Laptop doesn't recognize cell phone - what to do?

Everyone knows it: you want to connect your smartphone to the computer to move pictures and music, but the laptop just doesn't seem to recognize the cell phone. But what exactly is the reason and what can you do about it?

Laptop doesn't recognize smartphone: that's the reason

Most of the time, the problem with recognition is quite trivial and can be easily fixed. First, check the most common sources of error.

1. Check whether the smartphone is recognized by the laptop on another USB port and restart it in addition.
2. Change the cable with which you want to connect your smartphone and the laptop and try the current cable on another laptop.
3. Maybe the data transfer on the smartphone is turned off and therefore the device can not be detected.
4. To do this, you only need to switch to the settings and check in your connections whether data transfer is possible.

This is the alternative

1. Should you be in possession of an Android smartphone, you can insert an external SD card into the phone.
2. Übertragen Sie alle wichtigen Daten auf diese SD-Karte und kaufen Sie sich einen Kartenleser oder nutzen Sie den verbauten Leser in Ihrem Laptop.
3. Stecken Sie die SD-Karte ein und übertragen Sie die Daten mittels des Gerätes auf den Laptop.