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HD Crashes/hangs when charging!!

Hi,
I have been charging my HD via cable (plug charger is broken) on my mac laptop with no problems. Now i have been trying to charge it from my computer at work and everytime I plug it in the whole phone just hangs and nothing works, I can't even switch it off!! I have to take the battery out of the back of the phone.
I have tried this on both a Windows XP Proffesional and Windows 2000 pc and on both they have crashed. I have had this happen when activesync is both active and when I have turned it off on the phone. Is this happening because I have not installed activesync from the disc onto this pc? If this is the case that sucks as I thought you could just plug this phone into any pc and charge it?
Is it worth doing a hard reset?

When you connect to your PC via USB cable, besides the charging, it also try to establish connection one of which is to make your storage card a disk drive. This process will always result in the hanging and crashing and it is normal.
To avoid this, use the normal AC charger for charging, and USB cable for making connection, during which time it is assumed that you will be controlling the coyping or sync process via the PC hence the device should not be working at the same time. Not sure if this makes sense to you.
It is a way to protect the storage card from being corrupted. Only one guy should do the writing of files at a time.

Yes... Steve above is quite correct.
When selecting the phone as a storage device this locks the device and allows the phones SD Mini card to act as a removable hard drive.
If it didn't lock it down the card would get screwed up if doing anything other than operating as a storage medium.
Beards

DOH!! Ok I feel stupid now Was worrying there for a bit. Problem solved, I had the default option of it using the phone as a disk drive when plugged in, I have now set it to Activesync and also I chose Activesync when I connected it and touch wood all is fine, no freezing!!
Many thanks guys its much appreciated.

No problem Mate.... We are all entitled to a bit of 'DOHH' every now and then.

Ok so I now can charge my phone using the pc and the phone doesn't freeze. But I have just linked up the phone in Disk Drive mode as I had something I needed to transfer. The transfer went well but when I unplug the phone (and I have done the safely remove hardware thing) the phone is frozen and I have to yank the battery?? Surely this isn't right?

No... that's not right.
Is this with Vista?
I have found when using my Vista laptop my phone 'occasionally' hangs and I have to switch it off and restart but using Win XP on my other laptop it's fine.
Beards

AFK_Matrix said:
Ok so I now can charge my phone using the pc and the phone doesn't freeze. But I have just linked up the phone in Disk Drive mode as I had something I needed to transfer. The transfer went well but when I unplug the phone (and I have done the safely remove hardware thing) the phone is frozen and I have to yank the battery?? Surely this isn't right?
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No, it's not right, it's a bug. I'm amazed to read what you've been told so far - I mean just analyze this:
eaglesteve said:
When you connect to your PC via USB cable, besides the charging, it also try to establish connection one of which is to make your storage card a disk drive. This process will always result in the hanging and crashing and it is normal.
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I mean honestly. How can that possibly be normal or correct behaviour?
I don't know if this is a Windows Mobile bug, or an HD bug, or a possibly a problem SD card you've got in the slot - but there is no way that any process should result in "hanging and crashing" without something being quite wrong somewhere.
You should be able to charge from any USB socket without having to worry about any of this, the advice about only using the AC adaptor etc is complete nonsense.

I am no computer jockey by any means - but I have noticed that my computer (running XP) tries to connect to my phone, as an external device and not as a phone using activesync, if I have windows media player running. With WMP (11) off, it uses activesync as normal - might this be causing this issue?

Boinng said:
No, it's not right, it's a bug. I'm amazed to read what you've been told so far - I mean just analyze this:
I mean honestly. How can that possibly be normal or correct behaviour?
I don't know if this is a Windows Mobile bug, or an HD bug, or a possibly a problem SD card you've got in the slot - but there is no way that any process should result in "hanging and crashing" without something being quite wrong somewhere.
You should be able to charge from any USB socket without having to worry about any of this, the advice about only using the AC adaptor etc is complete nonsense.
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I don't think Steve meant it crashes the device and is normal.....
I think what he meant was when the device is connected as a disk drive it locks out the device (as if it's crashed).
It's normal for the phone not to be able to do anything other than transfer data when acting as a mass storage device.
Beards

I am using Windows 2000 on this PC so its not a Vista issue. And I did think it very weird, can understand it not wanting you to fiddle with the SD Card while you have it plugged in but it should release the phone when I safely remove hardware.
I am assuming no one else has this problem then? I might fish out an old 2gb mico sd card I have and see if it does the same thing, if it doesn't then its the SD card.
I will test this at home as well to see if its just the PC's here that are causing it. Mighty annoying as I have pulled the battery like 8 times now lol.

