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It seems like I go through this every damn time I get a new Android device, so you'd think I'd have figured it out by now, but I haven't.
How the heck to I get ADB working for this device? It's not being recognized by the "adb devices" command right now. As far as I know, I've got the drivers installed (at least, I could communicate via fastboot). I don't know what else I need to do, and would appreciate any help.
How did you get install the drivers? If you haven't done so, you can just grab the drivers from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992345
Stryder5 said:
How did you get install the drivers? If you haven't done so, you can just grab the drivers from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992345
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Yes, that's where I got the drivers (and that's how I got fastboot working).
I've taken the drastic step now of uninstalling the entire SDK thing and am currently re-installing it. We'll see how that goes.
EDIT: yeah, "adb devices" still gives nothing at all.
You need to turn it on first but Developer Options are hidden in Settings. Go into About phone and tap the build version. After 7 times you will have access and you can turn on USB Debugging
chinly43 said:
It seems like I go through this every damn time I get a new Android device, so you'd think I'd have figured it out by now, but I haven't.
How the heck to I get ADB working for this device? It's not being recognized by the "adb devices" command right now. As far as I know, I've got the drivers installed (at least, I could communicate via fastboot). I don't know what else I need to do, and would appreciate any help.
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do you have usb debugging on? its under development under settings. to make it appear, you need to press the about phone 7 times or so. http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-developer-settings-android-42
^^what the user said above. he beat me to it
0.0 said:
do you have usb debugging on? its under development under settings. to make it appear, you need to press the about phone 7 times or so. http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-developer-settings-android-42
^^what the user said above. he beat me to it
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While this was, admittedly, once my problem back in the early days of android, it's not the problem this time. USB debugging is on.
EDIT: I've also reconfirmed that fastboot is still working after the whole re-installation thing.
Anyone have any other ideas? Is it correct that when I plug the phone in, it's detected add an MTP device?
chinly43 said:
Anyone have any other ideas? Is it correct that when I plug the phone in, it's detected add an MTP device?
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thats very odd...perhaps run the android sdk and check for any updates for the drivers and whatever else is needed
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thats very odd...perhaps run the android sdk and check for any updates for the drivers and whatever else is needed
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That's all I can suggest as well, although I can't see what the issue could be
Yer try installing the SDK and downloading the "Google USB Drivers" from there to see if it helps.
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Here try this. It's from the sdk. I just zipped it. https://www.box.com/shared/7sutkummukh4pup0rwoi
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You can just get the windows executable from Google, r21
http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r21-windows.exe
Thanks, everyone who's been reading/trying to help. Unfortunately, it's still not working.
People suggesting the .exe installer - that's how I've installed it each time. Twice now I've uninstalled/reinstalled the SDK. When installing, I choose the SDK tools, SDK platform tools, the 4.2 API (which is probably unnecessary, right?), and the Google USB driver. Each time, ADB has worked *in general*, but will not recognize this device (via the "adb devices" command).
Here's how things are going right now. When I first plug the phone in (with debugging on), if it's not currently installed as a device then it automatically self-installs and shows up as an "mtp" device. I try ADB, doesn't work. I then go in and manually install the drivers found in various places around this board. When I do this, it no longer appears as MTP. This is weird, though, and I didn't notice this last night - when I look at the list of devices in Device Manager in Windows, the category it falls into is "ASUS Android Devices", under which it's listed as "Android Composite ADB Interface", and it still doesn't work.
Something seems wrong about it being listed as ASUS, though. I wonder if all these current difficulties are a result of the problems I had getting my Transformer Prime to work with ADB? If anyone sees anything above that looks like I'm doing something wrong, let me know; I think the next thing I'm going to try is doing this whole process on a fresh computer here at work that's never been exposed to android at all, see how that goes. I'll check back in after I do that.
Have you tried these drivers?...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992345
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Have you tried these drivers?...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992345
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I have, and it still doesn't work on my laptop. However...
It's working! On a shared computed at work that had never had *anything* android-related installed before. Went through the same procedure I did on my own computer, so the problem is with my laptop, I guess. Which I'm more okay with than it being a problem with the phone. I guess I need to more thoroughly remove everything from the laptop, maybe?
