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How to Con­nect the Sam­sung Galaxy S (I9000) via USB

July 23rd, 2010 Leave a comment

    So, this week I bought the Sam­sung Galaxy S (I9000) so that I too could revel in the Android glory. I did a litte research before buy­ing the phone and in the end I had to make my choice between the HTC Desire and the Sam­sung Galaxy S (I9000). I went for the Galaxy S because of the Super AMOLED, the 8 GB stor­age, and the big­ger screen. Up until an hour ago I liked what I had.

    When I tried to con­nect the phone to the PC to access the SD card though, it didn’t really work. I tried chang­ing a few set­tings and I even installed Sam­sung Kies which didn’t help either. Alright, a chal­lenge then. I set my mind to the task and here’s how I finally man­aged to access the phone’s inter­nal SD card on my PC run­ning Win­dows XP. On Win­dows 7 every­thing just works so there’s no need to install or change any­thing at all.

    1. Install Sam­sungs New PC Stu­dio for the dri­vers (Alter­na­tively, you can try to locate only the dri­vers some­where else on the web).
    2. Go to Set­tings – About phone – USB set­tings and choose Ask on connection.
    3. Go to Set­tings – Appli­ca­tions – Devel­op­ment and turn on USB debugging.
    4. Con­nect the phone via USB, choose Mass stor­age from the menu, slide the noti­fi­ca­tion drawer down and select “Select to copy files to/from your computer”.
    5. Con­firm the popup by press­ing “Mount”.

    Now comes the impor­tant part because this didn’t work the first time.

    1. Dis­con­nect the phone in the noti­fi­ca­tion drawer und dis­con­nect the USB cable.
    2. Go to Set­tings – Appli­ca­tions – Devel­op­ment and turn off USB  debugging.
    3. Con­nect the phone again as out­lined above and now every­thing should work normally.

    That’s how I got my Galaxy S work­ing. Every­thing else I tried did noth­ing at all – and I lit­er­ally searched through lots of forums. As long as there’s a solu­tion I don’t mind. Sure, it sucks big time but at least I didn’t have to con­tact sup­port and wait days or weeks for a solution.

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    1. MikeD
      February 10th, 2012 at 03:24 | #1
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      Use ftp instead as sug­gested by the first poster (Jojo). This is the only sure way to trans­fer files in all envi­ron­ments. No com­puter dri­vers, Sam­sung apps, or cables (if using WiFi). Just works.

    2. Ger­rit Raket
      February 20th, 2012 at 22:29 | #2
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      I rec­og­nize the prob­lem. Sam­sung mobile tele­phones do not com­mu­ni­cate prop­erly with a pc. Theis soft­ware to do this does not work. I now use my phone explorer. This works well. I will neve buy a sam­sung tele­phoe again

    3. epos
      March 7th, 2012 at 19:09 | #3
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      I to am hav­ing the same issue, just tried con­nect­ing to my lap­top via the usb port, it says installing device dri­ver when i con­nect, but then says failed MTP device con­sult your device manufacturer

    4. zakaria
      March 10th, 2012 at 08:38 | #4
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      Sir,
      i have a galaxy s 19000 mobile phone i have some prob­lem in my phone that my phone is not con­nect via usb port  i tried all set­ting regard­ing con­nect via usb port but still its not work­ing so please give me solu­tion regard­ing my problem

    5. King Lee
      March 11th, 2012 at 19:54 | #5
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      I sim­ply went under set­tings, wire­less and net­work, usb set­tings, and selected mass stor­age. Con­nected the usb cable and was able to browse the files on my phone. I have the Sam­sung Galaxy S plus I9001

    6. Alter­na­tive
      March 14th, 2012 at 11:07 | #6
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      For me, I just went to my phone set­tings to fix this prob­lem
      1) Set­tings
      2) Wire­less and net­work
      3) USB set­tings
      4) Select ‘Mass Stor­age’
       
      Then boom it worked. I sup­pose this is only if you want to access your SD card and mass stor­age memory.

    7. Eng Reza
      March 18th, 2012 at 08:01 | #7
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      sir i have a sam­sung mobile galaxyAC and dont know how to conect to te pc when i directly conect trough USB jut it charg­ing and i cant oper the SD Card an cant open my file to copy or past

    8. anon
      April 3rd, 2012 at 05:25 | #8
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      Hi there :)
      Thank you for your solu­tion.  It worked for me, I just have to select mass stor­age and mount sd card but I am able to browse through the sd card and mass stor­age on my mobile. I have the fol­low­ing model; GT-I9000T
      Cheers
       

    9. Leo
      April 4th, 2012 at 16:52 | #9
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      I gave up con­nect­ing my galaxy s plus to a com­puter. The sam­sung soft­ware is just one big fail. Most of the time I use drop­box to exchange files or put the exter­nal sd card in a other device which just works. This is my first sam­sung tele­phone and it eas­ily con­vinced my to never buy a sam­sung again. 

