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Unable to connect adb to Samsung 5801

Hi,
Has any one been able to connect to samsung galaxy I5801 using adb? Running adb devices is not listing the device for me. I have installed samsung kies.
thanks, srb.

srbose said:
Hi,
Has any one been able to connect to samsung galaxy I5801 using adb? Running adb devices is not listing the device for me. I have installed samsung kies.
thanks, srb.
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Have you put USB in debug mode?
Ciao

Hi Slumpolo,
Yeah, i have enabled the usb debugging option and rebooted the phone.
Before doing that I also went to Settings>About Phone>USB settings, and selected "mass storage" . This options gets disabled when USB debugging is on, but I did it just to be on the safe side.
Windows device manager shows that all the drivers are installed correctly.
i also did adb kill-server and adb devices multiple times.

Oh boy....its much deeper than that. Search YouTube "how to Android adb devices"...its kinda tricky.
sent from the current baddest cell phone on the planet.....the HTC Evo 4G

Hi StaraSkola,
I went over all the videos I could find and I believe I am doing everything right. To verify my setup, I connected by friends Galaxy S I9000 and I was able to see it in adb devices.
I did the same with my GT-I5801, and it does not get listed in adb devices. I made sure I was in USB debugging mode.
One difference I noticed in device manager was this:
When I connected I9000, a device called "Samsung Android Composite USB device" showed up in the USB devices.
But when I connect the GT-I5801, I get a device called "Samsung Composite USB device" ... there is no android mentioned any where.
I have tried reinstalling the driver but Windows insists it cant find a better match.
Does this help in root causing the issue?
thanks,
srb.

I finally managed to connect to my GT-I5801, both via Samsung Kies as well adb. yay!
I will note down all the steps that I did, in case any one finds it useful.
1. I re-installed Samsung Kies and then I reinstalled the Samsung drivers. This can be done using the "Driver Recovery" option available in the top left drop down menu in the Kies window. Its a button called Kies. I did this as I had messed around with my devices and drivers trying to discover my phone. But this did not solve my problem.
2. I unmounted the SD card and re-formatted it. The SD card had a few mp3 files in it and Samsung Kies is known to have issues with some types of MP3 files. This did not solve my issue. Phone was still undiscovered.
3. My most drastic step: I went to settings > reset to default. This erased all my settings and all my installed apps and I lost all my notes etc ( .. But, after I connected my phone back to the laptop, everything came up just fine. I was able to browse the phone using Kies and then connect to ADB shell after enabling USB debugging mode. So the problem was with one of my installed apps. I dont know which but I suspect it could be a modded Navigation app (BRUT mod) , that I had installed. But I am not sure.
4. When connected using Kies, there is an option in Kies to eject the phone. If I use this, then Kies does NOT connect back to the phone when I plug it back in. I have to reboot the phone. The workaround is, never use the eject option. Always remove the phone by simply unplugging the USB cable. Then Kies discovers it on connecting back and even adb is able to connect to it. I dont know if other other Galaxy models suffer from the same problem but folks can try out this work around.
Thanks,
srb.

USB unknown device

I've tried the drivers from Samsung, Keis, ODIN one click. None of them worked on 4 different machines, Windows 7 both x64 and x86(which was a fresh install), and two Windows XP machines. I tried it on Ubuntu(10.04 LTS) and that recognized the captivate.
Anyone know how to get one of those to correctly recognize my Captivate so I don't stuck on Samsung's/AT&T's 2.2

uninstall all of the driver that you downloaded. uninstall kies. then go to samsung.com search for the captivate, choose you phone, click the 'i own this' button. then go to get downloads, software. click on the .zip file icon next to usb drivers. if that didnt work uninstall them then download kies again. if it still doesn't install them, open kies, click menu, reinstall drivers

What is it that you're trying to do?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

If it is coming up unknown device try another port. You may want to try another microusb cable as well.
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I've always had luck with the drivers in the captivate aio toolbox. Even on a fresh win7 64bit when I replaced my boot drive with a ssd a month ago.

