{"id":14532,"date":"2014-08-26T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=14532"},"modified":"2016-10-07T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:36:17","slug":"how-to-get-windows-8-1-to-recognise-your-google-nexus-4-5-or-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2014\/08\/how-to-get-windows-8-1-to-recognise-your-google-nexus-4-5-or-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get Windows 8.1 to recognise your Google Nexus 4, 5 or 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You need to transfer photos and files to and from your Nexus but for some reason this process is not seamless with Windows 8. Here is the\u00a0workaround:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you try to find your Nexus in the device manager it maddeningly shows up as an unknown &#8220;ACER&#8221; device.<\/p>\n<p><em>PLEASE NOTE: If you are a developer and have <strong>USB debugging mode<\/strong> turned on, <strong>turn it off<\/strong> first or it won&#8217;t transfer files at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep your device plugged in.<\/strong> Then go to <strong>Control Panel<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Device Manager<\/strong>. At the top of the tree you will see <em>&#8220;ACER Device&#8221;<\/em> and within that <em>&#8220;ACER Composite ADB Interface&#8221;<\/em>. Click on that, then select\u00a0<em>&#8220;Update Driver Software&#8221;<\/em> then, <em>&#8220;Browse my computer for driver software&#8221;<\/em> then, <em>&#8220;Let me pick from a list&#8221;<\/em>, then select <strong><em>&#8220;MTP USB Device&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> (not Google Nexus ADB Interface!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14533\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Windows-8-Nexus-driver.jpg\" alt=\"Google Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 driver for Windows 8.1\" width=\"628\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Immediately Windows will detect your device and it will ask you what you want to do. Also, your device manager tree will update correctly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14536\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/device-manager-nexus.jpg\" alt=\"device-manager-nexus\" width=\"390\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>YAY!!!! Maddeningly annoying issue resolved. Remember to reboot to save your changes to the registry. That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to transfer photos and files to and from your Nexus but for some reason this process is not seamless with Windows 8. Here is the\u00a0workaround:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,235],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-14532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-out","category-nifty-hacks-and-tips","tag-hacks-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}