What follows may be old news to many readers here, but I just wanted to share the solution to a problem I've had getting my Windows 7 x64 computer to talk to my Galaxy. This may be relevant for Vista x64 too, though I can't check myself.
As is well known, the New PC Studio software that comes with the Galaxy is more than a little bit rubbish. In fact, on my Windows 7 x64 machine the installer failed all over the place when installing the drivers. The end result was that I just couldn't get my Galaxy and Windows to talk. Naturally, this was a huge problem because I couldn't transfer files without taking my phone to bits and extracting the micro SD card every time!
It seems that the CD that comes with the phone just doesn't have any x64 drivers on there (could somebody else confirm this, or is my CD just fundamentally flawed?).
Today, I found that this file from Verizon contains all the drivers I needed to get the thing working though:
Samsung Drivers
1. Extract it but don't bother running Setup.exe
2. Plug in your phone
3. Go to Device Manager and then choose to update the driver for the device which has a yellow exclamation icon
4. Choose to browse your computer for the drivers and point the wizard to the "drivers" folder you extracted from the zip file.
You may have to do steps 3 and 4 several times, as after you've set up the first device (a composite device), two other devices suddenly appear and these also need drivers from the same folder.
Again, I'm sure this is quite probably old news to many regular readers, but I couldn't find this information with a description that matched my problem, so I'm just posting this to help others in the same boat in the future.
All the best,
Chris
As is well known, the New PC Studio software that comes with the Galaxy is more than a little bit rubbish. In fact, on my Windows 7 x64 machine the installer failed all over the place when installing the drivers. The end result was that I just couldn't get my Galaxy and Windows to talk. Naturally, this was a huge problem because I couldn't transfer files without taking my phone to bits and extracting the micro SD card every time!
It seems that the CD that comes with the phone just doesn't have any x64 drivers on there (could somebody else confirm this, or is my CD just fundamentally flawed?).
Today, I found that this file from Verizon contains all the drivers I needed to get the thing working though:
Samsung Drivers
1. Extract it but don't bother running Setup.exe
2. Plug in your phone
3. Go to Device Manager and then choose to update the driver for the device which has a yellow exclamation icon
4. Choose to browse your computer for the drivers and point the wizard to the "drivers" folder you extracted from the zip file.
You may have to do steps 3 and 4 several times, as after you've set up the first device (a composite device), two other devices suddenly appear and these also need drivers from the same folder.
Again, I'm sure this is quite probably old news to many regular readers, but I couldn't find this information with a description that matched my problem, so I'm just posting this to help others in the same boat in the future.
All the best,
Chris