[android-developers] Re: Installing USB Driver for G1

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." <jason.ba...@gmail.com> 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 <j...@harpsoft.com> 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
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