What USB driver should we use for the Nexus 5?
As of the time of this writing, Google does not provide a USB driver (for Windows) for the Nexus 5. The usual link (http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html) shows Windows USB drivers for several of the Nexus's line. However, the "Nexus 5" is not included. Note that the Nexus "S" (letter-S, not number-5) IS supported.
Also, from this site, the latest version of the current download is version-8, July-17-2013. When I compare this with its predecessor, version-7, the files are the same.
Until Google fixes this, what are we to do? How can we debug and develop for the Nexus 5?
Answer
I just wanted to bring a small contribution, because I have been able to debug on my Nexus 5 device on Windows 8, without doing all of this.
When I plugged it, there wasn't any yellow exclamation mark within Device Manager. So for me, the drivers were OK. But the device was not listed within my Eclipse DDMS. After a little bit of searching, it was just an option to change in the device settings. By default, the Nexus 5 USB computer connection is in MTP mode (Media Device).
What you have to do is:
- Unplug the device from the computer
- Go to Settings -> Storage.
- In the ActionBar, click the option menu and choose "USB computer connection".
- Check "Camera (PTP)" connection.
- Plug the device and you should have a popup on the device allowing you to accept the computer's incoming connection, or something like that.
- Finally, you should see it now in the DDMS and voilà.
I hope this will help!