iPhone Forums - View Single Post - Windows recognizes iphone as a digital camera

Hawk · 06-24-2009, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by rslygh

Not sure if you ever got this resolved, but I just had a user with the same type of problem and was able to fix it. Since yours is a jailbroken phone I'm not sure if that is causing your problem since the one I was able to fix is a legit AT&T phone, but it might be worth a try since it's not listed here. I just posted a blog entry for this too in case anyone is interested, you can find it here: http://techierambles.blogspot.com/20...n-windows.html.

Connect the phone to the computer, then go into Device Manager. Go down and expand USB Controllers, then right-click on Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and choose Update Driver. Select to install automatically, then let it do its thing.

The setup this worked for was an iPhone 3G (AT&T), iTunes 8.2, and XP Pro SP3. Until I did this, the iPhone kept showing up as just a digital camera, and iTunes would give an error saying it found an iPhone but wasn't able to recognize it correctly. That went away as soon as the driver was updated. Good luck!

The iPhone is always going to show as a digital camera, because part of it IS one. I already listed the pre-3.0 and iTunes 8.2 fix on the first page.

Plus it showing as a camera is going to be one if the ways 3Gs users are going to be able to download any video they record.

06-24-2009, 09:07 PM	#12 (permalink)
Hawk Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Posts: 3,561 Thanks: 137 Thanked 182 Times in 143 Posts	Originally Posted by rslygh Not sure if you ever got this resolved, but I just had a user with the same type of problem and was able to fix it. Since yours is a jailbroken phone I'm not sure if that is causing your problem since the one I was able to fix is a legit AT&T phone, but it might be worth a try since it's not listed here. I just posted a blog entry for this too in case anyone is interested, you can find it here: http://techierambles.blogspot.com/20...n-windows.html. Connect the phone to the computer, then go into Device Manager. Go down and expand USB Controllers, then right-click on Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and choose Update Driver. Select to install automatically, then let it do its thing. The setup this worked for was an iPhone 3G (AT&T), iTunes 8.2, and XP Pro SP3. Until I did this, the iPhone kept showing up as just a digital camera, and iTunes would give an error saying it found an iPhone but wasn't able to recognize it correctly. That went away as soon as the driver was updated. Good luck! The iPhone is always going to show as a digital camera, because part of it IS one. I already listed the pre-3.0 and iTunes 8.2 fix on the first page. Plus it showing as a camera is going to be one if the ways 3Gs users are going to be able to download any video they record. __________________ Hawk Pettengill I gotta White 3G 16GB iPhone.