I'm in a quandry. I've had my Samsung Droid Charge for 2 years and while I qualify for an upgrade, I thought to myself it's time to root and see what this thing can do (and hopefully get some extended life out of it).
So I read thru a lot of root threads and how-to's, and was about ready to start setting up, went to connect my phone to my computer with the USB cable that came with the phone (which I have also used for 2 yrs) and lo and behold, there's no connection to the computer. Computer recognizes something trying to connect via USB, but notification on the computer that pops up says "USB Device Not Recognized." Now, when I used to connect to any computer, a screen on my phone would come on asking if I wanted to connect the phone as a mass storage device or media player. That screen doesn't come up any more when I plug in the USB. The phone beeps as if it was connecting but then just indicates that it is charging. I've never had any issues with this before.
I've gone thru the rigamorole of trying different USB ports, different computers, different USB cables. Nothing doing on any of those. Tried setting the phone on "ask on connection" and "mass storage" on different computers. Nothing there either. Tried with USB debugging on and off on the phone. No dice. I have even tried a couple of complete hard resets of the phone, and still will not connect to any computer. Based on some info from other forums I even tried downloading some Samsung USB drivers to my computer (which I never had before and had no problem connecting without), and they don't even seem to install properly. message I get when the install finishes says "Device driver was not successfully installed" and then just shows a list of my printer drivers????? My printers work fine - don't know what the hell that Samsung's Mobile Phone driver has to do with our HP printer.
Spent 45 useless minutes at the Verizon store yesterday only to have their "tech" guy do another master reset, and finally give me the toll free number to Verizon and tell me it was their tech support number. Spent another hour on the phone when i eventually got to a tech support person only to be told that I'm eligble for an upgrade.
Part of the reason I started this process was that after two years, the original battery was draining really quickly with minimal use, and the battery power screen that shows during the charge cycle (with power off) was looking weird - it was showing battery with no charge, then all of a sudden would show partial depending on how long it was connected. Maybe thats what it's always done, but for some reason it looks different to my. So I purchased a brand new battery. For a couple of days it "seemed" like the new battery was holding power, but when I go to charge it, that charge screen is still doing the same thing. On top of that the last two days my battery drained really quickly again, with very minimal use (Went from full charge at the start of the day to about 50% after 5 hours just checking a few texts and emails). I don't know if that factors into why it's not connecting to the computer, but I find it unlikely that both the connection and battery problems are coincidental.
Anyone have any ideas for me at this point? Frustrated by having spent waaaaaaay too much time on this already. I'd really like to go root, but I don't see how unless I can determine how to get this thing to connect to a computer again.
I wish I could help but I'm not a real big phone Tech. I did root and install Tweaked on my wife's Samsung Charge FP8 last night. I'm not trying to throw that in your face because I did have some issues as well. I did have to install Samsung drivers. My windows 8 never told me if it installed correctly so I had to play around with the install until Odin recognized my phone. You may have to plug your phone in and go to device manager on the computer and uninstall any drivers associated with it. My computer would say "removable storage" when the phone was plugged in. Please ask any questions or private message me. I swear my wife's phone runs and looks great now. She was getting tired of it until I got my hands on it, lol. Good luck.
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Hello, I have a Samsung focus that use to work fibe connecting to PC but off recent whenever I plug it in windows 7 says USB is not recognize.
I've tried everything from resetting the phone to refatting the computer nothing helps. I have a feeling its the phone because same problem on other computers, anyone had to problem and cured it?
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or it might be a problem with your usb cable that came with the phone. if u can, try getting another one and using that (they go for very cheap on ebay). Have u *unlocked your device lately?
I've tried many different USB cables none works for me. I got the phone almost 2months now already unlocked. Live in UK and its a ATT branded phone so I'm abit screwed.
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jamreal said:
I've tried many different USB cables none works for me. I got the phone almost 2months now already unlocked. Live in UK and its a ATT branded phone so I'm abit screwed.
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Have you tried the microsoft answers forum (answers.microsoft.com)? They have some solution wizards in one of the stickies near the top.
Did anyone ever find an answer to this? I've had my focus since Nov last year and it's worked fine for me aside from some odd, and random nonsense.
I went to go connect my phone to my laptop the other day and realized it didn't see my phone. When I plug it in, the phone chimes and shows it's getting power, but both my laptops show nothing being installed, Zune doesn't load, and if I load it, shows nothing connected. Nothing appears in the device manager either. I get no error message.
the cord shows no damage, and it's been plugged into my wall outlet for awhile. I guess i'm going to see about getting another cable tomorrow and try it that way?
