Re: Drivers won't install

desertgal wrote:
RJK wrote:
"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h9mc06$nek$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
desertgal wrote:

I know that the older phone is set in usb mode, the newer ones I can't find a setting. I've got instructions for installing the phone drivers but XP isn't doing what it's supposed to do, all it will install is the usb data cable & it uses the built in drivers for that. The irritating thing is that the software was installed & worked fine before I had to have XP reinstalled, also it recognizes our other phone which is a Samsung, but not the LG's.
Nothing is showing up in Device Manager except the usb cable, the Storage/Removable media is mentioned in the setupapi.log but nowhere else.

So what is the model number of the LG phone ?

Paul

Just read through this thread, and wondered if it's anything to do with COM / serial port settings. i.e. my ancient Motorola "clam" cell-phone, requires a Motorola lead with the "smaller" RS232 serial plug on the PC end. ....never bought one 'cause camera on it can only take 640x480 vga pics. !

regards, Richard

Paul,

One of the phones is a VX5200, that's the older one. The other 2 are VX5400, one of them has damaged screens & that's the one I'm trying to get the info off of.

Richard,

I don't think it masters what port I plug into to install the drivers. The program I use to transfer files searches for the phone & uses whatever port it's on. Theoretically, these LG phones are easier to transfer to & from than Motorola's, my son had a Razr & I had to do a lot of changes tot eh programing to be able to transfer things but till now I've not had a problem with the LG's.
I have the data cables specific to the phones, they have unique plugs on the phones themselves but a normal usb on the other end.



VX5400
http://www.lgmobilephones.com/phone.aspx?id=336

I did a bit of digging, but at this point, the one thing that stands
out, is you say the phone is showing as Mass Storage. And I get the
impression it is supposed to show up as a USB Serial port and use
some kind of AT command set.

Click any one of the dated links here, to download an archived copy
of UVCView (a USB viewer application). It may show what USB config
info the phone is presenting.

http://web.archive.org/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/UVCView.x86.exe

The device description should be on the right, when the phone is
plugged in. If the phone is a composite device, the various
sub-devices probably have sections further down in the right
hand pane. The viewer application should work if the phone is
plugged directly into the computer (no external USB hub).

http://www.die.de/blog/content/binary/usbview.png

Since you have two VX5400 phones, you should compare how they show
up in Device Manager. Maybe the working phone will show as some
kind of USB serial. And the broken phone will show as
USB mass storage (like it is preparing itself for a flash upgrade
or something). As long as both phones support USB "serial numbers"
and have unique serial numbers, the response from Windows should
be unique for them (Windows should treat them separately as far
as I know and not confuse them).

I downloaded and installed the LG modem driver, in my VirtualPC
Win2K image, and looking in the install directory

C:\Program Files\LG Electronics\LG USB Modem Driver

The software looks like it is mainly for older OSes. In other words,
the USB standards support is better in WinXP, so the driver has less
to do. So I don't think the driver will fix it.

There is a free syncing application called BitPIM, and by clicking
the "tarball" button at the bottom of this page, you can get source
code. There is a directory with individual phone entries in it.
Some phones have sequences, to get them to change modes (from
OBEX to AT). The VX5400 file seems pretty simple, with no modes,
so the serial AT communications mode might be all it supports.

http://bitpim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bitpim/releases/1.0.6/src/

http://www.bitpim.org/

Bitpim cannot work, if the phone is not showing properly in Device
Manager, so at this point, I wouldn't even waste time downloading
the executable and trying it. If the phone doesn't show properly,
even the VZNavigator probably wouldn't work with it.

Paul
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