My Windows Computer Doesn’t Recognize My Android Phone | Detailed Fix

It can be very frustrating when your Android device doesn’t get recognized when trying to connect using a USB data cable. You might have been in an emergency when you wanted to transfer some files from your phone to your PC or laptop, but you couldn’t because the File transfer is not working. This is a massive problem where your computer doesn’t recognize your Android phone.

The issue could be because of various reasons. Maybe the cable is damaged. So I would suggest you try another USB port on your device before doing anything serious. You can also check with another USB data cable to rule out the possibilities of the cable or the port not working. Once you do that, you can try out our solutions to get the problem solved.

My Windows Computer doesn’t recognize my Android Phone

If you did not know already, there are multiple version of Windows available and not all of them supports Android MTP by default. For instance, there is Windows 10 Pro N which doesn’t have any support for media devices or media playback out of the box. So you cannot find driver support for your MTP or PTP device, through which you will be connecting your android phone to your Windows computer. Additionally, you cannot find the Windows media player or Videos & Movies application installed on your system.

Method 1: Add media support for Windows version:

Thankfully Microsoft has given away to add Media playback and Media device support for the N version of Windows through feature pack installation. So here’s how you can do it.