Fastboot Drivers
Margaret Sigars
ADB and Fastboot drivers both serve different purposes, but they are often required together in most of modification processes. Luckily there are ways to install both drivers together to save time and effort. Look no further as here you get to download ADB & Fastboot drivers and also USB driver for your phone.
If you want to flash or install any file on an Android phone using a PC, you will need both ADB, and Fastboot drivers. These driver help with executing adb and fastboot commands directly from PC. ADB & Fastboot drivers are used in the case of:
Both drivers are essential in Android development such as testing ROMs, testing apps, rooting an Android phone, etc. You need these drivers very often if you are into Android development. Since the 15 second ADB installer is now outdated, we found a new adb installer which is latest. The latest tool is from Fawaz Ahmed. For system wide ADB Fastboot driver, you now only need a 1KB bat file. Use the download button to get the driver tool on your PC.
If you have a 15 seconds ADB Installer (download) from snoop05, then you can follow these steps to install it. However the tool is outdated and is no longer being updated by the developer. But it still works, so if you have its file, here are the steps.
Open Device Manager and if it shows yellow icon as in image, Right-click on it and then click update driver. Next, click on Browse from the desktop then click on Let me pick. Then select the Android option.
Now select bootloader if you are using fastboot mode and then Install. Or select ADB Interface options for the adb connectivity. This will fix the ADB & Fastboot problem.
ADB helps to complete tasks like copying files between computer and phone, install and uninstall apps using pc, control phones from shell commands, etc. These are some basic tasks that can be accomplished by the ADB driver.
The Fastboot driver does a similar work which is connecting the phone with the PC. But it works in the case when the phone is in Fastboot mode. Fastboot helps to flash files into the system. Flashing into the system like installing recovery, bootloader, and kernels.
I am trying to flash Sailfish to Xperia 10 on Windows 10, bit I am not able to properly install fastboot drivers. I am using Xperia X driver as described in official manual. I even tried Xperia 10 II driver, bur without luck. I am on Windows 10 2004, as I have found it may be caused by this. Do you know how ro resolve it. Before I flashed in on Linux and it worked flawlessly. Thank you.
I have Windows 10 Pro v. 2004 and even after following the guide provided by Jolla/SailfishOS, I cannot get my PC to see my Xperia XA2 Ultra device when putting it in Fastboot mode. The guide mentions a problem with my version of Windows but if you got it working somehow using Xperia X drivers for your device, I should theoretically also be able to get my drivers installed.
Adding udev rules halfway through added confusion for me. Later I found out I never was properly reloading the udev rules. Restarting the udev.service does not work. I had to:udevadm control --reloadthenudevadm trigger as found here:
The set of udev rules that I copied from a recent .deb package had me covered; however on a side note I found that my device has different vendor ID's when mounted normally versus when it is in fastboot.
Then I could: adb reboot bootloader but fastboot devices would not return my device and I never resolved that problem (which was the second issue); however this post helped me (actually the original poster has covered this already in their question):
I found that fastboot could still communicate to the device and I could issue commands but I would always have to specify the device via the -i option. For example: fastboot -i 0xVENDOR_ID getvar WHATEVER
If anyone's experiencing the same problem, it's possible that you're trying to use fastboot with a Samsung phone. After trying everything on Stack Exchange, I learnt that many Samsung phones don't support fastboot for flashing firmware, and instead use Samsung's own system called Odin.
I'm trying to unlock the bootloader on my LG G6 (specifically LGUS997) phone to enable root access. Following LG's instructions, I've downloaded the command line Android SDK tools, notably ADB and fastboot.
ADB recognizes my phone just fine but in order to unlock the bootloader I need to reboot the phone into fastboot mode (which ADB can do). The problem is fastboot.exe does not recognize my phone at all, even after installing the Google USB drivers as well as my phone's specific drivers.
I'm following the official Web Installer instructions, and having trouble getting Windows 10 to install the Google USB Driver (with fastboot) onto Windows 10 via the Computer Management tool. Could I get your help / advice? Below is my experience so far.
