No joy with 1.06.5 and performance pack. Help!

[Guest stevesilk51]

Well i've spent quite a number of hours trying to install Paul's update with performance pack. Have successfully installed 1.06.5 from myadventvega (which destroyed data on my sd card despite vega site saying it wouldn't) and now want Paul's update. I am running a windows 7 64 bit system. But , as another member says: it hangs at "daemon started successfully" Tried running from command prompt, and in desparation straight double click on install-windows.bat in the extract folder, but no joy. Have asked before but no replies so i'm guessing nobody has figured out the win 7 fix? Would it be better for me to just bite the bullet and "borrow" an XP system. Also I see I need to apply Paul's USB update, not sure how to do that, simple explaination required if possible.

Beginning to wonder why I paid the tenner to support Modaco as virtually all guides are over my head. I'm a do it step by simple step sort of guy and even the newbies here seem way ahead of me with android. So a last gasp plea for help (from a sympathetic ear preferably) we all have our skills and need big help with others.

Thanks in anticipation.

Steve

[Guest debs626]

You sound at your wits end steve, don't give up :)

I updated to the 1.06.5 today and had to mess getting the R5 rom on. It was hanging on a blank cmd window.

I eventually got it to work by disabling USB debugging and then enabling it again while the command window was open.

btw I don't start from a cmd window I just right click on the install-windows.bat and select run as administrator (I'm a W7 32bit user)

HTH

[Guest warriorscot]

Its a lot easier on systems that aren't windows 7 x64 it likes to use its own drivers and doesn't like to let go of ones that work fine which in 99% of cases is good just not this one.

First of on the update deleting your SD card, it shouldn't and doesn't do that as far as I know I have update my Vega maybe a dozen times since getting it for one reason or another and never once has the SD card been affected. So it might be something you are doing or a faulty unit. When installing new updates to my vega I always do it one way and that is via my PC using the FULL instruction on the advent site and its never been a problem as long as I follow the instruction exactly(and I mean exact lots of people skip a step and wonder why it didn't work).

What I did was work out what one of the many USB devices was my vega in device manager the uninstalled the drivers. Then disconnect from the internet so it can't install its own drivers, reconnected it and then told windows to use the drivers I want which are the ones in the modaco rom.

To get the rom on and adb working the only way that works perfectly for me every time is extracting the folder then taking a copy of cmd.exe from my system32 folder and paste it into the folder. Then I run the adb just to check its working then open the cmd.exe and it opens with the path already in that folder so need to change anything. Then when the Vega is connected and in debug mode I check its connected by typing "adb devices" and it shows a device if they vega is connected properly. I then run "install-windows.bat" and it runs find and installs everything in the Vega.

In the beginning I got sick of windows so one easy way around the problem was a virtual machine. VMware player is free and works great if you aren't familiar with Virtual Machines so I installed that and created a new machine upon which I installed Ubuntu. And all that is pretty straight forward thing to do so its not difficult. Then once I did that I had a nice Ubuntu VM running in a window on my desktop all I did was paste the R5 folder into Ubuntu connected the Vega(Nvidia Harmony) to the VM and then opened a terminal navigated to the folder and ran "sh install-linux.sh" and it worked just fine and as the linux drivers don't need replaced I didn't need to mess about. And it was also a good excuse to set up another virtual machine again as they are actually pretty useful things to have installed.

[Guest arad85]

The server error is a driver error - you don't have the right drivers installed. I'm running Win7 64bit and have the software working nicely. The best way of doing this is to install Pauls drivers from scratch as they support both Advents updates and Pauls updates, but since you already have the Advent ones installed....

You have to get the drivers to reinstall, which can be a bit complex with Win7. There are a couple of methods (all in the stickied http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...online-kitchen/ thread)

Just keep reading through that until you find a method that works...

[Guest boffboff]

Hi Steve, as others have said - don't give up you're almost there!

It's almost certainly a USB driver issue. Once you've got that sorted the rest will be plain sailing.

The only thing I can add is to open Device Manager in Windows and expand the USB section, then connect your Vega and keep an eye on the USB section to see which new device appears. This will be your Vega and will be the one you need to update the drivers on.

Make sure the Vega is in debug mode too as I *think* it gets detected as a separate device to the non-debug Vega.

Best of luck!

[Guest stevesilk51]

Hi Steve, as others have said - don't give up you're almost there!

It's almost certainly a USB driver issue. Once you've got that sorted the rest will be plain sailing.

The only thing I can add is to open Device Manager in Windows and expand the USB section, then connect your Vega and keep an eye on the USB section to see which new device appears. This will be your Vega and will be the one you need to update the drivers on.

Make sure the Vega is in debug mode too as I *think* it gets detected as a separate device to the non-debug Vega.

Best of luck!

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your great advice, but in the end I was forced to install using an XP netbook! Main reason was I just could not stop Windows 7 from auto updating the usb drivers i unistalled, it was literally too quick for me to stop and I searched everywhere for the way to disable it. Also trying to go via the command prompt with "install-windows.bat" didn't work for me, but double clicking the batch file in the extracted folder did, baffles me but it worked!

Thanks again, sanity returned!

[Guest warriorscot]

Main reason was I just could not stop Windows 7 from auto updating the usb drivers i un-installed, it was literally too quick for me to stop and I searched everywhere for the way to disable it.

Unless the driver is part of the preloaded windows driver cache then it contacts the MS server to download the drivers. You can usually stop this by disconnecting the internet usually works for me and if you uninstall the drivers properly in some cases that prevents windows reinstalling those same drivers again.

But as you saw for yourself sometimes it easier just to use another machine.

[Guest deadite66]

or you can try the vmware image i made.

[Guest stevesilk51]

or you can try the vmware image i made.

Thanks, Will do next time :)

[Guest stevesilk51]

Unless the driver is part of the preloaded windows driver cache then it contacts the MS server to download the drivers. You can usually stop this by disconnecting the internet usually works for me and if you uninstall the drivers properly in some cases that prevents windows reinstalling those same drivers again.

But as you saw for yourself sometimes it easier just to use another machine.

Yes, I had disabled internet, automatic updating- the lot but still said I had the best one recommended by win 7, would not give the option to choose, even though I had selected that option and did reboot.

Big Brother is watching I suppose, or Murphy's Law!

Thanks

Steve

[Guest jentucker]

I have the same setup - win 7 x64 and was getting the daemon hanging problem. Its down to your USB drivers.

I installed the USB driver from Advent and then installed the 1.065 update. I plugged my vega in and got a number of new devices ( Harmony - with 2x USB and 1 x Tegra 2 device ). I uninstalled the Tegra 2 and one of the USB devices.

I changed the device driver on the remaining USB device hanging off the Harmony node and then got a new USB Composite device. Where I feel down was I hadn't expanded the RAR file containing the modaco usb drivers. This then let me run the batch file successfully.

I didn't need a VMware solution, its just down to the drivers on your system.