I'm running OTA 4.0.3 (Acer_AV041_A500_1.033.00_PA_CUS1) rooted with I don't know what tool, but rooted after upgrading to 4.0.3, and using one of the tools found here which was the latest (at the time of rooting). The tablet has an "A500 Root Tools" app which has options to enter APX mode amongst other things.
I'm unable to get my Acer to connect to my PC via USB. I tried using both a mini(?)-usb cable and an A-A cable. My acer makes no notification, and there's no visible, or audible, evidence that anything was connected. USB Debugging enabled and disabled makes no difference. The tablet shows absolutely no sign that anything was plugged in. Nothing in notifications, nothing in any file managers.
Likewise on both a Windows 7 PC, and a Windows Vista machine. No little sound saying I plugged something in. Nothing listed in device manager. Nothing anywhere. The Win7 machine has the Acer drivers installed, as it is the machine I used to root it a few months ago.
Is there some weird ICS toggle that I need to perform to get this working? I know my USB ports are working as I've plugged in USB sticks and it mounts them without issue.
At the end of the day, I'm just wanting to flash my bootloader so that I can install CWM and a custom ROM. If there's a way to do that without needing my PC connected, that would make me equally happy.
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Anthony820 said:
I'm running OTA 4.0.3 (Acer_AV041_A500_1.033.00_PA_CUS1) rooted with I don't know what tool, but rooted after upgrading to 4.0.3, and using one of the tools found here which was the latest (at the time of rooting). The tablet has an "A500 Root Tools" app which has options to enter APX mode amongst other things.
I'm unable to get my Acer to connect to my PC via USB. I tried using both a mini(?)-usb cable and an A-A cable. My acer makes no notification, and there's no visible, or audible, evidence that anything was connected. USB Debugging enabled and disabled makes no difference. The tablet shows absolutely no sign that anything was plugged in. Nothing in notifications, nothing in any file managers.
Likewise on both a Windows 7 PC, and a Windows Vista machine. No little sound saying I plugged something in. Nothing listed in device manager. Nothing anywhere. The Win7 machine has the Acer drivers installed, as it is the machine I used to root it a few months ago.
Is there some weird ICS toggle that I need to perform to get this working? I know my USB ports are working as I've plugged in USB sticks and it mounts them without issue.
At the end of the day, I'm just wanting to flash my bootloader so that I can install CWM and a custom ROM. If there's a way to do that without needing my PC connected, that would make me equally happy.
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Reinstall the Acer Drivers and also the Google drivers from the android sdk if u have that installed, if not use the adb_fast.zip attached. For you to successfully flash the BL do not underestimate the importance of having the drivers correctly installed - its the cause of 90% of the problems folks have had - my advice is to keep Device Manager open the whole time so you can see what is or isn't installing - dont proceed with the flash until you are sure they are - else you'll be looking at a downgrade to HC to fix things
you can also use Acer Recovery Installer from the market to install a custom recovery
While I appreciate your help, my issue is not drivers - Windows isn't loading the wrong drivers, or no drivers at all. Windows is showing no sign at all, at all, in device manger, any where, that a tablet has been plugged in. Like wise, the tablet gives ZERO notifications on being plugged in to a PC. Nothing. No sounds. No notification. Nothing.
I was originally using the micro(?) usb slot, and it was not working. I assumed that USB slot was dead. So I went and bought a USB A-A cable - after testing the normal USB slot and established it works - and it, too, does absolutely nothing when plugging the device into a PC.
I've since tested with an Ubuntu 12.04 machine as well. dmesg lists nothing.
Anthony820 said:
While I appreciate your help, my issue is not drivers - Windows isn't loading the wrong drivers, or no drivers at all. Windows is showing no sign at all, at all, in device manger, any where, that a tablet has been plugged in. Like wise, the tablet gives ZERO notifications on being plugged in to a PC. Nothing. No sounds. No notification. Nothing.
