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If you want to develop android applications on a windows system you have to install a special usb driver, in order to debug directly on the device. When you plug in your device the first time windows will fail to install the appropriate drivers. In the device manager a exclamation point will appear beside the ADB device. ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge. If you are using a nexus one or G1 you must install the usb driver through the Android SDK and AVD manager. Afterwards let windows search the SDK folder for the usb driver. Voilà, that’s it.

However this will fail with a HTC Desire. Windows is not able to use the driver supplied by the Android SDK. In order to debug your application on a htc desire do the following:

1. Connect your device to your PC.
2. Go to your phones SD Card.
3. There is a folder called HTC Sync 2.0.28, in which the installer for HTC Sync resides.
4. Install HTC Sync.
5. Ok. That’s it. You now got some crappy HTC sync software installed. However as a sideeffect the driver for the debug bridge is installed, too.

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