How to fix fastboot devices not detected (waiting for any device) 2023

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There are times that even if you've installed your ADB fastboot drivers you

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still don't get detection when you run fastboot commands or even adb commands

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I'm going to give you an example. In this
case I'm going to run an ADB command I'm

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going to launch ADB. I'll do this by copying the address on my ADB folder and then cd ... so

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now I'm in the adb directory so I'm going to run this ADB command:

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adb devices . Don't forget your phone has to be connected to

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the PC via USB cord and USB debugging enabled on the phone for it to

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have a detection. Now I have ADB detection so I'm going to boot this phone into

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fastboot and run a fastboot command so adb reboot bootloader

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This is going to boot my phone into fastboot so on the screen you will

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notice the blank screen and fastboot mode written somewhere on the

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screen so I'm going to run a fastboot command right now fastboot devices to

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check if I have detection. As you can see, I have no detection. Now, when you

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encounter this kind of issue you have two options or two things to try. First off,

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you need to download the latest fastboot binaries. We have that at our forum so

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visit the Hovatek Forum, download the latest fastboot binaries and then retry running the

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command. If you still don't get a detection then you need to update the phone's

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fastboot drivers. Now, to do that, you (still with the phone in fastboot mode and

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connected to the PC) launch device manager and then you look out for what

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the phone gets detected as. You'll find something like this under other devices Android

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this is what mine looks like. To confirm that, I'm going to disconnect the phone that

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should disappear. You can see it disappears. I'm going to reconnect the phone still

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in fastboot

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Now this is what you're going to be updating all right? You need to have

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downloaded the updated Google USB drivers. We also have a link to that at our

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forum so check it out. This is what it looks like; the updated

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Google USB drivers. You are going to be manually updating your drivers to this

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so now you right-click this Android entry, select Update driver, Browse my

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computer for driver software, Let me pick from a list, Next, Have disk, click on

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Browse. You navigate to the location of the USB drivers and select the

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Android_USB.inf file. Select Open, OK then you highlight Android

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bootloader interface, Next, Click on Yes anyway. Don't forget that if you are

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using a Windows 8 and above PC, you need to have disabled driver signature verification so

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Windows has successfully updated your drivers. You can click on close. Now, you're going to re-run

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the fastboot command fastboot devices
and I have a detection --------------------------
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[AndreaMunnia]

You saved my life!
It was the first time that the drivers didin't work automatically and I was stuck in bootloader, I was afraid the problem was more serious...
Thanks for share this method!

[Witchness]

3 hours I'm looking for a solution!!! thanks man

[gin]

I thought it was clickbait but it turned out to be working thanks guy for everything

[sxndypz]

it said it doesnt contain a compatble driver software

[umeshpatil]

cant find my device in other devices while in fastboot mode

[rehanahmed]

Bro just keep it up it worked for my redmi 5a

[ttaytrevor]

Thats my exact problem, there is no detection whatsoever when my phone is in fastboot mode, not even an unrecognized device, the second I leave adb and boot my fastboot my device completely disappears from the device manager screen, please help.

[skullteria]

what kinda accent is it? any african country is my guess. I like it.
You are a hero man, no one else mentioned this.

[vladisslave.]

Thank you for the video, that helped a lot!

[avk]

My adb detects my phone in normal mode, but when I boot into recovery mode it doesn't show my device. I have installed the drivers, etc. What else can I try?

[debrajbiswas]

thank you so much bro you solved my problem

[tomar-bz]

Achtung. If nothing works for you and you have a device with two USB ports (Type-C perhaps) - try plugging in the cable in the side port, not the bottom one.

[justicevsunfair]

I received an error message when following your step.

"The folder you specified doesn't contain a comptabile software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with windows for x64-based systems."

Please help. ( Using Razer phone 2, android 9)

[whtsername]

after I enter the command adb reboot bootloader the phone shutdown and message pop up saying "the serial is not match" so I can't enter the fastboot mode
how to resolve it?
TIA

[yapsejaiteh]

Oh, thanks a lot brother. My device was not shown after executing 'fastboot devices' command in fastboot mode. Your this tutorial fixed it for me

[shubhamsrivastava]

I did everything you told but nothing worked on my Oneplus Nord 2... what should I do ?

[thetron]

Hello
When I select android in device and manager and do the steps u said and install the adb bootloader then still the name of device is android and now it has a question mark on it

[reliqua]

what if my phone doesn't detected as "Android" on other devices? the device manager detected it as "ADB composite interface"

[nextgodlevel]

my phone not detected by device manager in fastboot mode
but detected normally when boot into system
any solution?

[zizi]

My device doesn't show up in device manager after being booted into fastboot mode so I can't update the driver