I was originally using the micro(?) usb slot, and it was not working. I assumed that USB slot was dead. So I went and bought a USB A-A cable - after testing the normal USB slot and established it works - and it, too, does absolutely nothing when plugging the device into a PC.
I've since tested with an Ubuntu 12.04 machine as well. dmesg lists nothing.
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open a command prompt on yr adb folder and run "adb devices" what do u see?
List of devices attached.. then nothing but my prompt.
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List of devices attached.. then nothing but my prompt.
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and the adb interface driver thats not showing in device manager?? and you have the acer drivers installed??
All the signs are pointing to no drivers, failing that its sounding like a hardware issue either yr tab or cable - can u try on another pc/laptop?
Tested it on a Win 7 Dell, on a Vista Dell, and on an Ubuntu 12.04 Compaq. None show any sign of the device being connected.
I know my *two* micro USB cords work as my Nooks (color and tablet) have no problem with them. I know the large USB slot works as I've plugged in a keyboard and a USB memory stick and both are immediately detected by android.
I've also done a factory reset on the tab. Problem persists, obviously.
I'm actually setting up stock Win7 on another laptop right now. When it's complete I'll install acer drivers and plug in the tablet. It will be the only USB device, let alone android, to ever be plugged in to it.
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Tested it on a Win 7 Dell, on a Vista Dell, and on an Ubuntu 12.04 Compaq. None show any sign of the device being connected.
I know my *two* micro USB cords work as my Nooks (color and tablet) have no problem with them. I know the large USB slot works as I've plugged in a keyboard and a USB memory stick and both are immediately detected by android.
I've also done a factory reset on the tab. Problem persists, obviously.
I'm actually setting up stock Win7 on another laptop right now. When it's complete I'll install acer drivers and plug in the tablet. It will be the only USB device, let alone android, to ever be plugged in to it.
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cool let us know how u go....oh dont forget the adb drivers too
Same. I feel like it's something on the tablet rather than the PCs. But I don't know how to get 100% stock again without being able to have a PC connection.
Anthony820 said:
Same. I feel like it's something on the tablet rather than the PCs. But I don't know how to get 100% stock again without being able to have a PC connection.
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The tool you used to root it (icsRoot) also has an unroot tool, which you could have used...I have tried to unroot manually which wasnt easy as I had a pre-rooted rom and I had real trouble getting rid of superuser, but in your case it may be a bit different....Sorry can't give you much help in the unrooting ics dept. Maybe try flashing acer stock rom??? or starting a new thread??
Did you ever solve this problem, I'm pulling my hair out with the same thing.
irishmoe said:
Did you ever solve this problem, I'm pulling my hair out with the same thing.
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are you trying to flash something or do you mean when you connect yr tab
windowz explorer doesnt show your int/ext storage??
more info needed, what rom and bootloader, what OS on yr pc can u try on a different one, try a different cable and usb port..
have you run the acer drivers setup.exe
did u install the android usb ones
have u opened a command prompt from the folder where adb.exe is and run "adb devices"...does a number show??
when u have device manager open and connect yr cable do you see the drivers install. If they are there then uninstall them, disconnect yr cable and clean boot and reconnect.
If they do not install then manually install by pointing them to the folder you extracted the zip to...for the acer ones, just point it to your c: drive
If windows trys to install them, stop the hardware wizard from searching windows update and manually install them yourself.
If you've tried to flash the bootloader and it hasnt completed for what ever reason - you can strike issues such as yours - again, uninstall, clean boot, reconnect, manual install
I have my own thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776448
but came across this one and thought I'd ask if there was any solution found.
irishmoe said:
I have my own thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776448
but came across this one and thought I'd ask if there was any solution found.
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ok m8, i havng a look at it now....when u connect to yr pc does win explorer show u yr internal/external storage ok??
Have you tried an app like USB host controller to check the connection on the tablets side?
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Have you tried an app like USB host controller to check the connection on the tablets side?
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I regularly use a memory stick in the usb port so I reckon it's fine
what about the micro-usb port?
