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Has anyone had a problem with connecting the Xoom to a PC via the USB port? My Windows 7 machine does not recognize the device. It does not even attempt to install a driver. It acts like the port is dead.
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traveler218 wrote:So on Windows 7 how do i access the device? I'm afraid I have never heard of the MTP format.
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If not go to http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Support-Homepage/Software_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Driv... and click the link that says Download Motorola 4.9.0 Driver with MotoHelper*. Install the drivers, reboot and try connecting again.
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I had a lot of trouble getting things set up for my Droid 2 on win 7, but once things got setup I've not had a problem with the xoom.
The best advice I can give is tomake sure your xoom is unplugged, uninstall the drivers, reboot, install the drivers, reboot and then try connecting.
If you don't need to move very much you can try dropbox, rather than connecting directly, or something like Bluetooth file transfer.
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The Xoom does not mount like a normal flash drive/partition, instead it utilizes MTP to do file transfers. On Linux, I had to install the mtp-tools package to get around this. While command line, (example: mtp-sendfile) they're my style and work well.
MTP grants the Xoom potential encryption and DRM features (as well as not tying up the internal memory to the host computer) at the expense of a good out-of-box storage solution. I don't think it was a very smart move, but that's just me. I'd rather reformat the device to use all 32GB once the SD card slot begins working.
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So on Windows 7 how do i access the device? I'm afraid I have never heard of the MTP format.
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MTP is not a format, it is a protocol, a language for devices to talk to eachother. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol for information on MTP.
Here's a common question to most MTP troubles: Are you connecting the Xoom via a USB hub, or directly to the computer?
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