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How do I get XP to skip installing a driver?

M

Metspitzer

Flightless Bird
I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge it.
It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option of
not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected the
option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I plug
in the phone.

How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?
 
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Db

Flightless Bird
it is highly likely that
this is a not a problem
do to the operating
system.

what I would do is
to search for an updated
driver from sprint
or contact them with
the problem

most assuredly you
are not the only one
with the problem so
sprint would have an
appropriate solution.



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"Metspitzer" <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in message
news:jq0h56t8smgcltnnthpumrivv7sos5qf14@4ax.com...
> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge it.
> It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
> After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option of
> not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected the
> option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I plug
> in the phone.
>
> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?
 
S

Shenan Stanley

Flightless Bird
Metspitzer wrote:
> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge
> it. It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
> After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option
> of not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected
> the option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I
> plug in the phone.
>
> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?


Install one.

What phone is it?

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G

Greg Russell

Flightless Bird
In news:jq0h56t8smgcltnnthpumrivv7sos5qf14@4ax.com,
Metspitzer <kilowatt@charter.net> typed:

> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge it.
> It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.

....
> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sprint+phnoe+usb+driver
 
M

Metspitzer

Flightless Bird
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:28:52 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
<newshelper@gmail.com> wrote:

>Metspitzer wrote:
>> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge
>> it. It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
>> After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option
>> of not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected
>> the option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I
>> plug in the phone.
>>
>> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?

>
>Install one.
>
>What phone is it?
>

The phone is an M320
I searched Sprint's site for a driver.
 
P

Paul

Flightless Bird
Metspitzer wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:28:52 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
> <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Metspitzer wrote:
>>> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge
>>> it. It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
>>> After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option
>>> of not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected
>>> the option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I
>>> plug in the phone.
>>>
>>> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?

>> Install one.
>>
>> What phone is it?
>>

> The phone is an M320
> I searched Sprint's site for a driver.


There is a driver on the Samsung site. Click the "Software" tab.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/d...d_mdl_cd=SPH-M320ZSASPR&prd_mdl_name=SPH-M320

This is the file I got. I had to run this in Wine, to be able
to get at the INF files.

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...59_Samsung_USB_Driver_MCCI_4.34_WHQL_v3.4.exe

The INF files include:

sscdbus.inf
sscdsdm2.inf
sscdw2k.inf

The hardware that supports is

USB\VID_04E8&PID_6601
USB\VID_04E8&PID_6640

and those entries aren't in usb.ids so I can't "translate that
to English" :)

Anyway, maybe that will get rid of the blemish in Device Manager.

Samsung also has a "PC Studio 7" software, but I'm less clear
on what phones that supports. That is about a 10x larger download.
There is a reference to that package here, and there seems to be
a separate USB driver installer package within PC Studio. I'd only
start reading this, if the above installer doesn't work.

http://forumuk.samsungmobile.com/PostsList.aspx?ForumPostID=160434

It is possible the phone came with a CD, and the CD would have
had the PC Studio (some version) on it.

Paul
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Metspitzer wrote:

> I have a Sprint cell phone and I only use the USB cable to charge it.
> It takes a long time to search for drivers that aren't there.
> After the long process of searching for drivers there is an option of
> not asking for the drivers anymore. Even though I have selected the
> option of not asking, I still get the search for drivers when I plug
> in the phone.
>
> How can I stop XP from asking for a driver?


Does the USB device show up in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc)? If so,
does it have a yellow exclamation mark icon for it? You can right-click
on the device and select Disable.
 
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