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[Q] Epic USB drivers for win7 32bit HELP

Hello all I'ave been trying to root my epic 4g for the last couple of days now without any success. I narrowed the problem down to not getting the USB drivers install. I am running windows7 32bit and have downloaded the same drivers from links on this site and also from samsung's site directly. The file that I downloaded comes as a "windows installer package type" after its unzipped so it installs automatically upon opening.
After the attempt install I get the following message:
Device driver software was not successfully installed
Coprocessor X No driver found
Base System Device X No driver found
Base System Device X No driver found
Can someone please help on this issue. I have searched the forums without any success and I refuse to believe that I'm the only one with this problem..

reinstall the .exe file, but right click and run as administrator. when you plug your phone in, uninstall the drivers through the device manager to make it "search" for updated drivers. worse comes to worse, instead of "automatically search for drivers" in the device manager, manually choose where the drivers are and navigate to the program (usually samsung something or another) and tell it to search.
make sure you have any other samsung driver or program uninstalled. some people have been having trouble with this.

This is the problem because this file is a windows installer package type after unzipping if I right click on the program my only option is to install, repair or uninstall. I'm not getting an option to run as administrator or am I even getting to see any files much less an EXE file.

Is there any way I can change the file type from the Windows Installer Package (.msi)?? And what should I change it to so it would act a little more friendly.

I would install pda net which is bundled with the app, plus you get a decent tethering app.
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sflores91 said:
I would install pda net which is bundled with the app, plus you get a decent tethering app.
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That did it.
Thanks alot. Now I can get some sleep.
You guys are great...
Goodnight.

I personally would like to know of any foolproof way of installing drivers on windows 7... I scripted an all in one root and recovery program, and by far the biggest issue is failed drivers in windows 7... I've been avoiding installing window 7 on my bootcamp partition, but I may have to just so I can experience the same hell as everyone else.
Even if Odin3 is Windows only, at least drivers aren't an issue on my Mac.
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You can install regular drivers by holding F8 at windows boot and disabling "driver signature" and then installing the drivers.
You can also permenantly dissable "driver signature" just google it,i forgot how to do it,its in gpedit.msc somewhere,i think.

DRockstar said:
I personally would like to know of any foolproof way of installing drivers on windows 7... I scripted an all in one root and recovery program, and by far the biggest issue is failed drivers in windows 7... I've been avoiding installing window 7 on my bootcamp partition, but I may have to just so I can experience the same hell as everyone else.
Even if Odin3 is Windows only, at least drivers aren't an issue on my Mac.
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Above is a fullproof way,just dont install 64bit.

lviv73 said:
Above is a fullproof way,just dont install 64bit.
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Thanks for the response, I'll look into it...
Does that mean to install 32 bit drivers even on 64 bit windows?
Just trying to clarify...
Once I find a solution that works reliably, I want to put it in my original posts so that others can benefit from it.

bugee_d said:
This is the problem because this file is a windows installer package type after unzipping if I right click on the program my only option is to install, repair or uninstall. I'm not getting an option to run as administrator or am I even getting to see any files much less an EXE file.
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not to beat a dead horse or anything....but .msi's shouldnt need to be unzipped, they should be executable that will bring up windows installer...maybe im missing something but glad you got it worked out!

Can't install Windows Driver

I can't seem to get the Windows driver installed for the Evo Shift. I uninstalled the USB Mass Storage drivers for the Android phone and the phone shows up in Device Manager with the Yellow triangle, but whenever I try and update its driver and point it to the USB Driver folder from the Android SDK it says that Windows could not find driver software for the device.
Any ideas here? I did try using ADB to check for devices and nothing shows up in the list.
Thanks for the help.

ks-man said:
I can't seem to get the Windows driver installed for the Evo Shift. I uninstalled the USB Mass Storage drivers for the Android phone and the phone shows up in Device Manager with the Yellow triangle, but whenever I try and update its driver and point it to the USB Driver folder from the Android SDK it says that Windows could not find driver software for the device.
Any ideas here? I did try using ADB to check for devices and nothing shows up in the list.
Thanks for the help.
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Did you download the right drivers from HTC?
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Did you download the right drivers from HTC?
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No, I've been trying to point it to the USB Drivers folder from the Android SDK. I can't seem to find the driver from HTC (or know which is the right one).
I didn't think it was HTC Sync but maybe it is...

