Hello, I believe I screwed up something with the mounting/unmounting before I flashed a ROM, and my phone is not working as a result. Originally, it would sit at the Samsung Sidekick 4g Tmobile screen forever, and I could use the button combination to get it into download mode... now that doesn't work, and it only goes to the black screen with the phone and the computer.
I have downloaded driver after driver after driver trying to get this to work, I have downloaded ODIN, and I understand how to use it, but there is no way ODIN is going to see my phone because Windows will not properly install it. I only have a PPC mac and Win 7 computers, one win 7 computer says device is malfunctioning and the other win 7 computer loads it as a "Gadget Serial" but says that it did not install properly. I have tried all the samsung drivers, all the samsung programs to no avail. I've tried more than one USB cable too...
Is there any hope in getting this phone back to life? Do I need to use a windows XP installation? I have VMware so I could try XP or linux but frankly I'm afraid to do anything more for fear of further complicating this situation.
Final Edit: SOLVED. I uninstalled everything save for the samsung drivers, installed the android SDK and plugged it in a different usb port...although im not sure if windows got it right away, ODIN detected it and I was able to restore.
I've been trying to connect my Trasformer to my computer over USB for a while now so that I can use Nachoroot. When I plug it in, a bubble pops up on my PC on the bottom right saying "USB device not recognized". If i go into the device manager and click update driver and have it look in the folder with the USB drivers from Asus's website, it says that i already have the most up to date drivers. I've tried uninstalling the device, installing the package with Sync and web storage, but get the same result.
I have tried using a different cable, a different computer, and a different operating system (specifically windows 7, windows 8, and ubuntu). I've also restored my Transformer using the option in Settings.
Anybody have any ideas as to what will work?
Have you install Asus PC sync?
If you haven't you should
yes, i've installed sync.
Take a look at this thread, especially the "trouble shooting" portion
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13635629
I had looked at that thread before and have tried all of those steps, and tried them again, but no luck.
One note being that with the other drivers from the hotfile download on that thread, i'm unable to install them. In the device manager on my computer, when I plug the computer in it shows up as an unrecognized device, and when I try to use those drivers it says that they don't apply.
I am having the same problem. I was rooted on the 3.2.1 system with a US version BAO transformer TF101-A1 and the computer was able to use the drivers. However, I could not upgrade and was having issues unrooting, so I did a factory reset then upgraded OTA 3 different times until I got to the ICS 4.0.3 (which runs fine, just unrooted!). Now I cannot get the transformer drivers to install! I get the "USB Device Not Recognized" error and in the device manager it shows up as an Unknown Device under Universal Serial Bus Controllers. I try to update the drivers using Asus drivers, Vipormod drivers, and the drivers I used to originally root it which was Brks_rootkit_v7, but it won't accept them. This is without Asus Sync installed and trying on four different computers using Windows 7 64 bit and two different cables. I even tried loading the Asus Sync and it will not find the device. When I try to boot into stock recovery, I just get an Android that falls over with a red exclamation point. Also to note, my wife has a transformer still on 3.2.1 and rooted and it recognizes it immediately on all four computers using either cable. I have been everywhere searching for an answer (including this site) and tried just about everything. I just submitted a service claim email to Asus telling them that after the update I am unable to use Asus Sync and the drivers aren't recognized. I am extremely frustrated! Any help will be appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468832
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476886
These also seem to be a similiar problem and as yet a solution has not been found.
Thank you for your quick reply. I will head over there.
Just to clarify, I can download the appropriate file, flash that file (using cwm) and then it will boot up in ICS or do I need to update to ICS after that?
Thanks,
When I updated my OS from Windows 7 x64 Ultimate to Windows 8 Pro x64, I faced some serious issues related to USB connectivity.
I currently use MyPhoneExplorer as a windows interface for my phone management and it needs USB drivers properly working. Windows automatically detects the unknown device and downloads the related drivers if missing. But as you know it's a long shot and in this case it worked.
Windows managed to pull up some drivers so my USB debugging mode worked and connectivity was fine.
But if you want to connect the device in Download mode using ODIN for firmware upgradation, you're stuck. ODIN cann't detect any device connected to any port (though it's there connected to one of the USB ports actually)
So the final ultimate solution is (after so many other futile attempts ) : download the latest KIES from Samsung's official website.
Trust me on this, it may seem simple and straight but the amount of (futile) efforts I put behind all these is a lot, and I seriously don't want anyone to waste your time on this stupid issue. So that's it.
By the way this is my very first post to XDA. Been using the site for troubleshooting since years but never participated actively. Thanks to the team and all the developers for this great gateway of solutions. :good:
Onsite_Baba said:
When I updated my OS from Windows 7 x64 Ultimate to Windows 8 Pro x64, I faced some serious issues related to USB connectivity.
I currently use MyPhoneExplorer as a windows interface for my phone management and it needs USB drivers properly working. Windows automatically detects the unknown device and downloads the related drivers if missing. But as you know it's a long shot and in this case it worked.
Windows managed to pull up some drivers so my USB debugging mode worked and connectivity was fine.
But if you want to connect the device in Download mode using ODIN for firmware upgradation, you're stuck. ODIN cann't detect any device connected to any port (though it's there connected to one of the USB ports actually)
So the final ultimate solution is (after so many other futile attempts ) : download the latest KIES from Samsung's official website.
Trust me on this, it may seem simple and straight but the amount of (futile) efforts I put behind all these is a lot, and I seriously don't want anyone to waste your time on this stupid issue. So that's it.
By the way this is my very first post to XDA. Been using the site for troubleshooting since years but never participated actively. Thanks to the team and all the developers for this great gateway of solutions. :good:
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hi try to run odin in compatible mode that should solve your problem could be odin is not compatible with windows 8
No matter what I do I can't connect my GT-P6210 co PC using either windows XP or Windows 7.
Always get the same error "USB Device is not recognized".
So it's not visible in Odin so I can't flash anything to it.
Install latest KIES, unsintalled it, latest Sumsung USB drivers,installed universal ADB driver etc.
Nothing helps. Tried different USB cable.
All the same result.
Any help would be appreciated
Hi,
I'm using this CM 11 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2922500 but I have strange problem with my laptop. It periodically looses driver information for my device. I don't know how but when I re-installed my OS Windows 7 (32bit) it found the proper driver. Later I've got a message that my USB device is not recognized and can't connect to my device. Does anyone else have the same problem and do you know a fix? I've tried a lot and different driver versions but without success. Logcat doesn't show anything last time but I will try later or when I loose drivers again (it seems I cannot use USB again).
BTW I don't have this problem with my desktop PC which has always connected USB cable to it. Also everything works fine with CM 10.1, MIUI or Sense ROMs but they are based on lower Android versions.
P.S. I was trying to connect with another USB cable. I've found my cable that I used to install drivers and USB is working again. This is really strange behaviour
Logcat from device terminal
Logcat when plug in or out my USB connector is attached.
Use this tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979