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Help Connecting to laptop

Bob-o

Android Enthusiast
Oct 22, 2010
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So I have tried to connect my phone to my laptop and cant get it to work. Yes, I am using the original cable that came with my phone. I have the samsung drivers on there that I used to root. Could that be it? I have windows 7 I have turned on and off debugging, didnt work. It shows in my computer that I have "samsung android" but wont open or anything? I want to put music on it and take some off I downloaded. Thanks in advance!


Bob
 
So I have tried to connect my phone to my laptop and cant get it to work. Yes, I am using the original cable that came with my phone. I have the samsung drivers on there that I used to root. Could that be it? I have windows 7 I have turned on and off debugging, didnt work. It shows in my computer that I have "samsung android" but wont open or anything? I want to put music on it and take some off I downloaded. Thanks in advance!


Bob

Have you mounted your SD card, or just plugged it in?
 
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Hi -

I have just moved from a dumb phone to a smart phone (Fascinate) and need some simple help here. I took some photos with the camera and would like to download the pics. I don't know if they were originally stored on the SD card but I suspect so. However, when I plug in the USB cord and select mount, the external SD card disappears and so do the photos in my gallery? Does the USB cord override the SD card? I have had a few weird data full errors and what looks like a red SD card shows up at the top of the screen (I have only 30 pics, no networking and downloaded just a few app so there is no way the card is full). The warning will suddenly just go away by itself? Maybe I have a bad SD card? Any suggestions are appreciated!
 
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Hi -

I have just moved from a dumb phone to a smart phone (Fascinate) and need some simple help here. I took some photos with the camera and would like to download the pics. I don't know if they were originally stored on the SD card but I suspect so. However, when I plug in the USB cord and select mount, the external SD card disappears and so do the photos in my gallery? Does the USB cord override the SD card? I have had a few weird data full errors and what looks like a red SD card shows up at the top of the screen (I have only 30 pics, no networking and downloaded just a few app so there is no way the card is full). The warning will suddenly just go away by itself? Maybe I have a bad SD card? Any suggestions are appreciated!

when you mount the sdcard you lack the ability to read it on your phone itself...it mounts as a drive.

your photos are in sdcard/dcim/camera

you may have a bad sdcard...try to format it on your computer and if it still gives you issues give big red a call and complain :)
 
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when you mount the sdcard you lack the ability to read it on your phone itself...it mounts as a drive.

your photos are in sdcard/dcim/camera

you may have a bad sdcard...try to format it on your computer and if it still gives you issues give big red a call and complain :)

Keep in mind that formatting erases it. If you want to save anything on the SD card, you could upload it to Dropbox, Picasa, or something else.
 
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