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[G Tablet General] iammuze:
after right clicking your gtab in device manager and selecting "update driver software" you should follow these steps to get going on win7 64-bit

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5541925/drivergtab.png
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
Hi,

FYI, one thing to be careful of: In the thread where there's info about adding the 3 lines to the .inf, there's also a full .inf file.

If you try to use the full .inf file, note that it has references to various DLLs, which may, or may not match the DLLs in the driver install directory, so, if you use that full .inf from the thread, you have to adjust those DLL references to the ones for the DLLs you actually have on your machine.

In my case, I found it easier to just add the 3 lines to the .inf that came when I installed the USB driver files from the Android development website, which then worked.

Just an FYI...

Jim
[G Tablet General] it2steve:
THIS IS PIVOTAL... This is where I had the hang up. Make sure that you are looking at iammuze's pic here, especially the 2nd image. by default most of us are used to just pointing to the correct directory where we DO have the modified .ini and it grabbed the wrong one. You HAVE to select 'let me pick'

Thank you iammuze for pointing this out. I think that's where most get lost. It haunted me for weeks as I was just 'skinning' through directions and missed this important step!
[G Tablet General] rcgabriel:
Just a quick suggestion - instead of trying to hunt around and fix drivers that are already installed and broken, I highly suggest using USB Deview (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html) which lets you nuke out the old drivers easily on a Windows Vista/7 machine.

I had old ADB drivers from my Nexus One sitting around, and I was unable to uninstall stuff with Device Manager.

Just run USBDeview **as administrator** if you are on Windows Vista/7 and you can uninstall old drivers for USB devices with a single click (in this case, just nuke any old Harmony drivers or other ADB drivers). Then the next time you plug in your G Tab, you should be able to select the proper drivers as suggested in the first post.
[G Tablet General] pbrauer:
doesn't work

So i have also been trying for days and can't get it working right.

Running Windows Vista, have ADB installed, and can connect to other Android devices. I have setup the android_winusb.inf properly, but when I connect my device it shows up in Device Manager as a Portable Device->Tegra.

I have uninstalled the tablet and every other android device using usbdeview as admin

I have searched and destroyed all other usb.inf files.

i am running VEGAn-1.0.5B

No matter what happens, as soon as I plug in the tablet it immediately installs it as a Tegra Portable.

any help is appreciated!
[G Tablet General] iammuze:
that's very odd, i haven't seen that device description before. it doesn't sound like a vista issue... do you have another computer with vista on it anywhere that you can plug your gtab into? just to see what it reports to dev manager on a super clean system.
[G Tablet General] rlapela:
Old drivers were conflicting from previous installation attempts for me as well. All is working well once USBDeview was finally able to uninstall the device, however, it took multiple attempts and reboots for it to actually remove them. All is well now, and my Device is connected to the ADB. Thanks Everyone!
[G Tablet General] rlapela:
It was showing up simply as an Android Phone... After many attempts, USBDeview finally uninstalled the current conflicting drivers, and allowed me to install the proper drivers. Not really sure why USBDeview didn't work the first time, but it eventually did, so I'm up and running in the debugger now!!!

Thanks iammuze.
[G Tablet General] rcgabriel:
Yup, it seems to be basically impossible to remove all the old ADB drivers you might have hanging around on your system, especially if you have used other Android devices before. USBDeview is the only way I've found to reliably get rid of these. Glad it worked out for you!
[G Tablet General] foreman31:
Yes thats what I had, but if you follow the instructions carefully from the first post, it says to use "USBDeview" to uninstall the adb interface driver.

I had to restart my PC.

It all worked but now I am getting

"''adb'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file."
[G Tablet General] notsaw:
usb_driver in Android SDK r8 is gone

I found that usb_driver in Android SDK r8 is gone

I downloaded SDK r8 and cannot see usb_driver in SDK Manager.

Altough the SDK website says it is in it.

I end up found a standalone packed zip file for it.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
You need to add androidsdk/tools and/or androidsdk/platform-tools to your path. The latest sdk I downloaded didn't have adb in the tools directory. When I added the rest of the tools it added a platform-tools directory that had adb in it.
[G Tablet General] foreman31:
I just found a post saying that adb.exe was now in platform tools and now have it working and can see my g tablet :)

Google could say they changed it, if they did I didn`t notice it
[G Tablet General] copc:
Here is my issue and I have tried for hours.

