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[Q] Problem installing Samsung MTP Windows 7 update

As the title suggests I cannot install the Samsung MTP Windows 7 update. I also get a message stating that the driver for the Nexus did not install correctly. Obviously, this means that I cannot see the phone as a device within My Computer and therefore I cannot transfer files on to the phone.
I only install Windows 7 about 6 weeks ago so I doubt the Windows install is corrupted.
Other than this slight issue I have to say that I LOVE this phone.
Any help much appreciated!
Error details below:
Windows error code 800F020B
Samsung Electronis Co., Ltd - Other hardware - SAMSUNG Mobile MTP Device
Status: Failed

This is a Android forum you are probably much better off looking for the forum which matches your phone to get the advice you need.

daleski75 said:
This is a Android forum you are probably much better off looking for the forum which matches your phone to get the advice you need.
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I thought this was the right forum for this question as it is a Galaxy Nexus?!

Remove all the samsung USB driver's and regulair drivers you allready have installed.
than update your windows 7 to latest update.
reboot.
and try again.
let us know if that helped.
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daleski75 said:
This is a Android forum you are probably much better off looking for the forum which matches your phone to get the advice you need.
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your wrong for that,sir.
as this is a problem related to hooking up the nexus.

ghost010 said:
Remove all the samsung USB driver's and regulair drivers you allready have installed.
than update your windows 7 to latest update.
reboot.
and try again.
let us know if that helped.
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your wrong for that,sir.
as this is a problem related to hooking up the nexus.
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Thank you for the advice. I will try that out this evening and will report back...

any update on this?

found this thread by google as i had the same problem. if anyone is still interested, it got it fixed by installing the update while the nexus was connected.

Morgoth_RB said:
found this thread by google as i had the same problem. if anyone is still interested, it got it fixed by installing the update while the nexus was connected.
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Thanks for posting this information. IMO, leaving the device plugged in is counterintuitive when updating that but it does resolve the problem.

What I'd suggest is as mentioned before, through control remove any and all drivers you have installed and then try the universal drivers 0.7 in the Dev section. I can confirm they work a treat on windows 7. One sec and I'll get a link for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379875
So when you plug your phone in windows may try and auto install the drivers, can cell windows for doing anything and then manually direct it to look for where ever you put the universal one. This will work in both adb mode (phone on) and fast boot mode and will also work using a tool kit.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Thank you!
Morgoth_RB said:
found this thread by google as i had the same problem. if anyone is still interested, it got it fixed by installing the update while the nexus was connected.
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I was searching the web and joined this forum simply to say thank you for this information. I do not have a Samsung Nexus, but a Galaxy Reverb and the suggestion you gave worked perfectly on mine as well.

[Q] Rooting with Heimdall

I've got my shiny new AT&T Captivate Glide (imported to the UK), which I want to root. Having looked at the instructions for rooting with Odin3, I dug out an ancient Windows XP SP2 CD and installed it in a VirtualBox VM, having not actually used Windows since about 2001. Unfortunately that's where I got in trouble - all the rooting guides say to install the Samsung drivers, which I do but Windows still says there's no driver for the phone. Grepping all the .inf files that the USB driver installed shows that none of them actually contain the phone's USB product ID (685e), so I'm a bit confused how this is supposed to work.
So having failed at getting anything to work under Windows, I thought about trying Heimdall under Linux. Some Googling reveals a few posts saying that it won't work at all with the Captivate Glide (or any Tegra 2 based devices), but since "heimdall detect" recognises the device when it is booted into download mode, I'm wondering if this is no longer true - can anyone confirm whether or not Heimdall now works with the Captivate Glide?
Secondly, all the rooting instructions I've come across tell me to download the firmware (AT&T / Rogers) that is appropriate for the device, but I've noticed that a few people on the forums say they are using the Rogers firmware with AT&T devices. Am I correct in assuming that I can actually flash it with either firmware without any issues?
And my final question Most of the specs for the phone I have found on the internet says it supports NFC, whilst most of the discussions I've seen says it doesn't. Sure enough, the AT&T software doesn't appear to support NFC, but can anyone confirm whether or not the hardware does?
Any pointers would be appreciated before I go ahead and flash the phone. Thanks.

