[Samsung Infuse 4G] menzoom:
I posted this on a forum that I thought it applied to but the one answer I got did not work, I've done searches everywhere and have not seen a solution. There were a couple of similar problems for other phones but these fixes did not work for the infuse, so . . .

I Bought the infuse on day one. Installed Kies 2.0.0.11044_11_3. Phone not recognized, installed drivers, researched and learned the truth about Kies. Phone would not be recognized but at least installing Kies made the phone visible to the PC, so I knew I could root if I so desired, read up about rooting looked over the forums, learned my phone and finally thought I was ready. The phone had other plans.

:cool:

Decided the other day that I was ready to root. Plugged in the phone but it no longer showed up in my PC running Windows 7 64 bit. Something about the phones compatibility with my system changed. Tried to install a newer version of Kies 2.2.1.11053_99_3 yesterday for the drivers, reinstalled drivers, activated USB debugging, plugged the phone in started up SuperOneClick and . . . still nothing happened. So I deactivated USB debugging and started over. Followed all the directions in the root posts and and SuperOneClick threads . . .

But somehow between day one and today my Windows 7 64 bit system does not know that the phone is plugged into it.

When I plug the phone into USB the phone asks me how I want to interact with the computer, Kies (Firmware Update); Media player: Mass storage. But the computer shows nothing. Device Manager doesn't list the phone, Windows Explorer doesn't show the phone, Devices and Printers window shows everything that's connected but NOT the phone, it's as if I plugged nothing into the computer. These places don't even show unknown device. The phone is charging so I know that it's plugged in, but it doesn't seem to be communicating with the PC. I've re-booted, re-installed, reviewed, rewired and re-alized that I have no clue what happened. (Tried different cables, different USB ports different times of the day)

It worked once upon a time, I tried rolling back restore points and disabling my kaspersky 2011, I've followed all rooting instructions in these threads to no avail.

:confused:

Thinking about restoring phone to factory settings as a last resort. Got this reply in another thread (sorry about posting multiple threads, but I'm at wit's end.):

Try removing all instances of the Infuse coming in contact with your system using USBDeView. Also, how does it look in Disk Management? (Start button > search for "Computer Management" > Storage > Disk Management) Does the Infuse show up there as removable storage?

My answer: Tried it, didn't work, oh wait, didn't run USBDeView as administrator, re-tried as administrator and uninstalled all instances of Samsung i-997, then tried to plug the phone back in and still nothing.

Also not in Computer Management or Device manager either. Is there a way to uninstall any drivers that I have and then re-install them?

:(

I did a factory reset, plugged the phone in and still nothing. Had to spend two days re-installing apps and re-configuring launchers . . .

:mad:

I am now ready to hurl my phone out into traffic to see if that will help, but before I do I'm hoping someone here may have the answer I need.

:o

. . . please . . .