Samsung really failed at the USB drivers for the Captivate. I would expect to be able to install the drivers from their website. Plug in my phone, and have it working.
trell959 said:
uninstall all of the driver that you downloaded. uninstall kies. then go to samsung.com search for the captivate, choose you phone, click the 'i own this' button. then go to get downloads, software. click on the .zip file icon next to usb drivers. if that didnt work uninstall them then download kies again. if it still doesn't install them, open kies, click menu, reinstall drivers
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I tried that before, didn't work.
bornjamerican said:
What is it that you're trying to do?
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I'm trying to:
1) connect as a mass storage devices. Yes I know turn on USB debugging and to mount the drive.
2) flash back to stock 2.1 or root my phone so I can install a custom ROM on it. Might go with CM7/MiUi or something from Team Phoenix. So use Odin3
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If it is coming up unknown device try another port. You may want to try another microusb cable as well.
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Tried all of the ports on the computers. I don't have another microusb cable to test to see if that's the problem, but I'll check that tomorrow.
Johnnie5000 said:
I've always had luck with the drivers in the captivate aio toolbox. Even on a fresh win7 64bit when I replaced my boot drive with a ssd a month ago.
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I'm going to try a fresh install of windows 7 32-bit with aio toolbox see if that works.
Tried my friends brand new microUSB cable. It worked.

I have tried 4 known good cables know, 4 different computers and every USB port available on all 4 of the PCs I tried. Only once did it identify the device and install the drivers and I was able to root it but I still can't sideload because after the reboot after rooting it is back to device not recognized/unknown device. This has been a total pain. Any suggestions? I'm not with AT&T any more so I am out of luck for just bringing it into a store and asking them to take care of it.
Edit: Sorry for bumping an older post but I did it instead of starting a new thread.

rmriggin said:
I have tried 4 known good cables know, 4 different computers and every USB port available on all 4 of the PCs I tried. Only once did it identify the device and install the drivers and I was able to root it but I still can't sideload because after the reboot after rooting it is back to device not recognized/unknown device. This has been a total pain. Any suggestions? I'm not with AT&T any more so I am out of luck for just bringing it into a store and asking them to take care of it.
Edit: Sorry for bumping an older post but I did it instead of starting a new thread.
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If you're just trying to transfer apk files to it for sideloading, you can use a wifi transfer app. I use Wifi File Explorer and it's great. You can connect to your phone via web browser and upload/download anything on the SD card.
Another option is to use an external SD card that you can remove and plug into your computer, transfer the files to it, then insert it back into the phone.
This won't work for connecting to PC apps like Odin, Heimdall, or Kies, but for simple file transfers it works like a charm.
Additionally, regarding other usb cables, you didn't mention what types of cables you used, so I'll throw in another thought. The cables that come with the Captivate don't work on some PCs (like my new iMac). Third-party, generic usb cables might not work, either (I tried some and got a whole lot of fail). The only cable that works for me is the one that came with my wife's Motorola phone. If you haven't tried one yet, I would recommend getting your hands on a Motorola cable and testing it out. You'll immediately notice the cable is much thicker. I don't know if that has anything to do with why it works when others don't, but there's something about that cable that others don't have.

Bad Phone?
Could it be the phone port is having issues?
I've had the same problem and it seems that the port on the Captivate is shot which may be your issue. it will always charge; but tends to cause a lot of profanity when trying to get a PC connection to transfer files or flash it. It will be seen, then immediately play the 'unplugged' sound from windows. I've sat there and had it play the tones of plugged in and un plugged over and over again just by tilting the phone from side to side. No matter what cables I use (tried several but they are all samsung due to the recessed port). If it establishes the connection; I have to be very still with it or it'll lose it. If it loses it; I get unknown device messages or not functioning messages on that port until I reboot the PC.
Trying to flash anything via ODIN takes a lot of patience.
Those same cables / USB ports are used on my wife's Focus without ever having a problem. I wrote it off as too much flashing / overclocking of my phone but am not sure.