If I remember correctly what I did (it was so long ago on windows lol), after you download the sdk from google you have to run the sdk/tools/android program to update and download the windows drivers. After that I went to device manager where the yellow triangle is and then right-click on it and select install manually instead of search online for drivers. Then click the browse button and find where in your sdk folder it downloaded the drivers to (can't remember where they are since so long ago). Select the correct drivers, there's probably more then one so you might have to mess around with trying different drivers out to get it working. Hope that helps and good luck. Or you can try the above method and try out the HTC drivers but I never used those so I can't say how to install them exactly.

Ok, I think I got it working, I guess I did need to install HTC Sync to get the driver.
I now have a device number in ADB. My phone said Couldn't find HTC Sync on the computer but I don't think that matters if the device number was in ADB, correct?
Thanks for the help.

sparksco said:
If I remember correctly what I did (it was so long ago on windows lol), after you download the sdk from google you have to run the sdk/tools/android program to update and download the windows drivers. After that I went to device manager where the yellow triangle is and then right-click on it and select install manually instead of search online for drivers. Then click the browse button and find where in your sdk folder it downloaded the drivers to (can't remember where they are since so long ago). Select the correct drivers, there's probably more then one so you might have to mess around with trying different drivers out to get it working. Hope that helps and good luck. Or you can try the above method and try out the HTC drivers but I never used those so I can't say how to install them exactly.
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That makes sense, I never ran the program, just had it search the folder. I think I got it working though as mentioned in my post right above this one. Thanks.

You need HTC Sync and you need admin rights to install drivers on windows.

ks-man said:
Ok, I think I got it working, I guess I did need to install HTC Sync to get the driver.
I now have a device number in ADB. My phone said Couldn't find HTC Sync on the computer but I don't think that matters if the device number was in ADB, correct?
Thanks for the help.
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Yeah your all good man, when you do adb devices and get your serial # back all is well, I had sync on my Vista pc and it wouldn't let me use HTC sync, it would just say not found, but I always just used the unrevoked EVO drivers and they hold true to this day, I've done G2s inspire and MT4GS all without new drivers
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ICS USB drivers?

Hello all,
I posted a thread yesterday about my issues trying to get my a500 running AOKP to connect to my computer. So, as it is right now, it's got nothing on it, except for a few apps.
I have narrowed it down to the possibility that it is NOT ROM-specific and that it has something to do with USB drivers. I installed the drivers from the Acer US and UK websites, along with the setup.exe drivers from TimmyDean's root folder. None of them worked.
I tried on two different computer, and got the same issues. All I hear is 3 quick beeps after the computer fails to install device driver software.
My question is this: To those of you who are on an ICS ROM/Leak, HOW do you access your SD Card/Internal Storage on your PC?
I really hope somebody could help, I'm pretty stumped.

skadude66 said:
Hello all,
I posted a thread yesterday about my issues trying to get my a500 running AOKP to connect to my computer. So, as it is right now, it's got nothing on it, except for a few apps.
I have narrowed it down to the possibility that it is NOT ROM-specific and that it has something to do with USB drivers. I installed the drivers from the Acer US and UK websites, along with the setup.exe drivers from TimmyDean's root folder. None of them worked.
I tried on two different computer, and got the same issues. All I hear is 3 quick beeps after the computer fails to install device driver software.
My question is this: To those of you who are on an ICS ROM/Leak, HOW do you access your SD Card/Internal Storage on your PC?
I really hope somebody could help, I'm pretty stumped.
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I installed Android SDK and the google adb drivers. Then I let win7 search the whole system.

