I just switched to a new Win 10x64 PC, and can't get the correct drivers to load, when I plug in my MOT Droid Mini.
I downloaded and installed "Motorola_Mobile_Drivers_v6.4.0_64bit.msi". Didn't seem to make much of a difference (though I guess it still good to have it installed).
When I plug my phone into my USB port, I notice in Device Manager, I get "Other devices" and under that is an "MTP" with a yellow "/!". I assume that is my phone.
I tried various ways of getting it to find the right driver, but it doesn't seem to be successful.
I read that a potential fix was to select "pick from list of device drivers on my computer", and do look for a category of "Portable Devices". I don't have that, or anything with a category name remotely like that. I did look at the category of "Android Devices", but those are for the ADB interface, and doesn't provide me access to my phone's memory.
Yes, I have my phone set for "Connect as a Media Device", aka MTP. That matches the "MTP" device I mentioned above.
When I open up the newly installed "Motorola Device Manager", all it seems to want to do is check if I need newer drivers, finds I don't need such, and automatically closes.
Does anyone have any ideas what to do?
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Currently I'm trying this guide:
Nook Tablet "One Click Root" + gapps ADB script
but I've been trying various guides all day. The drivers are there, debugging enabled, auto mount disabled, robot in the bottom corner but when I run ADB Devices, no dice. Anyone have any clues what the problem could be or atleast anyone else having this problem? At first I thought it might be because I was using a different USB cord but it still doesn't work even with the Nook cord
The problem you describe is almost guaranteed to be a problem on your computer and the driver installation.
For the folks here to help, they will need to know platform (PC or mac) and version of operating system.
If Windows, they will need to know how the device appears to Device manager. If it shows up as a disk drive - you will have to disconnect from the Nook side. ADB Composite should be good.
For either platform, confirm that adb_usb.ini is in the right place and modified correctly.
No, you're wrong dude above me.
OP: Run this in cmd prompt
Code:
echo 0x2080 > %username%\.android\adb_usb.ini
You need to have your nook tablet unplugged when you run that then you would see nook tablet in the device manager when you plug it back in.
Indirect said:
No, you're wrong dude above me.
OP: Run this in cmd prompt
Code:
echo 0x2080 > %username%\.android\adb_usb.ini
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"Cannot find the path specified." But I can locate the file myself in that directory??
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, device shows up as android phone>androud ADB interface.
My bad it's
Code:
echo 0x2080 > "%USERPROFILE%\.Android\adb_usb.ini
Check, still nothing in ADB, i did restart the server too. To be clear, the .ini file only has the "0x2080" line in it now, nothing else. I'm assuming that's ok because the other stuff was commented out anyway, am I right?
(thanks for your help! )
1) look in device manager now though, you need to install the drivers.
I still see it listed under android phone > android ADB interface and not mass storage or anything like that, you think that's still the problem though?
*Edit*
SUCCESS!! I uninstalled the "Android ADB Interface" and "Android Composite ADB Interface" appeared in its place!!(??) Whatever happened the device show up now. Thanks for the help and keep up the good work Indirect!
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My bad it's
Code:
echo 0x2080 > "%USERPROFILE%\.Android\adb_usb.ini
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I was having problems seeing the Nook Tablet in adb devices, but this fixed it for me.
I was having the same issue for a bit, restarted my nook and it worked haha.
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This worked for me. Hopefully it helps.
While the nook is plugged in (mine showed the 2 "Disk Drives" and 2 Drive Letters under portable devices). Open Device Manager and delete/remove the 2 disk drives called "B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device" (this should also remove the weird drive letters under portable devices). Now go to Control Panel > Advanced System Settings > Hardware Tab > then click "Device Installation Settings". Change this setting to "No, let me choose what to do", and make sure "Never install driver software from Windows Update" is checked below that.
Now unplug and replug your NT, and you should now see an Android Composite device with the "!" next to it. You should now be able to install the custom drivers described in the other posts.
Essentially it seems windows is trying to "help" you by guessing at the drivers you want to use.
If this doesn't work, you can try to remove ALL android devices using the USBDeview Application that you can find http://www.androidsim.net/2009/08/how-to-1-how-to-install-usb-driver-on.html
I used USBDeview for the removal part just because I had a Kindle fire, HTC device, samsung device, all installed and I think they were fighting a little bit. I now have results from adb devices, and dare I say ROOT!?!?!
Hope this helps some of you!
Good post - Windows Vista especially, and Windows 7 somewhat, really think they know better than the user when it comes to drivers. Especially unsigned drivers in preference to signed ones...