Yes... the only answer I can think of is it being the SD card that is not releasing itself.
Again it's normal for it to be locked out whilst it's connected but as soon as you 'pull the plug' you should be able to instantaneously use the phone again.
Beards

Tried this one?:
Start/Settings/System/Energy/
Disable charging when phone is ON and connected to PC.Works great for me!

Yeah I will try and find the 2GB card I have and see if that works.
And luckyuser I want my phone to be charged while it is connected though. Also my problem is that my phone crashes when I try and disconnect from the computer in disk mode, meaning I have to yank the battery.

[Q] Phone restarting all the time when USB connected to PC

Sick and tired of this.
50% of time it's acting normally, other 50% it turns itself off and on continously, basically giving me a limited time span to copy files onto the SD card.
Also, another question - is it possible to turn off the automatic widget/program rearrange thing ? When you're on the homescreen or on programs listing screen, and when you hold your finger a bit longer, the phone automatically opens a "mode" which lets you rearrange your icons/widgets/etc, is there a possibility to turn that off ? Getting tired of sometimes holding my finger on the phone for a brief second more to have that rearrangement crap activated.

The problem is not your phone, but the cable or the computer.. Try to unistall your drivers and then reinstall or use another cable..
About disable screen widget option, i don't if it's possible, but try to use another launcher.. i recommend launcherpro..
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tried with a different cable, didn't work, same **** as always ( the moment PC recognizes the phone and pops autoplay message for the SD card to browse it or w/e, phone freezes, then restarts, then works for like 20 seconds after first reboot, then shuts down entirely and starts rebooting slower and slower after each reboot, and when I take the cable out, the phone suddenly starts acting normal )
will try on a different PC, doubt it it's going to make a difference
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yep, same **** on different PC - so far 3 PCs and 2 different cables causing this problem, so yeah, I think it's safe to say that it's a problem with my mobile phone, or the SD card at least, cause when the Autoplay option pops up on my PC screen, the phone blocks

aye, it's the SD card, just tested with another one and I have no problems whatsoever
so.. does anyone have the original content of the Sony Ericsson shipped SD card that I could use to restore my SD card to it's original state ?

I can post mines..
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refract said:
aye, it's the SD card, just tested with another one and I have no problems whatsoever
so.. does anyone have the original content of the Sony Ericsson shipped SD card that I could use to restore my SD card to it's original state ?
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Send me a mail
zvorkapic.osATgmail.com
I'll send it to you. Who knows what they ship on SD card in other countries.
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it's little less then 200mb so it'll take some time to upload it. I'll send you the link by private message once it does.
Please inform me once you've downloaded it, so I can remove it from my server.
Xperia Bonbon je u pitanju! /i've deleted all mi personal **** from it, but if you find anything I missed such as my nude pictures and sex videos plase don't put it on youtube or flickr.
Kidding

i experinenced the same problem when i root the phone.then connected via usb to pc companion and repaired and reinstall the phone os.

i had the problem after updating to official 2.1. found out that it didnt occur when i pressed "charge phone" on the display after plugging in and activating the usb drive afterwards.
maybe you'll find different drivers in this board, i installed something at some time and its gone now

refract said:
Sick and tired of this.
50% of time it's acting normally, other 50% it turns itself off and on continously, basically giving me a limited time span to copy files onto the SD card.
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Try this, it worked for me: (I wanted to give the link to SE forum where they talked about this, but I'm not allowed, not enough posts, they say)
This seems to be quite a common problem in X's, there has been some bug in notification tone in the device in regard to the PC companion, some sort of confrontation which makes the phone to reboot all the time. So, I went to the settings, "sound and display", "notification ringtone", change to "thinkerbell"
Also, uncheck the "SD card notification"!
My phone does not reboot now, hope it will stay that way!

cheers, doesn't reboot anymore !