An update:
I DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND. why this worked; I haven't changed the drivers or anything on the laptop itself. On a whim, I changed the device type on the N4 from "media device" to "PTP device" and suddenly ADB is recognizing it on the computer where it's never worked. Should I have expected that?
chinly43 said:
An update:
I DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND. why this worked; I haven't changed the drivers or anything on the laptop itself. On a whim, I changed the device type on the N4 from "media device" to "PTP device" and suddenly ADB is recognizing it on the computer where it's never worked. Should I have expected that?
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I have to do that to my Nexus 7 before ADB will recognize it, so you're not alone there.
Just curious, what brand phone did you have before? If it was a samsung and you had all the samsung drivers and what not installed still, this could be causing the problem. My cousin couldn't get adb to recognize his device and we finally discovered the samsung software was conflicting in someway. He uninstalled it all and adb worked like a charm.
I had the same problem, here's what you need to do. When you plug it in, change the settings from MTP to Camera for USB settings. I don't know why, but you need to do it.
dcarpenter85 said:
Just curious, what brand phone did you have before? If it was a samsung and you had all the samsung drivers and what not installed still, this could be causing the problem. My cousin couldn't get adb to recognize his device and we finally discovered the samsung software was conflicting in someway. He uninstalled it all and adb worked like a charm.
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I've got four other android devices that all worked (simultaneously, at that): T-Mobile/HTC G1, Nook Color, T-Mobile/HTC G2, and an Asus Transformer Prime.
Hi,
I tried a lot of other rooting applications and have had no luck with any of them. Then I found Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit. It works for my Nexus 4 (Jelly Bean 4.3) - until I came to the "Full Driver Configuration Guide" - where it gives a message: "ADB device was not found".
I have tried it over several times to no avail. Can anyone offer any clues as to what may be causing this?
btw, I am running the Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.7.2 on Windows 8.
Thank you,
David
I was just having the same problem, and I realized after a while that I was making the STUPID mistake of not noticing that my phone was asking me to confirm USB debugging when the toolkit started searching for ADB devices. If you're as big of a dummy as I am (or just having an off day), this may be your problem
aaronwebstey said:
I was just having the same problem, and I realized after a while that I was making the STUPID mistake of not noticing that my phone was asking me to confirm USB debugging when the toolkit started searching for ADB devices. If you're as big of a dummy as I am (or just having an off day), this may be your problem
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I am having the same problem. Where/how does the phone ask you to confirm USB debugging? It asks me when I turn it on, but not again later.
I have tried 3 or 4 different drivers, but, although the device is recognised by Windows 8, it is not recognised by Root Toolkit.
.... toolkits are the the devil...
They promote not learning what you're doing or what's actually happening in your devices so... there's posts like this.
please read this thread before touching your device
studacris said:
.... toolkits are the the devil...
They promote not learning what you're doing or what's actually happening in your devices so... there's posts like this.
please read this thread before touching your device
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I'm not quite sure how this was supposed to help. My problem is that the ADB drivers do not seem to work on my computer. I have just tried installing the Android SDK (which comes with its own ADB drivers), having first uninstalled all the existing drivers. It did not help.
Not entirely sure where to go from here.
PDAnet's drivers may work. Simply install PDAnet (after uninstalling any previous attempted driver installations) to get the drivers.
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PDAnet's drivers may work. Simply install PDAnet (after uninstalling any previous attempted driver installations) to get the drivers.
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I had installed PDANet from within Root Toolkit, and it didn't work. Just now, I uninstalled everything again, and installed PDANet from their web site. Still get no ADB device in Root Toolkit. [NB I didn't have PDANet on the phone, but it seems to be there now]
I tried running adb from the android SDK, and it says "error: device not found".
However, I noted there was an adb prompt on the phone when I first plugged it in, this time (which I told to always accept).
[Later]
Wierd - it is now a bit further on. This is what I did:
Started PDANet on the phone, and enabled USB tethering.
Started PDANet on the computer, and it connected to the phone. At this point the USB debugging permission thing came up again, and I accepted it (also ticking the box to always accept).
Unticked USB tethering on the phone again.
Stopped PDANet on the computer (right click on icon, exit).
Tried the Root Toolkit again (pressed Root button), it connected to the device, and put it into fastboot mode.
The boot loader appeared on the phone, and the computer said "Checking Fastboot Status".
