04e8:684e — Wave (GT-S8500) (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Wave (GT-S8500) manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 04e8 is registered to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 684e is the product ID that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04e8:684e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Wave (GT-S8500).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04e8:684e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Wave (GT-S8500)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04e8:684e, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04e8:684e. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04e8, idProduct=684e.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_04E8&PID_684E
USB\VID_04E8&PID_684E&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04E8&PID_684E"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Wave (GT-S8500):
      Product ID: 0x684e
      Vendor ID: 0x04e8  (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd official support →

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

04e8  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
	684e  Wave (GT-S8500)

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