Symptoms
When attaching a Barnes & Noble NOOK Color to a Windows computer for app development, Windows is not able to automatically install a device driver that allows ADB to communicate with the NOOK Color.
You may see a message similar to the following:
“Device driver software was not successfully installed” (with details: “No driver found”)
Further, once the driver is installed, the NOOK Color may not show up in the ADB list of devices.
Resolution
With a small amount of driver hacking, you can get the standard Google Android USB driver to work with the NOOK Color. The modification you’ll make is clear; no downloading and installing of driver packages or batch files from spurious sources.
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