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PSA: if you cant connect your Android phone to your Windows PC via USB, boot from an Ubuntu USB stick and then try it.

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There are zillions of posts out there about people not being able to connect to their Android phones via USB to a windows machine. This happened to me, and no matter what I tried I could not get it to work. I made an Ubuntu USB boot stick, and booted to it without installing to my laptop, and Ubuntu had no problems at all communicating with my phone.

I cant find any documentation pointing to a Window7 bug that causes this, but certainly if it works flawlessly on the exact same hardware with a different operating system, I'm going to have to point the finger at Windows.

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