Asus Nexus 7 not recognized by Android dev tools via adb

Question

Problem: Asus Nexus 7 not recognized by adb when correctly installed and connected

Setup: Asus Nexus 7 tablet Windows 7 64 bit OS

Steps taken:

1. Ins

Answer 1

From website below

http://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/Nexus_7/HelpDesk_Download/

Download USB -> Nexus 7 USB driver for Windows

Unzip

Then follow the directions on this website below:

http://www.theandroidsoul.com/nexus-7-2013-drivers-installation-guide/

An Example for step #5, point it at this location:

C:\Users\Gene\Documents\Computer Setup (Installed Programs)\Asus Nexus Device Drivers\usb_driver

Answer 2

i was having the same problem and my solution was to download the device driver from Asus. Below is the link.

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Nexus+7&p=28&s=2

Answer 3

That's how I solved this issue with a different device.

• Download the drivers, unzip in a folder https://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html#top
• With your tablet plugged, go to System -> Device admin -> Android Device -> Properties -> Details -> Hardware ID
• You'll find something like USB/VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY, we will need those XXXX and YYYY later.
• Go to the folder you put your drivers and edit the file android_winusb.inf manually.

• Add this:

  ;MY PHONE
  %SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY
  %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY&MI_01

• Save the file

• Go back to device manager and try to update the driver with this one. (Driver -> Update driver -> Search in my computer -> Choose from a list -> Use disk).

That worked for me on a Quechua Phone.

Answer 4

After downloading the USB driver using the SDK manager, you can speed up the search for the new driver by telling Windows to look in the C:\Users\jdaehn\AppData\Local\Android\android-studio\sdk\extras\ folder (and sub-folders, in my case the drivers were in C:\Users\jdaehn\AppData\Local\Android\android-studio\sdk\extras\google\usb_driver)

Answer 5

In my case when I got an empty list using "adb devices" I found that the device manager showed the Nexus 7 tablet under 'other devices' with that dreaded yellow exclamation point indicating that the driver was not installed correctly. Why Windows recognized part of the tablet file system, I don't know. In any case I manually updated the driver to the google usb driver in android-sdks\extras\google.

Then adb gave me the following:

C:\Users\Brian\android-sdks\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

015d25785b601611 device

instead of a blank. I hope this doesn't mess anything else up but I can now talk to the device.

Answer 6

What worked for me is downloading the USB driver from the ASUS website:

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Nexus+7&p=28&s=2

(you have to select the OS, which sometimes doesn't work, e.g. on the link Google returns when searching for "nexus 7 driver"). In that case, click on "Drivers and Download" and search for "Nexus 7". That gets me a page with a working OS selection.