It seemed to stay like that for ever.
Killed the root toolkit. and tried again.
Left the computer for a while, and when I came back, it had completed.
So, it seems to be working now.
And when you try using fastboot directly instead of the toolkit....... what happens?
changing MTP to camera in USB connection mode did it for me...with MTP it showed correctly in device manager but the toolkit didn't recognise it
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studacris said:
And when you try using fastboot directly instead of the toolkit....... what happens?
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I type "fastboot reboot" at the command prompt.
It replies "< waiting for device >"
I wait a few minutes.
Then I press ^C and the command prompt returns.
P.S. Changing the USB connection to camera doesn't make any difference to the above.
Best idea i didnt notice too
aaronwebstey said:
I was just having the same problem, and I realized after a while that I was making the STUPID mistake of not noticing that my phone was asking me to confirm USB debugging when the toolkit started searching for ADB devices. If you're as big of a dummy as I am (or just having an off day), this may be your problem
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Thanx !!!!!!!
cmajetic said:
changing MTP to camera in USB connection mode did it for me...with MTP it showed correctly in device manager but the toolkit didn't recognise it
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Thank you so much! This solved it for me :good:
nikkilocke said:
I type "fastboot reboot" at the command prompt.
It replies "< waiting for device >"
I wait a few minutes.
Then I press ^C and the command prompt returns.
P.S. Changing the USB connection to camera doesn't make any difference to the above.
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I got stuck the same way.
The way to got around was to change connection to camera -> the PC is intalling some drivers,
then turn off the USB debugging -> the PC is again installing some drivers,
then turn on the USB debugging -> "bingo" adb mode recognized by the toolkit
Now I can install and enjoy Kikat 4.4.1 :good:
cmajetic said:
changing MTP to camera in USB connection mode did it for me...with MTP it showed correctly in device manager but the toolkit didn't recognise it
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I found the same solution, changing over from MTP to CAMERA suddenly had the toolkit recognise the phone and could boot it to unlock then root it... Previously, I had installed PDA drivers...
I am astonished how PATHETIC nexus phones/tablets are at simply connecting to a PC. I am baffled at the attempt by google to make their devices as UN-plug & play friendly as possible... bizarre! I have a N10, N7 and have had two N5's and all have the same PITA random disability....
grrr...
Mark.
So the Nexus toolkit is able to see the Nexus 7 as a media device but not Windows ?
marcelin99 said:
I got stuck the same way.
The way to got around was to change connection to camera -> the PC is intalling some drivers,
then turn off the USB debugging -> the PC is again installing some drivers,
then turn on the USB debugging -> "bingo" adb mode recognized by the toolkit
Now I can install and enjoy Kikat 4.4.1 :good:
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So the Nexus 7 toolkit is able to see the Nexus 7 as media device with this method, but not Windows ? That's strange because Windows is supposed to see your files within the Nexus via Mtp mode. Is it that google removed the ability for Windows to be able to see Nexus 7 files in Android kit kat 4.4.2. What should I do then if I simply want to view files inside Nexus as a non root user ? B.T.W I'm currently on stock kitkat 4.4.2 build KOT49H. Therefore, I'd gladly appreciate it if anyone out there would answer this question and thanks in advance. Feel free to PM me on this so we can "talk" about this. : )
cmajetic said:
changing MTP to camera in USB connection mode did it for me...with MTP it showed correctly in device manager but the toolkit didn't recognise it
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Success.
Well, mtp connection works perfectly fine in my Windows 7 machine. But on my xp machine I could never get it to work no matter what driver combination I used.
I can see the reason they changed to mtp but I found mass storage to be much more user friendly.
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as others, I was using WUG kit to get back to stock. I was stuck without USB degugging options. Installing PDAnet did the trick, installing drivers so that I was able to get WUG working. I am now stock. All traces on my tinkering are gone. Later this week I will upgrade to a Galaxy Mega and trade in my Galaxy Nexus that I have loved for 3 plus years.
Stuck on fastboot screen
GranPaSmurf said:
as others, I was using WUG kit to get back to stock. I was stuck without USB degugging options. Installing PDAnet did the trick, installing drivers so that I was able to get WUG working. I am now stock. All traces on my tinkering are gone. Later this week I will upgrade to a Galaxy Mega and trade in my Galaxy Nexus that I have loved for 3 plus years.