"On Windows, you need to install a driver for fastboot if you don't already have it. No driver is needed on other operating systems. You can obtain the driver from Windows Update which will detect it as an optional update when the device is booted into the bootloader interface and connected to the computer. Open Windows Update, run a check for updates and then open the "View optional updates" interface. Install the driver for the Android bootloader interface as an optional update."
This approach has not worked for me. Windows does not provide drivers no matter how many reboots or update checks I do within Windows Settings, with and without the phone plugged in directly to my laptop's ports via an OEM cable at different stages of the process.
"The best drivers for your device are already installed
Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed. There may be better drivers on Windows Update or on the device manufacturer's website.
MTP USB Device
I've searched on the forums, and the best answer I've seen so far is to remove the generic windows drivers first, then try installing the Google USB Driver. By right clicking Pixel 7 in the Windows Computer Management tool, I can see the following options:
Apologies in advance for the long message, I just want to make sure this is easily searchable for future aspirants to GOS.
Big love to you guys - this is my first post and first try at installing GOS after years of observing the project from afar. Seeing Proton's fundraiser was the vouch that tipped me over the edge, and now I'm a full-fledged pilgrim in search of the promised land. Thank you very much for the work you do.
To get Windows to download the fastboot driver make sure you have it set to even download drivers, and also, it might show as kind of an odd name, for instance mine was "LeMobile Android Bootloader Interface"
And this part doesn't necessarily mean the driver isn't installed. I initially had the same problem but it turned out to be a cable/port issue, so try different cables and ports if you can. The only way I was able to get the browser to consistently recognize the phone, and complete all steps, was by using a usb-A to usb-C cable in a 2.0 port specifically. Both C to C and A to C in 3.0/3.1 ports did not work.
Yep, I believe this is already the case. Whenever I click the "check for updates" button, usually 1 or 2 Intel and Dell drivers are downloaded and installed. But seemingly none are related to Android / Google USB Drivers.
There doesn't seem to be any other options that specifically enable extra driver downloads within Windows Settings.
I do always select the "optional updates" dropdown and include those.
I've even gone into:
Settings -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options -> Enable "Receive updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows"
But nothing new shows up after that.
The only way I was able to get the browser to consistently recognize the phone, and complete all steps, was by using a usb-A to usb-C cable in a 2.0 port specifically. Both C to C and A to C in 3.0/3.1 ports did not work.
1) Disconnect your phone from the computer
2) Open an admin cmd prompt
3) Type the following in the command prompt window:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
4) Type the following in the command prompt window:
devmgmt.msc
5) Look in all relevent sections (Human interface devices, System Devices, Universal Serial Bus controllers) then right click & uninstall any drivers related to your pixel. They should be greyed out if the device is disconnected, as it should be. Take your time, be thorough. Make sure you wipe out all references to your pixel and only your pixel.
6) Next, confirm your pixel has the "OEM unlock" toggle enabled, then reboot it into fastboot mode.
7) Connect your pixel to the computer using the originally packaged USB cable. Wait until the computer tries to recognize it. We expect it to fail.
8) In Device Manager, right click over the new, unknown device that is your pixel and select Update Driver. Choose "Browse my Computer for Drivers."
9) Now, you should have unzipped the driver folder from the Google download and put it on your desktop or somewhere similar where you can find it easily. Point to this folder when prompted and the driver should install.
Shendai
Thanks for your troubleshooting steps.
I am pretty new to this, have a Pixel4a, and HP computer with Windows 10 (sadly my Macs are pre OS11 so can't use them)
I have had exactly the same issues as zzz, OEM unlocked, error message - Error: Failed to execute 'requestDevice' on 'USB': No device selected
Windows seems intent on having selected "the best driver" for the pixel (as per the Device Manager, driver details / update attempts).
I have viewed drivers in the Human Interface, System Devices, USB controllers, nothing mentions Pixel4a or any apparent connection to the Pixel, are there any other suggestions you might have to circumvent Windows 10 auto select of drivers?
I did try to map the environment variant to a SDK downloaded package, but this didn't have any effect.
Try a number of connectors to no avail.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully you may be able to resolve it zzz.
Thanks