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[Q] HTC Desire S and Windows 8

Hi all,
I am trying to upgrade my HTC Desire S to Android 4.0 via the official ICS update from HTC. However, I cannot get my laptop (Windows 8) to interact with my phone.
If I mount the SD card then I can view the contents but HTC sync won't find the phone and in 'Device Manager' the phone is labelled as "Android Phone" with the yellow warning triangle next to it. I have tried to download drivers but can't seem to get them working. Whether that is my fault or the laptops fault I am unsure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
benandrews54

Search for Windows 8 drivers in the main Android Development thread of XDA. I would have give you a link but it is hard via Tapatalk. I have 2 Windows 8 machines and it works perfect on both of them
Sent from my HTC Desire S

Cheers, I'll have a look now and let you know if it works or not.

benandrews54 said:
Hi all,
I am trying to upgrade my HTC Desire S to Android 4.0 via the official ICS update from HTC. However, I cannot get my laptop (Windows 8) to interact with my phone.
If I mount the SD card then I can view the contents but HTC sync won't find the phone and in 'Device Manager' the phone is labelled as "Android Phone" with the yellow warning triangle next to it. I have tried to download drivers but can't seem to get them working. Whether that is my fault or the laptops fault I am unsure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
benandrews54
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HTC drivers are not yet compatible with win 8, I was having the same problem you shud use older version of windows.
with out the drivers sync cannot access the phone
When win 8 is officially released; HTC will release a compatible driver
This might work try once
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775870

I found a fix for this... Follow these steps here:
http://*******/FeT5J
Then install your drivers like normal.
Let me know if this helped!

alexander7567 said:
I found a fix for this... http://*******/FeT5J Let me know if this helped!
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That link is dead.

Searched and found multiple 'fixes' but none of them work for me.
Tried:
Restarting Windows 8 into "Disable driver signature enforcement" mode but HTC drivers still terminate as "not compatible with this version of Windows". cant post link, search "Installing Fastboot/ADB drivers in Windows 8"
Installing drivers via device manager but "Windows was unable to install your Android phone".
DL and installed full SDK but 'SDK Manager.exe' flashes up and closes with no further notice when trying to run.
Despite post count I'm not a noob, I am however starting to feel like one! I thought I knew what I was doing but I just can't find compatible drivers to get Windows 8 to recognise my Android so I can run ADB and Fastboot.
Appreciate some have no issues (and that's wonderful for you) but this is driving me crazy! Can someone please post a link to USB drivers that work with Windows 8 x64 and the Desire S.

olidroid said:
Searched and found multiple 'fixes' but none of them work for me.
Tried:
Restarting Windows 8 into "Disable driver signature enforcement" mode but HTC drivers still terminate as "not compatible with this version of Windows". cant post link, search "Installing Fastboot/ADB drivers in Windows 8"
Installing drivers via device manager but "Windows was unable to install your Android phone".
DL and installed full SDK but 'SDK Manager.exe' flashes up and closes with no further notice when trying to run.
Despite post count I'm not a noob, I am however starting to feel like one! I thought I knew what I was doing but I just can't find compatible drivers to get Windows 8 to recognise my Android so I can run ADB and Fastboot.
Appreciate some have no issues (and that's wonderful for you) but this is driving me crazy! Can someone please post a link to USB drivers that work with Windows 8 x64 and the Desire S.
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I have managed to use adb and fastboot with the SDK only without any additional drivers. Try to run it in compatibility mode
Sent from my HTC Desire S

amidabuddha said:
I have managed to use adb and fastboot with the SDK only without any additional drivers. Try to run it in compatibility mode.
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Thanks, I tried that under both XP and 7 mode to no joy. It's not just this one PC, I can't get it to work on any of my (3) Win 8 machines!
For the SDK, I dl and unzipped the (almost 400Mb package) with WinRAR. With Java install, Elaipse works fine but I cannot get 'SDK Manager.exe' to run. I tried to run from both GUI and CLI but not even an error message.
Device Manager still shows exclamation mark under 'Android Device'.
I even tried to run the HTC Sync Tool but this failed at the USB driver stage. Nothing seems to work
Very frustrating as I have a custom ROM which keeps powering down randomly so I need a reload very soon.