Just moved from win 7 32 to 64

Trying to get my Gtab setup and usb drivers installed. I have searched all over no matter what I fry it always ends in

the system could not find the file specified

I have installed the C:\android-sdk-windows

have the usb driver in \usb_driver\android_winusb.inf

Have added the lines

;NVIDIA Tegra

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0955&PID_7000

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0955&PID_7100&MI_01

below both [Google.NTx86] & [Google.NTamd64]

used usbDeview.exe

ubinstalled and installed hundreds of times

tried the "Add legacy Hardware" under action in device manager.

when plugged in with USB debug enabled I have

Disk Drive

NVIDIA Tegra 2 USB Device

Other Devices

NVIDIA Harmony (Yellow Explanation mark)

USB Serial Bus Controllers

USB Composite Device

USB Mass Storage device

Any ideas on this one?
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
Hi,

I haven't tried to install the drivers on a 64-bit system yet, but, in the .inf file, further down, there are references for .dll files.

Check those .dll names vs. the actual .dll files in the amd64 and i386 directories.

Do the .dll names in the .inf exactly match the actual .dll file names in the directories?

Jim
[G Tablet General] iammuze:
the usb driver doesn't come with the sdk by default, so for future reference you need to run "SDK Setup.exe" which will allow you to download it. i think they do it that way so that they can update the drivers more often than the sdk.

the fact that you see the "NVIDIA harmony" with the exclamation is good, i think you're just using the wrong method to install your new driver. check this post and see if your steps match up.

congrats! np.
[G Tablet General] iammuze:
did you ever get it working? it occurs to me that you may not have your tablet in usb debugging mode (settings -> applications -> development)
[G Tablet General] SpinKix:
Won't recognize G Tablet

*** NEVER MIND... I GOT IT*****

For others having problems, here is what I did...

I moved the android-sdk-windows folder to the C drive.

Re-named the "android-sdk-windows" folder to "AndroidSDK" (just to make things easier)

Appended the "path" statement in Environment Variables with ";C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools" (no quotes)

With G Tablet plugged in, used USBdeview and uninstalled the 3 NVIDIA Harmony drivers.

Unplugged/plugged in the G Tablet

In the driver install pop up window, I followed the instructions to re-install the drivers in the AndroidSDK folder.

From the command prompt, I typed adb, and the program hints scrolled by, so I knew ADB was working then typed:

echo 0x955 > "%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini" <return>

adb kill-server<return>

adb devices<return>

And FINALLY got the serial number to show up.

Just so you know, in Device Manager, it shows the same thing I've had all along...

"Android Phone" with "Android Composite ADB Interface" under it (no exclamation warning).

I think the problem was the path. Pasting ";C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools" at the end of all the other paths did the trick.

Also, make sure your G Tablet hasn't gone to sleep before testing with "adb devices". If it has, unplug/plug in the USB cable and watch for "USB debugging connected" to show at top of G Tab screen (Vegan 5.1 ROM). Otherwise, it might not be in debugging mode.

I'm at the point to "test it out" in step 12.

Everything seems to be working, the adb commands are recognized and I get the correct responses, but the G Tablet is never listed in the command prompt window, it shows:

List of devices attached

c:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows

First, a couple questions...

1. What should the Device Manager look like when it's working correctly?

Should a Tegra device, or Android device be listed under Android Composite ADB Interface?

My Device Manager shows an "Android Phone" with "Android Composite ADB Interface" under it (no exclamation warning).

2. What are the minimum components needed in the SDK?

I installed the SDK, ran SDK Manager to install the following:

Android SDK Tools, revision 8

Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 1

Google ADB USB Driver package, revision 4

Do I need to install anything else...Android 2.2?

