The computer needs drivers to recognize phones and tablets. When connecting an Android device to a PC via a USB cord, Windows should automatically install the driver even without an internet connection. That’s called Plug and Play .
If the Plug and Play error occurs, you will have to manually install the driver to enable the connection between the computer and the phone. Installing Android drivers for Windows 10 is the easiest thing to do. Let’s get started right now.
OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer. Most Android device manufacturers have their own settings for Android drivers. A handful of brands still use drivers from other manufacturers, but they’re often confusing like OnePlus.
To install the OEM, go to the Android Developer website and look for the Get OEM Drivers section. Identify the Android device manufacturer’s driver. If your manufacturer is not found, try an online search for “[manufacturer name] android drivers” , the manufacturer may be one of the first results.
After you finish downloading the driver, you need to install it. Plug your Android device into your PC. Press the Windows + X button, then click Device Manager. Scroll down and click Portable Devices, in the extension, right-click on the device’s name and select Update driver. It will open the driver update wizard.
Select Browse my computer for driver softwbare. Go to the OEM driver you downloaded earlier. Select the driver and click OK, then Next to install. It just takes a bit of time. As soon as the driver works, you should restart the computer.
Installing Android drivers is a relatively lengthy process. You need to download Android SDK Tools, Android SDK Platform Tools, and Google USB Driver through SDK Manager. SDK Manager is quite cumbersome and complicated with many different tools that users do not use.
In January 2017, Google released ADB and fastboot as a standalone package. Google refers to the collection as the Platform Tools package. You can download this tool pack directly from the SDK website. Finish the download, extract to the desired location.
You really don’t need to install anything after extracting, just open Command Prompt in SDK Platform Tools folder. Move to the folder, hold Shift and right-click. Select Open command window here from the drop-down menu.
The computer knows where everything is. The PATH variable is the main list of command line tools. It knows a few tools but a few others need to be added manually. If you add the location of Platform Tools, you will easily find them when you need them.
Open the Start menu, and search for advanced system settings. Select View advanced system settings and click Environment variables.
Under System variables, select Path. Then select Edit. When the new window opens select New, and paste the path to Platform Tools > Enter > OK.
When you need to use ADB or fastboot, just open a prompt and enter your command.
Before Google releases standalone packages, Android users will have to download the Android SDK Manager before downloading packages. However, a user named Snoop05 has found that this lengthy process can be significantly reduced. Thus, 15-Second ADB Installer was born.
Download the software, then double-click the file named adb-setup-1.xxexe . In the file’s window, you need to answer some questions.
When answering the last question, a new window will appear Google generic driver installation.
It’s frustrating when things don’t work. We just plug in the device and wait for the magic to appear, but that rarely happens. However, the chances of automatically installing drivers of Android devices are very high. If not, you can do our above to download and install OEM drivers for your device.