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The Nexus One USB Issue..

After hours of headache I am still unable to test my app on the nexus one device... mainly because my 64 bit Vista cannot find a device driver for the usb.
1. I have gone tried the developer.android instruction, which ofcourse does not work.
2.I have also gone tried the idea posted in a thread in this forum <mods wont allow me to post link> without success mainly because the cmd says "boot configuration data store cannot be opened. access is denied."
3. I went over Install and run USBDeview<mods wont allow me to post link> , but it wont work either, USBDView cannot uninstall in step 5 of the blog.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please if someone has installed the USB Driver for nexus one in a Windows Vista x64 help me out.. i have so many apps on the emulator which I want to try on the new device !!
Is their any other way I can port my app from the emulator and try it on the device? Thanks in advance

Please do not post non-dev related threads in the dev section... yeah, i think u thot this was a dev question since u are talking abt porting an app, but the question is really not dev related... this shud go in Q&A... mods please move!!
In any case, I've installed the N1 driver in Windows 7 x64 without any problem, and since the driver is the same for Vista & 7 x64, I don't think it shud be a problem...
I simply downloaded the drivers via the SDK setup... plugged in the phone and manually installed the driver via device manager... worked like a charm!!

+1 for the section and also for it working on Win 7 pro x64 for me.

+1 on posting in the proper section. I also have it working on win 7 x64.
As a side note, people who think the word 'should' is spelled 'shud' should not be correcting people.

TwilightArchon said:
After hours of headache I am still unable to test my app on the nexus one device... mainly because my 64 bit Vista cannot find a device driver for the usb.
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Try turning on USB debugging! Worked for me on Win7 when having similar difficulties

TwilightArchon said:
After hours of headache I am still unable to test my app on the nexus one device... mainly because my 64 bit Vista cannot find a device driver for the usb.
1. I have gone tried the developer.android instruction, which ofcourse does not work.
2.I have also gone tried the idea posted in a thread in this forum <mods wont allow me to post link> without success mainly because the cmd says "boot configuration data store cannot be opened. access is denied."
3. I went over Install and run USBDeview<mods wont allow me to post link> , but it wont work either, USBDView cannot uninstall in step 5 of the blog.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please if someone has installed the USB Driver for nexus one in a Windows Vista x64 help me out.. i have so many apps on the emulator which I want to try on the new device !!
Is their any other way I can port my app from the emulator and try it on the device? Thanks in advance
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Here you go - USB Driver that worked fine with Vista 64 bit - found on this very site. Install the driver and just enable USB debugging.

krohnjw said:
Here you go - USB Driver that worked fine with Vista 64 bit - found on this very site. Install the driver and just enable USB debugging.
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Thanks a lot.. this zip file worked like a charm unlike the last ones I downloaded from what seems to be everywhere ( even the google repository) !

[Q] Download mode not compatible with Virtual Machine?

Hello all.
First of all, before people shooting at me and saying "please search", I come from many Google and xda search with "MacOs, download mode, failure vm, virtual machine, odin , kies" in every combination you can imagine and no result.
So, the problem is the following one:
I remarked, with some friends from a french forum that we all succeed to use KIES in a virtual machine and connect the phone:
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That work like a charm.
Then w wanted to flash, then reboot the phone in Download mode ( yellow android at work ) and then there is a big crash telling us that the device is not recognized:
"unable to connect USB device to virtual machine"
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I would really be pleased to have more info on this issue and if we are only a little group to have this issue.
For info, I am using MacOS Snow Leopard and the trial of parallels desktops 6.

It doesn't work with VMware Fusion either. Must be something to do with the USB interface on Samsung.. I've heard some people have it going on Virtualbox running on Linux - but not Mac.

Works fine on VirtualBox on Ubuntu.

Why don't you give Heimdall a go? Haven't tried it personally, but OS X is in the list of supported OSes

Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Although Heimdall runs on OS X all Galaxy S phones tested thus far contain a bug in the secondary boot loader that prevents the phone registering itself with OS X. This may change if Samsung release an updated secondary boot loader.
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Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!

profete162 said:
Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!
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Saw that today too.. .pretty sure its the issue since it affects all parallels, fusion and virtualbox on Mac OSX.

profete162 said:
Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!
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Yes, download mode functionality is provided by the secondary boot loader. If you really desperately want to get it working with OS X then you would need to download the source for, modify and install a custom IOUSBFamily.kext that contains a work-around specifically for the Galaxy S.