3. Should I be running adb.exe first?

4. What path should I specify in system environment?

My original install is c:\program files\android\android-sdk-windows, also copied folder to c:

I've been at this for days, even tried uninstalling, and installing the SDK

Copied the android-sdk-windows folder to the c:\ drive

Inserted the path under Environment Variables :

Variable: adb

Value: c:\android-sdk-windows\tools

then tried:Value: c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

Deleted all NVIDIA instances using usbdeview numerous times.

Copied adb.exe and adbwinapi.dll into \windows\system32 folder.

Ran adb.exe manually before command prompts.

Any ideas?
[G Tablet General] copc:
Got to work today and plugged in my Gtab to my work machine win 7 pro 64bit and used the above instructions I wrote up and it all installed perfectly.
[G Tablet General] stanglx:
Yep.. above worked perfectly for 64 bit..
[G Tablet General] tekrhino:
It took me some playing around to get the installer to accept the edited ini file but it worked.

Thanks for excellent write up!

:cool:
[G Tablet General] copc:
Glad it worked! :D
[G Tablet General] 999ping:
Houston, we have connection. Thanks to all who posted info!!!

:D
[G Tablet General] RevB52:
No go

Never can see the GTab as anything other than a USB drive (Nvidia Tegra 2 USB device). No other hardware shows up.
[G Tablet General] xanadu1979:
I got the same thing. Can't figure it out.

**Edit**

Nevermind, I figured it out. I don't know what I did though. I think it was enabling USB debugging and then rebooting the device. It didn't work until I rebooted it.
[G Tablet General] saturnspike:
I couldn't switch the drivers in Device Manager. Instead, I had to remove all drivers, then install the new ones by going to Add Legacy Hardware and selecting the google-usb_driver manually. Then I chose Android Composite ADB Interface. For some reason I have two of them in my device manager (one has a yellow [!]) but ADB is working now. If it's just showing as a USB drive, make sure you have USB debugging enabled.
[G Tablet General] spidey60:
Thanks to everyone!

I was able to get adb working following the guides in this thread.

Edit: Yeah, yeah... had to wait for 5 minutes. Need a typing manager to prevent awesome mistakes like the one in the subject line.
[G Tablet General] alansdaman:
Jeeze thats a lot of steps. I just use a digital camera.
[G Tablet General] xyrcncp:
No go for me, I've followed your instructions and the others several times, uninstalled the drivers with usbdeview several times, updated the inf file and nothing. Now I'm running Vista 32-bit and I managed to get Vista to install it and now it shows as Android Phone, but when checking ADB DEVICES, nothing.

edit: FINALLY! After uninstalling the drivers 3 more times and going through the steps again, and re-setting the environment variables (dunno why I had to do it for this tab, it worked fine for my phones) it finally worked.
[G Tablet General] TMYINC:
Thank for this. It will really help!
[G Tablet General] enigma0456:
Simple Question

I have been having so much fun (and frustration but mostly fun) learning the various steps to meddling with my g-tab. Funny how things that seemed so complicated a few weeks ago I can do from memory now. Now a guide appears for ADB and, based upon the responses, it seems to be pretty good. I'm ready to have a go at it but I'm not sure what it will do for me. Sounds dumb I know but if I load up clockwork and enable usb mounting I can already move files back and forth. I'm not that excited about screen shots. So, someone that is using it and is somewhat versed in the use - what other things can I do with it once I get it set up. I did read the link to developer.android.com but I still don't see what a backyard meddler can do with it that is applicable to me. Thoughts?
[G Tablet General] TMYINC:
Yep definitely helped!
[G Tablet General] Dueces99:
Concerning APX driver

I have the APX driver installed for nvflashing, and was wondering when I install this driver will I have to get rid of the other? Will it over write the APX driver, or just install alongside it? I have to assume I'd be able to have both drivers side by side and depending on what I'm doing, that particular driver would be used. Anyone that has this setup, please let me know if this is possible and if you did anything special to get it working. Thanx!

Edit: By 'anything special' I meant as in having to install one driver before the other, otherwise one driver would be overwritten, etc...

I'm running Win7 x64 SP1
[G Tablet General] vvvccc:
Hi problem with driver

Ok I am sorry but I am a noob

After doing all this i am getting the post: "the file you specified does not have a compatible driver for this hardware"

where am I going wrong?