Edit reread the whole post

I was having a lot of trouble with windows 8 x64 and jugg1es pointed me to the guide posted by .blAcK. Worked perfectly for me. Tried it on 2 different PC's. I'm not sure why it's not working for you though. I used the x64 files posted by the author of the guide.

benandrews54 said:
Hi all,
I am trying to upgrade my HTC Desire S to Android 4.0 via the official ICS update from HTC. However, I cannot get my laptop (Windows 8) to interact with my phone.
If I mount the SD card then I can view the contents but HTC sync won't find the phone and in 'Device Manager' the phone is labelled as "Android Phone" with the yellow warning triangle next to it. I have tried to download drivers but can't seem to get them working. Whether that is my fault or the laptops fault I am unsure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
benandrews54
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There is no problem with windows 8 and ADB or HTC desire S connention problem, since this post is from 2012, if you have that problem again , let me know to write back step by step tutorial.

azithro said:
There is no problem with windows 8 and ADB or HTC desire S connention problem, since this post is from 2012, if you have that problem again , let me know to write back step by step tutorial.
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Dude - do you have a problem? Now you're necro-posting old threads for absolutely no reason at all

SimonTS said:
Dude - do you have a problem? Now you're necro-posting old threads for absolutely no reason at all
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Hey Simon, wasup dude, Just trying to help some one, in my free time.
Dude why you chase me ?

There isn't a need to revive dead thread. Visit the ot if you're bored.
From my DesireDS

[Q] Help root on 2.20 plz

hi i recently bought a htc one x from att and i want to root it.. so i downloaded everything and i ran the .bat file so far everything went ok but when i pres enter or any key while it rebooted to fastboot i get stuck all it says is waiting for device please help me i need to root

install the correct drivers for your operating system.

mbh87 said:
install the correct drivers for your operating system.
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i have already done so from the begining btw im on windows 8... i installed 32bit

if it's stuck on waiting for device then the drivers for fastboot aren't installed.

mbh87 said:
if it's stuck on waiting for device then the drivers for fastboot aren't installed.
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Try running the latest version of HTC Sync (installer). This will usually ensure you have the latest drivers installed. Another thing to consider is that some of these drivers may not be tested on Windows 8, so you may have to do this on a Windows 7 computer. Just throwing some thoughts out there

Ahhh... Another windows 8 user....
Win8 has a problem with drivers. You won't be able to root your phone with Win8. You'll have to dual boot/liveCD Ubuntu, get rid of windows8 crap and install Windows 7. Then you'll be able to root your phone no problem.
For future use of fastboot drivers, I would say that if you like Win8 then dual boot with Ubuntu and use Ubuntu to root and what not on your phone. If you don't like Win8( which I hope you don't), then go find a copy of Win7 and get rid of the crap you already have(win8). If you don't have the money for a $75 copy of Win7, dual boot Ubuntu.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

Fastboot doesn't work on Windows 8.1

So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.

Theshawty said:
So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.
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I have been trying to get it recognized in fastboot for pas four hours without any luck.. Prior to this, I also had W8 with working fastboot and now I get the same error as well. I tried numerous times, even uninstalled all my drivers (except for display and mouse) to do a clean driver reinstall, but without luck :/

Theshawty said:
So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.
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rs70 said:
I have been trying to get it recognized in fastboot for pas four hours without any luck.. Prior to this, I also had W8 with working fastboot and now I get the same error as well. I tried numerous times, even uninstalled all my drivers (except for display and mouse) to do a clean driver reinstall, but without luck :/
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Hi, can you guys try this method if you still in windows 8.1???
I personally having a samsung phone and I also having this problem after upgraded to windows 8.1 but now I'm back to windows 8 so I just cannot test it. After test please report back the results to me and I really hope it works. Thanks~
By the way, can you guys tell me your phone model???

DreamerTKM said:
Hi, can you guys try this method if you still in windows 8.1???
I personally having a samsung phone and I also having this problem after upgraded to windows 8.1 but now I'm back to windows 8 so I just cannot test it. After test please report back the results to me and I really hope it works. Thanks~
By the way, can you guys tell me your phone model???
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Well, I tried something similar, but whenever I uninstalled the usb port from device manager, it reinstalled back and reported that the device is not recognized..
I've got HTC One and its drivers don't work on 8.1. However, I installed HTC drivers (by installing and uninstalling HTC Sync Manager - possibly the lamest method that exists) on Vista and it instantly recognized the phone. So the five hours on 8.1 could have been saved by spending circa 3 minutes on Vista.
But on some forum somebody mentioned that you can use live CD of linux and it will get recognized easily

rs70 said:
Well, I tried something similar, but whenever I uninstalled the usb port from device manager, it reinstalled back and reported that the device is not recognized..
I've got HTC One and its drivers don't work on 8.1. However, I installed HTC drivers (by installing and uninstalling HTC Sync Manager - possibly the lamest method that exists) on Vista and it instantly recognized the phone. So the five hours on 8.1 could have been saved by spending circa 3 minutes on Vista.
But on some forum somebody mentioned that you can use live CD of linux and it will get recognized easily
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Thanks for your fast reply. Seems that even Microsoft is providing free update for windows 8 but a phone that unable to flash by using bootloader is kinda useless for unofficial ROM users like us.
I have something don't understand from your post. You mentioned that install and uninstall the sync manager on Vista but why not back to 8? The drivers will work on 8 right? I formatted my computer back to 8 and now finally the windows recognize back my phone.
Other than that, do you still have the link to the live CD forum??