hi i was having this issue as well. i solved it by:
1. download a good & stable miui rom, rename it to update.zip and place it into your sd card. i took the sd card out of the phone and used a adapter to connect the sd card to my PC since i can't access my sd card through the usb port.
2. put the sd card back into my phone, turn off my phone. press and hold volume up and down buttons, then press n hold the power button till the screen shows something.
3. select install from sd. wait until the installation finishes and select reboot the phone.
4. when you're in your new miui rom, try to connect your phone to the pc via usb port again.
this worked like charm for me.
about the miui rom, i suggest you to use the one from miuiandroid.com (the UK version)
after flashing the rom im able to connect via usb and use mass storage.
hope this helps

Also, when you uninstall drivers, don't forget to look in the program files for anything that may have been left behind and delete it.

From the description it sounds strongly like you are actually experiencing a port failure which is common on the Galaxy S devices. PM me if you need this repaired...

Only try another usb cable, i bricked my cappy with a bad contact cable on odin, unknown device too, new cable=i897 device on windows notifications
try and feedback!

strange, this only happened to my when i soft bricked my phone. try connecting it to your computer in download mode

I had this issue once before. Here is what I did which resolved the problem. I was using a windows 7 PC
1. Download the ADB kit and extract it to C drive.
2. Connect your mobile to the PC on USB port
3. Wait for the drivers to be installed automatically (it might give you a failed to install message)
4. Never mind that message. Open Device Manager
5. In Device Manager, if you expand the "Universal Serial Bus Controllers", you'll see a device that has yellow question mark against it. This is your phone and since drivers are not installed properly, it has the question mark.
6. Right click that device, and select "Update Driver".
7. IN the window that comes up, select "I'll select a driver".
8. Browse to the folder where you have extracted the ADB kit on C drive
9. Check include subfolders and click Next.
10. The drivers should be be installed and your device should be identified by the computer.
Let me know if it works for you.

Found the Samsung Infuse 4G Drivers

For those of you who have had trouble with getting the drivers for the Infuse, download this:
[Im new so cant post a link, but goto softpedia.com and search kies. The only kies program available will appear, and download and install that]
It wont recognize your phone, but after you install the program, the appropriate drivers will be present, and the root with SuperOneClick will work immediately.
*remember, the program wont recognize your phone if its plugged in, but that doesn't matter. It will just install the appropriate Samsung_Android drivers your PC needs to recognize the phone in SuperOneClick.
Hope this helps!

Hi , thanks , but ..
why not > http://j.mp/lOx2CB directly from samsung ?

pvillasuso said:
Hi , thanks , but ..
why not > http://j.mp/lOx2CB directly from samsung ?
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The page you requested was not found.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13895587&postcount=7
posted here.

Phone doesn't exist on my PC.
Nope. Bought the infuse on day one. Installed Kies 2.0.0.11044_11_3. Phone not recognized, installed drivers, learned the truth about Kies. Phone would not be recognized but at least installing Kies made the phone visible to the PC, so I knew I could root if I so desired, read up about rooting and thought I was ready. The phone had other plans.
Decided the other day that I was ready to root. Plugged in the phone but it no longer showed up in Windows. Something about the phones compatibility with my system changed. Tried to install this Kies 2.2.1.11053_99_3 yesterday, reinstalled drivers, activated USB debugging, plugged the phone in started up SuperOneClick and . . . still nothing happened. So I deactivated USB debugging and started over. Followed all the directions in the root posts and and SuperOneClick threads . . .
But somehow between day one and today my Windows 7 64 bit system does not know that the phone is plugged into it.
When I plug the phone into USB the phone asks me how I want to interact with the computer, Kies (Firmware Update); Media player: Mass storage. But the computer shows nothing. Device Manager doesn't list the phone, Windows Explorer doesn't show the phone, Devices and Printers window shows everything that's connected but NOT the phone, it's as if I plugged nothing into the computer. The phone is charging so I know that it's plugged in, but it doesn't seem to be communicating with the PC. I've re-booted, re-installed, reviewed, rewired and re-alized that I have no clue what happened. (Tried different cables, different USB ports different times of the day)
It worked once upon a time, I tried rolling back restore points and disabling my kaspersky 2011, I've followed all rooting instructions in these threads to no avail.
I am now ready to hurl my phone out into traffic to see if that will help, but before I do I'm hoping someone here may have the answer I need.
. . . please . . .

