Fallen at first hurdle - Vista Drivers

[Guest ksykes]

Hi,

I am trying to root & rom my orange san francisco, but i am appearing to fall at the first hurdle.

I am using vista (yeah...I know....I'll install 7 when I get the time).

I am trying to use Superboot method, and I have fastboot installed and the boot.blade.superboot.mcri.r3 file (MD5 check is good)

I cannot get the correct drivers installed on my PC. I have tried driver files detailed all over this site, and have menaged to get one driver installed (3G modem iirc), but one remains outstanding, with the yellow question mark remaining in device manager against a ZTE HSUSB item.

I have tried to ignore this, and go for the fastboot stage, but when I run the fastboot-windows flash boot boot.blade.superboot.mcri.r3.img command, i get < waiting for device > which I interpret as it's not talking. I think this is due to the drivers not be set correctly. Everytime I connect the phone to the PC, it flags that drivers are not installed. I've been working on this for 4 hrs, but success, hence the forum post.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

[Guest dbeckett]

Try these drivers http://flibblesan.co.uk/android/zte_driver.zip

right click on the device without the driver, click update driver software and select that folder and see if it works

[Guest UncleFista]

This is how "I" did it on my Vista PC.

I started with the drivers from this thread.

Download link here usb drivers.

Right click on "my computer", then choose "properties".

Click "device manager".

You should see one or more devices that are yellow flagged, we're interested in the "ZTE HSUSB device".

Right click on the first "ZTE HSUSB device" and choose "update driver software"

"browse my computer for driver software"

"let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"

A list of device types will appear, don't choose one just click "next"

"have disk" then navigate to the "usb_driver" folder, then choose the "android_winusb.inf" file.

When the screen come up with "select the device driver you want to install for this hardware" choose "Android ADB interface" then next.

At this point you'll get a couple of dire warnings about uncertified drivers etc. just tell it to "install this software anyway".

That "should" be it, if not, do the same for all "ZTE HSUSB device".

Hope this helps :)