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[Kies] Crash on Win 7 x64 - Virtual PC work-around

So I had the dreaded Win 7 x64 crash. I uninstalled IE 9. No go. Used that DLL fix (which I can't remember where I found it). Still crashed. So here's how I got around the problem.
Note:
I'm just sharing what I found since none of the solutions I googled up worked for me (maybe I'm the only one). For those who wonder why anyone would bother with stock Froyo, I'm sure there are reasons. I just wanted to do some testing of the upgrade exactly as it came from Samsung. There's probably an Odin flashable package somewhere which may be bit-for-bit identical, but I didn't bother looking. I'm hoping this will work if another update comes down the pike (Ha!) and Kies is still broken.
Here's what worked for me. It may brick your phone so understand that before you start.
Step 1:
Load up Virtual PC.
In Virtual PC:
Install the Samsung drivers
Install Kies Mini
Install Samsung PC Studio (for Gadget Serial driver)
Step 2 - back to the phone:
Flash stock. I flashed one-click JF6, but use the right stock firmware for your phone (build 1010 and later phones should use something like this)
Step 3:
At this point you may want to make sure the Gadget Serial driver is loaded and working (if you one-click flashed JF6 skip to step 4), so put the phone into download mode and plug it into the PC.
In Virtual PC:
USB Menu->Gadget Serial Attach
Insure that driver is working. If it isn't then the update won't work because Kies Mini will not be able to communicate with the phone after it goes into download mode. If it works then skip to step 5. If not then do step 4.
Step 4:
Have CWM update.zip on you sdcard root directory
Reinstall packages
Reinstall packages again
Install zip from sdcard
Install sbl_CWM_update.zip (attached to this post)
Do the step 3 check. If that fails then the Gadget Serial driver isn't recognizing you phone and this isn't going to work unless you can fix it.
Step 5:
Reboot the phone, turn on USB debugging then plug it in to the PC.
In Virtual PC:
Start Kies Mini
USB->Samsung_Android Attach
Start the upgrade
Wait 12 years or so until the phone goes into download mode
USB->Gadget Serial Attach
The install should continue automatically. If it doesn't there is an upgrade button which should be enabled when driver is loaded and the phone is detected.
Wait for the install to finish, at which point to phone should boot into Froyo.
Done.

thanks
cool, i had tried all of the other ways of forcing kies to recognize my computer... but it always ended with the same crash, nice little white box where the program should be. so im trying this out but its taking forever to get xp virtual machine up and running. i will post again with my final results

ok now for my story
i have had flashed multiple versions of cognition on my phone and have become very familiar with the process. i do love cog 3.04 but the problem is that the swype that is loaded on the rom is a 60 day trial version and it ran out. so i wanted to try out the stock froyo and see what improvents i wanted so i could cook my own rom.
i went and got kies mini on the release date for froyo and it was crashing everytime i used it, giving me this lovely white box on my windows 7 x64 ultimate computer. i tried multiple work arounds and have never thought of virtual machine so thank you for that.
i want and ran my odin one click reflashed to jf6, then decided to see if kies recognized my phone. it imediately was recognized and started to update in the virtual machine.
it is currently downloading to my phone and i will repost again if my phone either becomes soft bricked or if the update goes through

Please help me find the Gadget Serial Driver for My Samsung Vibrant
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.

privetKalla said:
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.
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This is for the flight II but the software has the PC Studio download. Good Luck!
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-A927ZAAATT

privetKalla said:
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever.
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Thanks man. That made my day. I needed that.