I've put both rogers and AT&T roms on my AT&T phone...
Also, I believe that you are supposed to download Kies to windows, as it does the drivers for you. Just make sure before you try odin, that you kill all kies processes in the task manager (in windows).
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I927 using XDA

ajt1995 said:
Also, I believe that you are supposed to download Kies to windows, as it does the drivers for you.
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Well, I tried Kies and it refused to install with an unreadable error message (the only readable bit was "SP3" which makes me think it needs Service Pack 3... which is a pain since Windows Genuine Disadvantage is telling me my genuine Windows CD isn't genuine and therefore won't let me install SP3. My first Windows experience in over 10 years isn't exactly going well).

FireFury said:
Well, I tried Kies and it refused to install with an unreadable error message (the only readable bit was "SP3" which makes me think it needs Service Pack 3... which is a pain since Windows Genuine Disadvantage is telling me my genuine Windows CD isn't genuine and therefore won't let me install SP3. My first Windows experience in over 10 years isn't exactly going well).
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Windows xp was always a pain... I would suggest you download the windows 8 release preview.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I927 using XDA

any news on heimdall working with the glide? anyone tried the new RC, out yesterday?

FireFury said:
I dug out an ancient Windows XP SP2 CD and installed it in a VirtualBox VM
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STOP.
Odin does NOT like VirtualBox; you could brick your phone and you WILL corrupt your VM.
Unfortunately Heimdall doesn't work with the Glide. It sees the phone but when it tries to do any write operation it errors out. (I think the protocol is different somehow.) You'll have to find a native(!!) XP/Vista/7 system (I used my Win7 x64 gaming machine, it worked flawlessly) to get the party started. Failing that, a BartPE bootdisk *should* work but nobody's ever tried it. Once you have the ICS bootloader installed and have CWM, you won't need Odin again.
The phone doesn't have NFC -- someone (Dr.Mario I think) actually tore a Glide apart and looked at the board; there's no such chip.
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ajt1995 said:
Windows xp was always a pain... I would suggest you download the windows 8 release preview.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I927 using XDA
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I don't know about 8, but the Win7 piracy interlocks are even worse. And frankly, this is bad advice.. nobody's tested Odin on Win8. If you don't have the expertise to recover from a bad flash, you could be digging your phone a shallow grave.

Wow... Xp and 7 wga & activation are SO easy to get around...
I can confirm Odin and keis crash in vmware VM's with either windoze or Ubuntu as host.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using xda app-developers app

Samsung Galaxy Victory Working Root!

I successfully rooted my Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, heavily using an existing Samsung Galaxy SIII root method. I have attached the files below (including a batch file).
I personally didn't use this batch file: I just put together all of the commands I typed into the command prompt, so I'm ASSUMING it SHOULD work? But if you're scared and want to perfectly replicate what I did, just manually type in the commands (you can edit the .bat file in notepad and it'll show you them all).
STEP 1) Install Samsung USB Drivers
hxxp://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201211/20121110030255344/Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.14.0.exe
STEP 2) After it finishes installing, run the batch file (RootDebugfs.bat), follow the instructions, and plug your phone in when it says "Waiting for device to be detected..."
STEP 3) Enjoy the root!
I went into the Superuser app just to make sure everything looked ok, and it did on mine. Then, I tested with Titanium Backup, and I was successfully able to uninstall Google Wallet (which you normally can't).
At some points, my laptop wouldn't detect the phone if it was doing stuff and then needed to reboot or something, so I would just unplug the phone, wait like 5 seconds, and replug it.
I would have posted this in the development section, but I didn't have the rights to (haven't posted 10 posts), so if an admin could move it, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Works beautifully! Thanks a lot. Just followed your directions and used the batch file. Now I can finally take screenshots!
Windows kept saying it wasn't able to install the device drivers each time the phone rebooted, but that didn't seem to affect anything.

I can confirm this method works perfectly. Good job niemasd! Here is a real link to the files you suggested:
www.waywardpilgrim.net/android/tools/Samsung_drivers.zip
www.waywardpilgrim.net/android/tools/Galaxy_Victory_Root__niemasd_.zip
Three cheers for niemasd! HIP HIP HOORAY! HIP HIP HOORAY! HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!

Ok I'm more than a little stump here. I'm use to rooting w/ a tar file via odin. Instructions here are not really clear. I found a tar file in the zip file, do I flashed that in Odin or do I just flash the zip file in the stock recovery???

Disregard. I'm now rooted. didn't realize the rootdebugfs was actually in the zip file

unroot option
Do you have instructions for unrooting should the need arise?

