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For recovering deleted, lost or formatted files (photos, videos, music) from your Android devices with any Photo Recovery software, you must connect your devices with PC in USB mode debugging. However, some Android users don't know how to do this. Here are some tips to help you connect different version Android devices to PC with USB Mass Storage Mode.
For Android 2.1 to 2.3.7
For Android 4.0 to 4.1.2
For Android 4.2 or newer Android 6,7
Click to watch the video tutorial here.
- How to use USB Mass Storage mode in Android 2.1-2.3.7
If you use Android 2.1-2.3.7 devices like Sony Xperia Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S/S2,Motorola Droid RAZR, Droid 4, LG Optimus L3, HTC Rezound, HTC Sensation, HTC Desire, Kindle Fire, etc, follow simple instructions to connect your device in the mass storage mode.
1. Turn on USB debugging by click Menu > Setting > Applications > Development > USB debugging
2. Plug the supplied USB cable into your PC and connect it to your device. A USB icon will appear in the status bar when the device has been recognized.
3. In the main screen of your Android device, use your finger to pull down the top status bar. Then touch USB Connected.
4. Touch Connect USB storage.
Then tap 'Ok'. When the green Android icon turn orange, the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Connect Android 4.0-4.1.2 device in USB mass storage mode
For Android 4.0-4.1.2 devices such as Samsung Galaxy S/S2/S3 or Nexus,HTC Desire X/V/C, HTC One X/V/S,LG Optimus L5/7/9,Optimus G,Motorola Droid RAZR,Sony Xperia V/T, Kindle Fire HD, etc, you can connect them to PC in USB debugging mode with the below guide.
Galaxy S2 (Android 4.0) as example.
1: Open the 'Setting' > 'More…'
2: Search then Tap on 'USB utilities'
3: Check the option: 'Connect Storage to PC'
Then plug the USB cable into the device and connect to your computer. When does the new call of duty release. The 'USB connected' screen with the large green Android icon will appear. Tap on 'Connect USB storage'. Buy magic mouse online. A confirmation dialog box will appear. Tap 'OK'. The green Android icon will turn orange, indicating that the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Turn on USB Mass Storage mode in Android 4.2 or later versions Android 6/7/8
You will be dismayed to see that there is no USB Debugging option in Android 4.2 or the latest Android 6, Android 7, Android 8 smartphone or tablets like Nexus 4, Nexus 5X/6P,Google Nexus 10,Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S4, Galaxy Note 5, Huawei Mate 10/9, Huawei Honor 9, Xiaomi Mi6, Mi 5X, Mi Mix 2, Redmi 5X, Sony Xperia Z5/M5, LG G5, HTC One M9/M8, etc. Here is a way to turn it on since it is very well hidden!
1: Go to Settings -> About Phone/Tablet or Settings -> About Phone -> Software info
2: Go to 'Build Number' at the end of the Scroll list.
3: Tap on 'Build Number' repeatedly (7 times). On your third tap you should see message indicating that you only have 4 more taps to go to ‘become a developer'. Keep tapping until you are a developer.
4. Now Developer Option will be included in setting list of yours now. Go to 'Develop Options' to check USB debugging > OK. Done.
Tip: When you connect your Android to computer for the first time, you can check 'Always allow from this computer' with the pop up before clicking 'OK' to finish.
Tip: For some android devices, you also need to select mode 'Photos' or 'Files' in 'Notifications'.
And then you can see your andriod phone icon in PC. 'Computer'-'Portable devices' as below.
Notes:
1. After debugging, you connect android device to computer with the factory USB cable at the first time, Windows will look for and install the associated driver automatically. Please waiting a moment for the drive installing, then you can get a pop-up interface and a USB icon will appear in the PC status bar.
2. If your android device doesn't work as USB debugging mode in PC, try to check and change the USB cable.
Some USB cables only can be used to charge, but can't to transmit data. So use the factory USB cable or that supports USB data transfers!
After connecting your device to PC with USB Mass Storage mass, or connect the memory card through your computer's card reader. Then you can recover deleted photos, videos from devices.
Note: If you still can't connect your Android devices to PC with USB debugging mode with this method, you should search an android USB Drive apps in official site of your phone. For example: Samsung Android USB Driver or install the Android Debug Bridge, etc.
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As Android is becoming more and more popular in the phone market, Samsung smartphone is one of the leading Android phones with a large amount of users. Surely, connecting your Android phone to computer for syncing and back up, is an important thing to prevent from losing your information on the phone. But what if you fail to connect Android to PC?Here we will take Samsung Galaxy smartphone as example, and provide some tips for you to connect Samsung Galaxy to PC.