You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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Jsmokey said:
You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.

boborone said:
Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
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Thanks I appreciate that I just wanna give back as much as I've received from the forums here its a great place to start. If anyone runs into any problem with this let me know and I'll see if I can reproduce and come up with something.
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[Help] Google Nexus 5 might be bricked

Heya. First things first:
My Google Nexus 5 is quite... Well bricked.
I've updated CarbonROM a couple of hours ago and since then the phone's been stuck on the Google Logo, as well as starting automatically after shutting it down.
Here's some specifications:
Recovery: ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.4.5
ROM: Carbon. The version I updated to was CARBON-KK-NIGHTLY-20140706-0428-hammerhead (Edit: For a strange reason, it didn't update to the latest version available.)
I've tried performing:
Reinstall of the same Rom
Factory reset
Following the many unbricking tutorials that require the computer to actually recognize the phone yet no "Nexus 5" appears... Actually nothing appears in devices other than my regular devices.
Phone has been already rooted (obviously) using tutorials here on XDA.
Please help :3

Almogpas said:
Heya. First things first:
My Google Nexus 5 is quite... Well bricked.
I've updated CarbonROM a couple of hours ago and since then the phone's been stuck on the Google Logo, as well as starting automatically after shutting it down.
Here's some specifications:
Recovery: ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.4.5
ROM: Carbon. The version I updated to was CARBON-KK-NIGHTLY-20140706-0428-hammerhead
I've tried performing:
Reinstall of the same Rom
Factory reset
Following the many unbricking tutorials that require the computer to actually recognize the phone yet no "Nexus 5" appears... Actually nothing appears in devices other than my regular devices.
Phone has been already rooted (obviously) using tutorials here on XDA.
Please help :3
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if no new devices appear in your device manager we cant yet do much for you. Get the phone recognised in fastboot or in recovery on any pc then restore stock rom or sideload new rom

bitdomo said:
if no new devices appear in your device manager we cant yet do much for you. Get the phone recognised in fastboot or in recovery on any pc then restore stock rom or sideload new rom
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Do you think I should get a new phone or maybe take it to a professional? I just can't get the pc to recognize it even though I have the drivers installed. (Although even if the drivers weren't installed it would still recognize it...)

Almogpas said:
Do you think I should get a new phone or maybe take it to a professional? I just can't get the pc to recognize it even though I have the drivers installed. (Although even if the drivers weren't installed it would still recognize it...)
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hmmm... try lg flashtool. Link in my signature.

Almogpas said:
Do you think I should get a new phone or maybe take it to a professional? I just can't get the pc to recognize it even though I have the drivers installed. (Although even if the drivers weren't installed it would still recognize it...)
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Adb drivers are different when compared to mtp drivers (windows reconizes it as mtp when swtiched on) ... U need adb drivers for pc to recognize it in fastboot mode...will fetch u the link wait
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

doctor_droid said:
Adb drivers are different when compared to mtp drivers (windows reconizes it as mtp when swtiched on) ... U need adb drivers for pc to recognize it in fastboot mode...will fetch u the link wait
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The main problem in all these solutions is that the phone isn't even recognized by the computer. I'm pretty sure it's the computer's problem but you may never know. Tomorrow I'm retrieving my main rig and I'll post if that rig discovers my phone. If it does, it will make me happier than Columbus discovering America. It not, it will make my wallet really sad as I will be obliged to buy a new one.

Almogpas said:
The main problem in all these solutions is that the phone isn't even recognized by the computer. I'm pretty sure it's the computer's problem but you may never know. Tomorrow I'm retrieving my main rig and I'll post if that rig discovers my phone. If it does, it will make me happier than Columbus discovering America. It not, it will make my wallet really sad as I will be obliged to buy a new one.
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Yup if the pc is not detecting the phone best is to try wid another usb cable and a different pc... let us knw tomorrow

Did you install those libraries properly?
Freshly baked from my Nexus 5

This universal ADB driver + this ADB and Fastboot pack always does the trick for me.
When you get either ADB or Fastboot working we can help you recover the device.