Moscow Desire said:
I installed Android SDK and the google adb drivers. Then I let win7 search the whole system.
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I already have the SDK installed from a whole ago, and I have used ADB recently for my phone, so I guess I should have the updates drivers correct? So I should just go through the device manager and let Win7 search through my C:/ drive? What will it be picking up, the ADB drivers?
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skadude66 said:
I already have the SDK installed from a whole ago, and I have used ADB recently for my phone, so I guess I should have the updates drivers correct? So I should just go through the device manager and let Win7 search through my C:/ drive? What will it be picking up, the ADB drivers?
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I had google android drivers, Acer drivers, probably 4 different sets. I believe the last I used, were HTC adb drivers. Got pretty frustrated as I couldn't connect 501 with adb. But After I did the full scan on c: drive, it finally picked them up.
It doesn't matter which drivers get used, as long as it works
"Throw enough bullets at the target, and eventually you will hit it"

have you tried going into device manager .Then plug in the Iconia tab once its recognized .Right lick on the device and install the drivers manually.You must know where the drives are extracted to on your computer to do this. Also Not with my acer tab but i have had a issue in the past with usb device drivers .They can sometimes be confused by windows and windows will load driver for the other device and of course fail. So to get around this you can try making sure your phone is connected to the usb port you always use. Then try to plug the iconia into another port. and see If windows will prompt you to install the device.
If still no luck do a search on microsoft tech site.If you can not find it this can also be done by uninstalling all usb devices on the computer in programs and features. Then go to device manager and manually uninstall the usb hubs and devices listed in there. Reboot the computer and windows will put them back.Re install the drives from acer for the iconia reboot. then connect it and see if it will then find the device.
The above is for tech savy users only due to if there is a registry issue the hubs might not install back .
Good luck. and again if you cant follow what i typed above Microsoft tech help has it in step by step instructions. just search for usb device driver install issues and narrow down your issue.

Thank you to BOTH of you! I was getting frustrated that I can't do anything with my tablet! I will definitely try both of these when I get home.
@Erica: I went into Device Manager and it did not recognize my tablet, so I tried to install drivers from Windows Update, and it didn't find any.
@Moscow: HTC USB drivers will work? Really? I don't see why not, but then again, each website has you go through different steps to get your model number, etc.
What I am wondering is, for the scan if the C:/ drive, do I extract only the .exe for the USB drivers?
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skadude66 said:
Thank you to BOTH of you! I was getting frustrated that I can't do anything with my tablet! I will definitely try both of these when I get home.
@Erica: I went into Device Manager and it did not recognize my tablet, so I tried to install drivers from Windows Update, and it didn't find any.
@Moscow: HTC USB drivers will work? Really? I don't see why not, but then again, each website has you go through different steps to get your model number, etc.
What I am wondering is, for the scan if the C:/ drive, do I extract only the .exe for the USB drivers?
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Generally, the zip file contains driver files for AMD64 and i386. Just extract them to a location on your C: drive. Like C:\android\adb_drivers. Once you extract the driver files, or any other driver files, and you have windows search your computer, it will usually find them, and install them. Takes a couple minutes.
I find this is easier than trying to have windows look in a specific folder. Like I said, I have tons of driver files.
Also, google for Android USB drivers. Will give you the generic Android USB driver pack. Unzip them also, to a diff folder.

skadude66 said:
Thank you to BOTH of you! I was getting frustrated that I can't do anything with my tablet! I will definitely try both of these when I get home.
@Erica: I went into Device Manager and it did not recognize my tablet, so I tried to install drivers from Windows Update, and it didn't find any.
@Moscow: HTC USB drivers will work? Really? I don't see why not, but then again, each website has you go through different steps to get your model number, etc.
What I am wondering is, for the scan if the C:/ drive, do I extract only the .exe for the USB drivers?
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When you say it does not recognize your tablet. Are you saying that when you plug the tablet into the computer thru usb You do not get a prompt to install a Driver? If this is the case Windows thinks it has the proper driver. You will have to find the device in device manager . OPEN it and update driver. You can try to have windows to search . but i disagree with MD on this. But both ways tend to have the same results .TELL it where your drives are such as mine are in c:/android/androidsdk/ xxx
You could also try to install Acer sync from the acer iconia d/laod site If you do this i would change the install path to a sub folder of your sdk install. could be useful in future.