I installed the SDK and

uninstalled the Tegra driver with deview,

changed the text in the notepad folder

but when I add the android_winusb.inf file from the folder, I get this popup

EDIT: I am running Win Vista 32X
[G Tablet General] drx69:
same here

win7 x64
[G Tablet General] snailer88:
I'm having trouble installing ADB drivers :(

I get to the part where you browse for the .ini (ie the "Have Disk" part), I select "ADB composite blah blah" but when I try to install the driver I get:

The system cannot find the file specified.

My GTab is listed as NVIDIA Harmony! I am using Win7 x64.
[G Tablet General] pixelfuture:
Here is where I am getting issues. I followed the directions to install ADB with SDK Manager

I am able to see NVIDA Harmony in Other Devices but when I try to install the modified inf this is what I'm getting

Edit-

I deleted and reinstalled the google USB driver package and it seemed to work!
[G Tablet General] iamjakecali:
Thanks for the guidance. You might want to note that it is necessary to right click the Device Manager CP (at least in W7) and choose run as adminstrator. Someone else probably said this, but I did not see it looking through the post.
[G Tablet General] bandroidx:
you might want to change echo "955" > /file to echo "955" >> /file because some people may already have a value in that file to get the nook color to work. just a suggestion if it makes sense.
[G Tablet General] imarinkrat1:
Fix for Windows automatically installing G Tablet Drivers

After attempting the instructions from the this thread for days, at step 3 no matter how I attempted to uninstall the drivers for my G Tablet, after step 4 when I would plug in G Tablet to my Windows 7 64 bit PC, Windows would always manage to automatically install the same USB Mass Storage Device, NVIDIA Tegra 2 USB Device, and Android Device Bridge Interface* (Make note of this because it is the important one).

Step 4 notes that 'now your device should be under "Other Devices" near the middle (will have a yellow exclamation icon, called NVIDIA harmony). good.' This never happened for me. Windows would always install the drivers successfully no matter how I uninstalled them previously. (I wasn't counting, but it was probably about 50 times)

Long story short, I was never able to get the correct drivers installed to get ADB working for me...until now.

Obviously you should only need to try this if you experienced the same situation as I, otherwise, try the original post.

I am also assuming you tried all of the steps in the original post, so I will also assume you have debugging enabled on the device, the SDK insalled, the file android_winusb.inf edited properly, and adb_usb.ini ready to go.

Steps used on my Windows 7 64bit PC:

Plug in your G Tablet to your PC (If you had uninstalled your G Tablet drivers, they should all reinstall now, like in my case, USB Mass Storage Device, NVIDIA Tegra 2 USB Device, and Android Device Bridge Interface)

Open up your windows device manager (Go to the start menu and type in 'device manager').

Down at the bottom, open up 'Universal Serial Bus controllers' (You should see something like 'Android Device Bridge Interface')

Right click 'Android Device Bridge Interface'

Click 'Properties'

Click the 'Driver' tab

Click 'Update Driver...'

Click 'Browse my computer for driver software'

Click 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'

Click 'Have Disk...'

Browse to your 'android_winusb.inf' file, then click 'OK'.

Windows will then complain that this is not a Microsoft digitally signed driver, but OK it and let it install.

You should now have successfully installed the correct drivers for ADB. You should no longer see the driver entry under Universal Serial Bus controllers, and you should now see 'Android Phone' at the top with 'Android Composite ADB Interface' underneath.

I hope that helps someone out there, this litterally drove me crazy for days.

Andrew
[G Tablet General] ew1090:
just want to mention that the tutorial says to add a line to the inf that says "Nvidia tegra 2" this did not work for me i ended up changing it to "Nvidia Harmony" and that seemed to fix it. you would still want to delete the old driver then do the changes then reinstall though.
[G Tablet General] mhandy1:
Total noob...

I thought I could do it I really did... I cant, I cant hack, or do anything with code... its just not me.

Today I tried to flash my Viewsonic Viewpad 10 with a rom (vegan tab) and completely bricked the device. I see posts about restoring the system using an SD card... problem the system runs on the internal SD card is there anything I can do?

