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New Motorola Droid. Nice upgrade from my HTC 6700...
However, I cannot mount it on my Vista.
i get "Installing New HW" bubble, processes than fails:
"Device Driver software was not successfully InstalledI do not get anything under My Computer...
USB Composite Device - Ready to Use
USB Mass Storage Device - Ready to Use
Motorola A855 - Failed
Motorola A855 USB Device - Ready to use"
I cannot find a A855 driver anyware.
Thoughts?
In the upper left corner there is a little USB icon, hold your finger over the icon a moment and then pull down the tray that appears. You will have access to USB options. Select Mount.
HTH
Thanks, did that...
I have been working further and what is really happening is Vista is finding the drive (Letter F: on mine) but then when I try to open F: it says
"Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (F:)"
It is still mounted on the droid, but not on vista.
I have tried to update drivers, I have tried to delete all USB drives (under drive manager and letting it re-install).
I got the same issue on an PC running XP.Quote:
Originally Posted by billy Droid
If you go to the Motorola website, there is a driver package you can download...Once installed you can open a driver installer from the start menu, run it, and update the drivers, and then it will work!
Figured it out! I had to de-install Windows Mobile Device Center..
It works now!
Did not work. it worked for a few minutes but that was it.
Took it down to my wife's XP. Gee, mounts perfectly, So not the Droid...
Any ideas
yea, I'm having the same problem with windows 7 x64, was your XP machine 32 bit? It works on my 32bit XP Virtual Machine that's running on windows 7 host...Quote:
Originally Posted by billy Droid
-chad
My XP is 32 bit. My Vista is 64....
Wow, you came from a 6700? How did you live with that phone for so long? It was a nice design for its day, but that thing had a awful cell radio in it that got very poor reception and Windows 5 crashed like crazy on it.
I hear ya... I loaded 6, and it worked better, and updated the radio, but the radio was it's ultimate demise... I never used data, it was useless, even with WM6. I held off long enough for VZ to get a good phone or I was going to jump to iPhone.
Download Motorola Media Link, the USB driver is part of that software installation
http://www.motorola.com/consumers/US...008806b00aRCRD
Here is what I know. It fails often. every time or other time for me. You will be told by every person to "mount"... :D but I can tell you that is not the problem.
It appears to be a x64 issue. I have it with vista, and seen it with W7 (not personal experience)
A couple of things that will help.
Do the USBDeview thing... But launch as Administrator. I deleted EVERY USB set it has.
use the Motorola service. I ran it under "safe Mode" and it worked a few times in a row - a new record.... but I am not calling it complete, since I ran it yesterday as well, and it failed... so it is not consistent.
Android has released new USB drivers in their SDK, but these do not work.
Changing the computer/properties/advanced/hardware/Windows Update Driver Setting --- Really does not do anything to help.
Personally, I believe the issue may be with the Admin authorization. But clearly, it is a problem, but not that common. I have found threads:
158705 and 1587766
I think something is happening where it tries to install the new drivers but due to some of the UAC authorities/Controls , it will not get registered correctly. For example, if I do exactly what android development indicates (found here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html I am still left with the MOTorola driver... so something is not being allowed to be updated.
Anyone with any insight, I would appreciate it.
I did find an interesting side note....
I can:
Mount from Droid... Click on drive Letter... get the Insert Removable disk. click cancel...
(Repeat countless time)
However... Sometimes...
If I click on driver letter... Get the Insert Removable disk... Then Mount Droid and this works (more often then the other way)
Does this work for anyone else.
Here. download and zip
http://www.smilepak.com/temp/Droid_USB_Driver.zip
This is what I used to install just now.