The only options for we Mac users right now are to find a Windows machine, install boot camp on your Mac (then point your vmware machine to it to save duplicate Windows wasted space), or possibly find a way to boot from an external drive with Windows (like a thumbdrive or livecd if possible).

distortedloop said:
The only options for we Mac users right now are to find a Windows machine, install boot camp on your Mac (then point your vmware machine to it to save duplicate Windows wasted space)
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Exactly what i have done. And I HATE it :|

I had this same problem, and I just saw this thread after spending hours last night trying to figure out why XP in Parallels stopped recognizing the phone as soon as it went into download mode. So irritating!

it works for me on VMware 7 + WinXP SP3
because my Win7 64bit PC is crazy it won't recognize the phone randomly, twice it bricked my phone doing the Flash on the Host PC
so after setting up my ROM FLASH VMware machine, now i no longer have problem
stupid windows, no time to mess with the system registry to figure out what is the madness with the USB detection
i'm pretty sure you should have no problem as well if you use VMware 6.5

I posted this in the Heimdall thread but thought I should let followers of this thread know also.
I sent Samsung the OS X USB failure log and since then Samsung have informed me that the Froyo update (specifically the Nordic version released October 15) includes a fixed bootloader which should allow the phone to be recognised in OS X. I'm yet to verify this but hopefully this is the case!

[Q] Baseband upgrade with linux OS.

Hi!
I stopped using Windows recently, and have tried to find another way of changing the baseband on my phone. Is widows software the only option for doing this?

Seems like it at the moment, unless Smartflash works in WINE, which I doubt.

No, wine doesn't work.
Is there no way of doing this without a computer then?

It seems there is not another way, I used to upgrade my bb by virtual machine.
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babytux said:
It seems there is not another way, I used to upgrade my bb by virtual machine.
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I do like that too but it's not the best solution because when you plug in a usb cable is the host machine that deals with it first and then the guest virtual machine manages it. This little detail made me unable to update my x10 mini,with this phone you have to push the back button while plugging in the usb. In that situation you plug the cable, the phone doesn't see any "flashing attempt" because the host machine (linux) doesn't have the flasher software running and so the phone reboots without updating. When the device is "passed" to the guest machine is already too late. As babytux said it can be done, but if you have problems in the procedure a "real" windows machine can be useful.

no known linux sw at this time, sorry ...
i updated my BB to 20110725 with virtualbox (without hw virtualizing)-(64bit linux as host machine) without any problems (smartflash in winxp used only virtual modem(tty) for this job).
i'm thinking the lgos is a "real" open phone for all types of OS's, not to mention the super "last" flash fallback(nvflash).
hope, this is a little help for you ...

Unless there is a way to do it with Nvflash it might be impossible for now.

captivate dl mode not detected

there is a strange issue my laptop not recognizing my captivate in download mode. this is not os specific as since this issue began, ive installed 3 dists' of ubuntu, windows, and currently deb wheezy, with same results. lsusb shows no device during dl mode. recently, another issue occured while installing the sdk also. the adb server will not start, with a "failed to ACK" response. this was never an issue before with the sdk. anyhow, installing adb-tools via repository, i am able to access the device without issue.
on my desktop, my captivate is found during dl mode also heimdall w/o issue. my nexus however, is found by heimdall on my laptop and in dl mode/lsusb. i have installed multiple versions of heimdall/frontend and attempted running the one clicks'. i have one usb port on my dell c610 latitude and multiple usb/data cords. any suggestions?

brandonabandon said:
there is a strange issue my laptop not recognizing my captivate in download mode. this is not os specific as since this issue began, ive installed 3 dists' of ubuntu, windows, and currently deb wheezy, with same results. lsusb shows no device during dl mode. recently, another issue occured while installing the sdk also. the adb server will not start, with a "failed to ACK" response. this was never an issue before with the sdk. anyhow, installing adb-tools via repository, i am able to access the device without issue.
on my desktop, my captivate is found during dl mode also heimdall w/o issue. my nexus however, is found by heimdall on my laptop and in dl mode/lsusb. i have installed multiple versions of heimdall/frontend and attempted running the one clicks'. i have one usb port on my dell c610 latitude and multiple usb/data cords. any suggestions?
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The only thing I can think of is drivers issue. Is it connecting fine outta dl mode?

I wouldn't have thought it would be a driver issue with the Ubuntu releases. The android devices are built into the kernel. I haven't used any 'buntu releases to connect to my Captivate, but I have been connecting to it with Linux Mint since I bought the Captivate. I tend to use the LTS releases based on Ubuntu's LTS releases. I have used the versions corresponding to Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04 without ever installing a driver. The same holds true to when I was using LMDE based on Debian Squeeze while it was still the testing release. It seems to be true for you that it is not a driver issue since you connected with adb-tools (was that while on Linux?).
I was going to ask if you had the Captivate set to either Mass Storage or Media Device (MTP), depending on your ROM version. But, thinking about it this should not apply to your question, since you are talking about download mode. I have further suggestions if you were talking about transferring files over a USB cable while the phone is booted for use; having mtp-tools (older Ubuntu versions) or libmtp packages (came as part of base install on latest LTS for me).
Even regarding download mode, I doubt it is a driver issue while you are using Linux. The reason I believe so is that I have read of connecting Android phones to laptops while running both Ubuntu and LinuxMint as a LiveUSB installs. In such a situation you don't install anything that is not part of the basic .iso file.
This brings you back to a connection issue that happens with the one laptop but not with the desktop. It happens from Linux OSes and Windows. If it were only Windows I would think a driver issue. You have ruled out your USB cable because you have tried several. I'm not sure if calling this an intermittent problem is the correct description. I guess there is still a possibilty it could be a hardware issue with either the one USB port on your laptop or the microUSB port on your phone.
By any chance were you running Linux as a virtual machine under Windows? Maybe that would bring it back to a drivers issue, a Windows driver issue. That would be a better problem to be working on than a faulty port.

