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USB Driver Issues

Has anyone else using XP had any issues installing the USB Driver for the Magic? I've tried every possible method to get it to work and it just will not install. A method that appears to work for some is in this link-
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09692.html
Although this did not work for me. There was also a suggestion of copying the inf file and renaming certain strings by one digit. Any suggestions?

I used the latest SDK with the included driver. Set the environment paths. Nobody has any other suggestions?

renaming the inf file solve the prob for me.

radonsg said:
renaming the inf file solve the prob for me.
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What did you rename it to? I renamed it to android_usb_Magic.inf like the linked post said.

Hi Gimpeh
This worked perfectly for me. The issue was once it installed the Windows drivers there was no way back. However, follow this
So you plugged your Android phone into your Windows machine having forgotten to switch on USB debugging…
Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging
Then Windows detected your device as a USB-Mass storage device and won’t change the settings, regardless of how many times you uninstalled the device. Thread on it here.
This solution worked for me and didn’t require editing the registry settings (I don’t know if the reboot is unnecessary).
(1) Plugin phone
(2) Uninstall any drivers that mention “HTC Android Mobile USB Device”
(3) Unplug phone and restart
(4) Install and run USBDeview
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
(5) Using USBDeview find the Android device (for some reason Windows hides uninstalled drivers instead of deleting them), right click on it and uninstall.
(6) Follow the official instructions to the letter this time.
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html
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http://blog.zedray.com/2009/06/16/when-adb-won’t-detect-your-android-phone…/
Good luck!

This is pretty close to the instructions I followed earlier. No resolution. All HTC device drivers have been removed. Although there is a composite USB device installed (not labeled HTC). I know sometimes if windows does not recognize a device it will show it as a composite.

Install HTC Hotsync - http://www.htc.com/sea/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=573&news_id=169
Have your phone plugged in first then install the app. You don't need the additional drivers it list. Just the Hotsync program.
That did the trick for me.

edit the inf file under the x86 folder inside the usb driver.
replace the vid_0bb4&pid_0c02 with vid_0bb4&pid_0c03
cos somehow my htc is recongnise as vid_0bb4&pid_0c03 instead of vid_0bb4&pid_0c02.

Hotsync didn't work and neither did replacing the string from 02 to 03. I got it to recognize at work on a Vista machine but since then it will not recognize on my home XP or any other Vista machine. When I select Have Disk and select the INF file it says something to the effect of There is no driver information for this device.
Additional Note: Although the device was recognized on that one vista machine, it would not recognize when it was in HBOOT mode.

try to search your registery using the string "vid_0bb4&pid_0c0"
and c wat is your system detecting it as and edit the inf accordingly.

radonsg said:
try to search your registery using the string "vid_0bb4&pid_0c0"
and c wat is your system detecting it as and edit the inf accordingly.
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CTRL+F Put in that key and found nothing.

I also have the same problem, just with Vista. Happened after I plugged in the phone the first time without the USB dev debug enabled. I tried a lot of things such as the mentioned USBDeview software and so on. None of the methods have worked. So I am using my Linux laptop to do stuff on the phone.
I guess the only sollution is to reinstall the OS, Windows is very strange a lot of times.

Cheesebaron said:
I also have the same problem, just with Vista. Happened after I plugged in the phone the first time without the USB dev debug enabled. I tried a lot of things such as the mentioned USBDeview software and so on. None of the methods have worked. So I am using my Linux laptop to do stuff on the phone.
I guess the only sollution is to reinstall the OS, Windows is very strange a lot of times.
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How would you go about flashing the recovery.img in Ubuntu. I didn't see any drivers for linux.

Driver
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r2/index.html
Additional work for linux(add rules)
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html

I finally figured the damn thing out. For some reason windows recognized the ION as a Video device and installed it as such. I figured it out after I got irritated and just uninstalled everything that wasen't plugged in.

woa.
TT is strange. Which version of windows? vista or xp?

Its XP Home on a HP Mini. I'm glad I finally have it figured out. I've probably spent 20 hours on this issue alone. I even went to Ubuntu since Windows was being...well windows.

no tethering windows Xp

just tried tethering my nexus s to my work desk top to be "off grid" but i'm having issues.
I cant for the life of me tether the NS to the computer (running windows xp -32bit).
i was able to do this fine on the n1, but no go on the nexus. the computer just doesn't recognize it.
I've down loaded the tetherxp.inf file, but when point the setupwizard to it, it can't find it.
wth??????
then i start doing to research and read that the NS tethering isn't supported by window xp?? just win7, win vista and linux???
is this true???
what have you guys been experiencing?

predation said:
just tried tethering my nexus s to my work desk top to be "off grid" but i'm having issues.
I cant for the life of me tether the NS to the computer (running windows xp -32bit).
i was able to do this fine on the n1, but no go on the nexus. the computer just doesn't recognize it.
I've down loaded the tetherxp.inf file, but when point the setupwizard to it, it can't find it.
wth??????
then i start doing to research and read that the NS tethering isn't supported by window xp?? just win7, win vista and linux???
is this true???
what have you guys been experiencing?
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download, unrar and just point it at the USB driver folder and not the subfolder
http://rapidshare.com/files/441850739/usb_driver.rar

thanks slow.
can you explain how the file you linked is different from the tetherxp.inf file???