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what about the micro-usb port?
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Lost the cable so using the regular port
irishmoe said:
Lost the cable so using the regular port
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I replied earlier in the other thread m8
U must use the micro USB
irishmoe said:
Lost the cable so using the regular port
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I replied earlier in the other thread m8
U must use the micro USB
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That's correct, a straight USB "A to A" won't work. Further, I discovered something else; not all micro-usb cables are created equally! I was using a cable that worked fine on my Thunderbolt phone, would not work at all on my A500. Turned out there's some enhancements to the pinouts on the newer micro-usb devices. So the lesson here is go with the cable that came with the device if at all possible.
Seriously though, give a different micro-usb cable a shot; they're pretty cheap around the interwebz.
My NP arrived in the post today. Installed Plex, Netflix and Youtube etc - all great. But now I want to install Kodi.
I followed many different guides (I am not to rooting or anything and understand ADB etc). I'm an Android dev for a living so I know I have all the drivers setup just fine. So, when I plug a USB OTG cable the NP doesnt see it, odd I thought. I plugged the NP into my Linux machine, nothing (adb usb shows nothing no matter what), same with my OSX laptop and Windows device manager doesn't think anything is connected.
I've therefore come to one of two conclusions... 1) the USB port is broken / disabled 2) i'm an idiot. I actually don't think it's the latter in this case.
Can someone assist me please?
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My NP arrived in the post today. Installed Plex, Netflix and Youtube etc - all great. But now I want to install Kodi.
I followed many different guides (I am not to rooting or anything and understand ADB etc). I'm an Android dev for a living so I know I have all the drivers setup just fine. So, when I plug a USB OTG cable the NP doesnt see it, odd I thought. I plugged the NP into my Linux machine, nothing (adb usb shows nothing no matter what), same with my OSX laptop and Windows device manager doesn't think anything is connected.
I've therefore come to one of two conclusions... 1) the USB port is broken / disabled 2) i'm an idiot. I actually don't think it's the latter in this case.
Can someone assist me please?
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I'm having the same problem, adb devices and fastboot devices isn't finding anything except for once. I was lucky enough for adb devices to find it once but as soon as I booted into fastboot it stopped working again. Of course I have tried different usb cables, ports and all works when using them on different phones. pretty frustrating.
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alexktz said:
My NP arrived in the post today. Installed Plex, Netflix and Youtube etc - all great. But now I want to install Kodi.
I followed many different guides (I am not to rooting or anything and understand ADB etc). I'm an Android dev for a living so I know I have all the drivers setup just fine. So, when I plug a USB OTG cable the NP doesnt see it, odd I thought. I plugged the NP into my Linux machine, nothing (adb usb shows nothing no matter what), same with my OSX laptop and Windows device manager doesn't think anything is connected.
I've therefore come to one of two conclusions... 1) the USB port is broken / disabled 2) i'm an idiot. I actually don't think it's the latter in this case.
Can someone assist me please?
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you can install es file explorer from your pc by going to the google store and selecting your nexus player, you can then sync your google drive account and use it to install sideloader.
try stick mount to mount thumb drive , you can push apps and install them with skipsofts tool kit...
This is a new problem.
I had no problem before the 5.1.1 update. I have a OTG with four USB ports and an Ethernet port all of which worked perfectly before the update. I already have ES file explorer but since the Nexus plus doesn't recognize any USB device any more it's worthless at the moment.
Hello!
