Hiya guys.
Lets get right to the point, I am having problems with my Play and it is REALLY annoying me now.
After rooting, i am having loads of problems connecting my phone to my PC with a USB cable, i am using the USB that came with the phone, so i know its a decent cable.
The phone will charge when its plugged in, but does not register on the PC, in My Computer, or through SE PC Companion.
After plugging it in and unplugging it a few times, and maybe a couple reboots, it will finally connect, so i have to make sure i do EVERYTHING i want to do there and then, and not unplug it, or i will have the same problems all over again.
I have tried it in MTP and MSC, and used USB Debugging mode too, with the same result.
Any help would be great, cos this is actually quite a big problem.
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[b]Model:[/b]
R800i
[b]Android Version:[/b]
2.3.3
[b]Basenand version:[/b]
7X30A-AAABQMAZM-1290_21-22
[b]Kernal version:[/b]
2.6.32.9-perf
[email protected] #1
[b]Build number:[/b]
3.0.1.A.0.145
When you plug it in do you slide the top down and select either to connect as a drive or for media transfer?
When i plug it in, nothing comes up on the top bar, it says it is charging, but nothing else comes up, untill i have dont the in out in out routine with the usb cable loads, lol.
By chance are you using the cable that came with the Car charger? That's power only
When you connect do you get a USB icon in the taskbar (lower right corner) of the PC? And when you double click it does it say "Unknown Device"?
Edit: This does this on my work PC also. At home it connects ok. I didn't root my phone.
I'm using a cheap dollar store one at work. I just want charge it anyway.
TehH4rRy said:
By chance are you using the cable that came with the Car charger? That's power only
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i use the charger cable with my pc no probs
TehH4rRy said:
By chance are you using the cable that came with the Car charger? That's power only
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They both seem the same to me, and they both work for the car charger AND for the computer. The cable works for other micro-usb devices, like my old phone, so i dont think it is the cable.
ncaissie said:
When you connect do you get a USB icon in the taskbar (lower right corner) of the PC? And when you double click it does it say "Unknown Device"?
Edit: This does this on my work PC also. At home it connects ok. I didn't root my phone.
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Nothing comes up on the computer, the phone says "Connected in Media Transfer Mode" but nothing happens on the PC. (Although THIS time it connected fine, lol.)
AndroHero said:
i use the charger cable with my pc no probs
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Pretty sure they are both the same, lol, just ran outside to my car (in the rain lol) and the both look identical!!
Hmm okay so it's not the cable, have you tried it on a different computer? Maybe your PS3?
Adam3Sixty said:
Nothing comes up on the computer, the phone says "Connected in Media Transfer Mode" but nothing happens on the PC. (Although THIS time it connected fine, lol.)
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Not on the PC but on your phone.
Adam3Sixty said:
Pretty sure they are both the same, lol, just ran outside to my car (in the rain lol) and the both look identical!!
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On the outside they are but the inside is only connected for charging. lol
It is the same with the iPhone. There are many Charging only cables.
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My phone wont charge through USB. It charges using the same cable plugged into a wall adapter, and charges just fine with my wall adapter and car charger, it just wont charge when plugged into a computer.
As for some basic troubleshooting steps-
1) The phone is recognized and syncs on both PCs
2) Hasnt worked from day 1, Factory ROM, Hard Reset, and now with a flashed ROM
3) Uninstalled and reinstalled ActiveSync etc
4) When it connects to a PC it prompts what I would like to do (PC and Phone) Ive tried every option and the results are the same.
I'm out of ideas, and since Ive searched Im not sure if Im an idiot for expecting this thing to charge, or if my phone is defective. I figured I'd ask here before calling T-Mobile since I hate calling Customer Service for anything.
Go into settings/system/power/battery and there should be a check box that says "When phone is on, do not charge the battery when connected to a pc"
make sure that is not checked.
Thanks, but its not checked.
Ive tried checking it, plugging in, and then unplugging, unchecking, then plugging back in.
