By akademiotoelektronik, 05/10/2022

Samsung Galaxy S tutorial: the solution for the USB bug

Our colleagues at Gizmodo.fr are reporting a bug affecting the Samsung Galaxy S and more particularly its USB connection. To connect the Samsung Galaxy S to your PC, the manufacturer recommends using its Samsung Kies synchronization tool. Samsung Kies seems largely perfectible, both long to download and, even more problematic, does not work under Windows 7! indicated that "Samsung does not currently include drivers for Windows 7. Future software versions will allow the product to run correctly under Windows 7, however." mass storage mode (USB key) does not work under Win 7 or XP either. To publish our comparative videos iPhone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S, we had to trick… YouTube offered on both terminals, however, we have decided to use mass storage. While waiting for the possible update of Samsung Kies (at the same time you won't miss much) and to help Samsung users Galaxy S here is the procedure to connect it to the PC in mass storage mode. This very simple procedure has been tested under Windows XP and Windows 7 (32 and 64 Bits).

1 Select Mass Storage on Samsung Galaxy S

By default, Galaxy S USB setting is set to Samsung Kies, you need to change it to Mass Storage. To do this, nothing could be simpler, direction Settings, About the phone, USB settings, Mass storage.

2 Mount the Mass storage of the Samsung Galaxy S to the PC

By default, in activating the mass storage of the Galaxy S, the latter will not be recognized by your machine. For it to be recognized, the procedure is simple: - connect the Galaxy S to the PC, pull down the notification bar at the top of the screen which notably includes the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sound, Vibrator icons and the various email notifications, messages.- In the notification bar, you will see a plugged USB icon, click on it, a message then offers you to mount the USB connection, select Mount.

- The two accesses appear on the computer (here under Windows 7), Removable Disk (for us E: ) for the internal memory of the Galaxy S and Phone Card (for us F: ) for the memory card.

You now have access to the terminal memory and the memory card from your PC running Windows 7 or XP. Red card for Samsung who could have offered a simpler solution adapted to the general public...