I couldn’t find a quick solu­tion so I down­loaded “SwiFTP” from the app­store. Google it, sets up your phone as a server over your local WiFi, just type the given IP address into your win­dows browser and you can trans­fer files, easy as pie. Trans­ferred sev­eral GB, works like a charm.

That was soooo help­ful. I’ve spent days try­ing to fig­ure this out. Thanks a million !!!!

this was a great help set up easy thanks heaps.

Te felic­ito fun­ciona de mar­avilla:
En Win­dows 7
Ir a Ajustes -> Apli­ca­ciones -> Desar­rollo -> desac­ti­var la depu­ración USB.
En Mac
Ir a Ajustes -> Apli­ca­ciones -> Desar­rollo -> acti­var la depu­ración USB.
Porque? no lo se, pero fun­ciona.
Saludos.

you can con­nect to PC with­out Sam­sung KIES !
you need to do this: Set­tings > Appli­ca­tions > Devel­op­ment and turn on USB debug­ging.
now you will need the dri­vers and you will find the dri­vers here: http://ynos.ro/drivers/samsung/

It was easy step by step instruc­tions and worked properly…thanks a lot

Thanks a bunch Man….

Hi, as men­tioned B4, just google “SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe” and go to a down­load site.  Install onto your com­puter.  When you con­nect the phone to your com­puter go to Settings\Wireless & Network\Tethering\ and select the “USB Teth­er­ing” box.  Select the pop-up to con­nect the usb.  On your com­puter, open “My Com­puter” and one of the dri­ves will be the phone.  Dou­ble click on it and all your files & fold­ers in the phone will be listed.  Pho­tos default to DCIM folder.  Inci­den­tally, if you oth­er­wise choose the ‘return’ but­ton on the phone (instead of the USB popup), it will auto­mat­i­cally tether to the internet.

As a sug­ges­tion, when you get an error on your phone (or any­thing for that mat­ter) sim­ply google the word­ing & code of the error along with the piece of hard­ware to which it relates.

Thanks a lot, it is amaz­ing and took a few min­utes. I still won­der how it worked as it doesn’t seem log­i­cal at all… Also won­der how you found the way.
Many thanks

Hi, 

Thanks for your post it really helped me back up my stuff but can you please tell me how I can update my firmware because as you pointed out Kies is not work­ing and I need to update my phone I have spent 2 days try­ing to update and it keeps fail­ing to even con­nect my phone to my pc!

Thanks for any help you can give!

Angela 

Hi, 

Thanks for your post it really helped me back up my stuff but can you please tell me how I can update my firmware because as you pointed out Kies is not work­ing and I need to update my phone I have spent 2 days try­ing to update and it keeps fail­ing to even con­nect my phone to my pc! Please, please help!

Thanks for any help you can give!

nice work dude great help only one ques­tion how do i get Sam­sungs New PC Stu­dio for the dri­vers (Alter­na­tively, you can try to locate only the dri­vers some­where else on the web).

Eas­ier alter­na­tive, mostly used by us Android developers

Step 1.  In you Galaxy S2, go to Set­tings -> Appli­ca­tions -> Devel­op­ment
Step 2. Check the USB Debug­ging
Step 3. Con­nect the USB cable
Step 4. Ok the pop up on your mobile.
You are all set to go 

Hi all,
I came across a sim­ple solu­tion to solve this and it is a no brainer. Just down­load PDANet.exe from the internet.

You can find it here or any other source you can search.
http://junefabrics.com/android/download.php

When you run this pro­gram it loads all the dri­vers you need for USB and PDA device con­nec­tiv­ity and when you con­nect your Andriod phone, it installs the dri­vers it needs for connectivity.

I tried many solu­tions, none of them worked, but this gave me the break. Now I can con­nect my Galaxy phone to my PC.

Happy con­nec­tiv­ity! 

ravie  thanks for  the link it helped me on sam­sung galaxy s i9000, so if eny­one have sim­u­lar prob­lems just jus the link http://junefabrics.com/android/download.php

i want to enjoy win­dows xp in my sam­sung i9000 .

hi folks, all the above have worked to con­nect my lap­top and galaxy together but I’m still strug­gling to make the phone work as modem. some sim­ple 1 2 3 advice would be really appre­ci­ated as I’m a  bit of a technophope !!!!! my phone is the galaxy s2 and my lap­top is toshiba satal­ite run­ning XP. thanks in advance.

i bought a sam­sung galaxy pop cellphne a week bak,i hav installed sam­sung kies ,software..!wen i con­nect d phone via USB ,my com­puter is switch­ing off and on my mon­i­tor screen it s dis­play­ing nly d screen image-”INTEL PENTIUM 4-WINDOWSXP”..!n in d phone its work­ing properly..pls help me out with dis…
 

i was won­der­ing with Galaxy Tape it really cool but when i con­nect to yr USB, it doesnt work so can u help me ?
 

i have Sam­sung Galaxy S (I9000) i need help to down­load the PC suite cos i want to update my phone.
Any help.

@Shaan – thank you!  By far the eas­i­est solution!

Thanks for the help dude. Yours has been the only solu­tion that worked for me!