CWM recovery
Here it is: CWM for the Galaxy Victory. Use Odin carefully. If you need further instructions use the search feature please. Thanks to JT for testing and having the gnads to be a tester in general!
Odin!
www.waywardpilgrim.net/android/samsung/sph-l300/cwm/cwm-victory.tar
Heimdall!
www.waywardpilgrim.net/android/samsung/sph-l300/cwm/recovery.img
(This device does not support fastboot)
Here's the stock recovery if you need it for any reason:
Odin!
WHU!?!?! (I'll make it later)
Heimdall!
www.waywardpilgrim.net/android/samsung/sph-l300/stockimages/recovery.img
This awesome day has been brought to you by the devs at OUDHS!

niemasd said:
I successfully rooted my Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, heavily using an existing Samsung Galaxy SIII root method. I have attached the files below (including a batch file).
I personally didn't use this batch file: I just put together all of the commands I typed into the command prompt, so I'm ASSUMING it SHOULD work? But if you're scared and want to perfectly replicate what I did, just manually type in the commands (you can edit the .bat file in notepad and it'll show you them all).
STEP 1) Install Samsung USB Drivers
hxxp://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201211/20121110030255344/Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.14.0.exe
STEP 2) After it finishes installing, run the batch file (RootDebugfs.bat), follow the instructions, and plug your phone in when it says "Waiting for device to be detected..."
STEP 3) Enjoy the root!
I went into the Superuser app just to make sure everything looked ok, and it did on mine. Then, I tested with Titanium Backup, and I was successfully able to uninstall Google Wallet (which you normally can't).
At some points, my laptop wouldn't detect the phone if it was doing stuff and then needed to reboot or something, so I would just unplug the phone, wait like 5 seconds, and replug it.
I would have posted this in the development section, but I didn't have the rights to (haven't posted 10 posts), so if an admin could move it, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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I installed the drivers then ran the batch but it never said ""Waiting for device to be detected..."
I just kept hitting Y or enter until it asked "UID and GID should both be 0. Are they?
I replied y the first time and it just kept asking for me to press a key to continue. I ran it again and it sent me to the end telling me it wasn't rooted.
I'm going to try this on a straight PC because I'm doing it on a Mac using Parallels and Windows 7 and that might be the issue.

Yep, just as I suspected. I couldn't use a Mac with Windows 7 running inside of Parallels. I had to use my girlfriend's PC and after suspending the antivirus program I installed the drivers then ran the batch and it worked as advertised beautifully, My father (81 years old) and I thank you !!
He rarely uses the tether and it's costing him a bundle every month. When I showed him I could use free tethering on my iPhone he wanted me to get his Android to do it.
Does anyone recommend a good working wifi tethering app? I'll buy it but I want to make sure the carrier can't track it.

AeroCare said:
Yep, just as I suspected. I couldn't use a Mac with Windows 7 running inside of Parallels. I had to use my girlfriend's PC and after suspending the antivirus program I installed the drivers then ran the batch and it worked as advertised beautifully, My father (81 years old) and I thank you !!
He rarely uses the tether and it's costing him a bundle every month. When I showed him I could use free tethering on my iPhone he wanted me to get his Android to do it.
Does anyone recommend a good working wifi tethering app? I'll buy it but I want to make sure the carrier can't track it.
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Google "Wireless Tether," it's by far the best tethering app I've seen (need root of course, but that's no issue anymore!). I'm not sure if it works with this phone, but go ahead and give it a shot!

niemasd said:
Google "Wireless Tether," it's by far the best tethering app I've seen (need root of course, but that's no issue anymore!). I'm not sure if it works with this phone, but go ahead and give it a shot!
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Thanks. I did a search for "wireless tether" but it doesn't show up in the Play Store. I installed "easy tether" and even though it's not wireless it's very fast and always works. Very simple to use too. I'll keep looking for a wireless tether that doesn't let Sprint know he's using it.

AeroCare said:
Thanks. I did a search for "wireless tether" but it doesn't show up in the Play Store. I installed "easy tether" and even though it's not wireless it's very fast and always works. Very simple to use too. I'll keep looking for a wireless tether that doesn't let Sprint know he's using it.
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no, don't look on the Play Store, but on google! lemme see if i can find it
there we go! :
hxxp://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

niemasd said:
no, don't look on the Play Store, but on google! lemme see if i can find it
there we go! :
hxxp://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
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Great thanks! I installed it but even though it says it's compatible with my phone it just hangs there when I activate it. It says tethering and changes color but it never shows on my iPad or laptop for me to connect to it. I'll try to play around with it to see if it's some settings issue in the app.