Moscow Desire said:
Generally, the zip file contains driver files for AMD64 and i386. Just extract them to a location on your C: drive. Like C:\android\adb_drivers. Once you extract the driver files, or any other driver files, and you have windows search your computer, it will usually find them, and install them. Takes a couple minutes.
I find this is easier than trying to have windows look in a specific folder. Like I said, I have tons of driver files.
Also, google for Android USB drivers. Will give you the generic Android USB driver pack. Unzip them also, to a diff folder.
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So which do you recommend I try first? Acer or Android ones? Also, you recommend a full scan of the C:/ even though I categorize them in folders?
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When you say it does not recognize your tablet. Are you saying that when you plug the tablet into the computer thru usb You do not get a prompt to install a Driver? If this is the case Windows thinks it has the proper driver. You will have to find the device in device manager . OPEN it and update driver. You can try to have windows to search . but i disagree with MD on this. But both ways tend to have the same results .TELL it where your drives are such as mine are in c:/android/androidsdk/ xxx
You could also try to install Acer sync from the acer iconia d/laod site If you do this i would change the install path to a sub folder of your sdk install. could be useful in future.
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Basically, I hear the quick beeps and the device is not being recognized by Windows. Under device manager it is the only device that has a question mark or exclamation point for icon.
I will try both methods and report back on which one works. Thank you very much!!
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Quick update.
I tried both of your theories, and neither of them worked
I tried to find the ADB drivers, but couldn't get them to install through SDK Manager (file not found on an XML file).
So then, I took two of the drivers I had downloaded, and extracted the folders they were in, into a folder on C:\ called android drivers.
I tried searching my entire C:\ and nothing came up at all. This is where I tried Erica's method, and I narrowed it down to the C:\android drivers and it STILL didn't bring anything up.
Finally, I tried downloading and placing these (http://androidforums.com/incredible...ivers-adb-bootloader-disk-drive-htc-sync.html) drivers, and it still didn't find them.
Oh, and I also tried plugging my phone into the troublesome port and it connected fine, as per Erica's suggestion, so I think this is some kind of driver issue.. but WHAT!
Thanks for all of your help so far!
EDIT: Here is the icon I am getting when I plug my tablet into my computer: http://i.imgur.com/jUf54.jpg

Not sure you tried this or not.
Go to Acer.com then there download drivers page. look. for Acer sync. Download and install that. it just might install the Acer adb drivers
Beyond that I say go to Ms tech site and search for USB host/driver issues.
Sorry its not working but at this point I have no idea without being infront of the machine.
Good luck

erica_renee said:
Not sure you tried this or not.
Go to Acer.com then there download drivers page. look. for Acer sync. Download and install that. it just might install the Acer adb drivers
Beyond that I say go to Ms tech site and search for USB host/driver issues.
Sorry its not working but at this point I have no idea without being infront of the machine.
Good luck
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Thanks. I'll try it. The only thing I didn't try in your suggestions was to uninstall USB hosts, seems a bit drastic to me. I'll try Acer Sync and lets hope it fixes it!
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Nope, no dice on Acer Sync. Same three beeps, nothing is happening. I keep restarting the machine as well to make sure it's as clean a boot as possible.
Thanks anyways!
I've run out of ideas.. Anybody else have any theories or suggestions?
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skadude66 said:
Nope, no dice on Acer Sync. Same three beeps, nothing is happening. I keep restarting the machine as well to make sure it's as clean a boot as possible.
Thanks anyways!
I've run out of ideas.. Anybody else have any theories or suggestions?
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USB Debugging turned on?

Moscow Desire said:
USB Debugging turned on?
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Tried with it turned on and off.
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skadude66 said:
Tried with it turned on and off.
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Here are 2 zip files.
1 for Google USB drivers and the other for USB ADB for HTC drivers.
Unzip them to different folders on your C:\. Then let it search again. Hope it picks them up.

Moscow Desire said:
Here are 2 zip files.
1 for Google USB drivers and the other for USB ADB for HTC drivers.
Unzip them to different folders on your C:\. Then let it search again. Hope it picks them up.
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Thank you. I will check and try when I get home. Man, I HOPE THIS WORKS!
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skadude66 said:
Thank you. I will check and try when I get home. Man, I HOPE THIS WORKS!
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Yeah, that's the last of my guesses, and it was the last sets of drivers I installed on my Win7 before I got ADB working. I had issues connecting ADB, and may have just installed the HTC divers, just to connect with my Desire. I think after that, I installed the google drives, and could connect with my 501.
I could always get the PC to recognize the tab, just not through ADB.
With that AOKP rom though, I am not sure. I had it for a bit, but reflashed back to my 3.2.1 daily driver. Not sure if I could see it through PC, as I don't think I checked. Waste of time I think, as basically, it was 80% Thor Rom, and we all know it doesn't get 3g or gps on a 501.

