Installing X10i drivers on Windows 7 help

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Need a little help setting up my dev environment on Windows 7.

I had it working perfectly on my old PC running XP. I have since bought a laptop with 7 and am trying to set up a dev environment on it but am having issues with the drivers (at least as far as I can tell).

I have:

• Android SDK installed - including all available components
• Java 1.6 SDK and JRE installed - environment variable is set
• SEUS and PC Companion installed
• Rooted my phone to 026 using the original method - done on old machine
• USB Debugging switched on on my phone

When connecting my phone, I get no option to install the driver. My SDCard also automatically mounts itself, which i'm not sure if that's related to my issue. Any ideas how to stop it from doing that?

When I try to update the driver software via Device Manager (browse to <sdkdir>\USB_DRIVER), I get 'Windows could not find driver software for your device'.

I've read through a few threads, particularly the rooting issues thread, and googled it in quite a few different ways with no luck. The closest I could find is XperiaX10iUser's post in this thread. Running USBDeview as mentioned, i can only see 'SEMC Flash Device' and 'Sony Ericsson X10i' that would be relevant. However, when I try to uninstall selected devices it does nothing (no error, just doesn't uninstall).

Running 'adb devices' returns a list of devices with nothing in it.

Any help/ideas would be much appreciated as i'm going insane here!

Are u maybe running 64bit win7?

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Originally Posted by Sixpence1

Any help/ideas would be much appreciated as i'm going insane here!

Uninstall your Java and start from scratch using the 32bit versions of Java, and run USBDeview without the phone plugged in if you haven't done already.

Yes, I'm running 64bit Win 7.

Originally Posted by XperiaX10iUser

Uninstall your Java and start from scratch using the 32bit versions of Java, and run USBDeview without the phone plugged in if you haven't done already.

I installed 32bit Java (1.6.0_20) and reinstalled all the Android SDK components. No change in symptoms.

I have run USBDeview with the phone plugged in and without.

i'm running win7 x64 and it works normally.

another day i tried install a theme (without have seus or pccompanion installed on my pc) and i had the same problem. after i installed pccompanion, it worked normally.

remember that you must have usb debugging on, to adb devices show your phone.

Originally Posted by h3llg0d

i'm running win7 x64 and it works normally.

another day i tried install a theme (without have seus or pccompanion installed on my pc) and i had the same problem. after i installed pccompanion, it worked normally.

remember that you must have usb debugging on, to adb devices show your phone.

I definitely have USB Debugging on and PC Companion installed.

Where do the drivers for the X10i actually come from? The phone, SDK Drivers component, SEUS or PC Companion?

What am I missing?

Does anyone else's SDCard mount itself when plugging the phone in? It didn't do this on my old machine.

EDIT: I was able to remove USB devices using USBDeview. Just need to right-click and 'Run as administrator' (which is odd given that my user is admin). Didn't help me installing the driver though. Still can't find anything when pointing to <sdkdir>\USB_DRIVER.

My <sdkdir> is C:\Android\SDK. It shouldn't matter that it's not the default path should it?

EDIT2: Apparently, DoubleTwist has an auto USB mount option. Doesn't make a difference to the driver issue though.

Ok listen to this, it will seem a little crazy but i wonder if it will help

Install pdanet the desktop version ( its a program used for usb tether ) the idea is that this program installs the sonyericsson drivers with it, just follow the instructions of the installation process and tell me how it goes..

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Originally Posted by mezo9090

Ok listen to this, it will seem a little crazy but i wonder if it will help

Install pdanet the desktop version ( its a program used for usb tether ) the idea is that this program installs the sonyericsson drivers with it, just follow the instructions of the installation process and tell me how it goes..

Champion!

Worked a treat!

Glad it worked :) somethings are a lot simpler than you think, cheers

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If your problem is not resolved...
Try this Official driver :
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wp...rs?cc=gb&lc=en