Has anyone successfully got their galxy s to work in mass storage mode on windows 7?Im having to copy stuff to micro sd card to get on phone cant recognise over usb.I have the latest updates for kies instaled

Do you have two extra empty drives in My Computer?
If so, you'll need to bring down the status screen on your Galaxy S and press the USB icon. It will ask if you want to connect. When you accept you can use My Computer to view the internal storage.

They show but i cant get anything on them as i can get past connecting device

Go to Settings --> About Phone --> USB and choose "Ask on connection". That let me connect to Kies sometimes, still pretty flakey though, but mass memory always worked that way. Once connected in mass memory you still need to mount the drives from the notifications tray unfortunately.

you still need to mount the drives from the notifications tray unfortunately.

Thanks very much this is the final step i was missing.Both you guys have been very helpful.I do think this kies software is a piece of crap though,but thats samsung, best phones worst software.I still keep coming back though

My Galaxy S only has the internal 16gb card. I don't know if this is a problem or not.
I have Windows 7 x64.

I run Kies in Windows, then connect my phone via USB. Kies shows nothing.
No "connecting.." or anything.
I have made sure that I chose the Samsung Kies option in the phone when connecting via USB

I tried the Update and Driver Recovery options in Kies. Made no difference (even though a newer driver was downloaded)

So, I tried to connect as a mass storage device.
I mounted the disk from the option on the phone. However, Windows does not detect anything.
So no drives are shown.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Try remount the internal SD card. Go settings > Sd and storage > unmount and then mount it again. Now try plug in the usb and see if it connects?

Install the newest Kies software on your computer:
http://in.samsungmobile.com/support/softwaremanuals/software.do?phone_model=GT-I9000&sw_type=SW

I got it working.

I just rebooted the phone and tried it again.
This time when I connected, I got the windows popup saying new hardware had been found, and Kies also recognised it.

Thanks for the help.

:confused:Can anyone connect to a pc that does not have the kies software on it.

Can anyone connect to a pc that does not have the kies software on it.
Yup, it works on my machine at work (Windows 7 64x) using 'Mass Storage'. Remount internal did the trick

:confused:Can anyone connect to a pc that does not have the kies software on it.

yes, mass storage finally works for me (thanks to the tips in this thread). However, Kies is still not working. I've tried just about everything possible! Grrrrrr :mad:

It says underneath the download that Kies doesn't work for 64 bit versions of Windows. Did you manage to get it going JockyMC? I haven't tried it because of that so I installed it on my slow as a wet week netbook.:confused:

i have kies working for Windows 7 64bit

soraxd, how did u get it to work? i have tried on both 7 x64 and Vista x86 and Kies doesn't recognise the phone on either. i am using the latest version of Kies.

i have tried on both 7 x64 and Vista x86 and Kies doesn't recognise the phone on either. i am using the latest version of Kies.
Did you apply the re-mount Internal SD-Card trick? Also reboot phone sometimes help.

Settings>About phone>USB settings> Ask on connect then when you connect your phone click samsung kies, and you can drop down the dropdown box once connected, and click Mount USB, and then Unmount USB
if that doesnt work for you then im out of ideas

does your computer recognize the phone? if your computer doesnt recognize the phone, its usually because it doesnt have the drivers installed, i dont really know how that could happen cause installing the drivers is part of samsung kies, but if thats the case you could try installing the drivers manually
http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/203-link-for-drivers-without-samsung-kies?highlight=drivers

Settings>About phone>USB settings> Ask on connect then when you connect your phone click samsung kies, and you can drop down the dropdown box once connected, and click Mount USB, and then Unmount USB
if that doesnt work for you then im out of ideas

does your computer recognize the phone? if your computer doesnt recognize the phone, its usually because it doesnt have the drivers installed, i dont really know how that could happen cause installing the drivers is part of samsung kies, but if thats the case you could try installing the drivers manually
http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/203-link-for-drivers-without-samsung-kies?highlight=drivers

Thanks. Computer recognizes the phone for mass storage, however with Kies it's a no-go. That is, Kies does not recognize the phone.

Did you apply the re-mount Internal SD-Card trick? Also reboot phone sometimes help.

yes, i've tried everything; on two different PCs.

Computer recognizes the phone for mass storage, however with Kies it's a no-go. That is, Kies does not recognize the phone.
Although Kies is working, but I still found Kies is very unstable, quite often it stops detect my phone after a serveral times of plugging and unpluging. Sometimes I have to restart PC to get it work again. I now only use mass storage for most of the time.

Here's what I done.
Connected the phone as a mass storage device
mounted it
rebooted the phone
connected it again using the Kies option
This time, Kies started and it worked ok.

Since I only use Kies to sync my contacts and calendar (using the mass storage option for copying music, photos etc) I just use my google account for contacts and calendars and sync with that.
So don't really need Kies at all now.

However, will I need Kies when upgrading to 2.2?

What stupid kies working for me was that I was using launcher pro. Kies only works with touch wiz. Don't need kies anyway, odin and mass storage is all I need.

What stupid kies working for me was that I was using launcher pro. Kies only works with touch wiz. Don't need kies anyway, odin and mass storage is all I need.

Switching back to touch wiz didn't make a difference. Oh well, i guess i will just have to live without the fantastic Samsung software :p

Switching back to touch wiz didn't make a difference. Oh well, i guess i will just have to live without the fantastic Samsung software :p

amazingly Kies has started working...and, indeed, one needs to use Touch Wiz!

Go to Settings --> About Phone --> USB and choose "Ask on connection". That let me connect to Kies sometimes, still pretty flakey though, but mass memory always worked that way. Once connected in mass memory you still need to mount the drives from the notifications tray unfortunately.

Legend!!! thanks mate

What stupid kies working for me was that I was using launcher pro. Kies only works with touch wiz. Don't need kies anyway, odin and mass storage is all I need.

Same here bought Samsung GS about 3 weeks ago and how stupid for software programs to be very very buggy i win 7.

I just uninstalled all the kies Rubbish and just use mass storage and bingo i can now edit any files via PC :) ( as i do with webdesign's, software on my pc etc)

i even tried the New_PC_Studio_1.5.1.10064_2 still now joy. All we want is to download QUICKLY our pics and videos ( most of us ) like the good old days..lol