Moscow Desire said:
Yeah, that's the last of my guesses, and it was the last sets of drivers I installed on my Win7 before I got ADB working. I had issues connecting ADB, and may have just installed the HTC divers, just to connect with my Desire. I think after that, I installed the google drives, and could connect with my 501.
I could always get the PC to recognize the tab, just not through ADB.
With that AOKP rom though, I am not sure. I had it for a bit, but reflashed back to my 3.2.1 daily driver. Not sure if I could see it through PC, as I don't think I checked. Waste of time I think, as basically, it was 80% Thor Rom, and we all know it doesn't get 3g or gps on a 501.
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I can't get it to recognize through ADB either. I'd love to try another ICS ROM, but I have to go through Dropbox and it gave me a smaller file name, so it isn't as safe. Might try to download through my a500.
I do have a Nandroid of 3.2.1, bit I doubt that could fix my issues.
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skadude66 said:
I can't get it to recognize through ADB either. I'd love to try another ICS ROM, but I have to go through Dropbox and it gave me a smaller file name, so it isn't as safe. Might try to download through my a500.
I do have a Nandroid of 3.2.1, bit I doubt that could fix my issues.
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Found this;
http://forum.tegraowners.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=350
What is interesting is the part about Acer ADB USB drivers. No link, so will have to search.
EDIT: Link
http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/17456-usb-drivers/

Can't get my computer to recognize my kindle

I can not find a USB driver that will let my windows vista machine read my kindle. I tried the driver from kindle fire utility and that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
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that doesn't work
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is'nt really much information
would try to follow:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22342376&postcount=6

pbailey212 said:
I can not find a USB driver that will let my windows vista machine read my kindle. I tried the driver from kindle fire utility and that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
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you running custom rom?
If so, after you hook up kindle, look in status bar of kindle for usb icon. Click that and turn on USB storage. That will make your kindle accessible as a drive in windows.

What I did when this happened to me was factory reset kindle (it was on stock rom in process of rooting) and then got recovery and stuff. Then mounted usb from recovery and flashed CM9

I'm running stock, I just got it last night and wanted to root it and put android market on it. And when my free month of prime expired I was going to put cm7 or 9 on it. I'm very familiar with android. Is there a way to turn on debug with stock?
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on the stock rom usb debugging is allways enabled by default
there is no option to turn it off

I've found that Jayceooi's link on installing the ADB USB driver helped get the USB driver to install properly. Make sure to also check the link about installing the Android SDK Dev Environment.

YayILikePie said:
I've found that Jayceooi's link on installing the ADB USB driver helped get the USB driver to install properly. Make sure to also check the link about installing the Android SDK Dev Environment.
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I already have android adk installed on windows. I finally decided to dual boot my PC with Ubuntu so hopefully I can get my fire rooted soon. I got Java 7 sdk. Installed, I just ran out of time and haven't loaded adb yet. Hopefully this will work
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I think I soft bricked the KFHD 7', help pls.

So I was following pesano's KFHD tweak thread and found out that my int.d was probably not working, so I decided to re-do the process. I wasn't thinking straight and deleted the install-recovery.sh (this is the only one that has an original file) without copying over the new file, and rebooted. Now my kindle is bricked, I think, I can see the kindle fire logo and then the screen goes blank (still has power). When I plugged it in PC, it can be detected as Kindle, but the driver is not taking effect (yellow exclaimation in device manager), and could not connect as usb device either. Is there any easy way to get it back without fastreboot cable?
Thanks a lot.

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So I was following pesano's KFHD tweak thread and found out that my int.d was probably not working, so I decided to re-do the process. I wasn't thinking straight and deleted the install-recovery.sh (this is the only one that has an original file) without copying over the new file, and rebooted. Now my kindle is bricked, I think, I can see the kindle fire logo and then the screen goes blank (still has power). When I plugged it in PC, it can be detected as Kindle, but the driver is not taking effect (yellow exclaimation in device manager), and could not connect as usb device either. Is there any easy way to get it back without fastreboot cable?
Thanks a lot.
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No.. and really you shouldn't be doing these things without a fastboot cable.. What do you mean by the driver does not take effect? It sounds like you need to fix the bootloader. I would head over to the Kindle Fire First Aide thread and talk to Chris and see if he can help you out. Is adb working or have you checked? If adb is working then you will be able to enter fastboot without the cable..