i edited the heimdall permissions, android-adb permissions, added new permissions. nada. if i flash stock, and still no detection, yet detection on my pc, i can then verify my laptop as the culprit, which ive had problems with since i bought it. i actually took it apart and to placehold my usb port, jammed a penny in it. which has worked fine for years. the entire unit is sketchy. random reboots, broken back, trackball poultergeist. mostly i just want a backup hdd in the event this handmedown pc fails. so its a latitude c610 running 32 bit debian wheezy 3.2 pae kernel. once i researched/learned i could develop on 32 bit machines, i decided to dust it off. if i can get to the bottom of this issue, i would then buy some parts to make it decent. no heimdall/no way. im full throttle for my cappy atm.
im running natty on my pc because i was having dependancy issues compiling with precise. but heimdall was never an issue. i have a feeling the sdk issue and the heimdall issue are related. i started a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2268539 regarding the sdk issue, but i marked it as solved as the reason was simply installing adb.

dawgdoc said:
. It seems to be true for you that it is not a driver issue since you connected with adb-tools (was that while on Linux?).
By any chance were you running Linux as a virtual machine under Windows? Maybe that would bring it back to a drivers issue, a Windows driver issue. That would be a better problem to be working on than a faulty port.
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yes and no. i think its either dl mode being finnicky or a little elf living in my laptop keeps unplugging the usb when i heimdall.
edit. interesting how i tested stock dl mode on my laptop, which failed. however, i connected to dl mode via my laptop (device not detected)(lsusb + heimdall)) i then checked for connectivity on my pc which failed also. i rebooted dl mode from my pc and then my pc connected fine. this method unfortunatly is not backwards compatible.

UNSOLVED
since, ive tried dl mode with xp and 7. im filing it to the "aint tryin' to happen" category. i need to buy a new laptop anyhow. thanks

Using Linux (Ubuntu) to flash firmware

I recently converted my windows 10 laptop completely (accidentally) to ubuntu studio and am having a hard time finding what can be used in replace of odin. I have heimdall but read it doesnt work above 4.4.2 and cant find jodin3 as links to it dont load. Anybody here use linux and can give a few general steps on what to use and how to get it?

droseofc said:
I recently converted my windows 10 laptop completely (accidentally) to ubuntu studio and am having a hard time finding what can be used in replace of odin. I have heimdall but read it doesnt work above 4.4.2 and cant find jodin3 as links to it dont load. Anybody here use linux and can give a few general steps on what to use and how to get it?
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Install a Virtual Machine or VirtualBox and download a version of Windows that you can run on it with a key to activate windows or just use a temporary one but you'll have to learn how to use the VM'S they're not hard at all though.

I will deff try that and appreciate the help. That doesnt seem difficult at all or anything but other then that is there a method that is for linux such as heimdall? Heimdall may be ok i just read it doesnt work after 4.4.2. Right now the virtualbox does seem best as i am used to windows but wondering if there's something specifically for linux or Linux compatible.

droseofc said:
I will deff try that and appreciate the help. That doesnt seem difficult at all or anything but other then that is there a method that is for linux such as heimdall? Heimdall may be ok i just read it doesnt work after 4.4.2. Right now the virtualbox does seem best as i am used to windows but wondering if there's something specifically for linux or Linux compatible.
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Unfortunately I have not found anything capable of being used after 4.4.2 on Linux which is why I said the VM.. I use VirtualBox and it works great running Windows 7 but you need to make sure that you have all the software it needs to run installed.. This isn't like Windows where you just install a .exe and it works, there's a lot more involved than that. With VirtualBox after you install it you'll have to also install a VirtualBox Extension Pack. You should make sure you read up pretty good on it and you should be ok.

Will do and I appreciate your help. Which linux are you running or have you? I am running ubuntu 16.04lts ubuntustudio and whenever i try to open stellarium the screen flickers bad and freezes up. By chance do you have any experiences with that or have i shot way too left field.

winetricks is what you want.. in the app store unbuntu