950 xl not visible on windows 10 PC

  • Thread starter Windows Central Question
  • Start date
W

Windows Central Question

It used to be that when I plugged my phone in to the PC it would appear in file manager and I could drag and drop files.

Now it doesn't appear.

In device manager it appears under portable devices as an MTP USB device (although it used to appear as a Lumia or a windows phone) and under USB it appears 3 times as a lumia.

In both areas of device manager it shows no problems.

Under portable devices I can't uninstal/ update driver etc the boxes are greyed out.

Under the USB section I can uninstall and I've tried this several times but it doesn't help even if I tick the check box to uninstall the software.
 

Chintan Gohel

Active member
May 23, 2014
10,785
1
36
Visit site
It used to be that when I plugged my phone in to the PC it would appear in file manager and I could drag and drop files.

Now it doesn't appear.

In device manager it appears under portable devices as an MTP USB device (although it used to appear as a Lumia or a windows phone) and under USB it appears 3 times as a lumia.

In both areas of device manager it shows no problems.

Under portable devices I can't uninstal/ update driver etc the boxes are greyed out.

Under the USB section I can uninstall and I've tried this several times but it doesn't help even if I tick the check box to uninstall the software.

did you recently update the phone or pc or both? That might have caused something to go wrong

For now, try a soft reset (restart) for both pc and phone and then check again

If you need additional help or have more questions or details to share, please join the site so you can reply in this thread. See this link for instructions on how to join Windows Central.
 

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
327,308
Messages
2,249,773
Members
428,614
Latest member
ldeveraux