Hi everyone. I've had my Droid X for almost 3 weeks. I've spent hours searching for a solution before posting, but nothing I've found has been relevant to my problem. Every other thread talks about a Windows 7 computer not seeing the X, and my computer always sees it. The drivers installed fine, and I downloaded and installed the software from Motorola.
When I plug my phone into my laptop (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit), I can see it in Windows Explorer. But there are a few problems:
This is the only device that gives me any issues. Every other device I connect shows up within seconds and works as it should.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what's going on? Not being able to get my phone to work right with my computer drastically reduces what I can do with it. I want to root it, but I won't until I can fix this so I can be sure I can connect it and fix it if I mess something up somewhere.
P.S. Today a VCast browser tab started opening in Firefox whenever I connected my phone to my laptop. This is really annoying. Can I make this stop?
When I plug my phone into my laptop (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit), I can see it in Windows Explorer. But there are a few problems:
- My phone constantly notifies me that it's preparing the SD card. This can go on for over 20 minutes.
- When it stops doing that it spontaneously reboots when I try to access it the SD card through the computer or open the notification window on my phone to change the connection setting.
- It's connected right now and the drive is showing up in Windows Explorer as, "CD Drive (F Motorola, 0 bytes free of 8.63 MB, CDFS.:
This is the only device that gives me any issues. Every other device I connect shows up within seconds and works as it should.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what's going on? Not being able to get my phone to work right with my computer drastically reduces what I can do with it. I want to root it, but I won't until I can fix this so I can be sure I can connect it and fix it if I mess something up somewhere.
P.S. Today a VCast browser tab started opening in Firefox whenever I connected my phone to my laptop. This is really annoying. Can I make this stop?