Samsung Galaxy Victory 4g for sale ROOTED with this method
I have a rooted victory that I'm currently selling on ebay, i used this root method and confirmed root. Thanks for the support
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xban4901 said:
I have a rooted victory that I'm currently selling on ebay, i used this root method and confirmed root. Thanks for the support
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I was also able to flash the test build of CWM 6.0+ and everything seems to be working ok, su just needs to be re-installed from play store, because it was deleted during reset. But i tested and root is still their

Samsung Galaxy Victory 4g LTE for sale
I'm selling a rooted Galaxy Victory on ebay for $250, i have the only rooted victory on ebay, thanks to the devs on xda. This device is rooted and equipped with cwm recovery, really looking forward to getting rid of this device and get a more top of the line phone

Does this method work on any build version of the Victory? I'm looking to get my Mom an Android with LTE capability, that can be rooted, but doesn't cost an arm & leg. I'm glad I found this thread, but would like to confirm the above. Thank you.

i have update samsung victory to jellybean, still have chance to root using this method?

cineung02 said:
i have update samsung victory to jellybean, still have chance to root using this method?
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How did you update it to JB? Last I saw 4.04 was the latest.

How to Root
Pesceman3 said:
How did you update it to JB? Last I saw 4.04 was the latest.
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I've purchase victory 4G several days ago and it has been updated to Jelly Bean 4.1.1
Is this method still relevant to this update? Anyone?

Thanks the OP root method worked fine! Any semblance of a ROM out there? And where can I pick up a recovery? Anyone try mobile Odin? Thanks.

DriveDroid

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarebakery.drivedroid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2196707
DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives. The paid version of DriveDroid does not include ads and helps the developer.
DriveDroid also includes a convenient download menu where you can download USB-images of a number of operating systems from your phone.
You can also create USB-images which allows you to have a blank USB-drive where you can store files in. Another possibility is to use tools on your PC to make a bootable USB-drive out of the blank image that DriveDroid created.
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Has anyone got this app to work? I couldnt though the dev said several people with the Nexus 4 have

I second that. Couldn't get it working on my s3
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

I have a nexus 4 running CM10.1 with Franco Kernel, put DriveDroid on it a few weeks back and have had no issues running SliTaz, Ubuntu, and BSD off it.

I've used it several times with great success. Actually, no problems to speak of. I've loaded up PartedMagic and MintLinux.
FYI - I'm running AOKP (official) + Franco. Once you load up the app, make sure to follow the on-screen instructions that say to set the storage option as USB Mass Storage (selectable from within DriveDroid).

Im using CM 20130306 nightly stock kernel and followed all the instructions

Anybody knows if this works if i wanna try with Windows 7 in my Nexus 4?

hikhokk said:
Anybody knows if this works if i wanna try with Windows 7 in my Nexus 4?
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Take a look at this: http://softwarebakery.com/windows-install-on-drivedroid
It should allow you to use the Windows 7 installer from your phone. For a live version of Windows from your phone I'd recommend using Hiren's mini-XP, which you can install as follows: http://softwarebakery.com/install-hirensbootcd-on-drivedroid
I'm still in the works of trying to install Windows 8 on DriveDroid as a live OS (so that it runs from the USB stick, instead of just installing)
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Im using CM 20130306 nightly stock kernel and followed all the instructions
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All USB-related problems are usually depending on the kernel. There are *MANY* floating around and I can't check the code of them all to be sure they'll work.
Therefore, could you also try the Franco Kernel, like sphyyr did? If you can confirm that'll work for you, I have finally some indication of what the problem is. I've recently received more issues with the Nexus 4 then I've noticed before, so it might also be an update that messed things up... totally not sure though.
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I second that. Couldn't get it working on my s3
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As for the Galaxy S3, there are two devices specifically that I know do not work with their usual kernel: Sprint and AT&T. I'm still working on getting the right patches into a custom kernel, so that I can recommend that kernel to people. This is an error in the Sprint/AT&T kernel that makes the device acts as a CD-rom device (without the necessary fixes to be able to boot from it) without allowing applications to change that mode back to USB-drive.