Some ver­sions of the galaxy S has the “ask on conec­tion” option in other part of the set­tings
Settings-> Wire­less and net­work -> USB settings

Sam­sung Kies
Media Player
Mass Stor­age
Ask on Connection

 
hope­fully this can be help­ful too

Hi all,
i’m hav­ing the same prob­lem, i can only charge my phone when i con­nect it to pc..before i could use kies, mass stor­age… but now nothing…i tried the debug­ging didn’t work.. i tried PdaNet after it asked me to con­nect my phone..nothing for 2 min­utes (only charg­ing) then i received a mes­sage in pc: USB device not recognized…ithas mal­func­tioned and win­dows does not rec­og­nize it…i used to have this mes­sage also before installing PdaNet..
Did any­one had this… what could be done? noth­ing so far worked..i tried all the solu­tion of every avail­able forum but noth­ing.. i reset my phone like 5 times; noth­ing…
Any idea? 

I have been try­ing to find out why my note­book (Win­dows Vista) can­not detect my Galaxy SII (GTI9100) when con­nected via USB cable. My Tried so to find solu­tion at Sam­sung web­site but use­less and waste of time until I searched Google and stum­bled on your advise. Among oth­ers to fol­low your steps includ­ing “turn on USB debug­ging” and later “turn off USB debug­ging”. For Vista, not all the stages you men­tioned occured but the tips did work. Thank You as this has helped me saved hours of debug­ging.
As for those who want the lat­est Kies, the web­site is: http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobilesoftwaremanual/mobilesoftwaremanual.do?page=MOBILE.SOFTWARE.MANUAL
If after installing Kies, your Win­dows can­not detect your Galaxy SII, then fol­low the tips above. Note that for SII and Vista, you wont expe­ri­ence all the steps but the tip on set­ting the “debug­ging” on and off works. Why, beats me!
 

OK, I have a Galaxy s2 and win­dows 7 – could NOT get the PC to see the phone no mat­ter what I did, and all the more frus­trat­ing because a lot of the options men­tioned here (like ‘ask on con­nec­tion’) don’t even exist on my ver­sion of Android. I tried *every* method here, all week­end (and I have 20 years of Microsoft devel­op­ment expe­ri­ence), and I just could not get my PC to see the phone via USB. I got Kies to work via WIFI no prob­lem (what a piece of crap that is!!!), but de nada off the USB connection.

I could get the phone to make a noise and start charg­ing when con­nected, but that was it.

Wrote a scathing email to Sam­sung sup­port. Pack­aged up the phone to take back to retailer. At the last moment my GF says ‘why don’t you try the cable that came with the phone’ because I had been using a new after­mar­ket USB con­nec­tor that she bought. Tried the stan­dard cable and did the Settings->Wireless and Network->USB Utilities->Connect Stor­age to PC and wul­lah! it worked.

So, for those of you STILL get­ting no response from your PC when you plug the USB lead in… try a dif­fer­ent lead.

The lead that didn’t work was brand new and is the HTC Uni­ver­sal MicroUSB Car Charger. Avoid like the plague. 

Ravie, you’re a GENIUS! Been try­ing to con­nect my Galaxy for HOURS. Used your sug­ges­tion
and BAM! I’m connected.

Kudos!
 

Thank you. It worked perfectly.

If you need to Trans­fer Files to you phone and you do not have the soft­ware just open Google Chrome then open your email box then attach the files then send with your email 2 emails required then open the browser on yor phone and then down­load the files its works with all type of files.  

What a load of rubish!!
Just go to set­tings next net­work wifi etc then usb mod next mass stor­age mode

Thank you so much.

I could­not find Advance Set­ting on my new Galaxy SII GTI 9100 to input a sta­tic IP.
Any help?

Excel­lent stuff worked first time, thanks very very very much

I pounced on this the sec­ond it came up in the search­box, but, alas, I appar­ently have no but­ton for USB set­tings. I’ve done exactly as said, yet there’s just that prob­lem of the miss­ing function… 

Thanks a lot, very help­full, I used it in my Galaxy SII I-9000, and could access all files in the phone from win­dows XP

Regards.

Hi There,
I have fol­lowed the instruc­tions above – how­ever after I select ‘“Select to copy files to/from your com­puter”’ on the drop down bar on my phone it doesn’t come up with the option to ‘Mount’, only ‘Con­nect USB storage’…

Thanks a bunch, you just saved my life Great Job!

sort of help­ful, except the fact it doesnt work on 7 either… would be more help­ful with some links.

thanks Ravie. I used your solu­tion and I can con­nect my Galaxy SII to my com­puter. if any­one has the same prob­lem use this solu­tion: http://junefabrics.com/android/download.php

I just down­loaded sam­sung kies from the web­site http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobilesoftwaremanual/mobilesoftwaremanual.do?page=MOBILE.SOFTWARE.MANUAL and then my phone decided to install the device to my win­dows 7 com­puter and sucess­fully con­nect to Kies Thanks alot Dave, it was his com­ment on this page that solved my prob­lem

I HAVE A SAMSUNG S2 I9000
I DO NOT SUCCSEED TO CONNECT IT TO MY COPUTER TO ACCESS ITS BRAIN
I HAVE INSTALED KIES …
ANY BODY
HELP???!

Thank’s for your tips. Verry helpful.

Fan­tas­tic ….this worked to a tee with my 9000 ….wasn’t sure if I needed  the Stu­dio after  but it
worked nonethe­less once I got past ter­mi­nol­ogy under­stand­ing ……many thanks for the great post !   

I tried all these steps and noth­ing worked until I used the Sam­sung brand USB cable that came with the phone. Had been try­ing to con­nect using an LG branded cable.

Thanks Ravie. After puz­zling for days your solu­tion using junefabrics.com really works.

Hello. Every­thing started work­ing fine. But no popuo came up, where I had to press “Mount” And I’m sure I did every­thing before that right. Do you know what happened?