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POCan't load Nexus 7 USB driver for Android debugging on WinXP
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copied!<p>I am very new to Android development.</p> <p>I ran the tutorial for creating the <i>Hello, world</i> app and ran it successfully on the Android emulator. Now I want to try it on a Nexus 7 tablet and can't get the required USB driver to load on this WinXP system. Things I have done:<ol></p> <p><li>Ran the SDK Manager to install the Google USB driver on my machine. The directory <sdk>\extras\google\usb_driver containing a .inf file and a bunch of other stuff showed up as expected.</p> <p><li>On the tablet, enabled debugging mode. It now shows <i>USB debugging</i> checked in the <i>Developer options</i> menu.</p> <p><li>Plugged in the tablet to the USB. Windows popped up the <i>found new hardware</i> dialog.</p> <p><li>Following the <a href="https://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">directions from Google</a>, eventually gave it the path to the driver in <sdk>\extras\google\usb_driver.</p> <p></ol></p> <p>Windows then says that it can't install the device. I have tried rebooting the PC, turning the tablet off and on, turning off USB debugging in the tablet and then on again, but nothing has worked.</p> <p>How do I get the driver loaded so that I can debug Android apps on the tablet?</p> <h2>Added:</h2> <p>Here is the screen shot of trying to tell Windows where the driver is:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1kY3f.jpg" alt=""></p> <p>And here is the response after clicking NEXT above:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kn95C.jpg" alt=""></p> <p>Something flashes up very briefly before this, but it's too fast to see what it's saying.</p> <h2>The Solution</h2> <p>I got things working thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/2844992/andrew-q">Andrew Q</a>, but my details were a little different from his so I am documenting them here in case someone else bumps into this with a setup more like mine.</p> <p>The main thing that made the difference is changing the tablet's USB behavior from a mass storage device to a camera. On Andrew's device this setting is apparently in the normal Settings menu you can get to when swiping down in the top right corner. In my case Settings > Storage only displays some statistics with no (apparent) options. However, when the device is connected to the USB in debug mode, there is a little icon in the top left corner that is four vertical lines. Swiping that down shows you whether the device is connected as a media device (MTP) or a camera (PTP), and allows you to select either. Mine was MTP by default, and switching to PTP did the trick.</p> <p>Once the device was in PTP mode, WinXP was able to load the Google driver without problem. I didn't have to deliberately uninstall and manually install the driver. The "Found New Hardware Wizard" shown above actually worked instead of resulting in "Cannot Install this Hardware".</p> <p>Once that was done everything worked as expected. Eclipse could see the tablet and allowed me to select it as a target after Run > Run.</p>

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