how to get the Sony windows drivers to work?

[zarbix]

Has anybody gotten the Sony's official usb drivers to work? Its somewhat mandatory for xperifix et all.

I tried it on 2 completely different machines.

On win7 x64 box the driver complains about Error 10 - This device cannot start.

On a win10 enterprise thinkpad the error is similar:

"This device cannot start. (Code 10)

The specified request is not a valid operation for the target device."

I am starting to suspect that the drivers are faulty. FWIW the thinkpad has NEVER seen *ANY* adb/android/sony drivers before.


This is the "Sony sa0118 ADB Interface Driver" btw. Installed as a legacy device as per Sony's instructions. Driver is already not working before a device is connected. Device is subsequently also not recognized. Device works perfectly fine in flash mode on my Linux notebook, just not both windows boxes Ive tried (sadly Windows is required for Xperifix)

 

[juandiazmora]

You use the drivers that comes with flash tool? Those are working for me without any trouble on Win10

 

[zarbix]

You use the drivers that comes with flash tool? Those are working for me without any trouble on Win10

tried these and they got me a little further - but not very. On first connect of the xz2c in "blue" mode Windows said something along the lines of configuring new device: Android. So far so good. Then started xperifix, which found the device and started to get device information during which it crashed (program got stuck, no .NET exceptions or anything). Now even 2 reboots later the phone is no longer recognized, I assume xperifix somehow borked up the fastboot drivers?


PS: the constant more often than not non-working recaptchas are getting a little annoying..

 

[Miichaell]

The drivers have to be installed in testmode on Windows 8-10. In Windows 7 it should work "out-of-the-box". And yes, I know I'm answering to one year old question, but it could be helpfull to someone one day. Maybe.