FrozenCow said:
Take a look at this: http://softwarebakery.com/windows-install-on-drivedroid
It should allow you to use the Windows 7 installer from your phone. For a live version of Windows from your phone I'd recommend using Hiren's mini-XP, which you can install as follows: http://softwarebakery.com/install-hirensbootcd-on-drivedroid
I'm still in the works of trying to install Windows 8 on DriveDroid as a live OS (so that it runs from the USB stick, instead of just installing)
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great! thanks! :good::good::good:

Dex won't install on my laptop

Has anyone else had issues installing Dex on a PC? I was able to install fine on my desktop but it won't install on my laptop. I download the file from Samsung and run the file to install the screen pops up but when I accept terms and hit next the screen disappears and doesn't come back up.

west stains massive said:
Has anyone else had issues installing Dex on a PC? I was able to install fine on my desktop but it won't install on my laptop. I download the file from Samsung and run the file to install the screen pops up but when I accept terms and hit next the screen disappears and doesn't come back up.
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I was able to install it without any issues on Win 10 pro
Sent from my SM-N975F using Tapatalk

M.Noury said:
I was able to install it without any issues on Win 10 pro
Sent from my SM-N975F using Tapatalk
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Did you install on a desktop or a laptop?
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Has anyone else had issues installing Dex on a PC? I was able to install fine on my desktop but it won't install on my laptop. I download the file from Samsung and run the file to install the screen pops up but when I accept terms and hit next the screen disappears and doesn't come back up.
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Yes, I am having the exact same issue. Have spent a long time searching to see if there's a solution but your post is the first time I have seen that proves it's not just me!
I am guessing it is most likely to be a software conflict but I just cannot figure out what might be clashing. I don't think I have anything unusual running. Hardware wise my laptop definitely meets the specs required. What laptop are you using? Mine is an HP Spectre x360 - 15-bl050na
If you do find a solution please post it here (I will do the same of course)

Just installed on laptop now. Did hang at 0% for a long time, not sure why, but finally installed after about 3 minutes.

apprentice said:
Did you install on a desktop or a laptop?
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Yes, I am having the exact same issue. Have spent a long time searching to see if there's a solution but your post is the first time I have seen that proves it's not just me!
I am guessing it is most likely to be a software conflict but I just cannot figure out what might be clashing. I don't think I have anything unusual running. Hardware wise my laptop definitely meets the specs required. What laptop are you using? Mine is an HP Spectre x360 - 15-bl050na
If you do find a solution please post it here (I will do the same of course)
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go to device manager under usb device you'll see a warning icon next to samsung_android, if so go download and install the samsung usb drivers for android. This has resolved this same issue on 2 of my computers.
https://developer.samsung.com/common/download/check.do?actId=698

Did that work for you?

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Did that work for you?
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Yes, installing the drivers worked for me, thanks!

I have a similar issue with my MacBook Air. I download the .dmg file, open and install it. The MBA reboots but never actually installed Dex.

works perfectly with my laptop

cliffr39 said:
I have a similar issue with my MacBook Air. I download the .dmg file, open and install it. The MBA reboots but never actually installed Dex.
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It's a Mac and you're trying to link it to an Android... Need I say more?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Did you try it with the phone connected? When connected does your MBA see the Note 10 and recognize it?

gottahavit said:
It's a Mac and you're trying to link it to an Android... Need I say more?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Did you try it with the phone connected? When connected does your MBA see the Note 10 and recognize it?
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LOL, I know
Well, got it working. Happy camper

gottahavit said:
go to device manager under usb device you'll see a warning icon next to samsung_android, if so go download and install the samsung usb drivers for android. This has resolved this same issue on 2 of my computers.
https://developer.samsung.com/common/download/check.do?actId=698
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You are a star mate! That worked for me
The link you supplied is no longer valid so here is the updated link:
https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/others/android-usb-driver-for-windows
.

Hello there similar issue in my case; in attachment the error message from my laptop installation, which went fine on the desktop.
The laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon) installation always hangs at 16%.
But I have a S10+ and the Samsung drivers are already installed; using Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.
Hope you have some suggestion.
Thanks

Solved; in case you have the issue, prior installing enter the task manager and force close task named msiexec.exe.
That worked for me
Ciao

I am having the same problems... tried installing the drivers, same result. Install fails at 49%, repeatedly.

swk424 said:
I am having the same problems... tried installing the drivers, same result. Install fails at 49%, repeatedly.
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Same here but fails at fails at 0% then says All Set, but nothing installed. No error message.