- Method 1: Connect Device to PC in Normal Way
- Method 2: Connect Samsung and Read Data via Wi-Fi with Android Transfer(Extremely Powerful)
- Method 3: Fix Samsung Failed Connection to PC
Method 1: Connect Device to PC in Normal Way
If you are using Samsung Galaxy device such as Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S7 Edge running Android 4.0 or above, please follow the guide on the interface to connect the Samsung Galaxy device to PC.Device Model Information:
Device Name: Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
Model Number: SM-G9350
Android Version: 6.0.1
Firstly, please navigate to 'Settings > Developer options' app on your device and then turn on the development settings by tapping on the button on the top pane (it would display 'Off' if you haven't turned it on). After that, scroll down on the device and enable the USB debugging option.
Then, connect your device to the computer with the USB cable which is matched so that you can check your Android phone on computer and it will be read as a disk.
For more details about how to enable USB debugging on your Android device, please refer this post!
Method 2: Connect Samsung and Transfer Data via Wi-Fi with Android Transfer(Extremely Powerful)
Apart from the methods mentioned above, you can fix the connection fail problem with the help of Android Transfer, which allows you to connect your Android to computer via Wi-Fi. As when you get into the dilemma in failure to connect device to computer normally, I think get rid of the USB cable would be a great choice.Step 1 Download Android Transfer
First of all, please download and install the program on your computer by clicking the download button below.
Step 2 Launch the Program
Now, please launch the program on your computer and then click on the 'Connect Now' button in blue.
Step 3 Connect Android to PC via Wi-Fi
On the pop-up window, you can see there are two options: Connect via USB and Connect via WiFi. Please choose the 'Connect via WiFi' option and then scan the QR code with your device.
Something you should pay attention to when using the Android Transfer program
1. To connect your Android to computer, you need to make sure that your phone and computer are within the same network.
2. You need to use an app on your device that can have a QR code scanning function in it. If you don't have one, please download QR Code on Google Play.
3. If it is your first time to use the Android Transfer program, a MobileGo app would be downloaded when you scan the QR code on the interface of the program. After the MobileGo app is installed, launch it and use the build-in QR code scanner to scan the code on the interface from your computer again.
When Samsung Galaxy/Note is successfully connected to the computer, you can easily transfer data in between Android and PC with one-click. Contacts, messages, photos, videos, audios and more can be easily exported to PC or added in Android.
1. Turn on USB debugging by click Menu > Setting > Applications > Development > USB debugging
2. Plug the supplied USB cable into your PC and connect it to your device. A USB icon will appear in the status bar when the device has been recognized.
3. In the main screen of your Android device, use your finger to pull down the top status bar. Then touch USB Connected.
4. Touch Connect USB storage.
Then tap 'Ok'. When the green Android icon turn orange, the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Connect Android 4.0-4.1.2 device in USB mass storage mode
For Android 4.0-4.1.2 devices such as Samsung Galaxy S/S2/S3 or Nexus,HTC Desire X/V/C, HTC One X/V/S,LG Optimus L5/7/9,Optimus G,Motorola Droid RAZR,Sony Xperia V/T, Kindle Fire HD, etc, you can connect them to PC in USB debugging mode with the below guide.
Galaxy S2 (Android 4.0) as example.
1: Open the 'Setting' > 'More…'
2: Search then Tap on 'USB utilities'
3: Check the option: 'Connect Storage to PC'
Then plug the USB cable into the device and connect to your computer. When does the new call of duty release. The 'USB connected' screen with the large green Android icon will appear. Tap on 'Connect USB storage'. Buy magic mouse online. A confirmation dialog box will appear. Tap 'OK'. The green Android icon will turn orange, indicating that the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode and should now appear as USB disk drives in 'Devices with Removable Storage' and be assigned drive letters.
- Turn on USB Mass Storage mode in Android 4.2 or later versions Android 6/7/8
You will be dismayed to see that there is no USB Debugging option in Android 4.2 or the latest Android 6, Android 7, Android 8 smartphone or tablets like Nexus 4, Nexus 5X/6P,Google Nexus 10,Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S4, Galaxy Note 5, Huawei Mate 10/9, Huawei Honor 9, Xiaomi Mi6, Mi 5X, Mi Mix 2, Redmi 5X, Sony Xperia Z5/M5, LG G5, HTC One M9/M8, etc. Here is a way to turn it on since it is very well hidden!
1: Go to Settings -> About Phone/Tablet or Settings -> About Phone -> Software info
2: Go to 'Build Number' at the end of the Scroll list.
3: Tap on 'Build Number' repeatedly (7 times). On your third tap you should see message indicating that you only have 4 more taps to go to ‘become a developer'. Keep tapping until you are a developer.
4. Now Developer Option will be included in setting list of yours now. Go to 'Develop Options' to check USB debugging > OK. Done.
Tip: When you connect your Android to computer for the first time, you can check 'Always allow from this computer' with the pop up before clicking 'OK' to finish.
Tip: For some android devices, you also need to select mode 'Photos' or 'Files' in 'Notifications'.
And then you can see your andriod phone icon in PC. 'Computer'-'Portable devices' as below.
