Android USB driver for Xperia X10a

Question

I've been trying for a couple hours now, and have hit all of the sites Google found, but i cannot get the Android USB driver on my XP box to talk to my new Xperia X10a. I found the lines that some kind soul posted, and has been syndicated repeated, but they don't work for me. The idea is to add them to the Google.NTx86 and Google.NTamd64 sections of the android_winusb.inf file:

;Xperia X10
%SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_E12E
%CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_E12E&MI_01

I tried a number of variations of the first line, including "Sony Ericsson X10a", which is what XP shows me in both the "found new hardware" wizard and the device manager, but no luck. The result is always the same. Here are my steps:

1. Plug in the phone via USB
2. "found new hardware wizard" appears
3. Choose "No, not this time" and "next"
4. Choose "Install from a list or specific location..." and "next"
5. Choose "Search for best driver...", check "Include this location...", and browse for the "usb_driver" folder in the Android SDK installation. Click "next"

It does a quick search and then says "Cannot install this hardware", "... because the wizard cannot find the necessary software".

I've tried more things that i can recall now, including deleting registry entries, but it just won't work. Any help would be appreciated at this point.

Regards, m@

Answer 1

I don't know about the X10, but with my Moto Droid, there's no driver. You just plug it in, and (IMPORTANT), "mount" the phone from the notification menu, and then it shows up as a removable drive. Without mounting, it doesn't do anything but charge.

Answer 2

I got it. (BTW, the original android_winusb.inf information came from user Kirrrilka on the android dev google group, so many thanks to him.)

The proper entries in the android_winusb.inf for the xperia x10a phone are as follows:

%SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_D12E
%CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_D12E&MI_01

I.e. the PID is "D12E" instead of "E12E". I found this information by going to the XP Device Manager (My Computer -> Properties -> Hardware -> Device Manager), finding the device (i don't recall what it was called there before, but it had a big yellow question mark icon), right-clicking for properties, details tab, and looking at the "device instance id". I hope this information helps other with new phones that are not yet supported.

Regards, m@

Answer 3

Thank you, mlohbihler. I can confirm that this method works for the X10.

Answer 4

please help me adb devices doesnt show my xperia x10 and eclipse doesnt recognize my xperia i have htc magic works fine please help me

Answer 5

thank you but it doesn't solve my problem. I didn't say that my driver has a yellow question mark I downloaded driver from sonyericsson web site and sony ericsson applications can detect my phone but eclipse and adb and for other apps like apk Installer can't detect my phone I have read somewere that I should replace adb.exe in tools folder with another one that sonyericssone made specially to xperia x10 and this file supposed to be included in xperia driver zip file that I downloaded from sonyericsson web site. but I didn't dind this file.

any help please. I will make a new tobic so may some one help me I want a solution even if I should install linux if it has no issues.

Answer 6

1) Open android_winusb.inf with Notepad.

2) Make sure you add device codes under proper section. There are [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] - chose one that corresponds to your system.

3) Now adding these codes should work:

%SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_D12E
%CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_0FCE&PID_D12E&MI_01