Google Android USB Driver and ADB

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I am looking for guidance or a definitive answer on the following   I want to use the Google Android USB Driver and modify the android winusb inf to support any number of Android devices   I was able to add an HTC Evo tablet successfully  but when I try to add LG  Optimus  or Samsung  Indulge  Admire  the driver seems to install fine  but ADB does not see it   Can you make the Google Android Driver work for any Android phone   If so    how   I have tried many permutations of  SingleAdbInterface  and  CompositeAdbInterface  with the variations of Vendor and Product ids

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Driver for Huawei was not found  So I ve been using the universal ADB driver    Download this  Extract ADBDriverInstaller and Run the file  Make sure you have connected your device through USB to your computer  A window is displayed  Click Install  A dialog box will appear  It will ask you to press the Restart button     Before doing that read this link    The above  in brief  says to press Restart button in the dialog box  Select Troubleshoot  Select Advance Option  Select Startup Setting  Press Restart  After system s been restarted  on the appearing screen press 7    When PC has been Restarted  Run the ADBDriverInstaller file again  Select your device from the options  Press install     And it s done

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instead of modifying adb usb ini file I made changes on the file android winusb inf under directory android-sdk extras google usb driver   alone and it worked   for the tablet MID Q88 but i copied both sections   Google NTamd64  and  Google NTx86     Google MID Q88  SingleAdbInterface           USB INSTALL  USB VID 18D1 amp PID 0003 amp MI 01  CompositeAdbInterface        USB INSTALL  USB VID 18D1 amp PID 0003 amp REV 0230 amp MI 01

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You need to modify 3 things in order to make Google USB driver work for any android phone on any Windows    Add your device s ID to android winusb inf file Digitally sign the modified driver Add your device s vendor ID to adb usb ini whitelist  no longer required    and here are the details   1  Add your device s ID to android winusb inf file  the format to add is    Comment usually the device name  SingleAdbInterface    USB Install  USB   here you put VID and PID  CompositeAdbInterface    USB Install  USB   same as above but add the MI   before I go on  VID is the USB Vendor ID   How to get the vid and pid   they are in drivers you are merging  but if you don   t have a driver for the device you can get it by opening device manager  then right-click the device     select properties-in new dialog go to Details tab  in property drop menu select hardware ids  for example you see something like     USB VID 2207 amp PID 0000 amp REV 0222 amp MI 01 USB VID 2207 amp PID 0000 amp MI 01   take this value for composite adb device and remove MI for single adb device  you get   MSI WindPad Enjoy 7 plus  SingleAdbInterface           USB Install  USB VID 2207 amp PID 0000  CompositeAdbInterface        USB Install  USB VID 2207 amp PID 0000 amp REV 0222 amp MI 01     copy this 2 line TWICE   once to   Google NTx86  section and another to  Google NTamd64  section  REPEAT for every device you want to support  Now an optional edit for  Strings  Section  edit   Strings  ProviderName                     Google  Inc     SingleAdbInterface               Android ADB Interface    CompositeAdbInterface            Android Composite ADB Interface    SingleBootLoaderInterface        Android Bootloader Interface    WinUSB SvcDesc                   Android USB Driver    DISK NAME                        Android WinUsb installation disk    ClassName                        Android Device      To    Strings  ProviderName                     Google  Inc     SingleAdbInterface               MSI ADB Interface    CompositeAdbInterface            MSI Composite ADB Interface    SingleBootLoaderInterface        MSI Bootloader Interface    WinUSB SvcDesc                   MSI USB Driver    DISK NAME                        MSI WinUsb installation disk    ClassName                        MSI Tablet      2  Digitally sign the modified driver   Although the original google usb driver was signed by google   modifying android winusb inf will prevent installing it on windows 8 showning an error message   The hash file is not present in the specified catalog file  The file is likely corrupt    or the    victim of tampering    This is only in Windows 8  Windows 7 or earlier do not show this error message  You have to regenerate catalog file  probably with Windows SDK  and sign  Workaround  A workaround for internal tesing is to diable windows signature verification   either temporarily or permanently   temporarily   Go to left upper or lower corner of screen to open charms bar and click settings charm   choose Change PC settings  choose General  Scroll down  and click    Restart now    under    Advanced startup      Click    Troubleshoot     Click    Advanced Options    Click    Windows Startup Settings    Click Restart   or  run cmd  and type   shutdown -o -r -t 0   then after restarting choose     Disable driver signature enforcement     from the list   install your driver before restarting   Permanently   press Window Q  search for cmd  right click cmd  choose run as administrator from action bar  type in cmd   bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE INTEGRITY CHECKS bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON   3  Add your device s vendor ID to adb usb ini whitelist  no longer required    adb used to have a hard-coded whitelist of supported Vendor IDs  If your device s vendor was not on the list - the adb was ignoring it completely  To make adb recognize such devices users had to manually add their vendor IDs to  USERPROFILE   android adb usb ini - one ID per line   in the command line   echo 0x2207  gt  gt    USERPROFILE   android adb usb ini    Fortunately  Google has removed the VendorID filtering in more recent adb versions  So this step is no longer required   Finally you can test installation by    adb kill-server adb start-server adb devices   and enabling debugging in developer options on android device  This should restart ADB Server and list devices  If driver is working ok  the device should be listed