Notes:
1. After debugging, you connect android device to computer with the factory USB cable at the first time, Windows will look for and install the associated driver automatically. Please waiting a moment for the drive installing, then you can get a pop-up interface and a USB icon will appear in the PC status bar.
2. If your android device doesn't work as USB debugging mode in PC, try to check and change the USB cable.
Some USB cables only can be used to charge, but can't to transmit data. So use the factory USB cable or that supports USB data transfers!
After connecting your device to PC with USB Mass Storage mass, or connect the memory card through your computer's card reader. Then you can recover deleted photos, videos from devices.
Note: If you still can't connect your Android devices to PC with USB debugging mode with this method, you should search an android USB Drive apps in official site of your phone. For example: Samsung Android USB Driver or install the Android Debug Bridge, etc.
Share and Enjoy
As Android is becoming more and more popular in the phone market, Samsung smartphone is one of the leading Android phones with a large amount of users. Surely, connecting your Android phone to computer for syncing and back up, is an important thing to prevent from losing your information on the phone. But what if you fail to connect Android to PC?Here we will take Samsung Galaxy smartphone as example, and provide some tips for you to connect Samsung Galaxy to PC.
- Method 1: Connect Device to PC in Normal Way
- Method 2: Connect Samsung and Read Data via Wi-Fi with Android Transfer(Extremely Powerful)
- Method 3: Fix Samsung Failed Connection to PC
Method 1: Connect Device to PC in Normal Way
If you are using Samsung Galaxy device such as Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S7 Edge running Android 4.0 or above, please follow the guide on the interface to connect the Samsung Galaxy device to PC.Device Model Information:
Device Name: Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
Model Number: SM-G9350
Android Version: 6.0.1
Firstly, please navigate to 'Settings > Developer options' app on your device and then turn on the development settings by tapping on the button on the top pane (it would display 'Off' if you haven't turned it on). After that, scroll down on the device and enable the USB debugging option.
Then, connect your device to the computer with the USB cable which is matched so that you can check your Android phone on computer and it will be read as a disk.
For more details about how to enable USB debugging on your Android device, please refer this post!
Method 2: Connect Samsung and Transfer Data via Wi-Fi with Android Transfer(Extremely Powerful)
Apart from the methods mentioned above, you can fix the connection fail problem with the help of Android Transfer, which allows you to connect your Android to computer via Wi-Fi. As when you get into the dilemma in failure to connect device to computer normally, I think get rid of the USB cable would be a great choice.Step 1 Download Android Transfer
First of all, please download and install the program on your computer by clicking the download button below.
Step 2 Launch the Program
Now, please launch the program on your computer and then click on the 'Connect Now' button in blue.
Step 3 Connect Android to PC via Wi-Fi
On the pop-up window, you can see there are two options: Connect via USB and Connect via WiFi. Please choose the 'Connect via WiFi' option and then scan the QR code with your device.
Something you should pay attention to when using the Android Transfer program
1. To connect your Android to computer, you need to make sure that your phone and computer are within the same network.
2. You need to use an app on your device that can have a QR code scanning function in it. If you don't have one, please download QR Code on Google Play.
3. If it is your first time to use the Android Transfer program, a MobileGo app would be downloaded when you scan the QR code on the interface of the program. After the MobileGo app is installed, launch it and use the build-in QR code scanner to scan the code on the interface from your computer again.
When Samsung Galaxy/Note is successfully connected to the computer, you can easily transfer data in between Android and PC with one-click. Contacts, messages, photos, videos, audios and more can be easily exported to PC or added in Android.
Method 3: Fix Samsung Failed Connection to PC
However, sometimes you may fail to connect Android to computer successfully. The USB cable, USB driver, USB port and more can be the factors for the failure. If your device is successfully connected, you can see there is an item displayed as your device model on Device Manager of your computer. If you can not find this item, it means that your computer can not detect your device. Now let's check it out how to fix the problem.Solution 1 Firstly, please check the USB cable can work normally or not. As some of the USB cables are only for device charging, you can't use it to read the data on computer. Now, you are able to try to use the USB cable that comes together with your Android or connect Samsung to computer via another USB cable that is surely can work. If it can be successfully detected, then you can use this USB cable normally.
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Solution 2Check if the USB Driver is correctly installed. Generally speaking, your computer would install the USB driver automatically when you plug your device into computer for the first time. However, sometimes it may fail to install and thus the computer could not detect your device successfully. For this case, you are recommended to install the Samsung USB Driver on your own.Solution 3Use Device Manager to scan for hardware changes. If it can recognize the USB cable that is plugged into the USB port after your computer scans for hardware changes, then the job is done and you can use the device normally. If it is not, pleases continue to try the next solution.
Solution 4Restart your computer. Sometimes restarting the computer can solve the problem more or less. Please try to restart your PC and check if the USB cable can work or not.
Hopefully these tips can be helpful for you when connecting your Samsung Galaxy Phone (also including other Android phones) to computer. If you have question about this article, please drop us a comment below!
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