Help My S3 does not show up as drives in Windows Explorer

[bobb050]

I am new to the S3. On my old Android phone, my phone and SD card showed up as two more drives on my computer. With this phone, I can not access the drives directly. I have to click on the phone at the bottom of the list then I can not show thumbnails. How do I get the phone and SD card to show up as drives? I'm betting this is going to be simple...

Thanks for any help offered!

Bob

 

[legalkill]

shows up as a device like a camera or mp3 player. Look in the portable device section.

You are right the thumbnails do not work on media player types.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...mbnails-wont-display-s3-jpegs-what-gives.html

 

[GTWalling]

Try the app named AirDroid from Google Play. When you run it, it will give you a web address for your browser. It works great.
>AirDroid<
Also try out >MyPhoneExplorer< and for the PC >MyPhoneExplorer<, both are needed.

 

[tewen]

Had the same issue, just found this:
sigh, can not post links - remove the spaces
www . samsung . com / us / support / owners / product / SCH-I535MBBVZW

Device(Install),USB Driver (Software) (ver.v1.5.14.0)
Win XP/Vista/Win 7/Win 8
Nov 9, 2012
ENGLISH
23.06 MB

Just installed it and I can now access my phone through Windows drive interface.

Makes me wonder at some of the previous answers to this - it can hardly be an unknown issue. I guess some folks just like to appear like they know what they are talking about, even when it makes them provably wrong.