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Hi
Happy New Year to all! unfortunately I am left with the unusable nexus 7 that happened last night.
I was going crazy with the lags with lollipop and was waiting for the 5.0.5 update OTA but the delay was making me go crazy so I decided to take the risk of manually flashing the image using ADB and SDK.
Like many others pointed, I knew how to enable my computer to see my device by switching from MTP to PTP mode from my earlier rooting experience with Samsung, HTC and others. So that was not an issue for me.
I was following a tutorial from androidcentral and half way through I went to check a tutorial on youtube which I think caused the disaster. After I executed the adb devices no devices were detected and like I said I went and changed the MTP mode to off and bingo now my device was detected.
I executed device unlock and currently my device is in unlocked bootloaded state which is displayed in the fastboot screen where I am stuck now. Following the youtube instead of flashing each separately bootloader first and then the factory image I jumped to 'flash-all.bat' command...I saw something say on my command prompt on pc that completed in so many seconds or minutes which led me to get anxious and since no rebooting happened on the device I went and manually tried to press the power button.
From that time I am stuck on the fastboot screen. I can cycle through 'power off', restart booloader, recovery mode and start. But when I select 'restart bootloader' it comes to 'start' in the same mode and when I select that I can see a tiny 'Booting failed' in white letters in tiny fonts on the top left side of the 'Start'. I cannot go past this state.
Since I know the last time I had enabled 'usb debugging' and MTP off before everything went wrong I am presuming those states are still intact. I can see status on 'reboot bootloader' screen that my bootloader is unlocked.
Now, when I try to go through the process again my device is seen in device manager but when I send 'adb devices' command it cannot detect any devices. If my device is usable I can atleast go into settings to see if my MTP state and usb debugging status. Now I don't have that option. I even tried the Nexus Root Toolkit - everything is fine but until it tests the driver to finally say 'ADB device not found'.
After browsing so many posts I spotted there were some posts that said there is some discrepancy between the device id as listed by the driver to what actually is usb.inf, which all is too technical and overboard for me. And finally left me thinking that it is some issue of Windows PC as someone pointed that the ADB device was detected on a MAC. So I am now thinking to give it a shot in a mac machine as a final attempt to recover my device.
Anyone please suggest a solution, apologies if this is covered by someone elsewhere in the forum if so please point me there. I will make sure that from next time I will never do a manual flash of factory image.
please help!
It sounds like you are on top of it, but haven't hit the right combination yet. Thanks for the quote and I am sorry I am unable to offer any help. As mentioned in my post, I have switched to the Galaxy Mega and was pleasantly surprised by the OTA upgrade to 4.4. Now I am trying to figure out how to root it.
Hey guys ,let's get straight. I'm totally dumb.
After flashing Lollipop factory img which reseted my internal storage (made a backup on PC), today I decided to try AOSP. Downloaded with my phone, flashed it. But the file was corrupted (bad download or something). Results : I only had that rom on my internal storage, my phone won't boot. I thought I could use NRT, although it as always worked fine, now it keeps telling me "adb device not found", "no fastboot devices". So, actually I can't do anything and I can't see what can I do.. already tried reinstalling drivers, but windows isn't even showing my nexus 4 on device manager
Looks like I need help, and sleep too..
Pedrau said:
Hey guys ,let's get straight. I'm totally dumb.
After flashing Lollipop factory img which reseted my internal storage (made a backup on PC), today I decided to try AOSP. Downloaded with my phone, flashed it. But the file was corrupted (bad download or something). Results : I only had that rom on my internal storage, my phone won't boot. I thought I could use NRT, although it as always worked fine, now it keeps telling me "adb device not found", "no fastboot devices". So, actually I can't do anything and I can't see what can I do.. already tried reinstalling drivers, but windows isn't even showing my nexus 4 on device manager
Looks like I need help, and sleep too..
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Hmm can you get at least to the bootloader menu. If you can, there's still hope. At this time, you're better off using the manual commands rather than the NRT (the NRT use a set of pre-configured scripts and doesn't always end up where you would like to) Have you tried to also plug your device inside another USB port?
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Hmm can you get at least to the bootloader menu. If you can, there's still hope. At this time, you're better off using the manual commands rather than the NRT (the NRT use a set of pre-configured scripts and doesn't always end up where you would like to) Have you tried to also plug your device inside another USB port?