Was wondering if anyone else has had a problem with the cable going bad suddenly, or if something else could be to blame? I've been reading here, MS's site and anywhere else I can, and I find things ranging from error message, drivers not installing and other things. I just know it worked fine a few weeks ago, but now...nothing.
Had the same issue. My 4th USB cable did the trick. I wanted to throw it out the window
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I don't know much about electricity, but every device I can remember having with a removable charger: instructions said Plug power cord into Device FIRST, then Plug into Power Source. Could leaving cord plugged into power source, thus reversing above instruction, cause a problem with the cord?
Hello, first off I wanna say thank you to all those that worked on roms for the infuse it's fun playing with different ones and peeks at ones not available for my phone.
I'm new to the scene even though I read a few threads relative to the infuse.. So, I'm almost new to android devices though I can pick up on things semi quickly, my problem is USB connections with my phone..
I use the Samsung Infuse 4g and currently on cyanogenmod 9 (ICS), I first noticed this problem 4 days ago, My AC Adapter (wall charger) won't charge my phone, If my phone is on even though it shows it's charging the battery life decreases. When my phone is off, the battery charges but very slowly, also my original USB (from phone to pc) cord broke of course lol. I got a new one today that connects phone to pc or phone to a detatchable wall charger (don't know the correct term for it) so know my phone charges both ways, wall and pc.
At first I was highly fustrated because I could only charge my phone in the car.. Anyway, I went into the settings and went to the battery section, this is where one of/possibly my main problem occurs.
Charging my phone with my original wall charger (the one that only charges when phone is off), it shows up in the battery option: Charging (USB) or something to that extent, WHILE charging my phone from my pc, it shows: Charging (AC).. So my phone won't connect to my PC directly (can't access memory cards and such).. Obviously this is backwards but again, I don't know if that was a mistake on my end or the rom..
You know on froyo when you connect to the pc via USB the options come up on the phone umm, I believe kies, media, then mass storage. I don't get those options either so I can't use heimdall or odin.. Also tried downloading older roms for a more extensive test, thus I can't because most of the links are either removed or go to the multiupload site and I can't access the downloads because of the petition going on..
So I'm mainly looking for some insight on the USB connectors and also a possible froyo, even a gingerbread rom link, I'm not really comfortable downloading a rom from a random site, even a torrent site since I'm not adept with android quite yet..
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, and sorry for the loooong post lol, but I like to explain in details.. I could also provide screenshots of how the phone picks up my USB connections from wall mount and from PC ( with the backwards connections).. Just thought about the screenshot part also lol..
Thanks again
Looks like you have the same problem i had with my old phone. Try going into download mode (remove battery, hold both volume i think then insert battery along with cable to pc, you may want to check elsewhere i nah be wrong on the steps lol i dont think so though). From there enter odin/heimdale. If it doesnt show try other ports, other computers just install kies on the other computers for the drivers. If it doesnt show then come back and tell me... i needed a whole new phone, my usb was fried but yours may not be.
Thanks for the response, and sorry for the late reply, had a lot of issues the past few days. Searched around some more and it's a obvious solution that sadly isn't out there as much. It's true about the "Data" and "Charging USBs.. Sadly they don't put in BIG letters on a package stating the difference, so yeah thanks again and hopefully this will help out someone else like me lol.
Hey there,
I'm wondering if there may be a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S6 and I wanted to get some opinions before I try one last thing and fully reset it.
I've had the phone since April last year and for some reason the battery life has never really been good anyway. This isn't the main reason I am posting though as only recently I noticed a different issue when I tried to transfer some files onto the phone.
I was trying to use the cable that comes with the phone to charge it, and I've done so before when I've transferred files before from my Macbook. However, that time before I also found it very difficult to detect the phone and kept having to unplug it and plug it back in before it would see it. I was using the software Android File Transfer. Last night I could literally not get it to see my phone whatsoever... I plugged it into the computer and it would charge but it literally could not detect a connected device.
So here's where it gets frustrating as I spent the next two hours trying to fix this issue. I tried searching for a solution online which is why I'm now here after everything as all that I tried didn't work. I tried switching to SmartSwitch (and uninstalled AFT first), but that program also didn't detect my phone. Then I tried Airdroid, which worked only when I used the file upload under the browser but refused to connect to the phone when I clicked it on My Devices.
