June 12, 2009 - kenshinjeff

adb error device not found android phone

WinXP detects your spanking new android phone as a USB mass storage device instead of a Composite ADB interface, no matter how you install the USB drivers from the android sdk. Here’s what you need to do.

1. Right click My Computer, Hardware Tab, Windows Update, “Never search windows update for drivers”, OK.
2. Enable debugging on your phone.
3. Run USBDeview and remove all instances of Android Phone
4. Unplug your phone, and plug it in again.
5. When windows finally prompts for new drivers, direct them to your sdk directory containing android_usb.inf (Usually looks like android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\usb_driver\x86)

If it works, this is what you ought to see:

If this doesn’t work, try to delete all the registry keys and values which contain “vid_0bb4&pid_0c02”, and start from step 1 again.

Good luck and hope this helps you.

annoyances / geeky stuff / HOW-TOS

Comments

• Paul Simpson says:

  August 23, 2009 at 8:10 am

  Can you offer the same solution for Windos Vista users please.

• kenshinjeff says:

  August 24, 2009 at 12:53 pm

  Hi Paul,

  To be perfectly honest, I’m not running vista on any of my computers, so I wouldn’t be able to test if any solution worked. Sorry.

• Alexander says:

  December 10, 2009 at 5:40 pm

  Works on Windows 7 – thank you (especially for pointing to USBDeview)!

• kenshinjeff says:

  December 11, 2009 at 10:41 am

  @Alexander: No problem, pleased to be of help to anyone : )

• nekomata says:

  April 4, 2010 at 9:45 pm

  After dozens of websites tried, I found the solution here to get my phone recognized.
  Thanks for this page!

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