[Q] Nexus S Root-Windows requests 'Android 1.0' hardware driver (and other weirdness)

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Team XDA Developers,

It's been a long frustrating evening and I write to you in a desperate plea for help. First off--YOU ARE ALL GENIUSES. That being said let my scrubby noobermcnooberstein train of thought commence.

Found a lot of help from 'drexman8244' on the Nexus S 'fastboot help?' thread and although I've made it decently far... I've hit a wall that I cannot overcome.

First--the specs. Running Windows XP SP3 32-bit. The phone is a Samsung GT-i9020 (aka Nexus S).

Second--I've successfully installed the Java SDK, the Android SDK, downloaded USB drivers from Google, downloaded/installed a copy of ADB into the '/SDK/tools' directory, configured the PATH value in the Windows System Environment variables in Control Panel 'System', and basically set things up to rock and roll.

Third--I turn on my Nexus S, enable USB debugging, and attach the device to the workstation. The system detects the device and produces the following output (which appears to install the Android ADB driver and successfully establish a connection to Nexus S). Verified this step by entering 'adb devices' in a command prompt. Working great!

Fourth--In the command prompt I enter 'adb reboot bootloader'. The device reboots... but here's where things get strange. The device enters Fastboot (bootloader) mode and the Windows workstation request an additional 'Android 1.0' hardware device driver to continue. (I've searched far and wide and can't seem to find something that resembles this driver)

Fifth--Regardless of my efforts to direct the Hardware Installation Wizard to the 'C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\google-usb_driver' location on my workstation... it just doesn't seem to accept that as a valid driver for the device in Fastboot (bootloader) mode. Blows my mind.

Sixth--??? What steps do you fellas think I should take next?! I've obviously tried uninstalling the device from the workstation, rebooting the Nexus S and the workstation, attempting to install the ADB driver before attaching the device and rebooting into Fastboot. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

Any input is especially appreciated and I hope that there's nothing left out. Warm regards--

The Kid

Edit: Posted an album on the Imgur account in case anyone wants to look at screenshots of the steps provided.

Hey man what you need to do is this.....I had the same problem with drivers. Once I figured that out things ran smooth.

PDAnet drivers

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...28#post9861928

Originally Posted by webplus

Hey man what you need to do is this.....I had the same problem with drivers. Once I figured that out things ran smooth.

PDAnet drivers

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...28#post9861928

You're a scholar and a gentleman--and absolutely right.

Looks like the default drivers from Google are borked. Downloaded the ones from PdaNet and things went smooth like butter. Thanks for making my day!!

haha no problem took me 6 hours of trying everything to figure out what I was doing wrong. Glad everything worked. If not for these forums and some great minds on these boards many of us would still be sporting a locked phone......so KUDOS to them!

Originally Posted by bluetrevian

Team XDA Developers,

It's been a long frustrating evening and I write to you in a desperate plea for help. First off--YOU ARE ALL GENIUSES. That being said let my scrubby noobermcnooberstein train of thought commence.

Found a lot of help from 'drexman8244' on the Nexus S 'fastboot help?' thread and although I've made it decently far... I've hit a wall that I cannot overcome.

First--the specs. Running Windows XP SP3 32-bit. The phone is a Samsung GT-i9020 (aka Nexus S).

Second--I've successfully installed the Java SDK, the Android SDK, downloaded USB drivers from Google, downloaded/installed a copy of ADB into the '/SDK/tools' directory, configured the PATH value in the Windows System Environment variables in Control Panel 'System', and basically set things up to rock and roll.

Third--I turn on my Nexus S, enable USB debugging, and attach the device to the workstation. The system detects the device and produces the following output (which appears to install the Android ADB driver and successfully establish a connection to Nexus S). Verified this step by entering 'adb devices' in a command prompt. Working great!

Fourth--In the command prompt I enter 'adb reboot bootloader'. The device reboots... but here's where things get strange. The device enters Fastboot (bootloader) mode and the Windows workstation request an additional 'Android 1.0' hardware device driver to continue. (I've searched far and wide and can't seem to find something that resembles this driver)

Fifth--Regardless of my efforts to direct the Hardware Installation Wizard to the 'C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\google-usb_driver' location on my workstation... it just doesn't seem to accept that as a valid driver for the device in Fastboot (bootloader) mode. Blows my mind.

Sixth--??? What steps do you fellas think I should take next?! I've obviously tried uninstalling the device from the workstation, rebooting the Nexus S and the workstation, attempting to install the ADB driver before attaching the device and rebooting into Fastboot. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

Any input is especially appreciated and I hope that there's nothing left out. Warm regards--

The Kid

Edit: Posted an album on the Imgur account in case anyone wants to look at screenshots of the steps provided.

as far as the USB driver and such, dont point it directly at the USB-driver folder point it at the SDK folder and then click the box that searches the sub folders

The drivers from Google aren't borked. You install one driver - the "normal" Android USB interface - for when the phone is plugged in and fully booted, and another - the "Fastboot" interface - for when the phone is plugged in but in recovery. For the latter, you have to pick the driver manually and do a force install, as Windows won't recognize the device.

Both drivers are available in the usb-drivers directory in the Android SDK directory, provided you loaded the SDK manager and downloaded the USB drivers.

Originally Posted by jimmypopulous

The drivers from Google aren't borked. You install one driver - the "normal" Android USB interface - for when the phone is plugged in and fully booted, and another - the "Fastboot" interface - for when the phone is plugged in but in recovery. For the latter, you have to pick the driver manually and do a force install, as Windows won't recognize the device.

Both drivers are available in the usb-drivers directory in the Android SDK directory, provided you loaded the SDK manager and downloaded the USB drivers.

This is correct. Oddly, I had no problems searching with the driver with the wizard on my win7 x64 pc, but had to manually point it for the fastboot relevant driver on my laptop, running the same OS.

Basically, as jimmypopulous says, you need to manually select the usb driver when you're in fastboot, according to my experience.

I hear what folks are saying about the Google USB drivers working fine for most installs.

That being said... No matter how many times I manually provided the path to the Google Fastboot driver location the OS refused to accept them as valid. (Seems like there are others that experienced this problem from a quick glance at the forums.)

In either case it seems as though the alternative drivers resolved the problem and I appreciate all the feedback that was given!

The Kid

I had the same issue - my Nexus One always worked fine on my laptop but even after updating the SDK & drivers I couldn't get fastboot to work with my Nexus S.

ADB worked fine but my laptop didn't recognise my phone properly via fastboot.

After installing PDANet, fastboot works as well now - thanks very much for your help, my NS is now rooted!

Hi,

This is my first post so bear with me and let me know if I'm outta line in any way.

I'm trying to root my nexus s and I am running XP. I can get ADB devices to work but when it comes to fastboot my device is not recognised. I have been trying for a couple of days and still cannot get it to work! I have installed PDAnet and and tried force installing the drivers but I can' get them to install. When I click install driver from a list and browse to the drivers it says that the specified location does not have information about your hardware. Is there something I am doing wrong here? Is there another way I can force install the driver?

Also I am a MASSIVE NOOB so please try and be specific when giving me directions.


Thank you XDA Overlords!