Try removing all instances of the Infuse coming in contact with your system using USBDeView. Also, how does it look in Disk Management? (Start button > search for "Computer Management" > Storage > Disk Management) Does the Infuse show up there as removable storage?

For me, one of the SuperOneClick packages included Windows drivers.
Which is great since SOC is the only reason I needed Windows drivers. (SOC never works in Linux for me for whatever reason...)

All android phones are supported in linux natively.......jus t saying

Nopcodex90 said:
All android phones are supported in linux natively.......jus t saying
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Well yeah - I've never had to install any drivers for ADB or anything else.
However, for whatever reason, superoneclick and Linux don't get along for me. So the only time I ever have to install drivers is when SOC rooting from Windows.

superweapons said:
Try removing all instances of the Infuse coming in contact with your system using USBDeView. Also, how does it look in Disk Management? (Start button > search for "Computer Management" > Storage > Disk Management) Does the Infuse show up there as removable storage?
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Tried it, didn't work, oh wait, didn't run USBDeView as administrator, re-tried and uninstalled all instances of Samsung i-997, then tried to plug the phone back in and still nothing.
Also not in Computer Management or Device manager either. Is there a way to uninstall any drivers that I have and then re-install them?
M.

menzoom said:
Tried it, didn't work, oh wait, didn't run USBDeView as administrator, re-tried and uninstalled all instances of Samsung i-997, then tried to plug the phone back in and still nothing.
Also not in Computer Management or Device manager either. Is there a way to uninstall any drivers that I have and then re-install them?
M.
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I've tried just about everything too, and nothing works to get my 64 bit Windows 7 PC to recognize the Infuse. Finally resorted to AndroidSync for file transfers, which worked fine, but it just makes me angry that I can't make the darn thing connect via USB.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I997ZKAATT
And select SOFTWARE

Tried that last week. Didn't work for me. The PC does see the device, but never finds any files on it.

Drivers in that link
I was having the same issue mentioned yesterday after loading the Samsung Infuse drivers, where my PC still couldn't see the data on my phone. (I'm also running 64-bit Windows 7 OS.)
Once I loaded the drivers and plugged in my phone, I got the happy little "device drivers installed properly" message and thought I was good to go. Nope. No drives mounted and visible in Explorer.
Under Devices and Printers, I could see SAMSUNG_Android with the unhappy yellow exclamation point. The troubleshooting report just says "Problems with PnP devices."
So I dug into into Device Manager. Under Portable Devices, there were 2 new WPD FileSystem Volume Drivers. Both had the same yellow exclamation points and showed a Device Status of "This device cannot start. (Code 10)."
It turns out Windows 7 wasn't assigning drive letters to the new Android volumes. It creates two disk drives (one with pictures, videos, and ringtones and the other with music, external SD, and media). If you right-click on the drives and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths," click Add, and assign it an unused drive mapping, it will then appear in Explorer.
Incidentally, the SAMSUNG_Android still shows up with its unhappy yellow exclamation point in Devices and Printers. So I imagine there's supposed to be a more user-friendly way that doesn't expose the true internal file structure when it's all working properly. But in the meantime, I can at least access my phone data via USB.

Are you sure your not trying to root GB with superoneclick? Superonclick only works with Froyo.

neon_skunk said:
Are you sure your not trying to root GB with superoneclick? Superonclick only works with Froyo.
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Dude look at the date

neon_skunk said:
Are you sure your not trying to root GB with superoneclick? Superonclick only works with Froyo.
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Hey there..
View attachment 876861

thanks

Nopcodex90 said:
All android phones are supported in linux natively.......jus t saying
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Yep...
Ubuntu / Linux FTW!

