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I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and nothin

wmh9680 — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:34:44 GMT

I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and nothing works, it always fails. I am running windows 7 64 bit home and school. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

kvbarkley — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:39:14 GMT

Did you try a second USB cable?

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 21:54:33 GMT

I'm sorry, I should have said I can't get it to connect wirelessly. I don't have a usb cable yet. I'm glad I received an email saying that someone had responded. I'm on 2 other forums and I can't get it set to notify me when there has been a response. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

kvbarkley — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 23:10:04 GMT

Do you have a wifi access point (router) or are you trying to hook directly to the computer? It looks like you have to have a network access point you cannot make an ad hoc connection to the computer.

Apple or Windows?

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:07:19 GMT

Yes, Im trying to connect wirelessly (I bought the camera so I could do that). I've followed all the instructions in the book and different ways at

http://www.canon.ca/support_images/wifits/pdf/PS-Sending-images-to-a-computer-Wi-Fi-function.pdf online and it always failed. When it says on the access point hold down the WPS connection button for a few seconds I push the wireless button on the front of my ATT 3801HGV gateway and it thinks for a while and eventually fails. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

kvbarkley — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:45:10 GMT

Sounds like you are doing it right. Did you try the alternate connection method?

You might want to call Canon.

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:59:26 GMT

I've tried everyway I can and it always failed. I just connected the camera with a usb cable and the drivers were installed and the camera shows up in my computer but not when I unplug it. Sometimes when it is searching it finds the computer but still fails. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:02:37 GMT

When I turn the camera on while plugged in it comes on for a second and then goes blank. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:45:07 GMT

The usb cable I have does not have the round cylinder (for lack of a better term this early in the am) like this one ([link removed per forum guidelines]). It is just a round cable. Do you need the other cable to charge and dl pics. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

Waddizzle — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:51:58 GMT

@wmh9680 wrote:
The usb cable I have does not have the round cylinder (for lack of a better term this early in the am) like this one (http://www.marttree.com/canon-powershot-elph-190-is-computer-cable.html). It is just a round cable. Do you need the other cable to charge and dl pics. Thanks, Mike

The round cylinder that you are referring to is a balun, which is an electronic device to reduce noise on data lines. The lack of a balun strongly suggests that the particular cable either does not have data lines, or susceptible to external noise on its' data lines.

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:20:16 GMT

If I use the cable to transfer pics do I need a balun and does the one without it also charge? I'm learning more every day. Now if I could just get my camera connected wirelessly. Thanks, Mike

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

Waddizzle — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:51:16 GMT

@wmh9680 wrote:
If I use the cable to transfer pics do I need a balun and does the one without it also charge? I'm learning more every day. Now if I could just get my camera connected wirelessly. Thanks, Mike

I have no idea. Instead of looking for the cheapest cable that you can find, buy a quality, low noise cable. Problem solved.

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

kvbarkley — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:24:22 GMT

No you don't need one. I have several cables without them that work fine.

And it is not a Balun, it is a Ferrite bead

A balun is an impdedance matching transformer that converts a *balanced* signal (+/- to ground) to *unbalanced* ( a signal with a + and a ground).

Re: I just purchase an ELPH 190IS and I've tried everything to get it to connect to my laptop and no

wmh9680 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 03:10:19 GMT

Thanks everyone, I stumbled across this Cano youtube video that made the wireless connection easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xcwUAVdpCg canon youtube wireless 190 setup windows device.

It had an extra step I did not see anywhere else.

Thanks again everyone

Mike