USB mounting - anyone else annoyed?

Just thinking if it was just me or if anyone else annoyed by the sheer number of button clicks required to mount your phone as a USB mass storage device....
First you plug it in...then you get the "Charging/USB Mount/USB Tether" message, choosing one gives you the mount as USB to turn on.....then another for a confirmation....
Don't you think it should just be a single button click?
Also is USB SDCard transfer speeds really slow for everyone else (versus the pulling the card out and putting it in a card reader).
I'm getting 100-500KB/sec versus 3-6 MB/second write speeds when I use the USB mass storage support.

Be thankful yours works. I have to do a battery pull and reboot to get mine to go into mass storage

Jedi2155 said:
Just thinking if it was just me or if anyone else annoyed by the sheer number of button clicks required to mount your phone as a USB mass storage device....
First you plug it in...then you get the "Charging/USB Mount/USB Tether" message, choosing one gives you the mount as USB to turn on.....then another for a confirmation....
Don't you think it should just be a single button click?
Also is USB SDCard transfer speeds really slow for everyone else (versus the pulling the card out and putting it in a card reader).
I'm getting 100-500KB/sec versus 3-6 MB/second write speeds when I use the USB mass storage support.
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My aren't we spoiled? Is tapping your finger really that difficult for you?
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Jedi2155 said:
Just thinking if it was just me or if anyone else annoyed by the sheer number of button clicks required to mount your phone as a USB mass storage device....
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One of the very few things I miss about my old Windows phone was how easy docking was and how much you could do with the phone when it was docked.
And I also agree with the second poster, because these Samsung drivers are so flaky that sometimes my phone is recognized, sometimes not. Sometimes I get a popup saying it's connected at USB 1.1. speeds, sometimes it requires a phone and/or computer reboot to get it recognized and on a couple of occasions it has required me to reinstall the drivers.

I don't mind the number of clicks at all...I just wish it would work. For some odd reason it doesn't work for me anymore, frustrating. It doesn't recognize the device ( no, it's not the cable as it has worked on another computer with the same OS using the same cable...I've also done driver re-installs, etc.)

Well in di18 all you had to do was plug in ur cable and when the samsung notification thing popped up you just hit usb mode and it was connected. Now you have to do that, then hit the mount again for it to go and it takes forever. Its annoying but hey what are you gonna do?
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InhumanElmo said:
Well in di18 all you had to do was plug in ur cable and when the samsung notification thing popped up you just hit usb mode and it was connected. Now you have to do that, then hit the mount again for it to go and it takes forever. Its annoying but hey what are you gonna do?
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Probably some asshole sued saying that they had screwed their sd card and it was all samsungs fault. If you think I jest, do some research about corporate lawsuits.
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Create a shortcut on your homescreen as follows:
Shortcut-> Activities-> Settings->USB Settings
press it, and select the default action you'd like when plugging in USB.
Eliminates all interaction on Eclair. Eliminates the charge/storage/tether selection on Froyo.
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Back when I used winamp, it had an automount option. Haven't tried it since they added the extra step though in froyo.
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Jedi2155 said:
Also is USB SDCard transfer speeds really slow for everyone else (versus the pulling the card out and putting it in a card reader).
I'm getting 100-500KB/sec versus 3-6 MB/second write speeds when I use the USB mass storage support.
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The # of clicks doesn't bother me, but I'm with you on the slow USB speeds. I end up always pulling it and putting it in a card reader too.