[Q] Computer won't recognize S6

Hi,
The title pretty much sums it all, it won't connect at all. Driver or no driver, oem cable or not and stock rom or not. Can't even ADB in...
But ! It does work on my laptop (without drivers), so it's not a faulty device.
Anyone have any idea ?
*Edit: Both my laptop and desktop computers are running Win 8.1

dw4 said:
Hi,
The title pretty much sums it all, it won't connect at all. Driver or no driver, oem cable or not and stock rom or not. Can't even ADB in...
But ! It does work on my laptop (without drivers), so it's not a faulty device.
Anyone have any idea ?
*Edit: Both my laptop and desktop computers are running Win 8.1
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It's the fingerprint security blocking access to the S6's data, you have to unlock screen on the S6 and your Windows will see the drive

vegetaleb said:
It's the fingerprint security blocking access to the S6's data, you have to unlock screen on the S6 and your Windows will see the drive
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Thanks mate, but i already tried with screen unlocked. It might be a little more serious than that.

Remove all samsung drivers from control panel, then re install.

blud7 said:
Remove all samsung drivers from control panel, then re install.
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Thanks again bro, but i already tried that.

SmartSwitch for PC has a RE-install device drivers option.
try running that.

kimkara said:
SmartSwitch for PC has a RE-install device drivers option.
try running that.
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Okayyyyyyyy, i figured it out... So i was trying your method, installing SmartSwitch, and it wouldn't install because i didn't have the "Media Feature Pack". Because i'am running Windows 8.1 N on my desktop pc.
So i installed that media bull**** pack and then !!!! Miracle, it worked ! Didn't even need smartswitch. And if you are asking yourselves why is it working on my laptop, well the answer is very simple. My laptop is running a standard version of Windows 8.1... It actually make perfect sense the S6 only connects in PTP or MTP, which are both multimedia "modes". And i still can't adb into the device, must be coming from somethings else !
Anyway thanks to everyone for your help !

dw4 said:
Okayyyyyyyy, i figured it out... So i was trying your method, installing SmartSwitch, and it wouldn't install because i didn't have the "Media Feature Pack". Because i'am running Windows 8.1 N on my desktop pc.
So i installed that media bull**** pack and then !!!! Miracle, it worked ! Didn't even need smartswitch. And if you are asking yourselves why is it working on my laptop, well the answer is very simple. My laptop is running a standard version of Windows 8.1... It actually make perfect sense the S6 only connects in PTP or MTP, which are both multimedia "modes". And i still can't adb into the device, must be coming from somethings else !
Anyway thanks to everyone for your help !
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good to know, glad you got it working.

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.

oneplus one hardbrick doesnt show as QHSUSB_BULK,unable to install qualcom2012 driver

I bricked my Oneplus One while flashing CM11 via fastboot using manual commands on cmd.
After giving all the commands for fastboot flash, during reboot the phone did not reboot and it just got bricked.
The big issue with the brick is that the phone is not being recognized as QHSUSB_BULK but it is showing as Unrecognised Device ... i am not able to update the drivers to qualcom 2012 the windows is giving an error as "Windows was unable to install your unknown device".
I've turned on the Testing Mode to install unsigned drivers and the gpedit policy to stop windows automatically installing drivers is also enabled. Also i've changed the setting in control panel Devices and printers -> Device Installation Settings to "Let me choose what to do "and "never install driver software from windows update".
Still the problem persists Please HELP Me.

praik96 said:
I bricked my Oneplus One while flashing CM11 via fastboot using manual commands on cmd.
After giving all the commands for fastboot flash, during reboot the phone did not reboot and it just got bricked.
The big issue with the brick is that the phone is not being recognized as QHSUSB_BULK but it is showing as Unrecognised Device ... i am not able to update the drivers to qualcom 2012 the windows is giving an error as "Windows was unable to install your unknown device".
I've turned on the Testing Mode to install unsigned drivers and the gpedit policy to stop windows automatically installing drivers is also enabled. Also i've changed the setting in control panel Devices and printers -> Device Installation Settings to "Let me choose what to do "and "never install driver software from windows update".
Still the problem persists Please HELP Me.
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Okay,calm down!
Which windows are you using? Are you sure you're not able to boot to fastboot mode?

