Need help downloading drivers for my Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

October 25, 2013 2:56 PM

I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and I'm trying to install drivers other than the ones Windows 7 auto-installs. I've unchecked auto-install drivers, but from the googling I've done it appears this solution only prevents Windows from downloading drivers. It will still auto-install ones previously existing on the computer.

I'm not fast enough to click "cancel" before it installs the drivers, and I need a clean uninstall so letting it install some of it and then cancelling the rest won't work. When I try to install different drivers Windows will say "this device already has the most up to date drivers."

There doesn't seem to be any information on how to prevent this on Google; all I've found is people bitching about it. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium. Any solutions on how to get around this would be greatly appreciated! TIA!

posted by Autumn to Technology (4 answers total)

You can manually remove any installed drivers from device manager and also install the drivers you want there as well.
posted by wongcorgi at 3:18 PM on October 25, 2013

Response by poster: I've done that, but when Windows detects the device again it will re-install drivers.
posted by Autumn at 3:34 PM on October 25, 2013

Best answer: If you download the Galaxy Nexus Root Toolkit, it has tools to let you remove the Windows drivers and replace them with better drivers for unlocking/rooting.
posted by camcgee at 7:33 PM on October 25, 2013

Response by poster: It worked. thank you!
posted by Autumn at 7:22 AM on October 26, 2013