Switch off your phone, then plug it into the computer. Does the orange charging led show up? If not, you may have a defective phone.
If it charges with a computer usb while switched off and doesn't when switched on, then there is some software problem.
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My phone wont charge through USB. It charges using the same cable plugged into a wall adapter, and charges just fine with my wall adapter and car charger, it just wont charge when plugged into a computer.
As for some basic troubleshooting steps-
1) The phone is recognized and syncs on both PCs
2) Hasnt worked from day 1, Factory ROM, Hard Reset, and now with a flashed ROM
3) Uninstalled and reinstalled ActiveSync etc
4) When it connects to a PC it prompts what I would like to do (PC and Phone) Ive tried every option and the results are the same.
I'm out of ideas, and since Ive searched Im not sure if Im an idiot for expecting this thing to charge, or if my phone is defective. I figured I'd ask here before calling T-Mobile since I hate calling Customer Service for anything.
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have you tried plugging it in to a different usb port? or different computer? my guess is could be a bad usb port..
not necessarily a bad usb port, some simply don't push enough power to trigger charging. same test applies, though, try all usb ports, don't forget there are likely ports around back too. also test it on another pc if possible.
kcaj32 said:
Switch off your phone, then plug it into the computer. Does the orange charging led show up? If not, you may have a defective phone.
If it charges with a computer usb while switched off and doesn't when switched on, then there is some software problem.
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I forgot my USB cable at work but this sounds like a good idea I havent tried yet.
My laptops USB ports are fine, I use them all the time for my external hard drive which is also powered by the USB, my zune, wifes iPhone, etc. Not to mention I have the same result with my work computer, which charged my other phones.
I'll try this and post the results, thanks for the helpful responses. After this test, I'm calling T-Mobile and complaining.
When I connect my Nexus 4 to my MacBook Pro and try to transfer files (or even just connecting it, not doing anything) my phone just comes in and out of connection. I know when my phone is connected when the File Transfer program (downloaded from Google) pops up.
The File Transfer program just randomly opens and closes, and sometimes when I'm in the middle of transferring a big file my phone disconnects and I have to start the transfer all over again (really frustrating).
I wonder if anyone else had this problem, or if anyone know of a culprit that could be causing this connection problem.
Anyone?! D:
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Oh boy, no one?
Sounds like a dodgy USB cable or port. Try switching both. If it still happens, connect to a windows PC to see if it's the phone.
Not sure what the problem is but I have this happen on occasion too. I'm running Windows 7 so it's not a Mac issue.
I have problems with certain usb cables, some work and some don't. I get the best results using the usb cable that came with the phone, it has never given me a problem.
kzoodroid said:
I have problems with certain usb cables, some work and some don't. I get the best results using the usb cable that came with the phone, it has never given me a problem.
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I have better results using my old Vibrant usb cable. OEM is kind of crappy for some reason. Once and a while I can unplug the charger from the wall and phone and still have some kind of electrical buzzing in the charger.
the OEM (Stock USB that came with my phone) charger doesn't give me any trouble either.
When I plug it in my laptop to charge, the charging is spotty (I assume because the electric output from the laptop is not strong enough). So I plug it into a wall outlet, no problem.
It's only when I connect to a computer when the connection gets interrupted and messes up my file transfers, annoyingly... so me and md5 are best friends now.
I just don't know if there is something causing this besides the phone, or is it the phone itself (so i can contemplate RMA)
If others have this issue then I want to know if they fixed it or found a workaround...
mastrgamr said:
the OEM (Stock USB that came with my phone) charger doesn't give me any trouble either.
When I plug it in my laptop to charge, the charging is spotty (I assume because the electric output from the laptop is not strong enough). So I plug it into a wall outlet, no problem.
It's only when I connect to a computer when the connection gets interrupted and messes up my file transfers, annoyingly... so me and md5 are best friends now.
I just don't know if there is something causing this besides the phone, or is it the phone itself (so i can contemplate RMA)
If others have this issue then I want to know if they fixed it or found a workaround...
