Windows 8

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I tried to install the Samsung drivers under windows 8 without success. I ended up installing it on a virtual windowsXP machine running under VirtualBox on the win8 machine and it works fine.

I put the phone in download mode and fired up Odin and it recognize the phone.

been on 8 primarily since the dev preview, never had issues. I use the google USB drivers since I'm on ics.

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That's because Windows 8 sucks!

Originally Posted by sageDieu

been on 8 primarily since the dev preview, never had issues. I use the google USB drivers since I'm on ics.

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That's interesting. Where did you get the drivers?

Originally Posted by electric bill

That's interesting. Where did you get the drivers?

in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe

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Originally Posted by mustbepbs

That's because Windows 8 sucks!

I've been using it for about 4 months, I beg to differ... name 1 reason

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I'm still on Windows XP haha, I meant to upgrade to Win 7 but never did since I can't afford to upgrade my motherboard/cpu/ram/etc. Windows 8 looks promising... but I don't really know how I feel about it looking/feeling like a mobile platform rather than a more 'traditional' desktop feel. Do they let you change it to look like traditional Windows or not?

Originally Posted by Crawshayi

I'm still on Windows XP haha, I meant to upgrade to Win 7 but never did since I can't afford to upgrade my motherboard/cpu/ram/etc. Windows 8 looks promising... but I don't really know how I feel about it looking/feeling like a mobile platform rather than a more 'traditional' desktop feel. Do they let you change it to look like traditional Windows or not?

yes it has both, you can default it back to the classic windows style desktop.

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Originally Posted by sageDieu

in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe

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I tried to install the sdk but it's complaining that it can't find java.exe or the java sdk even though it's installed and jave.exe is right where it says it can't find it. Did you run into anything like that?

EDIT: never mind. I was installing the 64 bit version. the sdk wants to see the 32 bit version.

Originally Posted by sageDieu

in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe

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OK, got the sdk installed and now adb works but but the phone still does not show up in odin. Any ideas why?