USB driver Asus Nexus 7 Windows 7

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ryoung picture ryoung · Jul 31, 2013 · Viewed 63.7k times · Source

I have tried every suggestion on this website and many others to no avail. Is it even possible to do android development for a nexus 7 on windows?

I have tried the usb driver downloaded from the sdk manager, the one from asus. I have tried changing the usb mode to PTP and I am still getting the the same message when I try to install the driver (manually).

"Windows could not find driver software for your device"

Answer

Lo-Tan picture Lo-Tan · Nov 5, 2013

I know this question has been answered, but I just ran into an issue where uninstalling the Unknown Device, and then updating the driver manually was not working (by selecting the sdk/../usb_drivers folder). No matter what I did from Device Manager, I could not get the drivers to be found/installed.

Hopefully this helps someone - if you have an issue installing the device (Win7), this worked for me:

  1. Disconnect the USB from the device.
  2. On the device, go to Settings -> Developer Options, and click Revoke USB debugging authorizations.
  3. On the device, go to Settings -> Storage -> USB Computer Connection (available on the drop down menu at the top right of your screen). Verify that Media device (MTP) is CHECKED.
  4. Reconnect the device, and it should install successfully without a problem. If not, attempt to update the driver manually and point Windows to the usb_drivers folder of your SDK.

I just had this problem occur for me with two factory new Nexus devices (Nexus 7 and Nexus 4). For both devices, I had to do the steps above and everything worked fine afterward.

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