I have a Nexus 4 (currently running the latest CM12 nightly) and I have been struggling with this issue for a long time. I needed to transfer some photos on my PC and when I connected my phone I found out that the PC doesn't recognize it at all - it doesn't appear in the Device manager and I don't even have Other devices and/or Android devices as categories in there too. This was about a few months ago when my PC was running Windows 8.1. Before this issue occured I had no problems connecting my phone to the same PC, running the same OS and even in the same port. And also I was running CM nightly builds back at that time too. I started using AirDroid, but it's a pain the butt to transfer masses of files such as photos from there, because it takes a huge amount of time. So basically I have tried the following with no result:
Turned on USB debugging
Tried all of the PC ports and even a USB hub
Tried a different USB cable
Installed Android SDK
Deleted every single USB driver and reinstalled it seperately
Now I am running Windows 10 64x on my PC and it might come as a surprise, but the phone still is not being recognized at all. Yesterday I tried to connect it to a friend's PC and it was actually recognized and I could access i, but I need it to work on my own PC. I will be truly grateful if you could help me resolve this issue and I apologize if there has ever been such a thread in here, but I just made my account Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
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Hello!
I have a Nexus 4 (currently running the latest CM12 nightly) and I have been struggling with this issue for a long time. I needed to transfer some photos on my PC and when I connected my phone I found out that the PC doesn't recognize it at all - it doesn't appear in the Device manager and I don't even have Other devices and/or Android devices as categories in there too. This was about a few months ago when my PC was running Windows 8.1. Before this issue occured I had no problems connecting my phone to the same PC, running the same OS and even in the same port. And also I was running CM nightly builds back at that time too. I started using AirDroid, but it's a pain the butt to transfer masses of files such as photos from there, because it takes a huge amount of time. So basically I have tried the following with no result:
Turned on USB debugging
Tried all of the PC ports and even a USB hub
Tried a different USB cable
Installed Android SDK
Deleted every single USB driver and reinstalled it seperately
Now I am running Windows 10 64x on my PC and it might come as a surprise, but the phone still is not being recognized at all. Yesterday I tried to connect it to a friend's PC and it was actually recognized and I could access i, but I need it to work on my own PC. I will be truly grateful if you could help me resolve this issue and I apologize if there has ever been such a thread in here, but I just made my account Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
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So, with Win 8.1, at one point, Microsoft via their Win updates pushed out an Acer ADB Device Driver which was complete sheet, and you had to roll it back to get it to work. I only vaguely recall the details, but sounds like you uninstalled them. Here is a thread on the issue: http://www.eightforums.com/drivers-...usb-issue-since-last-windows-8-1-updates.html
You might try downloading Wug's NRT, and going through the driver clean up and install steps and see if that fixes it. You may have some USB device which needs to be removed or failed. The Toolkit will walk you through the process. Also, remember on W10, you do not get an obvious pop-up (to the point I have questioned whether my device was detected), but if you click the Messages bubble in the bottom right of the screen and expand it, if it detects, it will tell you a device was detected.
I dont have a laptop to move near my Shield Tv to use adb. Could all the same be done on my Android phone using Terminal Emulator, or does that over-complicate rooting the Shield Tv?
No help yet....?
Well first you'd have to have adb/fastboot and you'd have to have driver's to connect to device.
I fly racing drones and have seen a clean flight app for configuring flight controller changes. That involves connecting your quad flight controller to your Android device with a USB cable. Typically you would use a PC with drivers very similar an operation to running fastboot to root your phone. I think it comes down to which device is running command prompt can connect with its drivers to the Target device
You should post in other forums like in adb development forum or Nexus up forum.
I suppose I could try it for the yucks... But, since your the One asking? Why don't you just download a Terminal Editor (From the PlayStore), which should allow you to use (e.g. emulate), ADB at the least of it. Not sure if it'll be of much help to you at the Fastboot Level though.
TBQH: I'm not sure this is the best plan of attack. As you would almost have to be very meticulous here, as to not accidentally flash your Phablet with the Shield TV Firmware, or vise-versa.
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Just outta ****s, and giggles I decided to just try it out to see how far One could get with it. As it turns out, you can at least get into the Fastboot System like this. However since I don't have anything like Fastboot, or ADB as a callable executable (From Emulated Android Terminal), I can't issue any Fastboot commands durr.