Hmmm, native on Linux you say? Don't have to battle with windows composite USB hub bullcrap you say? I shall try this.
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Any official fix for MTP driver installation failed?

I just got a S3 yesterday but was greeted with the dreaded MTP driver installation failed message on win 7 (32 bit)
I installed the regular verizon s3 drivers from samsung's site, did the same thing, uninstalled and tried Kies and let it install the drivers, same problem
tried a different usb port, same thing
restarted the comp and computer, still no go
im getting frustrated now
it seems samsung has known about this issue for over a month now but still hasnt been able to fix it
my a500 and galaxy nexus work fine with MTP so not sure why this would mess up
ive looked at other threads but there was no clear solution on how to fix it

I don't have any issues with mine
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thats nice but it doesnt exactly do anything for my problem

Joey22688 said:
thats nice but it doesnt exactly do anything for my problem
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Did you try a factory reset?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

This happened to me too but I was running a CM10 ROM. What are you running and have you tried a different ROM?
Unfortunately, I cannot remember exactly what I did but I recall allowing Windows (I'm on W7) to find the drivers and install for me.

I'm not having any issues either, I'm using both 32/64 versions of Win 7...
These are the drivers I'm using:
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201206/20120620051748445/Verizon_Wireless_I535_GSIII_Samsung_USB_Driver_v1_4_6_0.exe
Hope this helps..

I think I found the problem (its not the phone)
its the drivers that samsung issued
I plugged the phone on my win 7 64 bit desktop (not installing any drivers beforehand) and I got a few failed messages for drivers but I was able to access the file system fine
I then installed the driver pack posted and above then got the mtp driver installation failed message and was unable to access the file system
uninstalled the driver pack and connected the phone back up and I can access the file system (with some other drivers failing to install, I think relating to usb modem stuff ect...)
so until samsung fixes the driver problem I will have to deal with a few driver installation failed message every time I hook up the phone, but at least I can access the file system
im running the phone on the stock ics btw, didnt install cm10 or anything like that, the phone is rooted though but I rooted it after I found out about the mtp driver problem so it shouldnt mean anything

I have the same problem on Windows 7 32 bit. I rooted my phone and installed samba as a temporary fix.
Plus I just bought an external 32 GB SD card and I plan on using that as my workaround and just transfering files between the two.
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Problem for me was the root.
Could you humor me and try this:
- go into the superuser app
- Select the 'temp unroot' checkbox from the first screen.
- unplug then replug the USB cable on your phone. The drivers should install on the first try this time (they did for me) and Kies should work too.
The problem seems to be that SuperUser exploits the USB Debug internally so, even though USB Debug is unchecked, it is still detected as checked by the connection and fails the install of the driver.
Solution #2 is the amazing script that transforms your MTP connection into a UMS one (look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243 and thank open1your1eyes0 ). Once in UMS, you don't need the MTP driver to see your device so that's another approach.
Good luck

I bought Samsung Galaxy S3 2 weeks ago. Windows installed the drivers for it when first connected to my Windows 7 64 bit PC. It came up in the list of Devices on the Explorer. I installed "Kies_2.5.0.12094_28_8" which installed USB driver on top of the Windows driver. At the end of the installation, it gave "failure to install Samsung MTP driver".
Saw a thread on other forum where it was suggested to remove the driver from System Driver window under Control Tab/System and reboot. To be cautious, uninstalled Kies. Rebooted PC. Windows installed the driver. As soon as Kies was installed the whole issue unfolded again.
Looks like ALL Kies versions (including previous version of Kies_v2.3.3.12085_7_5) have incompatible and wrong driver which is resulting in this unresolvable situation.
I removed the MTP driver (control panel/system/device manager - MTP driver has ? mark - this is the one). Then removed the phone and rebooted PC. After reboot, connected the phone back. Windows detected the device and automatically installed the driver. The device is listed in Explorer and is fully accessible. Started Kies. It showed the device as GT-I9300. It took a while and connected to the phone. All functions became useable. Sync'ed the contacts etc.
Day2. Booted the PC. Device is still shown in Explorer. Kies shows GT-I9300 and then displays "Connecting Device" - IT FAILS TO CONNECT and on pressing "Trouble shooting" button, it re-installs its own drivers and fails to install MTP driver AGAIN" - the Kies software SUCKS

