Samsung U740 & U620 USB Driver Install
 

There are multiple ways to obtain and install the drivers....   then, one way to SYNC with Windows Media player....

I've done the following with my Samsung U740 S/W V. u740.VL05.

The data cable I have for the U740 was included with the Verizon Music Essentials kit (MEK) for the U740 (from Feb '07).

The data cable I have for the u620 is the Eforcity csama850dat1

Computers were running Windows XP Pro w/SP2 and all hotfixes and patches from windowsupdate.com... Windows Media Player reports its version 10.00.00.4036...

Via purchasing the Verizon Music Essentials Kit, and using its CD to install ONLY the drivers....

1. With the phone NOT Plugged into the computer...

2. Put the Verizon CD from the Music Essentials kit in my PC's cd-rom drive... The START.EXE program autoruns from the CD, and gives me the menu of 3 choices...

2. I click on "Step 1 - Install Samsung USB Drivers"... it installs and I get a dialog box saying its now OK to plug the phone in.. So I click OK to close that window.

3. Exit out of that Step 1, 2, 3 menu.

4. Plug the USB Cable into the PC and phone. The Add new hardware wizard finds the phone, and installs the drivers automatically.. I end up with TWO entries in Device Manager... Under Modems I see Samsung Mobile Modem... and under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, I see SAMSUNG USB COMPOSITE DEVICE.

5. You are now ready to Sync with Windows Media Player, use BitPim, QPST, or Samsung UniPST.

Via downloading the Verizon Music Essentials Manager Kit, extracting and installing ONLY the drivers.

NOTE: These steps will install the SAMSUNG Mobile USB DRIVER(4.40.7.0) v1.6. These drivers may NOT work well with Samsung's PSTLite. If you have problems, instead use Samsung USB Driver (MCCI 4.34) WHQL v3.0.zip

1. With the phone NOT plugged into the computer....

2. Download the Verizon Music Essentials Manager Kit for your phone, but do NOT run it when the download completes..

3. Download and install WinRAR on your computer.  NOTE: I know this doesn't work with 7Zip, I don't have WinZIP to try it.

4. Right click on the Vzw MEM file you downloaded...   VZMM2-DL-SAMSU-Bld39-SCH-a930-a990-u540-u620-u740-001.exe, and from the pop-up select EXTRACT To VZMM2.....  as shown...

5. Navigate to that newly created folder...  and run the   Common\Driver\Setup.exe

6. At the Licence Agreement screen, click Yes

7. The drivers will be installed to your system.  When completed, click next. If prompted to reboot, please click Yes.

8. Plug the USB Cable into the PC and phone. The Add new hardware wizard finds the phone, and installs the drivers automatically.. I end up with TWO entries in Device Manager... Under Modems I see SAMSUNG Mobile Modem... and under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, I see SAMSUNG USB COMPOSITE DEVICE.

9. You are now ready to Sync with Windows Media Player, use BitPim, QPST, and LG Download....

Via downloading the Verizon Music Essentials Manager Kit, and installing all of it.

Note: When using the VZMM2 download your computer will be automatically upgraded to Windows Media Player 11.

1. With the phone NOT plugged into the computer....

2. Download the Verizon Music Essentials Manager Kit for your phone.

3. When the download completes... click OPEN in order to run the file.

4. You will be prompted to select your phone, then click Begin.

To Sync with Windows Media Player, without the Music Essentials software installed...

1. On the phone, use the Menu for Get It Now, then Get Tunes & Tones, My Music, Sync Music... The first time you do this, Windows finds new hardware, MTP device.. and installs the drivers, again, automatically, I was not prompted other than the little balloons from the system tray... When completed, the phone no longer shows under Modems or USB Controllers... instead I have a new category in Device manager called Windows Portable Devices... under which I see LG CDMA USB.

2. I am presented with the "auto start" type pop-up (not sure its technical name) that says... "MTP Media Player" in the title bar, and states "Windows can perform the same action each time you connect this device... What do you want Windows to do?" with choices of Synchronize media files to this device using Windows Medial Player... Synchronize your Music, with VZW Music Essentials Manager...  if installed...    or... Take no action... plus a check box for "always perform the selected action.... I highlight Sync with WMP, and click OK.

3. WMP launches and I am brought to the SYNC TAB...

3a. the first time I do this, I get a dialog box about the Vcast Mobile Phone device setup... which allows me to choose automatic or manual selections.. I selected MANUAL, and clicked finish... (Can be changed later using the Set up Sync button in WMP's sync window)...

4. From inside WMP, use the TOOLS -> OPTIONS -> Devices tab... you should see V Cast Mobile Phone - Phone Internal Memory... if you have Transflash card in the phone, you'll also see V Cast Mobile Phone - Removable Storage Card. You can click on either, then use the Properties button to configure sync settings, as well as re-encoding options (for if you want to "save space" when transferring/using on the music files on your phone).

5. Add songs to the Sync List on the left Pane of WMP... and on the right pane, make sure the correct choice for your phone is selected from the drop down!!

6. click Start Sync and let it do its thing!!

7. Exit Windows Media Player.

8. Press the END key on the side of the phone. The phone switches and again shows as under Modems and under USB Devices like it originally did.

NOTE: for Step 2, if you don't see the auto start box... its ok to just manually launch WMP. OR you many manually launch WMP before you do the items in step 1.



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