I found that the best way to do this for people with this problem (such as me), is to go in Device Manager, expand the USB Mass Storage Device selection, search for the USB Mass Storage device of your Nook Tablet (easiest way would be to unplug any other external hd, sd card, ... so that there is only one USB Mass Storage device). At this point, right click and update driver and select the folder manually.
tsubus said:
I found that the best way to do this for people with this problem (such as me), is to go in Device Manager, expand the USB Mass Storage Device selection, search for the USB Mass Storage device of your Nook Tablet (easiest way would be to unplug any other external hd, sd card, ... so that there is only one USB Mass Storage device). At this point, right click and update driver and select the folder manually.
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I just joined the forum to thank you! I spent hours looking for a solution and yours worked!
brices21 said:
While the nook is plugged in (mine showed the 2 "Disk Drives" and 2 Drive Letters under portable devices). Open Device Manager and delete/remove the 2 disk drives called "B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device" (this should also remove the weird drive letters under portable devices). Now go to Control Panel > Advanced System Settings > Hardware Tab > then click "Device Installation Settings". Change this setting to "No, let me choose what to do", and make sure "Never install driver software from Windows Update" is checked below that.!
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Well I am stumped here, seriously. I can't get rid of the above mentioned 2 instances of "B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device" no matter what I do. Auto mount is off on the device and the device installation setting is already set to "No, let me choose what to do." Yet every time I plug the NT in- the computer kindly tells me it's "ready for use" and those two "B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device" listings are back. At this point I'm not sure I'm ever gonna be able to get the device to show up under ADB. The computer just won't seem to let it.
Any advice anyone might on this would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
maybe try what Indirect did here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363652
The website is below what I did to completely disable Windows from installing the Nook drivers every time it is plugged in. I also had the "Never install driver software from Windows Update" checked from Brices21's post but the drivers would still install everytime it is plugged in.
xxxx = http - still a noob, can't post links
yyy = www
xxxx://yyy.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-installation-in-windows-vista/
I never actually installed the USB drivers that indirect provided, but "adb devices" still detected the NT when plugged in.
This was my whole process to get "adb devices" to detect the NT:
With the NT plugged in and device manager detecting the 2 Nook devices as drives and 2 Nook devices in "other devices" and with automount disabled and USB debugging enabled
I also ran the runmefirst.bat at some point in time previously, so the necessary files were created already
***** Pulled this from the website above******
* Go to Start–>Search type in gpedit.msc
* Click the file to open the Local Group Policy Editor and show Windows who is in control!!
* You want to go here: Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Device Installation. Click on the subfolder Device Installation on the left and on the right side you will see the possible restrictions.
* Right Click on Prevent Installation of Devices not described by other policy settings and edit this option, set it on ENABLED.
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From here the website says to reboot and set the option back to default. I did not reboot or set the option back.
* Going back into device manager, I uninstalled the drivers for the 2 Nook drive devices.
* Unplugged the NT
* Plugged the NT back in
Then I got the B&N NOOK Tablet USB Device with the broken symbol under "Other devices" in Device Manager
* Open cmd and run "abd devices" from the ntroot directory
The service should start and list the NT device as a bunch of numbers.
* From here you can run NookandZergy.bat to root the NT.
After rooting you can set the options in the gpedit.msc back to defaults.
I also tried installing the Indirect provided drivers as the USB mass storage device. Windows then detected the device as an Android ADB Composite device but "adb devices" from cmd prompt would not detect the NT. I ended up removing all of the drivers and repeating my steps to get "adb devices" to detect it again.
Hope this helps! It may not be the best solution but it was a workaround for me to get the NT rooted.
****Update*****
Just got home and tried to install the drivers and it worked this time. I was able to see the NT with "adb devices"
With the gpedit.msc edit intact, I plugged in the NT and Windows detected 2 broken Nook devices under "other devices" and a mass storage device under USB controllers.
* I uninstalled the driver for the mass storage device
* set the gpedit.msc back to "not configured"
* unplugged NT
* made sure debug mode was set and automount disabled
* plugged NT back in
Device manager showed a Mass Storage device under "Other devices"
* Update drivers for that device with the Indirect usb driver
* ran "adb devices" in cmd prompt and NT is detected.
So if there's anything to take away from my post...hopefully you can use the gpedit.msc to completely disable the autoloading of drivers.
Drivers Fixed!
Rooted! Got past driver issues (Android Composite ADB Interface appeared in Device Manager, adb still couldn't detect Nook). Thanks to all who have worked so many hours on this.