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Yes I can acces to bootloader and TRWP. Tried another USB port, another USB cable, using manual commands it says " <waiting for device>" and nothing happen..
What drivers are you using. I use the Google usb driver available here
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
How to install these drivers here
http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#InstallingDriver
You also need the android platform tools installed on your pc for adb and fast boot commands to work. I use this installer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Make sure you have completed these steps on your PC before you connect it to your nexus.
venu123 said:
What drivers are you using. I use the Google usb driver available here
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
How to install these drivers here
http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#InstallingDriver
You also need the android platform tools installed on your pc for adb and fast boot commands to work. I use this installer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Make sure you have completed these steps on your PC before you connect it to your nexus.
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Thanks buddy , but my drivers were fine before all this. And now i can't reinstall it that way since my nexus isn't even showing up on device manager, I used another method from NRT. Gonna test on w7..
EDIT: Problem solved using windows 7. There seems to have problem with drivers on windows 8.1
Yes, in windows 8 you need to disable driver signature enforcement. In windows 7 no problem.
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Yes, in windows 8 you need to disable driver signature enforcement. In windows 7 no problem.
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I didn't have to on Windows 8.1.
I have followed Heisenbergs instructions to the letter but when I issue the adb devices command it just returns the string "list of devices" and that's it. Fastboot devices doesn't work either.
So I'm stuck at the start. Can anyone help me? From what I can tell I may need drivers but I'm new to this so I don't know.
I can give anyone more info if they need it.
I believe part of the instructions are to install the Platform Tools, which should include drivers. Try running the SDK Manager and updating or installing the drivers again. Also ensure you have USB Debugging ON in your Developer settings and OEM Unlocking enabled. Lastly, tap the notification in your shade about the USB connection (I think it defaults to Charging Only) and change it to various modes. Mine seems to only work on PTP mode. When you run the adb devices command you will need to authorize the connection on the phone end the first time by clicking OK so make sure the screen is on and unlocked so you can see it.
Hope this helps.
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I have followed Heisenbergs instructions to the letter but when I issue the adb devices command it just returns the string "list of devices" and that's it. Fastboot devices doesn't work either.
So I'm stuck at the start. Can anyone help me? From what I can tell I may need drivers but I'm new to this so I don't know.
I can give anyone more info if they need it.
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u enable OEM Unlock under developer settings?
You enable USB debugging?
Me personally do not get any strings of data returned when im on fastboot
i open CMD, run ADB DEVICES, get message saying the port is opening, and then listing devices... which is empty
but i am able to flash anything i want using fastboot....
try this command and see if it works after that... fastboot reboot-bootloader
it should reboot bootloader for u.. thats a easy way to know its responding to u
Is the device showing properly in the Device Manager when it's connected to your system?
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Is the device showing properly in the Device Manager when it's connected to your system?
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It shows up in windows explorer as "Nexus 6p" when I plug in the USB cable.
I have USB debugging and unlock bootloader checked in settings.
My fastboot devices command returns nothing.
peckaldee said:
It shows up in windows explorer as "Nexus 6p" when I plug in the USB cable.
I have USB debugging and unlock bootloader checked in settings.
My fastboot devices command returns nothing.
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Did you change the USB mode? Mine shows in Explorer as you described but won't work in ADB/Fastboot until I change it to PTP.
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Did you change the USB mode? Mine shows in Explorer as you described but won't work in ADB/Fastboot until I change it to PTP.
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Yeah I tried every option. Nothing.
The instructions say the fastboot devices command should return my serial number and it does not.
When booted into the bootloader one it tells me on one line phone LOCKED and on another line says download mode DISABLED.
Don't know if this has anything to do with my problems but I still cannot get a return on the fastboot devices command in order to proceed with the unlock command of "fastboot flashing unlock"
remember that u need latest fastboot for this to work.
did u updated the SDK manager to the latest? i had to do that in order to work for 6P
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remember that u need latest fastboot for this to work.
did u updated the SDK manager to the latest? i had to do that in order to work for 6P
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I'm using sdk manager revision 24.4.1
peckaldee said:
I have followed Heisenbergs instructions to the letter but when I issue the adb devices command it just returns the string "list of devices" and that's it. Fastboot devices doesn't work either.
