USB driver problems

[Guest Mahoog]

I got my Vega yesterday. Installed the offiicial USB drivers, followed by the 1.09 update but I wanted to be running MCR. I downloaded the R8 pre-baked version onto my work machine running Windows XP 32 bit. Unzipped, unzipped the USB drivers. Couldn't get it to install the drivers.

Frustrated, ran out of worktime, hey ho I'm actually going to have to do this on my own time.

I get home and try again on my Windows 7 64 bit, but soon give up as I can quickly see this is going to end in a brick wall.

I dig out my old Windows XP 32 bit machine. Boot the Vega into recovery mode, get the APX showing up in my list of devices, point it at the R8 usb drivers and it insists these aren't compatible with this hardware.

I joined the forum and signed up for ads free so I could download a baked version, just in case I had a corrupt download. No difference. I installed the official USB drivers in case that was a stepping stone step, and later uninstalled them using USBdeview (as advised in a forum thread - I HAVE been reading the forum and the guides) after it made no difference.

I downloaded the R8a patch version in case there were different drivers but with the same result.

I went back to myadventvega and downloaded the 1.08 full install, reinstalled the official drivers and reflashed my Vega to the old version. Tried to update the Nvidia device but no joy so I uninstalled it, plugged the Vega into a different USB port booted into recovery mode, cancelled the automatic driver install, went to device manager, right click the APX device, update driver, choose the location with no searching, point at the driver in the R8 download and yet again see "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware" after selecting "android_winusb.inf" for the hundredth time.

Am I doing something fundamentally wrong or is there any possibility that my Vega, while it works in USB drive mode if required, just can't work in ADB mode? Any chance they've done something to the hardware, or that it's faulty?

At a quarter past midnight last night I was contemplating re-installing XP on my old machine JUST IN CASE...

Edited February 24, 2011 by Mahoog

[Guest ss23]

You have to enable USB debugging on your Vega (under Applications->Development) and also, you should try updating the drivers for (if I remember correctly) USB Composite Device (or something similar) under USB controllers. Also, make sure you can install unsigned drivers! Hope this helps!

Reading your post again, I think your biggest mistake is that you're trying to flash the MCR when the Vega is in recovery, when actually you need to boot it up and then enable USB debugging and connect it to your computer.

Edited February 24, 2011 by ss23

[Guest Mahoog]

Thanks for getting back to me. I was only in recovery mode to install the USB drivers - never got as far as flashing MCR. :huh:

UPDATE - I went to the advice on page 18 of the R8 thread, and did the Java/Android SDK install to get the W7 64 bit bridge drivers and I'm now running R8. Woot!

Probably would have gone a lot quicker if I'd got myself a beer.