I even tried the method of *#0808# but it was actually already set to the correct settings so now I'm completely at a loss as to what it could be.
I've previously also had issues where I've plugged in the phone and it hasn't started fast charging and I haven't realised for an hour that it's only been cable charging and had to plug it back in for it to recognise it... is this likely a problem with the phone or cable?
I mean, aside from the also frustrating battery issues which have been worsening as time goes by (currently phone is on 79% having only used 39m screen time), I'm not sure whether it's time to give the phone a reset before actually taking it in to the store or whether it's likely an issue with the connector port at the bottom too which means it's probably not worth the hassle of resetting?
I won't go too much into the battery issues here, but I've been trying to use Greenify, App Optimisation, literally EVERYTHING I can think of, and I still don't get any more than 4 hrs and a half screen time.
My phone is not rooted. (though I'm wondering whether rooting it may help me). Thanks and I hope you have some advice that may resolve my issues!
I have the same issue.. muy phone won't charge unless otra on the wireless charging port
I have the SAME issue. I really don't know how to fix it!
Hmmmm sounds like your charging port is starting to go either that or maybe you could try flashing some new software through Odin and hope that's it's a software issue and as for the battery of course rooting does help bc it lets you get rid of the bloatware on the phone either that or try package disabler pro.
About a month ago I started getting the Moisture in USB port error all of the time. I promise, it wasn't wet. It persisted through 2 firmware updates and much time in hot, no humidity environments. Not the biggest problem in the word, because I anyway always just use wireless charging as default. But it did kind of freak me out none the less, and I wanted to backup all of my data and do a factory reset to see if this helped anything before trying to deal with warranty support for a possible broken USB port.
Eventually the port began thinking it was dry again, and I hooked it up to two different windows 10 computers, one windows 7 computer, and my Linux computer (which i have use many times in the past to transfer files with no problems). I reaaalllly don't think it's a driver issue, I promise this isn't a cable or computer USB port issue.
When I plug it in, the phone just starts charging, the computer acts as if nothing happened. the "adb devices" command yields no results. USB debugging is on.
I went into dev settings and made sure it was set to MTP by default. It was. I anyway tried all the same settings, with no luck.
Nothing changed on my computer, yet it no longer recognizes my phone, which is also unrecognized by any computer I try. The USB port works fine for charging now, and I have tried many cables.
Any ideas? Whenever I try to search about this all i get pretty much is "dId YoU tRy ReStArTiNg It???"
I really wanted to back up all my stuff and flash Lineage :/
In doing research about previous models of Galaxy having this same issue, it seems to largely be a software problem. I would like to try going into recovery and wiping some caches....which are safe to wipe without risking any meaningful data loss?
I don't want to get burn in on my phone, but I tried for 6 hours today to get this rooted and it was just one problem after another, most of which I see have barely happened to anyone. Between driver errors, installing driver errors, unauthorized adb errors, some strange error with a missing key or something, and it saying it's waiting for a device when attempting to run the boot image, I had to give up because everyone around me was getting annoyed by how much time I spent on it. A simple guide of maybe five things I had to do turned into a huge rabbit hole, it even resulted in my phone inconspicuously seeming as though it's bricked for a few hours for some reason.
So my question is, is there anything I can do? I'm a gamer, and I have OCD to boot, so when I see those damn icons burnt into my screen when playing something, it's gonna kill me. Is Tasker an option? Man, this was much easier on IOS, surprisingly.
Well first off, it would help it you told us what os is on your computer..
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Well first off, it would help it you told us what os is on your computer..
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Oh, sorry about that. Windows 10 Home. It's a couple years old now. An Acer Aspire 5. It has been giving me driver troubles for a long time, which would explain why it's made it so difficult to root.
The "waiting for device" is symptomatic of a missing driver.
There's a number of threads on installing drivers/connecting to PC in https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/oneplus-8t-guides-news-discussion.11585/
I even write one of them with lots of screenshots.
If none of them work then I suggest you have issues with your PC or, if you can't see your phone at all using MTP, your physical contention between the phone and PC.
Have you tried using a different USB port and USB cable? It's possible the port/usb cable is damaged and causing issues. swap both with a different USB Cable, make sure it's a thicker cable and not a cheap one. if you're using the C to C cable that comes with the phone, try using a USB C to USB A adapter.
Download full android SDK. Works for me every time.