Let me get this straight. Sliding the banner down and tapping twice is too much work?
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somedude0608 said:
Let me get this straight. Sliding the banner down and tapping twice is too much work?
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That's what im saying lol. Is this what smartphones have done to us?
-uncut and uncensored from my Samsung Epic 4G

Jedi2155 said:
Just thinking if it was just me or if anyone else annoyed by the sheer number of button clicks required to mount your phone as a USB mass storage device....
First you plug it in...then you get the "Charging/USB Mount/USB Tether" message, choosing one gives you the mount as USB to turn on.....then another for a confirmation....
Don't you think it should just be a single button click?
Also is USB SDCard transfer speeds really slow for everyone else (versus the pulling the card out and putting it in a card reader).
I'm getting 100-500KB/sec versus 3-6 MB/second write speeds when I use the USB mass storage support.
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Ugh god I hate it

secorrales said:
I don't mind the number of clicks at all...I just wish it would work. For some odd reason it doesn't work for me anymore, frustrating. It doesn't recognize the device ( no, it's not the cable as it has worked on another computer with the same OS using the same cable...I've also done driver re-installs, etc.)
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It can absolutely be the cable. I had the same problem. It started with my laptop not recognizing the phone, but my desktop and my wife's laptop were fine. Then slowly the other two computers began to not to recognize the phone anymore. Finally, I got fed up and ordered a nice cable for a couple bucks from amazon and it went back to working perfectly everywhere. The original cable still doesn't work in my laptop and works 1 out of every 50 tries on my desktop. That is proof positive that the cable can be the issue and may even cause the phone to work on some computers but not others.

I hate it too!
.....and not because I am LAZY or SPOILED....
I hate it because it is COUNTER-FUGGIN-INTUITIVE....How many confirmations are needed before we actually get to DO what we want to do?
I guess some people in this thread would mind starting their cars with a crank handle either....LOL. Or maybe they GET UP and walk across the room to change the channel on their TV.....
Its the 21st Century! It should not be that hard to mount an SD card.

BigBrotherMotown said:
.....and not because I am LAZY or SPOILED....
I hate it because it is COUNTER-FUGGIN-INTUITIVE....How many confirmations are needed before we actually get to DO what we want to do?
I guess some people in this thread would mind starting their cars with a crank handle either....LOL. Or maybe they GET UP and walk across the room to change the channel on their TV.....
Its the 21st Century! It should not be that hard to mount an SD card.
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It takes 2 clicks instead of 1 to mount the sdcard. Are you seriously comparing that to starting a car with a hand crank? If you really want a decent car analogy then lets compare it to starting a manual car by having to press the clutch and then turn the key. This isn't done to waste 2 seconds of your time, it's done because they want to make sure the car wont move and cause some damage. Is it really so bad that samsung wants to double check that you actually intended to mount the sdcard.

richse said:
It takes 2 clicks instead of 1 to mount the sdcard. Are you seriously comparing that to starting a car with a hand crank? If you really want a decent car analogy then lets compare it to starting a manual car by having to press the clutch and then turn the key. This isn't done to waste 2 seconds of your time, it's done because they want to make sure the car wont move and cause some damage. Is it really so bad that samsung wants to double check that you actually intended to mount the sdcard.
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If I plug my phone up to a PC, that should be the FIRST indication that I might want to mount....then the choice list pops up with options to Charge, use as mass storage or tether....if I select MASS STORAGE, how much MORE sure do they need to be?

BigBrotherMotown said:
If I plug my phone up to a PC, that should be the FIRST indication that I might want to mount....then the choice list pops up with options to Charge, use as mass storage or tether....if I select MASS STORAGE, how much MORE sure do they need to be?
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Well, the second confirmation is just to let you know that any applications installed to memory card can not be run while in mass storage mode. It's a 2.2 thing. If you have a number to give google a call so we can get it changed let me know. I don't care for the second click either.

BigBrotherMotown said:
If I plug my phone up to a PC, that should be the FIRST indication that I might want to mount....then the choice list pops up with options to Charge, use as mass storage or tether....if I select MASS STORAGE, how much MORE sure do they need to be?
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Why don't you just turn USB debugging on? That way it's one less click and you can save money on ice for your sore thumb?
-uncut and uncensored from my Samsung Epic 4G

somedude0608 said:
Let me get this straight. Sliding the banner down and tapping twice is too much work?
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You should see if Microsoft is hiring.

