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Leero
Leero

Reputation: 57

Nexus 5 USB Driver not found

Hey I am trying to learn the Android SDK development from lynda.com.

They asked me to update my USB drivers.

I downloaded the driver unzipped it. And when I try to update it in the MTP mode it says 

Device driver up to date

I searched around and found it updates in PTP mode. But it says:

Windows could not find driver software for your device

I tried the same thing on another computer and it worked perfectly.

Is it because I am not using USB 2.0 ?

PS: Tried all the methods mentioned here. Nexus 5 USB driver

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4588

Answers (2)

tobias
tobias

Reputation: 51

I had the same problem. The following solution from teamandroid worked from me:

  1. Open the "Device Manager"
  2. Choose "Update Driver Software"
  3. Select "Browse my computer for driver software"
  4. So far so good, but now select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers from my computer"
  5. Click the "Have disk" button
  6. Select to the "android_winusb.inf" file from the SDK Driver (located in [SDK-ROOT]\extras\google\usb_driver)
  7. Now select "Android ADB Interface"

There will be the usual warnings concerning "not trusted manufacturer" which I just ignored. After that everything worked fine for me.

Hope this helps you as well!

Best

Tobias

Upvotes: 5

Illegal Argument
Illegal Argument

Reputation: 10338

I am using nexus 5 too and have seen the adb driver not working from time to time. My solution is as follows(only for windows users):

  1. Connect device go to Device Manager
  2. Search for your device. It may be under Android Phone(usually at top) or in the USB peripherials or simply as Nexus
  3. Right click the device Uninstall the driver.
  4. Unplug the device
  5. Plug the device wait for windows to configure drivers(MTP and some others). Then reinstall the adb driver downloaded from google as per their recommendations.

Upvotes: 0

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