Uninstall all references to the drivers. your phone should show up with a bang once done properly.

Then follow the excellent guides here to root your phone properly

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Also make sure you have the phone connected and in fastboot mode when you install PDAnet.

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Adding these 2 lines in the android_winusb.inf file from the google "usb_driver" folder helped me.

;Nexus S
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E20&REV_0100

Detailed:

If your PC displays "Android 1.0" in Device Manager (when you try to connect the phone through fastboot), then go to Android 1.0, Properties, Details tab. Select Hardware ids.

USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E20&REV_0100 This part should be exactly the same with the one you add in "android_winusb.inf"

When you say uninstall all references what do you mean? Again, I am a massive noob. Do you mean uninstall the device with USBDeview from all the previous times I have tried installing it? I've tried that multiple times and still can't get it to work

Originally Posted by matt2053

Also make sure you have the phone connected and in fastboot mode when you install PDAnet.

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When I try install PDAnet with the ns in fast boot mode the installer says please connect your phone to complete the installation. Is there another way to install it where this won't happen?

Originally Posted by lambda30

Adding these 2 lines in the android_winusb.inf file from the google "usb_driver" folder helped me



Detailed:

If your PC displays "Android 1.0" in Device Manager (when you try to connect the phone through fastboot), then go to Android 1.0, Properties, Details tab. Select Hardware ids.

USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E20&REV_0100 This part should be exactly the same with the one you add in "android_winusb.inf"

In fastboot the ns just comes up as unknown device with hardware id of USB\UNKNOWN.
I tried just entering that id into the .inf file but that didn't help.

Anyone got any other ideas?

Thank you for these ideas I'm not gonna give up yet!

Originally Posted by thejug02

When I try install PDAnet with the ns in fast boot mode the installer says please connect your phone to complete the installation. Is there another way to install it where this won't happen?

Maybe the installer has changed since I did it.

Try running PDA install, put phone in fastboot, then plug in when prompted.

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Originally Posted by matt2053

Maybe the installer has changed since I did it.

Try running PDA install, put phone in fastboot, then plug in when prompted.

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Yea maybe it did change. When I run the installer it stops and requests that you connect the device and put it in debugging mode. When you connect the ns in fastboot it doesn't read it as the ns so just continues to ask you to connect the ns.

Thanks for the idea though! Keepem coming people!

I just uninstalled the drivers from my laptop and installed again using PDAnet method. It worked without a problem.

The only other thing I can think of is to boot phone and make sure USB Debugging is checked and try again.

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Originally Posted by lambda30

Adding these 2 lines in the android_winusb.inf file from the google "usb_driver" folder helped me.




Detailed:

If your PC displays "Android 1.0" in Device Manager (when you try to connect the phone through fastboot), then go to Android 1.0, Properties, Details tab. Select Hardware ids.

USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E20&REV_0100 This part should be exactly the same with the one you add in "android_winusb.inf"

It helped me too! It must be added under the [Google.NTx86] box