our a microSD and reboot to see if that fixes the problem?
You can also boot into Samsung 3e recovery (see my sig link) and clear just the cache, then reboot.
Obviously, if you do a master reset, take off your photos and important data by copying then using my files to a microsd and take it out before the reset. Reseting in the phone will erase everything.
I think yours may be a hardware issue though, try brushing the USB contact with a toothbrush or some sort of minimal rubbing alcohol
If nothing works, i think you'll be getting a new phone

I do have some extra apps that she doesn't, handcent, flashlight, scanner radio slacker, soundhound, and a few more, but nothing that should affect the usb. I have tried rebooting with and without sd card. Even tried to reboot while holding in vol up and down button at same time and cleared cache that way then rebooted. I searched for Samsung 3e recovery, but didn't find anything that really relates to what I'm looking for. All I found dealt with if phone was rooted. I did try cleaning out the port also. So far, no luck. But thanks for the suggestions.

I am sure this will sound odd... but have you tried it on another PC? It may be a recognition issue with the device drivers and the phone that isn't working.
Just my 2¢

UL40...usb will charge but not transfer files.

Hi, I have a Ul40 cellphone version 7.1.1. for years I have been downloading into my phone, then using a USB cable to transfer what I want into my old Dell PC.
Yesterday I hooked them up and my phone will charge but not transfer files. My PC doesn't seem to recognize it. I rebooted my phone, deleted cached files, etc.
I googled up the problem, new cable, same problem. One resource said to go to settings, storage & 3 dots, then USB connection. Instead of getting the option to use it as a mtp, it would only give storage clean up.
What do I do now? Is there something specific for my model? If I factory reset it will it go back to normal? At one point my PC said something about drivers. I downloaded a no ads app, it didn't seem to do a anything and wanted to add more stuff to my phone and/or PC.
Is it simply time to get a new phone?
Thanks, BA

OP...noticed there were 7 views but no reply. My tech skills are very limited. Sorry if I did not post this in the right place or something.
Did anybody else have this problem, how would I find it? Thanks.