Google Android USB Driver and ADB
You need to modify 3 things in order to make Google USB driver work for any android phone on any Windows:
- Add your device's ID to
android_winusb.inffile - Digitally sign the modified driver
- Add your device's vendor ID to
adb_usb.iniwhitelist (no longer required)
and here are the details:
1. Add your device's ID to android_winusb.inf file
the format to add is:
;Comment usually the device name
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\; here you put VID and PID
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\; same as above but add the MI
before I go on, VID is the USB Vendor ID.
How to get the vid and pid : they are in drivers you are merging; but if you don’t have a driver for the device you can get it by opening device manager; then right-click the device – select properties-in new dialog go to Details tab >in property drop menu select hardware ids. for example you see something like:
USB\VID_2207&PID_0000&REV_0222&MI_01
USB\VID_2207&PID_0000&MI_01
take this value for composite adb device and remove MI for single adb device, you get
;MSI WindPad Enjoy 7 plus
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2207&PID_0000
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2207&PID_0000&REV_0222&MI_01
;
copy this 2 line TWICE , once to [Google.NTx86] section and another to [Google.NTamd64] section
REPEAT for every device you want to support
Now an optional edit for [Strings] Section: edit
[Strings]
ProviderName = “Google, Inc.”
SingleAdbInterface = “Android ADB Interface”
CompositeAdbInterface = “Android Composite ADB Interface”
SingleBootLoaderInterface = “Android Bootloader Interface”
WinUSB_SvcDesc = “Android USB Driver”
DISK_NAME = “Android WinUsb installation disk”
ClassName = “Android Device”
To:
[Strings]
ProviderName = “Google, Inc.”
SingleAdbInterface = “MSI ADB Interface”
CompositeAdbInterface = “MSI Composite ADB Interface”
SingleBootLoaderInterface = “MSI Bootloader Interface”
WinUSB_SvcDesc = “MSI USB Driver”
DISK_NAME = “MSI WinUsb installation disk”
ClassName = “MSI Tablet”
2. Digitally sign the modified driver:
Although the original google usb driver was signed by google , modifying android_winusb.inf will prevent installing it on windows 8 showning an error message
The hash file is not present in the specified catalog file. The file is likely
corrupt or the victim of tampering.
This is only in Windows 8. Windows 7 or earlier do not show this error message. You have to regenerate catalog file (probably with Windows SDK) and sign
Workaround: A workaround for internal tesing is to diable windows signature verification : either temporarily or permanently:
temporarily:
Go to left upper or lower corner of screen to open charms bar and click settings charm.
choose Change PC settings
choose General
Scroll down, and click ‘Restart now’ under ‘Advanced startup’.
Click ‘Troubleshoot’. Click ‘Advanced Options’ Click ‘Windows Startup Settings’ Click Restart.
or
run cmd and type:
shutdown -o -r -t 0
then after restarting choose ‘Disable driver signature enforcement‘ from the list . install your driver before restarting.
Permanently:
press Window+Q
search for cmd
right click cmd
choose run as administrator from action bar
type in cmd:
bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON
3. Add your device's vendor ID to adb_usb.ini whitelist (no longer required):
adb used to have a hard-coded whitelist of supported Vendor IDs. If your device's vendor was not on the list - the adb was ignoring it completely. To make adb recognize such devices users had to manually add their vendor IDs to %USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini - one ID per line.
in the command line:
echo 0x2207 >> "%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini"
Fortunately, Google has removed the VendorID filtering in more recent adb versions. So this step is no longer required.
Finally you can test installation by :
adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices
and enabling debugging in developer options on android device
This should restart ADB Server and list devices. If driver is working ok, the device should be listed.
Locate the following file
C:\Users\[your name]\.android\adb_usb.ini
And make the following changes:
# ANDROID 3RD PARTY USB VENDOR ID LIST -- DO NOT EDIT.
# USE 'android update adb' TO GENERATE.
# 1 USB VENDOR ID PER LINE.
0x2207
I added 0x2207 to the file. This number is part of the hardware id, which can be found under the device's hardware information.
Mine was:
USB\VID_2207&PID_0010&MI_01
(I tried executing android update adb, but it did nothing.)
Can you give us a better description and an example of what you are doing? Because all i have to do is put the line in there for the device and then save the file. Now just reconnect the device and it works.
I usually use something similar to this line:
;
;some name for the phone (this seems to be arbitrary)
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, THE_HARDWARE_ID
What i do, is:
- plug the device into the computer.
- Go to your device manager.
- Right click on the device that you plugged up.
- Go to properties. Then select Hardware Ids.
- Then get that value that is listed there.
- Now add it to the line you created in the
android_winusb.inf. - Unplug the device and plug back in
- Go back to the device manager
- Right click on the device and click update or install driver
- Select search your computer for the driver
- Select the directory
Your_Android_SDK_Directory/extras/google/usb_driver/ - Press ok
That seems to always work for me, is that what you are doing? Or does this even help?
- modify android_winusb.inf
- Sign the driver
- modify adb
I also instaled generic adb driver from http://adbdriver.com/ and it works.
Answer 1 worked perfectly for me. I tested it on a new MID 10' tablet. Here are the lines I added in the .inf file and it installed without a problem:
;Google MID
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_INSTALL, USB\Vid_18d1&Pid_0003&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_INSTALL, USB\Vid_18d1&Pid_0003&Rev_0230&MI_01