Since the guide includes a lot of troubleshooting, we ask that you start with the first potential fix and move down until you find a method that works for you. With this in mind, we’ve created a collection of methods that will make your phone appear in File Explorer again. This problem has numerous potential causes and can appear on devices that never used the ADB driver. This will allow your PC to send commands to your device but has the habit of tampering with the standard MTP settings, which will cause your device to stop appearing on My computer.īut keep in mind that the ADB driver is not solely responsible for preventing your phone from showing up on PC. If you rooted your device, used it as an emulator for an Android Studio / Eclipse project or installed a new ROM on it, chances are you installed the ADB driver (Android Debug Bridge). Ideally, when you connect your Android device to a PC, Windows will immediately treat it as an MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) connection and install the necessary drivers so that it shows inside File Explorer. Unfortunately, in reality, things don’t always work as they should and your mobile device might not get detected by your PC.