I'm using windows 8.1 64bit version.
Mr.Ak said:
Okay,calm down!
Which windows are you using? Are you sure you're not able to boot to fastboot mode?
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When i press power button + vol. up for 10sec the windows recognizes the device but shows it as Unknown Device and then the Driver Update is not being done. What should i do?

praik96 said:
What should i do?
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Did you even read my question?
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faced that too a while ago, try to use win 7 ( best is xp ) with driver signature thing off, now google hardbrick opo recovery and u will find a website with the steps along with a mi flaasher tool for windows , now download the color os hradbrick recovery zip and also the latest cos 13.1.2 fastboot zip.
U willl eb able to bring back ur opo to life by using that color os zip along with the mi flasher tool but then the screeen behaves really weird ( happened to me )
but everything got normal after i flashed the cos 13.1.2 zip by fastboot

Kartike said:
faced that too a while ago, try to use win 7 ( best is xp ) with driver signature thing off, now google hardbrick opo recovery and u will find a website with the steps along with a mi flaasher tool for windows , now download the color os hradbrick recovery zip and also the latest cos 13.1.2 fastboot zip.
U willl eb able to bring back ur opo to life by using that color os zip along with the mi flasher tool but then the screeen behaves really weird ( happened to me )
but everything got normal after i flashed the cos 13.1.2 zip by fastboot
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That's why I was asking him about which windows he use.Windows XP is hassle free for this driver's issue.
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Mr.Ak said:
That's why I was asking him about which windows he use.Windows XP is hassle free for this driver's issue.
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I'm using windows 8.1, earlier i mentioned it in the title.

praik96 said:
I'm using windows 8.1, earlier i mentioned it in the title.
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find a Xp system and you'll not have any issues.
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Mr.Ak said:
find a Xp system and you'll not have any issues.
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If i install xp on my laptop via dual boot and what drivers will i need other than Qualcom 2012 ? or the xp's inbuilt windows driver will do the trick along with Qualcom 2012 drivers?

praik96 said:
If i install xp on my laptop via dual boot and what drivers will i need other than Qualcom 2012 ? or the xp's inbuilt windows driver will do the trick along with Qualcom 2012 drivers?
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Yes qualcomm 2012 drivers will work just fine.
Make sure you launch the tool with administrator rights.It may take a few refresh and try before flashing starts but it works.
You don't need adb drivers here because this tool uses usb debugging port instead of fastboot/adb.
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You should download One Plus USB drivers.
If you prefer you should use One Plus Toolkit.

Mr.Ak said:
Yes qualcomm 2012 drivers will work just fine.
Make sure you launch the tool with administrator rights.It may take a few refresh and try before flashing starts but it works.
You don't need adb drivers here because this tool uses usb debugging port instead of fastboot/adb.
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Can anyone direct me to safest way to dual boot windows xp s3 on windows 8.1 already installed with UEFI mode?
I dont want to end up with screwing my laptop too.

praik96 said:
Can anyone direct me to safest way to dual boot windows xp s3 on windows 8.1 already installed with UEFI mode?
I dont want to end up with screwing my laptop too.
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Youtube
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Mr.Ak said:
Yes qualcomm 2012 drivers will work just fine.
Make sure you launch the tool with administrator rights.It may take a few refresh and try before flashing starts but it works.
You don't need adb drivers here because this tool uses usb debugging port instead of fastboot/adb.
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Tip1: Use correct usb cable.
I thought the error was is usb drivers but it seems that the error was in usb cable. I lost my oneplus usb cable quite a while ago and was using third party usb cable for data transfer and charging. Tried to connect the bricked OPO with that cable only.
Just ought to try connected with different cable here used Amazon Basics micro usb cable and VOILA!!! The drivers were automatically installed by windows this time.It worked on current windows 8.1. Dont know it was luck or really dumb choice of USB cable.
But thank you very much for helping me out.