predation said:
thanks slow.
can you explain how the file you linked is different from the tetherxp.inf file???
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honestly i havve zero clue, i just know that the folder i uploaded is right off my SDK

Can you tether through USB with xp computer with activesync installed?

mingkee said:
Can you tether through USB with xp computer with activesync installed?
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there is no active sync for android phone
active sync is a microsoft to windows phones only protocol

still no go on the usb tethering.
i'm updating the driver via device manager and pointing it towards the unzipped file recommended.
am i doing something wrong here?

predation said:
still no go on the usb tethering.
i'm updating the driver via device manager and pointing it towards the unzipped file recommended.
am i doing something wrong here?
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unplug device, uninstall device from device manager plug back in and when it asks to install, point it at the usb driver folder

slowz3r said:
unplug device, uninstall device from device manager plug back in and when it asks to install, point it at the usb driver folder
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arg. just did that.
didn't help. oi!!!
still getting the "the hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software" pop up.
i'm giving up on this.
the tether function is "on" on the phone, but my comp doesn't recognize the connection in the network settings.
sucks as i'm trying this on a fresh XP os installed notebook. so i don't know what could be causing this... (yess all updates have been updated)...
slowz, you're able to tether with your NS to xp?

predation said:
arg. just did that.
didn't help. oi!!!
i'm giving up on this.
the tether function is "on" on the phone, but my comp doesn't recognize the connection in the network settings.
sucks as i'm trying this on a fresh XP os installed notebook. so i don't know what could be causing this... (yess all updates have been updated)...
slowz, you're able to tether with your NS to xp?
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I dont seem to have any problems with it, ...try uninstalling anything associated with as a NS driver

me getting the nexus s on a subsidized price shouldn't matter no?

predation said:
me getting the nexus s on a subsidized price shouldn't matter no?
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nope not at all....

thanks for the help slowzer.
when i get home, i'm going to try this on my laptop.
Let's see what happens and i'll post back later.

predation said:
thanks for the help slowzer.
when i get home, i'm going to try this on my laptop.
Let's see what happens and i'll post back later.
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no problemo

This definitely isn't working with Windows XP.
This worked fine with my Nexus One. I had to install tetherxp.inf for it to work.
With the Nexus S, I removed all devices, uninstalled the drivers and started from scratch. No go with either the tetherxp.inf file or the RAR file posted earlier in this thread.
I can't find any other documentation on the Net that shows that Nexus S can tether with Windows XP.
Has anyone gotten this to work?

try this...
go to the PDAnet website http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php download their software onto your computer(free), then follow the directions on the screen. it will install the latest drivers onto your computer. i had to do that with my work computer too.

Well, I did that and now I just have a copy of PDSNet on my machine
I still can't get XP to recognize my Nexus S. When I plug it in I still get the New Hardware box that asks to find software for USB Device.

What I did was to add entries to tetherxp.inf for Nexus S which matched the signatures in device manager after I connected my phone to xp and turned on usb tether. I then installed the driver from tetherxp.inf.
Bazinga.

t3rabyte said:
Well, I did that and now I just have a copy of PDSNet on my machine
I still can't get XP to recognize my Nexus S. When I plug it in I still get the New Hardware box that asks to find software for USB Device.
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you are on the latest service pack right?

Yep, I'm on XP Pro SP3.

[Root Question] Windows 8

So, A few months ago I downloaded and installed the developers preview of windows 8. I liked it a lot and backed up my windows 7 hd, wiped and fully installed windows 8.
Well, I bought the HTC One S yesterday. Amazing phone.
My problem, I can't root my phone because while installing the htc drivers it comes up with "~ doesn't recognize this OS" or something like that. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom

Maybe you should revert back to windows 7 then if the drivers wont install, Its pretty much impossible to anything without drivers

What I did not want to hear said:
Maybe you should revert back to windows 7 then if the drivers wont install, Its pretty much impossible to anything without drivers
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I figured that was the easiest solution HOWEVER I really dont want to spend 3 hours of work (Backup windows 8, delete, repart, load and install windows 7, root phone, delete, repart, load and install windows 8) for something that takes less than half an hour to do.
If anyone has any nice work arounds i'd really, really appreciate it!

