Help - Old Phone won't connect to PC

[MegaScientifical]

I forgeted up my USB last week when connecting and disconnecting my phone to it too quickly, and after finally fixing that, my phone now has an old problem which had previously fixed itself at random, so I can't fix it again. When I connect it, the menu about being connected to a PC flashes for a second and then disappears. The phone charges off the PC, but trying USB Mass Storage only returns "CONNECT CABLE TO PC." I have tried installing new drivers, restarting my PC and phone, removing the phone battery. forget this is annoying.

I still have this phone: http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SCH-U450TBAVZW

I couldn't even find this stuff in the search - it is that old and pushed back. The two newer Intensitys got top billing.

Any ideas?

Edit: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/supportOwnersHowToGuidePopup.do?howto_guide_seq=3204&howto_guide_step_no=1&prd_ia_cd=N0000006&map_seq=16332&page_gb=M

Did I damage it? Because it used to have this problem before, and it came out of it somehow.

Edit: Turns out my USB is still broken.

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[Tertahedron]

Take it to your Carrier's store and ask them.

Just a heads up, Verizon's stores is slow and useless

[Moppy]

Should have gotten a Nokia.

[MegaScientifical]

Take it to your Carrier's store and ask them.

Just a heads up, Verizon's stores is slow and useless

I think this can be fixed without asking people at a store if they know anything about an ancient ancestor of their current phones.

[devildogelite]

I think this can be fixed without asking people at a store if they know anything about an ancient ancestor of their current phones.

Maybe if you weren't so afraid of human interaction it wouldn't be a hassle

[MegaScientifical]

Uh, this seems like a technical problem fixable locally, and again this is about an extremely old model of phone with a unique problem a store person probably wouldn't know stuff about.

[KoopaScooper]

Have you tried a mount debug? Pretty much it's where you try mounting the block device from a terminal and seeing what errors come up.

[MegaScientifical]

False.

[MegaScientifical]

Have you tried a mount debug? Pretty much it's where you try mounting the block device from a terminal and seeing what errors come up.

What is it? It sounds... out of the ordinary fot someone at home - more technical shop or something.

[KoopaScooper]

What is it? It sounds... out of the ordinary for someone at home - more technical shop or something.

It's linux, so it's not really technical shop but it's not an ordinary user thing either. Pretty much you just plug in the device, run "fdisk -l" and look to see if the device is in that list. If it's not, chances are it's dead. If it is, run "mount /dev/sdx# /mnt", where sdx# corresponds to the device partition (example being sda5.) If it mounts, the device is fine. If otherwise, something's wrong with the device.

[MegaScientifical]

But I have Windows 7 64-Bit. Is there/what's an equivalent?

[MegaScientifical]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882017
http://androidforums.com/samsung-moment/75855-usb-not-working-will-charge-phone-but-will-not-mount-ask-mount-etc.html

When I click "USB Mass Storage" on my phone, my computer makes the "Device connected" noise, immediately followed by the "Device disconnected" noise. My phone charges off the USB, but there's some disconnect between my computer and phone which I can't figure out.