Here's what worked for me (using Windows XP 32 bit):
1. make sure "adb_ini" file contains "0x2080" and is located at "%USERPROFILE%\.android"
2. I had to manually edit my "path=" environment variable to include the above location - both in Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables and in cmd window.
3. carefully followed instructions on proper installation of drivers for "Android Composite ADB Interface". At this point, cmd window use of adb was able to detect Nook (as well as runmefirst.bat).
4. Continued with root process (i.e. NookandZergy.bat)
Hope this helps anyone still having driver issues.
Never had this issue using the trick mac method.
So, apparently I need to install a few drivers for rooting this. The one set of instructions I got is to enable USB debugging and then find a device called "ASUS Android Composite ADB Interface" with an exclamation mark in Windows Device Manager. Trouble is no such device exists. I plugged in the TFP with USB debugging!
What to do?
What version of Windows are you running? Do you have Asus sync? If so can you see the Prime as a storage device when connected via USB?
It can show up as various items depending on which driver version and the actual text string in the .inf file. Have you tried having device manager already open and watch it to see what ( if anything) changes as you connect the prime? It can appear as a device under the "android phone" heading or as other things... plug it in whilst watching device manager update, let us know what is added to the list and maybe we can help...
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Anybody else got problems with connecting to the PC with the USB cable?
What "problems" are you having?
The Windows Explorer does not start, though there is the sound when connecting the USB. Tried uninstalling the driver and letting the system reinstall upon connecting, but still cannot see Nexus 9 in Windows explorer. In Linux get the the notification and clicking on the "open with File Manager" gives a quick error message - too quick to read. So I am wondering if anyone got this problem??
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Same here
I updated my SDK files, but that didn't seem to work either. It does show up as a camera when I change from MTP, so I just started sideloading apps, files, and books to the picture folder, then using a file explorer to move them to the correct folder.
+chuckie59 So I am not alone with this problem! Have used AirDroid to copy things over.
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Mine was able to be detected at my work computer (windows 2000 in MTP mode), but it shows up as "Android" in Explorer instead of a drive letter like I'm used to with my phone.
Same for me. Only ptp working. Google USB ADB drivers instaled
mkygod said:
Mine was able to be detected at my work computer (windows 2000 in MTP mode), but it shows up as "Android" in Explorer instead of a drive letter like I'm used to with my phone.
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You'll never get it to show up as a driver letter. Android gave up on mass storage a couple of versions ago.
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If you are on W8.1 then you may have the "ACER Composite ADB Interface" - A Microsoft upgrade fault.
A search for "ACER Composite ADB Interface remove error delete" should give plenty of hits. Here's the first post from http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012/362325-nexus-7-not-recognized-computer-2.html :
Would you happen to know if any Acer drivers are installed on your computer? Here recently there was a Windows Update that installed the wrong driver and made it so that I had the exact same problems as you're having. Here's how I fixed it.
Go To> Control Panel>Hardware and Devices>Device Manager. In Device manager look for something along the lines of "ACER Composite ADB Interface", at least in my case I had the wrong ADB interface installed. You'll know if you have the wrong drivers if you go to Devices and Printers and right click your Nexus 7 and go to it's properties. It should be under the hardware tab where it lists it. If it doesn't just say Nexus 7 then follow these instructions. Once you find it in the Device Manager (once again in my case it was the ACER Composite ADB Interface causing the issue) right click and and uninstall it. There should be a dialogue box that pops up right after which will ask you if you want to delete the drivers. Check this box and proceed with the uninstall. After successfully uninstalling the drivers plug in or unlplug and plug back in your Nexus 7. It should show up now with the correct drivers installed.
Thanks, but I am on Windows 7. Driver is ClockworkMod Ver 7.0.0.1 dated 2012-08-27, which Windows reports as up to date (?). Works for PTP but not MTP.
I have had problems with other devices including the nexus 5 and nexus 10 to connect over mtp. Previously i used the nexus root toolkit which has some wizard to guide you to install proper drivers for mtp and adb. The toolkit is yet to support nexus 9 but you can still use the wizard to uninstall the old drivers and reinstall correct ones
Updating sdk. Uninstall and installing again driver did the trick for me
SORTED!! (sort of) Updated sdk and uninstalled and installed the driver again, but it did not do the trick for me. Gave up on Win7.
Instead had a go on XP. Initially everything the same. Noticed two choices of compatible hardware given: "Google Nexus ADB Interface" (the one I had installed already) and "USB Composite Device". Tried the latter one, and yes it did install. In the device manager it turns up as "Portable Device/Nexus 9" (and not as "Android Phone/Google Nexus ADB Interface" as before).