DreamerTKM said:
Thanks for your fast reply. Seems that even Microsoft is providing free update for windows 8 but a phone that unable to flash by using bootloader is kinda useless for unofficial ROM users like us.
I have something don't understand from your post. You mentioned that install and uninstall the sync manager on Vista but why not back to 8? The drivers will work on 8 right? I formatted my computer back to 8 and now finally the windows recognize back my phone.
Other than that, do you still have the link to the live CD forum??
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Well, my primary PC is my laptop with 8.1, but I've got desktop as well with dual-booting Vista and 8.1 and it is way faster to do it on vista, than to partition HDD and install Windows 8. Also I'm not dev or some tinkerer, so I don't need to use fastboot that often.
To answer the second question, I closed all tabs regarding the drivers on 8.1 as soon as I did what I needed on Vista, so I'm afraid I don't have the link. I could probably find it somehow using my internet history, but I spent several hours browsing various forums, so it would take me an eternity...

Hard Brick Oneplus One Windows 8.1 x64bit

I have problem with my OPO.
I try to install TWRP 2.8.6.0 but after that my phone doesn't boot. Nothing work. I hold power button for 2 minutes and nothing.
I do everything like in this guide but it doesn't work. http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732
I connect my bricked phone and Windows see it "other devices- unknown device"
I done cmd commands, update driver, select Qualcomm 2012/widnows8/qcmdm/ QDLoader 9008 and after that I have error " Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. This device cennot start(Code 10)"
And it is my problem. I stopped at point 2b in the Guide becouse I can't install drivers.
here is video of that. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9...G8tbnNES2VZWG8
Please fast help, becouse I really need this phone next weekend.

Please, can someone help me?

Rebeluch said:
Please, can someone help me?
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when i bricked my oneplus one, i had similar issues. I had to reinstall windows in order to make it work.

hellcat50 said:
when i bricked my oneplus one, i had similar issues. I had to reinstall windows in order to make it work.
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Do you pluged phone into USB port and computer can't see it?
Do you reinstalled system to Windows XP?

Rebeluch said:
Do you pluged phone into USB port and computer can't see it?
Do you reinstalled system to Windows XP?
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I used windows 8.1
reinstalled windows 8.1 on a new partition
It's now a long time ago so i can't quite remember what problem exactly i had, but I know that it didn't worked and i reinstalled windows and it worked.
Actually one month after I bought my oneplus one i bricked it

have u tried disable windows driver signature enforcement? becoz after windows 7, driver that doesnt have digital signature are not installed unless u disable the enforcement

MrxSiN said:
have u tried disable windows driver signature enforcement? becoz after windows 7, driver that doesnt have digital signature are not installed unless u disable the enforcement
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Yes, I do this in Advanced restart options and click F7. And windows still can't see phone.

MTP Issue

Whenever I connect my phone to usb an error is displayed on screen. Please see the screenshot. I have a dual boot pc with ubuntu 17.04 and windows xp. The error occurs on both os. In xp the driver is not installed and an error is displayed stating the specified service doesnot exist. I have tried changing cables and ports but still the same. My phone is unlocked exynos version with android 7 installed.

sixline said:
Whenever I connect my phone to usb an error is displayed on screen. Please see the screenshot. I have a dual boot pc with ubuntu 17.04 and windows xp. The error occurs on both os. In xp the driver is not installed and an error is displayed stating the specified service doesnot exist. I have tried changing cables and ports but still the same. My phone is unlocked exynos version with android 7 installed.
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Install Windows 7 or newer

*Detection* said:
Install Windows 7 or newer
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Dear, this is also happening on linux which is my primary os. I dont want to install windows 7. Please avoid such answer to anybody as this is not a solution.

sixline said:
Dear, this is also happening on linux which is my primary os. I dont want to install windows 7. Please avoid such answer to anybody as this is not a solution.
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It's happening because there is no driver, install 7 or newer, and don't call me dear

*Detection* said:
It's happening because there is no driver, install 7 or newer, and don't call me dear
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Ok Mr. Detection but you fail to understand that its also not working on linux which is my primary os.