    10. Mike ~ D
      April 7th, 2012 at 02:16 | #10
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      lol funny u got th same name xD

    11. Ilir­jan
      April 8th, 2012 at 19:26 | #11
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      I was think­ing to buy Galaxy s 111 but with galaxy s i got dis­ap­pointed and i can not con­nected to PC. I will never by Samsung again

    12. Chris ODell
      April 9th, 2012 at 06:27 | #12
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      Thank you, thank you, thank you!  My son con­stantly wants to add music to his Galaxy S but I HATE it.  My com­puter would never find the phone for mass stor­age and drag and drop (as I do for my HTC) so it was sheer tor­ture to try to get songs trans­ferred.  I have lit­er­ally spent hours get­ting his music on his phone – finally searched to see if any­one had the same prob­lem; assumed it was my com­puter.  So, so, so glad I found this post, I was expect­ing another marathon trans­fer and after fol­low­ing your step by step the 20 song trans­fer took less than 5 min­utes.  You have no idea how much I appre­ci­ate your post – thanks again!

    13. mar­i­o­bronx
      April 16th, 2012 at 00:06 | #13
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      Thanks a lot “Alter­na­tive”… I was about to get very annoyied with my new Sam­sun Galaxy S2!!!
      I expected Android more user-friendly

    14. Michael
      April 18th, 2012 at 20:46 | #14
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      You messed up on your “Step 2″.    You wrote, “Go to Set­tings – About phone – USB set­tings and choose Ask on con­nec­tion.”   I’m pretty sure that you meant to put, “Appli­ca­tions”, instead of, “About Phone”.       Just saying…

    15. JC
      April 19th, 2012 at 09:45 | #15
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      @Michael

      Actu­ally, I did not. Things changed dur­ing the last few releases. I sim­ply didn’t bother updat­ing the post. ;)

    16. ver­nohh
      April 26th, 2012 at 21:50 | #16
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      THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCHHHHHH! had to skip around on the steps but it worked. =D

    17. Roody S
      April 30th, 2012 at 01:06 | #17
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      I have a sam­sung galaxy s I try to make the teth­er­ing con­nec­tion with my pc I can’t or I got the htc my touch it works perfect.

    18. Joanna
      May 2nd, 2012 at 14:03 | #18
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      Hi,
      Just wanted to say Thanks! I was becom­ing ore and more frus­trated as could not work this out – Googled it and found this – U saved the day Cheers :)

    19. Emily
      May 5th, 2012 at 15:18 | #19
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      Hi,
      Have been try­ing for MONTHS to update the firmware on my Galaxy Si9000, which meant I had to update the Kies to acknowl­edge that there was actu­ally new firmware for the phone. BUT as soon as i updated the Kies when I con­nected my phone via USB it pops up with “USB Device NOt Recognised”…..have tried it on 2 dif­fer­ent PCs with the same result…. PLease please please does any­one know how to fix this? About to go Crazy!

    20. JC
      May 5th, 2012 at 19:33 | #20
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      @Emily
      Yeah, I never got Kies to work with my GT-I9000. I chose to for­get this piece of crap soft­ware and flash the firmware myself. If you don’t care about war­ranty, you should try that for your­self. There are a lot of good guides on how to use Odin to flash the lat­est firmware. When I started doing things this way I relied on the guides from Android­Soul.

    21. ste­vie
      May 12th, 2012 at 15:47 | #21
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      i dont see why so many peo­ple have prob­lems. just switch on the USB mass stor­age in the phone set­tings and both inter­nal & exter­nal stor­age can be mounted and viewed in win­dows explorer just like any other HD.

    22. asabamuhamad@gmail.com
      May 16th, 2012 at 01:16 | #22
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      yeah i have a sam­sung vibrant and noth­ing is work­ing for me im try­ing so hard to update my phone but i can’t because every time i plug it to the com­puter it doesn’t work wtf do i do

    23. Emily
      May 16th, 2012 at 15:14 | #23
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      @jc…..yeah I know. Totally frus­trated
      @stevie I’m not a com­plete idiot I did try all of those things and even called up Sam­sung the other day and spoke to two of their tech­ni­cians and even they had NO IDEA! My phone is out if war­ranty oth­er­wise they said they would’ve taken it back so after every­thing it looks like I just have to tol­er­ate it for another 2months until I can recon­tract and update to an iPhone….didn’t want to have to do it but sick of this android crap.
      Thanks all the same
      Oh and @ asaba­muhar if I were you I’d call Sam­sung and send it back if it’s still under warranty… 

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