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Can you give us a better description and an example of what you are doing  Because all i have to do is put the line in there for the device and then save the file  Now just reconnect the device and it works   I usually use something similar to this line      some name for the phone  this seems to be arbitrary   CompositeAdbInterface        USB Install  THE HARDWARE ID   What i do  is    plug the device into the computer   Go to your device manager   Right click on the device that you plugged up   Go to properties  Then select Hardware Ids   Then get that value that is listed there  Now add it to the line you created in the android winusb inf   Unplug the device and plug back in Go back to the device manager Right click on the device and click update or install driver Select search your computer for the driver Select the directory  Your Android SDK Directory extras google usb driver  Press ok   That seems to always work for me  is that what you are doing  Or does this even help

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For my Azpen A727  the Windows driver installed correctly  so only step 3 of Mohammad s answer was necessary

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Answer 1 worked perfectly for me   I tested it on a new MID 10  tablet   Here are the lines I added in the  inf file and it installed without a problem    Google MID  SingleAdbInterface           USB INSTALL  USB Vid 18d1 amp Pid 0003 amp MI 01  CompositeAdbInterface        USB INSTALL  USB Vid 18d1 amp Pid 0003 amp Rev 0230 amp MI 01

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Looks like the Google USB drivers have been updated to support Glass out of the box  so as long as you use the latest drivers  you should be able to access Glass via ADB  In my particular situation  I had connected Glass to my machine sometime mid-2014 but did nothing with it  Now when I was trying to connect it  I would not see it show up in ADB despite showing up in Device Manager  After much trial and error  I found out that I had to    Go into Device Manager Right click  Android ADB Interface  under  SAMSUNG Android Phone  Click  Uninstall   BE SURE  Delete the driver software for this device  is checked  Disconnect and reconnect Google Glass    I was then able to reinstall the driver via regular Windows update  This forced it to look for the newest driver  Not sure why it was not getting updated before  but I hope this will help someone out there still struggling with this

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modify android winusb inf Sign the driver modify adb   I also instaled generic adb driver from http   adbdriver com  and it works

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Locate the following file     C  Users  your name   android adb usb ini   And make the following changes     ANDROID 3RD PARTY USB VENDOR ID LIST -- DO NOT EDIT    USE  android update adb  TO GENERATE    1 USB VENDOR ID PER LINE  0x2207   I added 0x2207 to the file  This number is part of the hardware id  which can be found under the device s hardware information   Mine was   USB VID 2207 amp PID 0010 amp MI 01   I tried executing android update adb  but it did nothing

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