GoPro Camera is not recognized when plugged into USB Port

GoPro is a popular small-sized photographic camera used mainly for adventure photography. GoPro camera is widely used for its versatility and tin can exist mounted anywhere. If y'all have a bunch of GoPro footages on your camera which you want to view, edit and share it with your friends, yous need to first transfer it to the computer. Yet, in that location might exist a case wherein the figurer may fail to detect the photographic camera when y'all connect the GoPro camera via USB.

GoPro camera is non recognized when plugged into USB Port

When you connect your camera to a reckoner using USB cable, the system sometimes fails to recognize your camera and throws an mistake message. Even if the photographic camera is recognized by your computer, information technology may fail to show files that you desire to import from the photographic camera to the figurer. Fortunately, there are few troubleshooting ideas that might aid you fix the problem.

The post-obit solution might help to resolve the issue

Check the cable connexion
Run the troubleshooter for Hardware and Devices
Supervene upon USB cable
Connect the camera to a different USB port
Reinstall drivers for USB controllers
Change the USB Root Hub Backdrop
Bank check the compatibility of SD bill of fare with a computer

In this article, we step yous through all the solutions that might help you to fix the effect.

1] Check the cable connection

If your system fails to recognize the camera when plugged with a USB cable, beginning and foremost thing you accept to do is to check if there is a loose connectedness anywhere. Reinsert the USB cable into computer and camera such that both the USB ends are securely inserted. To ensure proper connexion to the computer, make sure that your photographic camera is powered on and displays the USB symbol on the GoPro's LCD screen. If the trouble persists, restart the system and reconnect the USB cablevision into a photographic camera and estimator. If reinserting the USB cable doesn't resolve the issue, go along reading further as the trouble could be something else.

ii] Run the troubleshooter for Hardware and Devices

Connect your GoPro camera to the computer. Navigate to Settings and select Update and Security.

Select Troubleshoot and Navigate to Hardware and Devices from the bill of fare.

Click Run the troubleshooter button.

If the arrangement detects bug, Click Apply this Fix to resolve the issue.

3] Supplant the USB cable

When y'all connect your camera to the computer, using a GoPro USB cable, make sure that you see USB logo on the front display of a camera. If yous are not able to encounter a USB logo, try connecting your GoPro camera to the reckoner using a different USB cable.

four] Connect the photographic camera to a dissimilar USB port

If y'all don't run into GoPro files in the GoPro app of your computer, try connecting your camera's USB cable to another USB port. Sometimes its quite possible that your organization won't recognize USB port if in that location is a hardware problem associated with that USB port. If plugging the camera to an alternative USB port recognizes your camera and so it should be the problem with your system'south USB slot.

5] Reinstall the drivers for USB controllers

Open Control Panel and navigate to Device Director
Select and expand Universal Serial Charabanc controllers
Correct click on each USB controllers and click Uninstall Device from the menu.

In one case done, restart Windows to reinstall all the driver's controllers

6] Change USB Root hub Properties

Open Control Panel and navigate to Device Director.

Expand Universal Serial Motorbus Controllers

Right-click on USB Root Hub and select Backdrop from the drop-downwardly carte.

In the USB Root Hub Properties window, Navigate to Power Direction

Uncheck the option Permit the computer to turn off this device to save ability.

GoPro camera is not recognized when plugged into USB Port

Click OK to apply the changes and restart the computer.

7] Bank check the compatibility of SD carte du jour with a computer

When y'all connect your photographic camera to the computer via USB cablevision, brand sure that you accept an SD carte inserted into the photographic camera for the reckoner to recognize the connection. If the higher up solutions don't help to resolve the problem, so there might be bug related to the compatibility of SD card with computer. Endeavor using a different SD card reader or a separate SD carte slot to connect with computer. If this doesn't help, backup all your files from the reader and reformat the SD card to come across if this helps your computer to recognize the photographic camera.

If you have no luck with any of the above solutions then at that place is a possibility of mistake with the camera itself.

Related read: Camera is not recognized on GoPro's Quik app for desktop.