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When I plug my phone into my desktop pc with an alternate usb cable I have it constantly disconnects and reconnects. As soon as I use the stock usb cable it stops doing it and works. I really haven't looked to see what the difference is between the cables could just be that the alternate I use is just cheap. The other cable works fine with my other phones too so its weird.
Hi guys, I have this really weird issue occurring. I have my note 3 connected to my computer via usb, but it does not stay connected. My computer keeps making a noise of new device connected, then disconnected. The phone connects, few secs later, disconnects. I have tried 3 different usb, 1 is the original,, different usb ports. It cant be the cable tho, cause it charges fine, and i wiggled it while charging. I let the drivers install when i first plugged the n3 in, so those should be good.
Any idea? could it be a ROM issue? Really need it to work, since I use tethering (
thrgk said:
Hi guys, I have this really weird issue occurring. I have my note 3 connected to my computer via usb, but it does not stay connected. My computer keeps making a noise of new device connected, then disconnected. The phone connects, few secs later, disconnects. I have tried 3 different usb, 1 is the original,, different usb ports. It cant be the cable tho, cause it charges fine, and i wiggled it while charging. I let the drivers install when i first plugged the n3 in, so those should be good.
Any idea? could it be a ROM issue? Really need it to work, since I use tethering (
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What rom are you using? And have you tried reinstalling drivers from samsung? http://www.theandroidsoul.com/galaxy-note-3-drivers-installation-guide/ and have you tried just using the micro USB cable (not the USB 3.0)
biggins 4.5, yea i tried those drivers, didnt try usb2.0 yet.
Its literally sitting here connecting, then disconnecting on and on, i have no idea, not even moving it
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biggins 4.5, yea i tried those drivers, didnt try usb2.0 yet.
Its literally sitting here connecting, then disconnecting on and on, i have no idea, not even moving it
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It could be the data pins in the cable/phone, the power pins would still let it charge even though there's still supposed to be energy going through the data pins when charging. And have you selected a different option when plugging it into the computer (from installer, media device, to camera) from the options that note 3 provides? (click the icon in the status bar when you plug it in)
yea i tried camera, its on installer by default i think and i tried mtp also, usb3.0 said it required airplane mod so i didnt try that. How could i check the pins>
thrgk said:
yea i tried camera, its on installer by default i think and i tried mtp also, usb3.0 said it required airplane mod so i didnt try that. How could i check the pins>
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Well it you look at the port and they're not bent or snapped then it isn't the pins. What about USB 2.0?
Will try 2.0 tomorrow, here is a pic of the pins, if you zoom in do they look ok?
http://i58.tinypic.com/r882o3.jpg
What OS is your computer running? There are some USB issues with windows 8.1. I was having the same problem at times but there was a fix in optional updates that have seemed to clear things up for now. I think it's the download numbered...2914219. I'm not completely sure as I did a few weeks ago.
Just for the record, I have had trouble with certain cables in the past. Sometimes computer didn't like a long cable.
Pins are absolutely fine, only reason I even mentioned those was because one time a little kid plugged my streak 7 cord in upside down and jacked the female port to crap. And as TheAfroSamurai mentioned it might be your computer, I had trouble with a long cable with my kin 2. Different cable fixed it for me.
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Hi. Last month I forgot my charger somewhere and I endded up using another one that didn´t work fine.
my problem is that the usb conector only work for charging (turbo charging work too) but not when I try to connect it in my pc.
I already use different cables so I think I should change the usb port, but it could be something else? maybe the board is broken?
rodrigo96s said:
Hi. Last month I forgot my charger somewhere and I endded up using another one that didn´t work fine.
my problem is that the usb conector only work for charging (turbo charging work too) but not when I try to connect it in my pc.
I already use different cables so I think I should change the usb port, but it could be something else? maybe the board is broken?
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If you tried to connect your USB cable directly to the back ports of your PC, i mean, the motherboard USB ports (not the front ones), and tried in differents PC's too, looks like your charging port has been damaged.