What about installing some kind of virtual machine and Win7 or even XP on it?
can't you find any kind of driver that will install on WIN8?

orenfl said:
What about installing some kind of virtual machine and Win7 or even XP on it?
can't you find any kind of driver that will install on WIN8?
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There are drivers for windows 8 I just can't remember where I saw them, but they here on xda somewhere, search for a bit
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I would try installing the Windows XP mode (virtual machine) if Windows 8 lets you, as mentioned above.. or perhaps download TinyXP and install as dual boot. maybe even a live install to a bootable usb drive.. although I've never been able to get that method to work well.
Or! I'll sell you my HP TC1100 already set up for HTC & Samsung phone modding!

trouble installing Samsung USB drivers

whenever I try and install the samsung usb drivers for my S3 the installer always fails with this message: "The MSS installation for SAMSUNG USB Driver for Mobile Phones V1.4.6.0 has failed."
I had the universal naked drivers installed on this PC before for my tbolt and transformer prime, but it wasn't compatible with the S3 yet. There is an updated universal naked drivers that supports the S3, but when I try and back up my IMEI and put the phone into RMNET+DM+MODEM mode, the naked drivers don't recognize my device. in the regular MTP+ADB the drivers work fine.
so I imagine I need the samsung drivers to install for this to work. does anyone have any ideas how I could get the samsung usb drivers to install properly? I've also tried the V1.5.5.0 version as well and the installer fails as well. I've removed the universal naked drivers and tried to install without it and I still get the error. same thing in windows safemode. I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit.
has anyone else had trouble with this? and any idea how to get the installer to work? thanks

Lots of people have been having this issue. I'm having it on XP at the moment... until now.
Per another thread I read here (for the Dell Streak, thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1291293) you can force Windows to use the generic driver instead of the Samsung one.
Basically, I edited a copy of the INF to match my device info, then entered the info into the [Generic] area of the INF. I then told Windows to allow me to manually select the driver, and pointed it to this INF file. Voila... I now have generic driver support for MTP in XP SP3. I imagine the same thing might work with other versions of Windows, since I'm not really using any non-Windows drivers.

jackmei2 said:
whenever I try and install the samsung usb drivers for my S3 the installer always fails with this message: "The MSS installation for SAMSUNG USB Driver for Mobile Phones V1.4.6.0 has failed."
I had the universal naked drivers installed on this PC before for my tbolt and transformer prime, but it wasn't compatible with the S3 yet. There is an updated universal naked drivers that supports the S3, but when I try and back up my IMEI and put the phone into RMNET+DM+MODEM mode, the naked drivers don't recognize my device. in the regular MTP+ADB the drivers work fine.
so I imagine I need the samsung drivers to install for this to work. does anyone have any ideas how I could get the samsung usb drivers to install properly? I've also tried the V1.5.5.0 version as well and the installer fails as well. I've removed the universal naked drivers and tried to install without it and I still get the error. same thing in windows safemode. I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit.
has anyone else had trouble with this? and any idea how to get the installer to work? thanks
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Download and install PDAnet app to your computer, this app will install the driver for you. You have to select "Samsung" during the install. Once done you can uninstall the app but the driver stay.

If PDA net doesn't work for you, go into device manager and select your phone, click on properties, advanced, and install the drivers manually.

So, I came across another way to get the drivers to load without any INF file hacking. If you simply tell Windows (XP in my case) to update the driver, then tell it you will manually point to it, you can find a suitable one in the folder C:\Program Files\SAMSUNG\USB Drivers\25_escape (after you install the MSS driver pack, of course).
Unfortunately, in my case, I use MediaMonkey to manage this, and it doesn't seem to notice the "difference" between my phone and my wife's (both SGS3s). That's their fault, though... they clearly have some bugs in there.

that's the problem... the MSS pack fails to install. I tried copying the samsung\USB Drivers folder from my desktop (which the driver install worked on) to my laptop and manually pointing to the folder, but it says it can't find a driver for it. kind of odd. I'll have to try the PDA net drivers to see if that will work. thanks for the help guys

Dawg5 said:
If PDA net doesn't work for you, go into device manager and select your phone, click on properties, advanced, and install the drivers manually.
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Thanks this worked for me

Can't figure out the way to install Samsung drivers properly windows 10

Hi,
I tried to install Samsung drivers (to be able to connect my Galaxy J5 J500FN) on windows 7 or windows 10 in virtualbox (Linux host).
None of my attempts works, I always have an error 'code 10': 'device cannot start.'
Virtualbox recognize the USB device, but not windows.
I took 2 days on duckduckgo and such, try many ways, but nothing work !
Any clue ?

StardustDroid said:
Hi,
I tried to install Samsung drivers (to be able to connect my Galaxy J5 J500FN) on windows 7 or windows 10 in virtualbox (Linux host).
None of my attempts works, I always have an error 'code 10': 'device cannot start.'
Virtualbox recognize the USB device, but not windows.
I took 2 days on duckduckgo and such, try many ways, but nothing work !
Any clue ?
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What the reason you need to use Windows?
Have a look HERE

Thanks, but I tried to test Jodin (no need a full live-cd), just a tool like Odin.
But the links are in error http://goo.im/devs/AdamOutler/JOdin3 from xda post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an.../live-iso-adb-fastboot-driver-issues-t3526755

Nice, found a working link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=20803

Tried jodin, but that's not as reliable and simple as the windows Odin3. So I installed Odin on a old EEEPC in windows7, and I'm happy again.