In Windows Explorer it is shown as "Nexus 9/Internal storage" with all the directories, and actually when inserting the USB I do get auto start. By the way, was having the USB debugging disabled. The driver is Microsoft dated 2006-02-22 version 5.2.5326.4762 - which is not what I would have expected. But it works!
Will try to get something similar to work on Windows 7
SORTED! Yes also Win 7 - and it was easy. Uninstalled the driver, plugged in the USB and it installed! Also got the auto start to choose action. It now turns up as "Portable Devices/Nexus 9" in the device manager and as "Nexus 9/Internal storage/etc" in Windows Explorer. The driver is now Microsoft ver 6.1.7600.16385 dated 2006-06-21. Strange. As long as it is working!
Excuse me if this has been posted before, but I've been having trouble with it (pretty new at this - the only other android I've had was a Galaxy S5 AT&T variant with a locked bootloader)
I'm on Windows 10 if it matters.
After installing the SDK and running the "adb devices" command, my results were:
List of devices attached
...and nothing more. "adb reboot bootloader" also did nothing. The phone never asked me to authorize the computer for debugging either.
The fix was to download the latest Google USB driver and install them manually.
https://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
(I can't post links yet)
Open device manager with your phone connect via USB. On mine there was an item called simply "ADB Interface" with a yellow symbol superimposed over the icon.
Extract the .zip containing the Google USB drivers (doesn't matter where). In Device manager right click "ADB Interface" and click "Update driver software..."
Click "Browse my computer for driver software"
Browse to the folder containing the drivers and click "ok"
Make sure the box marked "Include subfolders" is checked and click next.
Let the drivers instal. There should now be an entry under Android Device in Device Manager called Android Composite ADB Interface.
After doing this, check your phone and there should be a window asking you to authorize your computer for debugging. Authorize it and you're done.
Hope this helps someone do this a little faster than I did.
Man I gotta love you! thank you so much!!
I was unable to find help elsewhere, so I was recommended to come here. No rooting, hacking, reprogramming, or anything else. Just a basic connection problem.
I recently bought a new Solid-State hard drive, and re-installed Windows 7 on it. Everything is great, and it's fully updated.
My problem is that while my LG Optimus G E980 phone will charge via the USB cable, I can't "open" it in My Computer, to transfer pictures, music, etc.
I have tried downloading the driver from LG's Website (LGMobileDriver_WHQL_Ver_4.1.1), but when I run it, I get the following message:
"The Microsoft MTP driver is not found on your system. Please install Windows Media Format Feature Pack using Download Link for your media device to work correctly."
It then provided me with a link to download this. However, when I do that and run the update, I get told the update is not applicable to my computer.
Whether I try to install this update or not, it doesn't matter, because the driver installation tells me it was installed successfully. However, judging by the icon in my Taskbar with the red/white "X" and the fact that my phone still won't connect, it hasn't.
Yes, my phone is set up to ask me what I want to do when connected to the PC, and Media sync (MTP) is selected. Here's the kicker... remember, I have two hard drives. When I boot using the other hard drive, the phone connects with no problem. Same USB cable and port. Therefore, this is DEFINITELY software-related.
Is there something preventing this driver from installing? Why is the phone not installing the driver itself? Thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks.
Have you Manually installing the driver from Devices manager?
In the Device Manager locate your Android device. Then right-click on it and select "Update Driver Software".
Select "Browse my computer for driver software".
Select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
Select "Show All Devices".
Press the "Have Disk" button.
Enter the path to the Google USB driver. Normally it is located in the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver
Select "Android ADB Interface" from the list of device types.
langithitam said:
Have you Manually installing the driver from Devices manager?
Enter the path to the Google USB driver. Normally it is located in the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver
Select "Android ADB Interface" from the list of device types.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I searched, and do not have a folder called "Android".
I did, however, find a folder called "LG United Mobile Drivers", however there are about 30 different drivers in there. I picked a few, including "Lgandadb" and "Lgnetandadb", but I get told "Windows encountered a problem", and "This device cannot start (Code 10)"
Anyone?
Ok, I'll try to put it another way. When you first connect an Android phone to a PC, drivers are installed automatically. I'm willing to bet there was an error when I installed them on my new hard drive.
Are the drivers already a part of Windows? If so, perhaps I need to do a Repair of Windows?
Are they located in an Auto-Run file on the phone, and maybe I need to re-run that program?
Perhaps there's something I need to delete or flag so that my phone thinks it's the "first time" again?