[Verizon] Driver issue is kicking my butt!!

[SBCT]

Well my Verizon Galaxy Nexus finally showed up in the mail today so I figured its time to get to work!

I am having driver issues that quite a few people seem to have. I have tried the naked driver, the driver off the samsung website, pda net driver and I get the same error with all of them. I have the exclamation point in device manager and it says "device cannot start". Same problem with all three different drivers. I even tried on my laptop worried an old driver was stuck in there and on my laptop fresh driver install I get same "device cannot start".

Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

EDIT: Maybe I should add that when the phone is booted up, I don't have any driver issues and can browse the folders on the phone through my computer no problem, driver issue only kicks in when I boot into fastboot mode.

 

[scary alien]

SBCT,

Have a quick look at this post: http://androidforums.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus-all-things-root/474570-how-all-things-root-samsung-galaxy-nexus.html#post3736590

and expand the "Show" button's details in section #2 for how I installed the drivers on my PC.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!

 

[JM33]

I used this tip from the droid life instruction page. Its way at the bottom.

1. Open device manager on your PC.
2. Right click on Android 1.0 with the yellow ! mark on it.
3. Choose update driver.
4. Choose browse my computer.
5. Choose Let me pick from a list.
6. Scroll down and find the Samsung driver with newest date. Should be the driver you downloaded above. (Possibly dated 11/25/2011 ).
7. It will give you a warning about installing the driver, just click yes.

Do this while in the bootloader, not during normal boot. (Where it seems you are having problems). Once i got this I was unlocked and rooted in just a few minutes.

Hope this helps.

Edit: seems to be basically the same instructions given above. Sorry for not reading first.

 

[timetoroot]

I just rooted my phone 20 minutes ago for the first time and had similar issues. (SA, your instructions were fantastic, thank you!!) Once you load the driver per the post above, unplug, then re-plug your usb cable. Seems you have to try to make a "new" usb connection after the driver is installed. This worked for me.

 

[SBCT]

Thanks for the tips guys. I will try again when i get home later.

 

[SBCT]

Timetoroot nailed it. I plugged the usb cord in and left it in the whole time yesterday while trying to unlock / root. Just disconnecting the usb cord and not plugging it back in until my phone was already in fastboot was all it needed for the windows usb drivers to cooperate! Thanks for your help guys....

 

[mistermojorizi]

i downloaded pdanet install file, and then double clicked the exe. done.

for more specific instructions see the first post in this thread: [GN TOOLKIT V2.2] Unlock, Root, CWM + Flash Your 1ST Galaxy Nexus Rom For Newbs [LTE] - xda-developers

i had first messed around with the samsung naked drivers and device manager and other things before finding that thread which makes sense of the whole rooting and roming process in one short post.

 

[gapi]

If you get stuck at the "Waiting for device" message just leave it alone and go to device manager and find the splat. Then do the usual update driver thing from there and the "waiting for device" message will go away and the process will continue.