what's a COM port ?? pleaseeeeeeeee

bamberbamboo

evening, trying to connect a lg phone to my pc to transfer pics and keep getting this message


Initialize connection with LG Desktop.

Synchronisation failed.

Fail to connect to the mobile phone,
Please check the COM port and connect in idle screen.
Time : 00:01 Sec


any ideas what the COM port is??

Mr_Skint_2

Communications Port, a way of communicating peripherals
with the PC via a "com port"

Need to know. go here and search com port http://whatis.techtarget.com/

bamberbamboo

thanks, but that has gone totally over my head, looked on the google didn't mean a thing, (me not to hot on pc) so if possible can anyone tell me do I have a COM port on my pc, is it like a usb port that I plug into?? I've plugged the cable into the phone and then into the USB at the front of the pc an that's when it brings up the .........

Initialize connection with LG Desktop.

Synchronisation failed.

Fail to connect to the mobile phone,
Please check the COM port and connect in idle screen.
Time : 00:01 Sec

meclive

Yes most computers have a COM port, basically its looking for the phone on the COM port instead of via USB. I presume there is a way to change this in the settings of the software you are using.

bamberbamboo

thanks for that, do you think the software would be to do with the phone or the pc??

scheming_gypsy

Did you install any software for the phone?

if so load that up and check the connections options. It should have a drop down box somewhere where you can tell it how you're planning on connecting the phone.

clayts

It's the phone software - if I remember correctly you need to select the COM port with an asterisk next to it in the pull down menu - been ages since I've used it, but that seems to ring a bell - it's on the old mothballed PC, so cannot check it presently

(Mine was an LG U8110)

Toxteth_OGrady

It's the phone software...................that seems to ring a bell

Ain't that the idea? Most phones do. LOL :rotfl:

I'll get me coat.........

:cool:

TOG

blinky

The software for the phone probably created a virtual COM port for the USB cable to the phone. However, in the phone synchronization settings it is probably set to use COM 1 or COM 2, so this needs to be changed.

m277

When connnecting your phone to your computer. You need to have your phone in standby mode i.e. the screen you get when you turn your phone on or when you're not doing anything on your phone.

bamberbamboo

hi guys, thanks for all that, but no drop down menus in LG desk top or LG manager on my pc that mention types of COM ports, really strange,