I am one of those annoying people that like to get things ready before writing a post. Not the words you understand, I like to write as I would speak and I don’t think it works writing it all down and then copying it across to my blog sites.
So, imagine my frustration last night when I wanted to write a post for my canine site and was trying to get the photos from my mobile to my computer and it just wasn’t listening!!
Normally I just attach the little dongle thingie to my usb lead and plug the mobile in, then a window opens and I can choose which photos I would like to insert.
No window opened and further investigation showed that either my mobile didn’t want to talk to my computer or vice versa. I tried again – nothing…. nada!
A few days ago Firefox performed an update – I didn’t ask it to – it just did it anyway and it informed me afterwards that Real Player would not be working – it said nothing about my mobile.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Answers on a comment please…..
Hmmm – odd one – I doubt that Firefox has anything to do with it….
A couple of things:
The first one is that the Windows (in it’s infinite wisdom) may not realise this is a camera and even if it does it could have got it’s knickers in a twist and decided that you don’t really want to open file explorer when you connect a device “automagically”:
1. Once it’s connected, hit Windows Key and E (file explorer) see if you’ve got a removable disk showing up in there – that’s probably your phone
Your phone might have decided it’s connecting as a phone rather than a USB memory device:
2. Somewhere buried in settings for connectivity, will be an option to set how it connects (as a Phone or a Memory Card normally), make sure this is set to Memory Card.
3. Reboot your phone (your laptop is generally rebooted all the while, but less so your phone), could be just that your drivers for USB have crashed in the phone!
The phone is set to memory device and I’ll reboot it then have another go when I get home – otherwise it will be on your list for next weekend – and we can’t have that x
I’ve sometimes found it depends which end you attach first. Phones seem to like a certain order, but I can’t remember what it is! LOL!
Try plugging the other end in first and see what happens!
Did you get it working?
Yes thank you both – I am up and running again!!!!