This post is for all the people who can’t find the ADB USB driver for their Pandigital Novel. It works for x32 and x64 and is Win7 verified.
This is not our creation, it was just a pain in the ass to obtain and we’d like to pollinate the web a little with something useful for a change.
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Go to page 2 to obtain the file link.
Pages: 1 2
OK, so, I have it, it’s unzipped, but, when I plug my reader into USB it doesn’t ask for a driver or anything, how do I get it on the reader? Thanx!
Ok, it sounds like Windows has already selected a generic driver for part of the device which usually leaves the adb connection driver-less. However, it quits asking for a driver so you have to hunt it down to get it installed. Don’t worry, it’s still easy to do.
Open the control panels, then the system control panel. Next, choose the hardware tab to get hardware manager. This will show all the devices on your system and you’ll find the pandigital’s adb device higlighted in yellow. Open it and select its Friver tab, it will probably say that no driver is installed. From here you will see the “install driver”, or update driver button which will launch the install process. Now, just point it to the unzipped files and you should be good to go.
WHAt is so easy. Do i click on the folder with the dots next to it or the folder amd64 or select all, Then how do you unzip tghe files. Next where to find the control panel you spoke of is it on my pc the file i downloaded and then good luck finding this system control pannel.
It sounds like you are using win 7, so to extract the files from the zip just double click into it, then copy everything and paste it in any directory you like.
Next, use start->run to run devmgmt.msc. this will open the device manager where you will be able to find the pandigital adb device section that is highlighted in yellow.
Open it and install the driver as previously described. Windows can search the place you copied the files to, and it will decide whether it needs the amd64 driver or not, and it will install the best one from there.
Hope it works for you!
Thank heavens, 3 days of searching and finally someone who has the WORKING drivers! Thanks for posting this!
You’re welcome – glad it worked for you!
oh you are so cool openschemes! Thank you wholed heartedly! I’ve been running into headaches and roadblocks and this gets the ball moving again!
thanks %1000
Why can’t I find the download link!?
The link is on page 2, and the link to page 2 is at the very bottom of the first page. Once you get there you will see it immediately. Hope it works for you!
I installed these drivers, and while Windows accepted them just fine, Sideload Wonder Machine(which I’ve used successfully before) still is not detecting my Pandigital Novel. I’ve restarted my machine and reinstalled the program, to no avail. The device is set for USB debugging. Is there something I’m missing, or this device not capable of receiving side-loaded apps?
Why sideload? Once you install rooted firmware, just install the apk.
I’m not sure I follow. I’ve been told rooting is a sometimes risky and largely unnecessary procedure, only used when a device is specifically locked-down so it can’t run out-of-market apps(I was told this could run out-of-market apps). I’ve also tried downloading and installing apks from the internet right on the device and the install process always fails. I really don’t want to mess with the firmware if I don’t have to, because I want to be able to return it if I can’t get it to do what I want.
Thank you so so much!! This worked for my black Pandigital Novel ereader so I can get apps to mount to the SD Card by default instead of internally using Android SDK. Just an FYI, the windows “search online for the the driver” thingy didn’t find anything.
Just a note: it did say the zip file was corrupt, but instead of unzipping I just copied the files and put them in a Windows driver directory, browsed to point to them while in the device manager and voila, the word “Android” actually showed up and my device showed up doing an adp devices command, whereas before it just said “list attached” or something like that and wouldn’t receive a direct command based on SN.
You were a huge help in my quest! Thank you again!
You’re very welcome. Thanks for the tip on a new way to load the driver – I think that will be good advice for a lot of users who don’t know a good place to put the files in the interim.
Boy, it’s so nice when something FINALLY works, isn’t it?
SO, Am i a fool, or is there no link here for any pandigital files. I have read and re-red this page (page 2 as the instructions say) and I see no link.
Yes, they are there. For some reason the page 2 link at the top doesn’t work. Use the one at the bottom, then the only thing that’s on page 2 is the link. You could also go to the first comment posted and get it from a mirror.
The only thing I see on this page is this thread, and a bunch of googlespam. What does the link say? or can you link it in this thread?
The link says “Page 2″..
I downloaded the mirror link by Terri and mediafire. However, although I can plug and unplug Pandigital device and see that the computer acknowledges an android device attached it’s using E:/ and F:/. Also when I try to get newest download from pandigital site it says I have NO pandigtal device??
Before this download it said couldn’t do because I needed driver…what am I needing now? When I downloaded driver, I clicked on android- set up info, and extracted files…did I get all the needed files??
Frankly, just want ability to have an android marketplace and Flash installed so I can use my device for more than surfing web and playing solitaire!! IE…reading BOOKS!
Your step-by-step directions would not only be God send but helpful ta-boot.
thanks in advance,not very tech-kno savy..lol
Can this device use Market? It was not able to some time ago.
We do not have any instructions on rooting this device, although there are many great sites with detailed information out there on the web. Our suggestion is that official Pandigital firmware is probably not the way to go, although stranger things have happened. Please let us know how it turns out for you, this is a very interesting device and the kings of hacking the Pandigital have done a very thorough job.
good
Thanks a million! I was beginning to think I was just out of luck.