David Thomas

Samsung Galaxy S – getting it to work with Windows 7 x64.

I have revised my original post with my most recent experience – and I documentted it closely to help everyone out there.

I started with a freshly installed windows 7 64bit install.  I have already installed all the other drivers and applications that I required for my PC previous, but today I decided to copy some music onto my phone when I realised I hadn’t set it up to work on this PC yet.

First things first, Turn USB debugging mode ON on your phone. (settings button, settings, applications, Development, USB Debugging – check it)

Here is the things I tried to fix it:

1. Plugged phone in, nothing on phone, nothing on PC. Didn’t even have the little USB icon on the phone.
2. Reboot phone – Leave it plugged into USB.
   While it was rebooting, I noticed Windows ‘installing’ some drivers.  When it finished rebooting, the USB icon was present. I enabled mass storage mode on the phone. No Luck yet.
3. Installed drivers from usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64.zip. Unzip and double click setup, follow prompts.
   At this point, windows installed some drivers behind the scenes, and the explorer window popped up prompting me to explore the new drive.