So I'm stuck at the start. Can anyone help me? From what I can tell I may need drivers but I'm new to this so I don't know.
I can give anyone more info if they need it.
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I had the same issue ,it was down to when I plugged the phone into the PC for the first time,it installed the Google.USB driver ,but it didn't install the driver for the adb interface,I had to download it from Google and install it manually
I also had the same issue, I had an old Clockworkmod generic driver that I was using for my Samsung Galaxy S5 installed.
Go to Device manager (either type it in the start menu, or: right click This PC, click manage, and click device manager), plug in your unlocked Nexus 6P phone and watch for a new item to pop up. If it says android something, uninstall it. I had to uninstall 3 times, then reinstall the drivers from the SDK before it would work.
I used the skipsoft toolkit to install the fb drivers; worked for me. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...ol-skipsoft-android-toolkit-nexus-6p-t3234159
but like others said, you may have to manually remove any that are already installed in windows, although I think that is one of the options in the toolkit.
mbonus said:
I used the skipsoft toolkit to install the fb drivers; worked for me. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...ol-skipsoft-android-toolkit-nexus-6p-t3234159
but like others said, you may have to manually remove any that are already installed in windows, although I think that is one of the options in the toolkit.
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This worked. Now my commands in terminal are working correctly. thanks all for the help
Got A device to pop up under the command adb devices, but nothing under fastboot devices. Any tips? Had to follow the skipsoft instructions to install adb/fastboot devices. Yes USB Debugging is on and the OEM unlocking is set to allow..
Christ I'm retarded. Sorry boys, thought my phone was in the bootloader when I was trying this command LOL
Same problem
peckaldee said:
When booted into the bootloader one it tells me on one line phone LOCKED and on another line says download mode DISABLED.
Don't know if this has anything to do with my problems but I still cannot get a return on the fastboot devices command in order to proceed with the unlock command of "fastboot flashing unlock"
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I'm having the same problem. Did you ever figure out what was wrong?
mbonus said:
I used the skipsoft toolkit to install the fb drivers; worked for me. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...ol-skipsoft-android-toolkit-nexus-6p-t3234159
but like others said, you may have to manually remove any that are already installed in windows, although I think that is one of the options in the toolkit.
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Solved my problem as well. Thanks!
as i've posted on another forum here:
i know that it's a bit silly to create an entire thread for one guy's problem, but i am stuck and probably going to give up hope when it comes to rooting my s5 neo (again, g903f), which is running android 5.1.1.
several days worth of research have yielded nothing. i can connect to my device using mtp, and i have usb 2 and 3 ports. lsusb and adb are working for me; i have set udev rules and "adb devices" returns my phone's serial number and its status. usb debugging is enabled as is the oem unlock (though whenever i try to disable developer tools and put them on again, the gui messes itself up and it won't let me turn them off, even if i refuse to put in my device's password). that's the only success i've had.
fastboot isn't working; "fastboot devices" shows nothing and it hangs at "< waiting for device>" with other commands, such as "fastboot oem unlock". adb won't work in download mode, either - though this is expected. rebooting into download mode via adb doesn't fix my problem, nor does using "sudo" or the root account.
odin3 won't work either despite the window opening with wine; the device never shows up in download mode. heimdall also doesn't seem to detect my device - although it might just be down to my ignorance.
the usual root tools, such as srsroot and kingo don't seem to do any good, though neither worked under wine, which helps to diagnose the problem. i have no access to windows, even through vmware.
i feel like everything i do only brings me one step closer to a brick wall, which i'm hitting all the time. it's like i've been chosen to experience this. if any of you guys can help me to get this phone rooted, i'd probably scream out of sheer ecstasy. and no, "try getting a girlfriend" who has windows isn't an answer.
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new things: i know that usb support in wine is nonexistent, thus i need to know how to get wine to see my device if i need to use odin (with kies for the drivers). adb works only intermittently; it sometimes doesn't see my device. i'm not sure if i can use mac osx in a vm, either.
can i get samsung drivers for linux at all? or am i hopelessly screwed? all i wanna do is root, get twrp, get xposed and then work from there.
Hi!
I answered your previous thread, but now I understand your problem
I see you are trying with vmware
would you use virtualbox?