I too am having the same problem except Win XP is too helpful and reinstalls the same driver every time I plug the Android in. "HTC Android Phone USB Device" under disk drives will not go away. I don't know how to have "plug and play" and not have "plug and play" at the same time. Regards, Tom Birchmire
On Oct 4, 10:48 am, "Jason B." <[email protected]> wrote: > I had this problem with both XP and Vista. I can't remember the exact > label but here is what I did to eventually solve it: > > 1) Install the Android SDK (the \android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\usb_driver > \x86 folder has usb drivers) > 2) Connected my G1 via any USB cable (used a couple different ones, > didn't matter which one) > 3) Opened Device Manager > 4) Removed the Android phone from the list > 4.a)This is the tricky part because there are a few places you have to > remove it, because Windows detects it as not only an Android phone but > also a USB Storage device. I kept just removing the android phone but > never removed the USB Storage device, so windows still had a driver on > hand it thought would work everytime I re-plugged the G1 back into the > PC. Once I finally removed the USB Storage device part too, I was > able to successfully continue to the next step. The tricky part is it > doesn't say anything like "Android USB Storage Device" it just says > "USB Storage Device" so I had to plugin and unplug the phone a few > times to see what entries came up when I did. > 5) Unplug the phone > 6) Plug the phone back in > 7) Tell the Windows driver dialog boxes that you will point to a > specific location for the driver, and point to the directory from (1) > above. > 8) Install... > > After doing that I was able to finally get it to work, after a few > hours of cursing windows for not letting me "choose" the right driver > of course. The key was (4a) above. You have to remove "ALL" entries > in Device Manager that come up when you plug the phone in, and they > aren't all in the same place. > > Hope this helps, > > On Oct 2, 10:24 pm, joelt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am having trouble getting the proper USB ADB driver for the G1 > > installed. Windows seems to have already decided which driver it > > should use. I've tried "updating the driver", but the Windows wizard > > has decided that it knows better to use the existing driver. > > > "could not find a better match for your hardware that the software you > > currently have installed" > > > The driver points to files in the Windows directory: > > > \windows\system32\DRIVERS\disk.sys > > \windows\system32\drivers\PartMgr.sys > > \windows\system32\drivers\Shockprf.sys > > > I got to think these are the wrong files, they are the files that come > > with the USB driver as downloaded here. > > > Is there anyway I can force it to use the proper files? I have tried > > uninstalling the current driver, but as soon as I plug in it goes back > > to the same driver... UGH!!! > > > Help please, > > Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
