Help Droid won't connect to Win7 64bit via USB

[Branndon]

Well it did also happen a couple days after changing "Verizon Wireless" to "Branndon's Droid" lol

 

[Branndon]

Well after uninstalling the drivers a few times, then installing motorola's software 2.4.2 and shutting down last night. This morning it seems to have worked. I'll post back if it acts funny. I also installed blackdroids 4.0 rom last night, and boy is it faster than droidmod was.
Anyway it wasn't working last night on droidmod, but this morning it is.

 

[jackburnt]

That's strange. I'm not completely convinced on BB .5. I may switch roms and see if that helps.

 

[jackburnt]

I installed the latest UltimateDroid rom. I'll see if that helps tonight.

 

[Branndon]

I don't think it's the rom, I reverted to my old one, and it works now but didn't before.

 

[Branndon]

ok so on a brand new fresh install, i connected the phone, nothing

installed motorola's software 2.4.2 software, rebooted, nothing

then rebooted again, connected the phone, nothing
UNTIL i put it in debugging mode, then it installed all the correct drivers and all works fine now./

 

[crosschecking]

ok so on a brand new fresh install, i connected the phone, nothing

installed motorola's software 2.4.2 software, rebooted, nothing

then rebooted again, connected the phone, nothing
UNTIL i put it in debugging mode, then it installed all the correct drivers and all works fine now./

Yep, I am having the same issue. Mine was working fine and then I went to the Moto website to install the latest driver. Now it only charges and connects via USB when debugging mode is enabled. As soon as I switch debugging off, it loses the USB connection and charging stops. I am using DroidMod ROM if that helps.

Question - is it any big deal to leave debugging as enabled all of the time?

 

[Shadowtech]

Hmm.. I don't recall ever installing any drivers on my windows 7 to get my phone to just charge. Whatever it needed for that, it must have already had. The only drivers I did end up installing though were the ones posted in the rooting guide at rootyourdroid.info. But I have noticed lately that altho it will charge when hooked up, I have issues with it unmounting by itself after a bit. Makes it real annoying trying to transfer large files.

 

[crosschecking]

As a follow up, it might have been something with DroidMod and winXp on my end. At home, it worked fine with my Win7 and this morning it's working fine on WinXP but I switched to SmokedGlass Rom last night so it went through the whole adding new hardware thing.

 

[Deleted User]

I too have been problems syncing my Droid to my Windows 7 64 bit machine. If you look over the net there are lots of threads talking about the same thing.

At first I was able to sync no problem but then one day I could no longer reliably sync any more. The only way I can do it is to uninstall the USB mas storage devices also. The problem comes back again though.

 

[johnlgalt]

Drivers have to be the issue, but I connect all the time without issue, so it is not necessarily an automatic driver thing.

Did you install the Motorola drives for the USB?

 

[PhilosoRaptor]

I'm having this same issue as OP now too. I've had my Droid mounting/charging perfectly (without debugging enabled) on my XP, Vista (32-bit) and Win7 RC (64-bit) PCs. But it seems to not want to install the USB drivers correctly on my 64-bit Vista and Win7 64-bit (Ultimate retail) PCs. In the device manager it just appears as "USB Composite Device" in Universal Serial Bus controllers section with an explanation mark on it ("This device cannot start. (Code 10)" error message). This is my 2nd fresh install of Win7 (I just got a nice SSD to put it on) and still have the same issue.

Only when I enable "USB debugging" on my Droid will it install all my drivers perfectly, allow me to mount my phone and charge my phone. I guess I can live with the slightly annoying "!" in my notification bar while it's charging (since debugging is enabled), but I shouldn't have to do it this way.

Let us know if you find a solution, OP, or anyone else for that matter.

I'm running Pete's BB 0.7.6 right now, btw. I've tried Chevys SS 2.0.0 (2.1 ESE53 release) but was too lazy to reconfigure everything so I restored my old backup.

 

[beck]

I too have a problem, i have a samsung galaxy i 7500 . i installed the droid explorer on the pc which has a win 7 home basic 64 bit. but the phone and droid explorer doesn't synce. and when i mount the phone its visible on the windows explorer.

 

[jalann]

Probably not your all's issue, but I have the same problem using a mini usb connector other than the one that came with the phone (a couple of them). It has also been an issue when I used another AC power connector. The tabs on the connector are slightly different

 

[johnlgalt]

That's because the DROID does not use a mini USB connector, it uses a micro USB connector. See DROID by Motorola - Android phone - Motorola USA

There is a difference in micro and mini, and you cannot reliably use one for the other interchangeably.

Also, see Universal Serial Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an explanation between the two.

 

[jalann]

My error. I am referring to micro usb. The micro usbs I used with my previous phone (Samsung Instinct) work intermittently on the Droid. The connection is not solid.

 

[johnlgalt]

Better check to see that those are standard MicroUSB cables, then. Samsung has done some stupid things in the past....

 

[Shadowtech]

FWIW, I picked up a few microusb cables from Monoprice.com - Maintenance for a couple bucks shipped and have not had a problem charging or syncing. So if you do need to replace the samsung cable, check their site before dropping more money on store brands.

 

[johnlgalt]

Agreed. I paid like a total of $6 including shipping for a Cigarette lighter adapter, a 10' USB cable, and then paid another $5 (again, including shipping for a pair of sturdier 6' gold plated USB cables. All cables are working fantastically....

 

[Zoandroid]

I see this thread stopped in March, but I'd like to say that I am having the same problem here with Win7x64 Home Premium and an Ally, and I have not modified the Ally's rom. It is stock. The Ally connects beautifully with the very same cable to my WinXP notebook. But the Win7 PC will not even recognize it. I just get the "device drivers did not install correctly" error.

Did anyone ever find out the cause and fix it?