Cannot get phone to mount as mass storage anymore

Well pretty much as the title says. I have never had a issue with it before, but as of today it will not for the life of me mount. I sometimes (after many tries) get the windows 7 pc to the mass storage device but when I click on it it just loads forever before freezing up and failing to load any files from the phone. Then after being disconnected and reconnected I cant even get it to let me mount the device.. When I click mass storage it goes to the confirm mount page, but when i try to mount it again it just clicks but nothing happens.
I have no idea what is up. I have ordered a new usb cable but im not sure thats the problem.
Has anyone else had this issue? What was the sollution you came across that fixed it for you. Any help is appreciated.

Plug it in and go to device manager. Delete it from device mgr if it shows up. Reboot.... plug it back in after reboot and see if it recognizes it. Should reinstall itself and recognize.
Let me know......
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Had the same issue about the time I first moved to GB, turned out to be the cable but the timing of when it happened had me pretty twisted.

gregory15 said:
Plug it in and go to device manager. Delete it from device mgr if it shows up. Reboot.... plug it back in after reboot and see if it recognizes it. Should reinstall itself and recognize.
Let me know......
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I can once again see the device (drive H but when i click to view or explore it completely locks up the window. So its unable to access the device but it does however know its there. I can access my device with adb as i tried it to see if I can atleast get it to communicate.. but have no way of accessing the sdcard via mass storage :-(
*update* Well I really wanted to get some files (audiobooks) sent over.. so I gave the kies air a go... That seems to be a decent temp fix.. and over a gigabit connection to my wireless N phone the transfer speeds are probably on par if not faster than usb... atleast it seems so.

prolly the cable
happened to me before
the sdcard can be read through an sdcard reader, just not through the phone.
The usb cable would charge the phone but it wouldnt connect for NOTHING. I would tap connect, it would press but then unpress as if nothing happened. just following the motion of my finger.
Found a BB cable a couple weeks later after i lost my stock one, and my phone was picked up by odin,adb, sd card, blah blah blah
it was so funny cuz i was blaming my pc for it instead of the cable cuz it worked so well for me before until i plugged my phone in on a friends comp and it didnt pick it up, but when i used his HD2 cable, it went through without a hitch.
TL;DR
Kies air will do till your new cable comes in.

Are they any issues or quirks with the phone reading the sd card? We've had a rash of epics come in lately where the sd card port has gone bad. Just making sure it's not that (but it's a very easy fix, the port is actually removable and we get them shipped to us as a new part.)
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I get this on froyo, can't connect, every once in a blue moon it does, when it dosnt I use dropbox, kies air works good also. But on GB it works everytime, same cable, go figure

New to the galaxy tab 7.7

I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?

kuipou said:
I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?
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It should show up as an MTP device that you can see in your Computer browser. You may need to install Kies to get the latest drivers.
The battery icon will show a red X if you're plugged in via USB port. It will only charge (at least on the stock ROM) when you're plugged in to an outlet.

kuipou said:
I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?
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Samsung no longer makes devices which allow you to simply mount as an external storage device (stupidly, they use MTP instead). Having said that, there's nothing saying you can't simply copy what you want over to an external SD card or USB drive (via adapter) and move it all that way! It's an extra step I know, and it's a little more of a hassle, but whatever...

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Samsung no longer makes devices which allow you to simply mount as an external storage device (stupidly, they use MTP instead). Having said that, there's nothing saying you can't simply copy what you want over to an external SD card or USB drive (via adapter) and move it all that way! It's an extra step I know, and it's a little more of a hassle, but whatever...
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Well, you can still drag and drop files using Windows Explorer. The internal and external storage should show up as drive letters.

How to find when my device got aactivated
Hello All
I am a newbee to galaxy 7.7 (puchased it online and it shipped to me yesterday only) but wt i found that the seal was broken at the time of delivery.
I just want to know if there is any way to find out when my device got activated so that i can find whether it is new or used ?
plz help