Thread: USB thinks it connects but it doesn't.
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Juhgu is offline Juhgu
2011-03-11 , 14:44
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
You're lucky to get help from Woody14619, someone who knows what he is about.
I agree completely. Such a nice community here.

I hope the problem is the cable or the specific port on the PC -- they don't always work well. You could try a different PC.
That's not the problem, I've tried several computers. And just now I got a spare data cable but it made no difference. So unfortunately it's not the cable or the computer, it's the phone.


So the next step is to try to clean the usb port. I poked around with a paperclip and removed some dirt, but that didn't help. What would be a good way to clean the pins properly? I'd prefer not to crack the phone case open if I get a choice.

And I guess there's no chance that this could be some software issue? Any way to diagnose that?


Getting files via wifi shouldn't be all that bad. You might see if you can find a way of doing that which works better for you.
Any recommendations?

My best guess is to find a proper FTP program, upload the files to my net folder and then download them to whatever computer I use. But this is much more inconvenient than just simply plugging the phone in a computer as mass storage, especially because I'm transferring large amounts of large files, the FTP programs I've tried are clumsy (there is hope of finding a good one though), and I have to use the phone's 3G or random WLANs. And bluetooth is hopelessly slow for this purpose.

I suppose I could somehow set up file transfer between a (Windows) PC and the phone over WLAN?
Last edited by Juhgu; 2011-03-11 at 14:51.