Hey, I've had this problem with my s4 since I bought it used, but it hasn't bothered me that much, but I'm just curious.
The USB isn't acting as it should be, when I connect it to the pc, it doesen't always work as storage the first try, I have to connect it twice sometimes, pc says not recocnized device, but when I reconnect, it works properly.
Also, it doesen't charge with the charger it came with, and doesen't work with most of the chargers, only works with Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 charger.
I usually charge it off USB on pc, because I don't have the Galaxy Tab available most of the time.
Is this something that can be fixed via software, or is it faulty?
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my windows 7 64 bit computer wont connect to the phone. spent 3 hours doing everything and it always gives me unknown device and driver install failed. The only thing i have not tried is to plug it into the back USB ports as sugested in another thread,I am at work now, but I also have 3 different micro usb cables in front of me and only the one that came with the phone works on one of the front usb ports and in the rear ports on my work XP computer. is there something special about the samsung cable? the 2 other micro USB cables work for data in my old US crapullar banter phone all day long. samsung tech told me to reset the phone and try again or exchange it for a new one. now I have to redo all my crap on my phone. liked the phone and was worth breaking a contract with us crapullar that i had for 10 years till now.
I find the drivers are finicky.
I can plug it into my computer (both work and home; Win7 32/Win7 64) and sometimes it finds it and sometimes it doesn't.
When it doesn't, I simply unplug the usb from the phone and plug it back up.
When that doesn't work, I will plug it in and then reboot the phone. That almost always does it.
When that doesn't do it, I will unplug it, turn on or off USB Debugging mode.
I've never had to uninstall/reinstall drivers for this phone. The computer installed everything automatically.
edit: The one thing I did find, however, is that with my old Moment USB cable, it won't charge properly. It always says 100% charge after about 5 minutes even if the phone was dead. So I don't listen to that one and just use it for data transfer when I'm not using Dropbox.
i can charge the phone no problem but the data is the problem. tried everything you said last night with a couple of samsung techs even the next level tech
should be a sticky. need to use rear USB ports for this phone because they are the only ones that work most of the time, and phone Micro USB jack is the cheapest jack ever. dont expect much out of it now, being sprints top of the line phone and all.
Last night I updated to 4.3 via the very useful thread here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145848
I was in situation "A" with a completely stock Nexus 4 and the side load went without a hitch. I was able to charge my phone from my wall charger last night with no issue. Today at work I realized that my phone was not charging from my PC via USB cable like it usually does. If I disconnected and reconnected I would see "Charging" on the Battery page for a split second then it would change to "Not Charging" and the phone would notify me that I was connected as a media device.
Trying to troubleshoot the problem I had rebooted the phone and the PC, no luck. I tried turning off the check box that set the phone as a media device and when I unplugged and replugged in my phone it started charging again. To test my theory I turned the "media device" option back on and charging stopped right away. Has anyone else seen this?
Steps to duplicate:
1) Connect phone to PC via USB with Connect as "Media device (MTP)" checked (Settings -> Storage -> Menu -> USB computer connection)
2) See that the phone is not charging.
3) Uncheck "Media device (MTP)"
4) Unplug and replug in USB cable
5) See that the phone is now charging.
6) Re-check "Media device (MTP)"
7) See that phone immediately stops charging.
Not sure if this matters but the PC is running Windows XP. Up until today I have had no issues charging and nothing has changed configuration wise on the PC that I know of.
Thanks,
Eric
A friend of mine just had the problem. It seems that, since 4.3, you can no longer charge if MTP or PTP is activated AND your peripheral is not recognized by the system. I mean, since it is work computers, I assume you do not have privileges to install drivers for your phone. And so, it won't charge until you deactivate the MTP fonction. At home, where your phone is properly recognized and drivers are installed, no problem.
Another solution is to find a "charge only" usb cable, like the ones delivered with external batteries for example. We tried it, and it works also even without deactivate MTP or PTP.
Same Issue. On two different devices out of the box.
virus2013 said:
A friend of mine just had the problem. It seems that, since 4.3, you can no longer charge if MTP or PTP is activated AND your peripheral is not recognized by the system. I mean, since it is work computers, I assume you do not have privileges to install drivers for your phone. And so, it won't charge until you deactivate the MTP fonction. At home, where your phone is properly recognized and drivers are installed, no problem.
Another solution is to find a "charge only" usb cable, like the ones delivered with external batteries for example. We tried it, and it works also even without deactivate MTP or PTP.
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I own two Samsung devices and they both have the same issue. I have tried different power cords, different USB 2.0/3.0 slots on a Linux laptop, Windows laptop, Mac Mini and Rasperry Pi, turned on developer mode to no avail. The few things I do see that both devices when plugged into an outlet they say Charging (AC). Once unplugged and plugged into a USB port the nav title bar hides and comes back with the battery icon with a red X and stating discharging. I have yet to find a fix for either.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1" 2013 GT-P5210ZWYXAR 4.2.2 Build JDQ39.P5210OUEAMK1
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 8.0" 2013 GT-N5110ZWYXAR 4.1.2 Build JZ054k.N5110OUEEMF2
Not a fix. Just a possiable answer.
I own two Samsung devices and they both have the same issue. I have tried different power cords, different USB 2.0/3.0 slots on a Linux laptop, Windows laptop, Mac Mini and Rasperry Pi, turned on developer mode to no avail. The few things I do see that both devices when plugged into an outlet they say Charging (AC). Once unplugged and plugged into a USB port the nav title bar hides and comes back with the battery icon with a red X and stating discharging. I have yet to find a fix for either.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1" 2013 GT-P5210ZWYXAR 4.2.2 Build JDQ39.P5210OUEAMK1
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 8.0" 2013 GT-N5110ZWYXAR 4.1.2 Build JZ054k.N5110OUEEMF2[/QUOTE]
Android 4.4.4 CM 11S USB Charging Issue Resolved
Hi,
I had the same problem with my OPO. My previous device was JellyBean and I could charge even when it was connected as Mass Storage.
My new device used to connect as MTP by default and hence would not charge. I charge it from my work PC which has blocked media transfer through USB and that was the real problem. When I uncheck MTP and connect my device, it would charge. Since my Home PC has no such settings there is no problem when I connect it to that.
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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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
thrgk said:
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>
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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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My note 3 connect via USB perfectly as it should, however my mates one says USB not recognized. It's been factory reset but no help.
How can one work but another not? It does charge and he's had no problems with it in the past.
Thanks
Hey guys my problem came back actually the day after i power cycled it and it seemed to kick back to life for a second, So I'm gonna post it again to see if anyone can help me.
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? I power cycled it the other day and it worked for the moment but it stopped working again the day after.
Unrooted (duh), AT&T model (sorry idk the model numbers like i used to), latest updates and security patches etc
Edit: forgot to mention, it still charges on every computer its plugged into