USB driver Asus Nexus 7 Windows 7

Question

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 1

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.

Answer 2

Ok here's something awesome. When browsing for the driver DO NOT select the architecture (i.e. amd64 or i386). Just browse to the "usb_driver" folder. It is working now.

\your_sdk_path\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver

Answer 3

I had to hook up 4 Nexus 7s (2012) on Windows 7. After much trials, tribulations and many errors, here is what I had to do, for EACH device.

Plug in the Nexus 7 using USB. Watch it fail to install one out of 4 drivers. Now, Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Right Click on device -> Uninstall NOTE: Check "Delete the driver software...". This buys you some time -> OK

Unplug USB, wait 5 secs, plug it back in. Windows tries to install a driver. BEFORE it can complete, Right click on the device that appeared in the device list and select "Update driver software" Gotta be fast here. Time is of the essence. If you are slow, delete and repeat.

Browse to the Google driver ( \extras\google\usb_driver ) -> OK Try connecting via Eclipse..

For me, at this point, the stupid Nexus was asking whether to accept a key. Say OK, and I was all set. Not fun...

Answer 4

I have a new nexus 7 with 4.4. Had to "enable usb debugging mode" specifically in developer options.

Haven't seen this mentioned previously. Everything seems to work fine after that.