I meant I had the drivers installed before but now the device is not using them although it was showing up in Windows 7 device manager as "Kindle". The adb is not working, showing "device not found".
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procter said:
I meant I had the drivers installed before but now the device is not using them although it was showing up in Windows 7 device manager as "Kindle". The adb is not working, showing "device not found".
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Ok so uninstall drivers, click delete driver software, unplug kindle and reinstall drivers.. and then see if adb works.. It should work..Did you have adb working previously?

lacoursiere18 said:
Ok so uninstall drivers, click delete driver software, unplug kindle and reinstall drivers.. and then see if adb works.. It should work..Did you have adb working previously?
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I hardly remember if I used adb commands for rooting this device. I followed the guide here, which runs a series of bat files.
I tried re-installing the kindle drivers (without deleting them first, so it's an overwriting process), and then reboot the PC. Still the same symptoms: "kindle" was listed in device manager of windows 7 but with the yellow exclaimation mark, tried "update driver" pointing to the kindle driver folder but was told that system could not find/install driver in that location.

procter said:
I hardly remember if I used adb commands for rooting this device. I followed the guide here, which runs a series of bat files.
I tried re-installing the kindle drivers (without deleting them first, so it's an overwriting process), and then reboot the PC. Still the same symptoms: "kindle" was listed in device manager of windows 7 but with the yellow exclaimation mark, tried "update driver" pointing to the kindle driver folder but was told that system could not find/install driver in that location.
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You have to update it manually. Do not let the computer find it, you have to find it where you downloaded it too. Follow this guide:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547 the ADB section is towards the middle of the original post.. By the way this a great guide if you hav other questions as well

lacoursiere18 said:
You have to update it manually. Do not let the computer find it, you have to find it where you downloaded it too. Follow this guide:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547 the ADB section is towards the middle of the original post.. By the way this a great guide if you hav other questions as well
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Yes I was referring to manually point to the folder I downloaded the kindle fire usb driver when "updating the driver" in device manager. The automatic search driver never worked. But still, even if I pinpointed the directory where the driver sits, windows still told me could not install the driver.
And btw, the guide you linked to is for Kindle Fire, not kindle fire hd,, does it matter then? Thx.

procter said:
Yes I was referring to manually point to the folder I downloaded the kindle fire usb driver when "updating the driver" in device manager. The automatic search driver never worked. But still, even if I pinpointed the directory where the driver sits, windows still told me could not install the driver.
And btw, the guide you linked to is for Kindle Fire, not kindle fire hd,, does it matter then? Thx.
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A lot of it is the same I am sure some aspects of the GUIDE do not work but as far as installing ADB drivers it is good. Did you uninstall it and also hit delete all software with driver?

did u recover
Did u get your he back up I did something simaler and got mine back sounds like I could help u:good:

KFHD 7 Stuck at splash screen
techdeisel said:
Did u get your he back up I did something simaler and got mine back sounds like I could help u:good:
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Hey. I am having a terrible time getting my KFHD 7 back to stock. I used KFFirstAide to root it and when I went to restore it back to factory settings it ended up with the holo launcher lock screen and the android start screen. Has no notifier bar at top or menu bar at bottom. Lock screen let's me go online, to the camera, or just unlock. Don't know what happened! It's not recognized in ADB but shows up on computer as Kindle. I just want it back to stock so I can use it again! PLEASE HELP!!

In my situation, when trying to update the "Kindle" driver from Windows device manager, use the option to let you choose install driver from a list of devices instead of pointing to the directory where you have the adb driver (it will always tell you can't install even if u point it to the right directory).
In my case, I had all the drivers installed already, so when I use the option to install from the list of known devices, I can choose so"Android adb" or sth similar in that list. And after that you will be able to restore the adb connection.
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the the reason your kindle cannot communicate properly with your computer is because it is soft-bricked, only way to recover from a soft-brick is with the use of a fastboot cable, if you are partially soft bricked...ie boot is intact and functional but system filesystem is corrupt you may be able to access fastboot with the use of a fastboot command

Like I tell everyone, go here to solve your problem.
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