It could be interesting to look Into if there isn't an Android OS version of Fastboot that could be ran from the Terminal. But, my guess is there wouldn't be. As 99.9% of Devices out there don't require you to be patched into a USB Host just to get into Fastboot / Update / Recovery Mode. And for the times when you do need a PC there is bespoke Software like Kies, or Odin out there to make that task simpler.
*EDIT II*
A quick shufti on ATE, and Fastboot brought up this Gem.
http://www.nairaland.com/2351005/how-set-up-run-fastboot
Of course the usual caveats about being Rooted, (The Device from which you plan to root from. e.g. your Phablet), apply.
I've tried this with my Nexus 6p. 7.1.1 Pure Nexus ROM. ElementalX Kernel. Rooted. I used the included USB C to USB A cable and was never able to get the Shield to show up under adb devices.
I ended up just splicing two broken micro USB cables. You just cut and match the colors. I didn't even seal the wires. No solder, no electrical tape. No heat shrink. Just made sure none of the splices were touching and it worked just fine on my laptop connected to the shield TV 2017. These were USB 2.0 cables. But make sure they're data cables and you shouldn't have any issues.
I personally tried many versions of adb for Android and could never get the Shield to show up. So I just gave up and make the USB A male to male cable and did it the right way.
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Hi guys...
Yesterday my new PH-1 arrived and today I wanted to use ADB with the app "custom navigation bar". My problem is: i can`t get it to work... I´ve used adb several times with different phones, but with the PH-1 it can´t connect with my Windows 10 computer. Is it possible that I can´t get it to work because Ì´m using a different USB-C cable (took 3 different from Xiaomi another manufacturer)?
How do get it to work? Everytime I connect the phone with the computer, I get the message USB debugging is on and I use MTP to work, but the phone doesn`t show the RSA key fingerprint. Any suggestions?
masterchief_2001 said:
Hi guys...
Yesterday my new PH-1 arrived and today I wanted to use ADB with the app "custom navigation bar". My problem is: i can`t get it to work... I´ve used adb several times with different phones, but with the PH-1 it can´t connect with my Windows 10 computer. Is it possible that I can´t get it to work because Ì´m using a different USB-C cable (took 3 different from Xiaomi another manufacturer)?
How do get it to work? Everytime I connect the phone with the computer, I get the message USB debugging is on and I use MTP to work, but the phone doesn`t show the RSA key fingerprint. Any suggestions?
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Mines wouldn't connect using the usbc cable it came with I had to use a regular usb to usbc cable for it to work
See your device manager. To see if you are seeing "Mata". You have to download the google usb driver and update it from there
I have S8 from my previous computer but i need to re install the driver again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbAq6d2Du0U
You can also try this tuturial hope that it is working for you.
Try this > Download and install the essential usb driver > go to device manager and update the driver. Choose the option where you can change the source and select the driver in the list > go to the Essential Folder in Program Files and choose the file named "essentialadb.inf" for your pc. That should work
It's and old thread but if there is someone new to this...
My essential wouldnt work with the previous ADB i had installed that had worked fine with all my other devices.
I installed https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790 and worked just fine. Make sure your device isnt connected as anything other than charging. The previous ADB i was using didnt acknowledge my device but on first try with Minimal i was prompted on my phone right away
I had the same problem when attempting to flash my ph-1, when trying to use the cable that came with the device. I used a standard USB-A to USB-C cable and everything worked just fine. I noticed on the 8.1 update notes for side loading that the team indicates that the cable that comes with the phone is "Primarily" designed for charging and not data transfer. So I'm guessing that it is of lower quality and doesn't handle the transfer speeds.
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I had the same problem when attempting to flash my ph-1, when trying to use the cable that came with the device. I used a standard USB-A to USB-C cable and everything worked just fine. I noticed on the 8.1 update notes for side loading that the team indicates that the cable that comes with the phone is "Primarily" designed for charging and not data transfer. So I'm guessing that it is of lower quality and doesn't handle the transfer speeds.
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Hold either volume button while connecting cable from phone to pc, it will detect automatically. It may work.