I feel like something like this is a possibility?
[G Tablet General] igorv:
I tried ADB from windows for awhile, but found it is too much of a pain.Since used Virtualbox with various linux distros and makes things sooo much easier.
[G Tablet General] Dsanai:
A few notes...

The Android SDK executable is now called SDK Manager.exe (not Setup), and adb has moved to platform-tools, instead of the tools folder (so adb commands fail if you're in the tools folder during the final tests -- but a helpful .txt file directed me to the correct folder).

Also, I had to run the SDK Manager in Administrative mode in Win 7 before it would let me download and update the files. :) Hope that helps someone.
[G Tablet General] Metalsteel:
Cant see my device in ADB

I have tried all the following steps above, when I go to look for the driver and say have disk and all that I click on the .inf file that I edited with your guys help (Thanks!!!)

Then I get the message saying "the folder you specified doesnt contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems"...

Im going crazy!! been at this for a good 5 hours. My gtablet cant read my sd card, My computer cant read my internal storage. My gtablet might not even be able to read my internal storage. I have NVflashed my device.

Does anyone know what to do with the inf file? I havent even gotten the chance to attempt to push recovery to my device because I dont see any other way of rooting+ flashing roms on my device

ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED THANKS!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] freddyc184:
Who know how to get free internet on my touch 4g. T-mobile.. please let me know .
[General Questions and Answers] jlsushman:
Enable wifi
[General Questions and Answers] harris123:
i wat to use internet on my HTC hd2. but i could't. what to do? any software required for that?

and tell me how to activate the router functionallity???
[General Questions and Answers] harris123:
no one here to help me out?
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Read and search is the key

You can head to Leo section, over there you´ll find out all the how´s to.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jirafabo:
So here goes. I lost my RSA keys while flashing to a new rom and updating my radio, wimax, pri, etc. I didn't use the newest version of Clockwork, but instead 2.5.0.01 or something similar. I tried to update beforehand with Rom Manager, but it errored a few times. I did however backup my RSA keys to a text file using this method http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=887900

How can I restore them? I've searched and searched and read and searched and read. Tons of information on backing them up, ZERO information on using that backup that was said to be so important.

From what I understand, I should've backed up my wimax.img as well, but I don't think my old version of clockwork did that. Can that be replaced? Do the RSA keys just get added into the wimax.img somehow?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... especially since this is for a friends Evo, not mine!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alekosy:
I still don't understand why anyone would backup RSA Keys, use your own brains...

If you were wanting to test the WiMax feature for Cyanogen Mod ROM, I think you would backup your RSA Keys in case a trouble or problem occurs and it seems like most of the new players here on the EVO 4g phones are backing up their RSA Keys for no reason whatsoever... *Hence I have not backup my RSA Keys or done anything yet, and I still have a good phone thank god.

Ouch, maybe. I hope your issue gets resolved someway somehow, good luck, all I can say for you. ;/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jirafabo:
I backed up my RSA keys because thats what i was told to do. Funny that on that entire RSA page it didn't say a word about backing up your wimax.img. Not to mention the OP has no clue how to restore the backups. Pretty much gave me a false sense of security. But I understand it's at my own risk.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alekosy:
+1 for that thought, most players of the EVO 4g playing around with the WiMax or RSA Keys should be extra careful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jirafabo:
Problem is, all I did was update his root with unrevoked3, wipe, flash a new rom, and update via the all in one radio/wimax/pri zip. Next thing I know 4g was gone and my rsa didn't check out correctly via adb. Been rooting/flashing evo's and epic's since day one and now all of a sudden we have this new problem? where was that problem before? i dont get it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sekigah84:
Why would anyone want to do a backup? To have it just incase something happens.

Too many people have lost their RSA keys from flashing. Why would you not want to have a backup? Once you lose your RSA keys, the only way (short of actually restoring the backup you made which no one has any idea how to do) is to return it to Sprint for a new phone.

And yes. I do agree it is pretty dumb that there is no restore method for the RSA backup.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jirafabo:
So basically those RSA keys are useless?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Unrevoked has had a reputation for wiping 4g since the beginning. Did you ever do a backup with amon ra? If so you can use the wimax.img from that to restore the entire partition.