Something exactly as you described happened to me in the Nexus 5, but in that case, just had to change a flex cable that contained the charging port.
Anyway, it's a very cheap part, and it's pretty common that the welding of the USB port get broken. You will have to send your device to a mobile repairs shop, or change the charging port by yourself (only if you have some knowledge using welding stations).
I recommend the first option because it's the most common break on a phone, and these guys in the shop must be very accustomed to repair this (it's not very expensive either).
try any other phone's data cable! :?
I've tried another cable and my computer connects but says the file is empty. I tried my old phone and I can see files. So I think there must be a setting on my Moto 4 that I need to change. When I drag the status line down I don't see USB or connect to camera.
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I've tried another cable and my computer connects but says the file is empty. I tried my old phone and I can see files. So I think there must be a setting on my Moto 4 that I need to change. When I drag the status line down I don't see USB or connect to camera.
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Hmm, when you pull the notification shade down, do you see a notification about 'USB Charging this device' when your device is connected? If so, then what happens when you tap that notification - do you see a pop-up like in the linked screenshot? If so, tap the Transfer Files option in that pop-up and your device should re-connect and show the internal storage of your device.
If your device is in USB charging mode, it seems normal to not show files (as a security measure?).
Hi all, I haven't been here for a while now, but I figure that this is the best place to put my issue besides maybe reddit. So I was trying to activate USB tethering yesterday as i do a lot in order to play some games on my computer since i don't have access to any ethernet, and something went wrong and it didn't activate despite having hit the switch on the phone. I unplugged my phone to turn it off since my computer hadn't recognized the tethering and tried to activate it again, but this time my phone only made the charging noise and wasn't picking up my computer at all. I then restarted my phone to see if that was the issue and got the same result. I then tried to plug it into my laptop to see if my computer was the problem and it did the same thing.
Today I tried plugging my phone into my laptop with my usb-c to usb-c cable (instead of my go-to usb-c to usb-a cable that came with the phone) and got some signs of life from the laptop, it makes the sound that says its plugged in, but the phone still only charges and the laptop picks up my phone as "USB root hub (USB 3.0)" and "Intel USB 3.1 eXtensible Host controller-1.10 (Microsoft)" in device manager. I also just tried clearing the cache in recovery but nothing has changed. Does anyone know what's going on here and how I can fix it?
Unrooted (duh), AT&T model (sorry idk the model numbers like i used to), latest updates and security patches etc
EDIT: power cycled it (let it die and turned it back on a few times until it wouldn't turn on again) and charged it back up again and that seems to have fixed my issue.
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Hi all, I haven't been here for a while now, but I figure that this is the best place to put my issue besides maybe reddit. So I was trying to activate USB tethering yesterday as i do a lot in order to play some games on my computer since i don't have access to any ethernet, and something went wrong and it didn't activate despite having hit the switch on the phone. I unplugged my phone to turn it off since my computer hadn't recognized the tethering and tried to activate it again, but this time my phone only made the charging noise and wasn't picking up my computer at all. I then restarted my phone to see if that was the issue and got the same result. I then tried to plug it into my laptop to see if my computer was the problem and it did the same thing.
Today I tried plugging my phone into my laptop with my usb-c to usb-c cable (instead of my go-to usb-c to usb-a cable that came with the phone) and got some signs of life from the laptop, it makes the sound that says its plugged in, but the phone still only charges and the laptop picks up my phone as "USB root hub (USB 3.0)" and "Intel USB 3.1 eXtensible Host controller-1.10 (Microsoft)" in device manager. I also just tried clearing the cache in recovery but nothing has changed. Does anyone know what's going on here and how I can fix it?
Unrooted (duh), AT&T model (sorry idk the model numbers like i used to), latest updates and security patches etc
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Check the ports And cable ends for trash and lint crammed in them possibly
TheMadScientist said:
Check the ports And cable ends for trash and lint crammed in them possibly
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no dice there unfortunately