Solved! For real!
For some reason, any of those options helped me to make it work:
- Reinstall Windows Media Player
- Remove registry key
- Clean up old usb drivers
- re-install 100 times drivers from Verizon, Samsung. Even old versions.
- Install from Windows Update. I tried to do that 1000 times. Gosh!
- enable UMT access (mass storage) on the phone.
The only thing that worked was, for some reason , getting the drivers from a random computer that was the only computer that worked.
Windows 7 x64
Attached the files. Go to the devices manager and update the drivers.
Israel Leite

How I solved it
Joey22688 said:
I just got a S3 yesterday but was greeted with the dreaded MTP driver installation failed message on win 7 (32 bit)
I installed the regular verizon s3 drivers from samsung's site, did the same thing, uninstalled and tried Kies and let it install the drivers, same problem
tried a different usb port, same thing
restarted the comp and computer, still no go
im getting frustrated now
it seems samsung has known about this issue for over a month now but still hasnt been able to fix it
my a500 and galaxy nexus work fine with MTP so not sure why this would mess up
ive looked at other threads but there was no clear solution on how to fix it
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1. Un-install Samsung Kies and USB drivers
2. Then install the Install Samsung Usb driver for mobile phones version 1.4.6.0
3. with phone un-pluged from the usbcable Go into settings/Developer Options un-check Stay Awake un-check USB debugging un-check Allow mock locations Now hit the HOME button then plug in the USB cable and your are set..
This worked perfectly painless for me :laugh:

Solution x Win XP
This solution worked for me.
Install microsoft patch for usb and reinstall MTP driver
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150211
Hope this helps

[Q] usb drivers...can't get MTP mode to function

First off, I'll mention that search isn't currently working, and hasn't for a while so I can't use that right now.
So I finally got around to upgrading to Windows 7. (Funny, right?)
Another funny thing is, that while I had previously been irritated by MTP mode before I realized you could press menu in the storage section of settings to use mass storage mode, now I'm wanting to use MTP mode, and not mass storage mode on my computer.
Problem is, the MTP drivers are not working for me. When I install the drivers, the other two show as being successfully completed, but MTP shows as "failed".
The link in the bible topic is malformed, so I downloaded them here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-T769NKBTMB
I've rebooted my computer and the phone *DOES* connect in mass storage mode, just not MTP mode. Any suggestions?

On your PC go into uninstall a program and make sure you don't have any other drivers. If not uninstall the drivers you have and reinstall. The ones from kies are fine. I'm using win8 and it gets detected like a boss.:good:
Is that a fresh install of win7 or a upgrade? If its an upgrade I would create a backup and repartition my hard drive. Windows can get a little finnicky sometimes especially between upgrades.

jbats said:
On your PC go into uninstall a program and make sure you don't have any other drivers. If not uninstall the drivers you have and reinstall. The ones from kies are fine. I'm using win8 and it gets detected like a boss.:good:
Is that a fresh install of win7 or a upgrade? If its an upgrade I would create a backup and repartition my hard drive. Windows can get a little finnicky sometimes especially between upgrades.
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Full install of course. The whole point of upgrading was because the install of my prior OS was about 4 years old.
Well, Kies is a bloated POS that I'll never have a reason to actually load up, but at least MTP works.
It's too bad the set of drivers I linked is fubar.

not a good day to try to delete a post...

If you have kies and everything is working properly, you can uninstall kies the USB drivers are installed. You are good to go :good: