Like you I had similar problems getting my Motroloa DROID to show up as a device in Android Device Chooser dialog under Eclipse. I am running the 32-bit version of Windows 7. I found a number of forums that tried to address this issue, but no one seemed exactly sure what was happening, and a number of the sites suggested re-installing Windows.
It just so happens that prior to doing Android development I wrote device drivers for Windows. So I am at a bit of an advantage here. USB drivers can be touchy, but you shouldn't have to re-install your OS and the idea of a "driver boost" app from a third party makes me shudder. More than likely what is happening is the OS has associated your DROID with the generic driver that comes with the Windows Android SDK. You can verify this by bringing up the Windows Device Manager. If in your root node you see, ANDROID PHONE instead of ADB INTERFACE, this post should solve your problem. Obviously, if you have not already gone out to the Motorola website and downloaded the 32 or 64 bit drivers for the DROID, this needs to be your first step. After you run the MSI you downloaded from Motorola, reboot your machine, bring up your old friend the device manager again, and reconnect your DROID. As mentioned in other posts on this thread, you need to have the USB debugging turned on from the DROID's application menu. Expand the ANDROID PHONE node, right click, and choose UPDATE DRIVER SOFTWARE. You will be presented with two options, the one you want is BROWSE MY COMPUTER FOR DRIVER SOFTWARE. When the next dialog comes up, select LET ME PICK FROM A LIST OF DEVICE DRIVERS ON MY COMPUTER. As long as you have the SHOW COMPATIBLE HARDWARE box checked, you should see a couple options. Ideally, you are looking for MOT COMPOSITE ADB INTERFACE. However, in some cases only ANDROID COMPOSITE ADB INTERFACE shows up. This *should* work as well. The one thing you don't want is the generic ANDROID ADB INTERFACE, which seems to be the default (thus the problem to begin with). Click NEXT and the driver will install. Its possible at this point (in fact likely), Windows will force you to do a reboot. Once that is complete you should be good to go. Hope this was helpful! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
