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How to configure Windows Vista to use Proxoid
Updated Aug 23, 2009 by mike.bar...@gmail.com

Installation on Windows Vista

Important 1 : Be sure to have correctly configure your phone before
See this page if not.

Important 2 : Il you have a Samsung Galaxy, Install Samsung PC Suite now before continuing.

Overview

The steps will be :

  1. Download drivers
  2. Extract drivers
  3. Install drivers
  4. Configure browser
  5. Start tunnel
  6. Start proxoid
  7. Start browsing

Steps 1 to 3 are only for the first time. Next times, it will be more faster.

Note :

In the following documentation, screenshots are in french.

Step 1 : Download drivers

The real Android SDK is near 200Mb.

If you're not a developper, most of it will be unused.

So I made a subset of it that is juste 2Mb and contains adb and the windows driver.

Download it here :

for 32 bits : http://www.baroukh.com/proxoid/proxoid-adb.zip

for 64 bits : http://www.baroukh.com/proxoid/proxoid-adb64.zip

and save it on your disk.

(if you don't know witch one, try 32bits first ...)

Step 2 : Extract drivers

Right click on the file an choose "Extract all" Click Next then Next and Finish. There should be now a directory named "proxoid-adb".

Step 3 : Install drivers

Step 3.1

Plug your phone now.

Windows will work and ask you to use windows update to install drivers :

Select the second option : "ask me later".

Explanation : we will not let Windows try to find the driver himself. Instead, we'll use Hardware Manager to install.

Step 3.2

In "Start" menu, right click on "Computer" and select "Properties".

Then click on Hardware Manager.

You should find your phone at top, with a yellow warning.

Right click on it and select "Update driver".

Step 3.3

Select the second option : "find a driver on my computer".

Step 3.4

Click on browse. Browse to the extracted "proxoid-adb" directory.

Select subdirectory "usb_drivers" then "x86".

Click Next

Step 3.5

Windows will show an alert.

Don't care and select "Install anyway".

Step 3.6

Windows is now installing the driver

When installation is finish you should see something like this. Click "Finish"

Step 3.7

In Harware Manager, now, the phone should be referenced in "ADB Interface" with "HTC Dream Composite ADB Interface" :

Step 3.8

We will now verify that all works.

Your phone should be plugged.

Browse to proxy-adb directory and execute "check.bat".

You should see something like

List of devices attached
HT848GZ40121    device

The device number can be different.

What is important is that there is something after "List of devices attached".

If yes, you make the harder.

If not, drop me a mail (mike_at_baroukh.com). I'll try to help you. If you can, provide me a screenshot.

Step 4 : Configure browser

We have to configure the proxy on your browser. If you already know how to do, go directly to step 5 after ahving configured your browser with proxy "localhost" on port "8080".

If you're using Internet Explorer

Launch your browser.

Select menu "Tools" then "Internet Options"

Go to "network" tab

Click on "Network parameters"

Check "Use a proxy server".

Enter "localhost" for server and 8080 for port.

Click Ok.

If you're using Firefox

Doc to come ...

Step 5 : Start tunnel

Go now to directory "proxy-adb" and run script "start-tunnel".

Step 6 : Start Proxoid

On your phone, run Proxoid and check "Start Proxoid".

You should see Proxoid's icon on notification bar saying that "Proxoid is running".

Step 7 : Browse

Here it is.

If I'm not wrong, you actually can browse using your phone.

Enjoy !

Comment by marinepu...@gmail.com, May 20, 2009

?um wut am i supposed to b doin???

Comment by cornerst...@gmail.com, May 25, 2009

nada

Comment by exxclu...@gmail.com, Jun 1, 2009

huh whats this

Comment by nicolas....@gmail.com, Jun 7, 2009

A very good work.

Comment by sdonancr...@gmail.com, Jun 11, 2009

Vista will not allow me to change driver, what can I do?

Comment by shridhar...@gmail.com, Jun 14, 2009

Step 3.1 need to modify

Before Plugin G1 to Laptop .. Enable the G1 USB debugging option Click --> setting-->Application-->Development-->USB debugging

Comment by Ryudarkh...@gmail.com, Jun 19, 2009

windows won't let me change the driver. tryed uninstalling the driver but windows won't let me change to new one.!!!!!!!

Comment by AaronShi...@gmail.com, Jun 30, 2009

Widows says the best driver is allready installed, and it won't let you change it.

Comment by kathrynj...@gmail.com, Jul 4, 2009

Did everything correct but doesn't work

Comment by xkorp...@gmail.com, Jul 4, 2009

I cant even extract the driver

Comment by cskan...@gmail.com, Jul 4, 2009

Couldn't get passed the 3rd step i.e. Install the drivers. My question is how? When I plug my device vista doesn't recognize the device.

Comment by buyeyegl...@gmail.com, Jul 5, 2009

you have to first uninstall the driver that windows have installed automatically and then proceed with this...

Comment by buyeyegl...@gmail.com, Jul 5, 2009

For Firefox : got to Tools->Options->Network Settings->Click on Manual proxy config-> Type in HTTP Proxy field - localhost, and in PORT - 8080... Hope it helps...

Comment by adrian.s...@gmail.com, Jul 5, 2009

Test with windows 7, works perfectly well!

Comment by kimchidu...@gmail.com, Jul 5, 2009

how do i make it so windows stops automatically installing the driver

Comment by jgba...@gmail.com, Jul 6, 2009

How to uninstall Driver on Windows:

Disconnect the Android device from the computer.

Download USBDeview from Nirsoft: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

Run USBDeview as an Administrator.

Uninstall all HTC devices that are listed in USBDeview.

Reconnect the device and the prompt to install the drivers should appear.

Either install the drivers from the SDK using the prompts or just cancel the installation and do it from the Device Manager. The SDK drivers should now be installed.

How to fix the error binding to port when running start-tunnel.bat:

Right-click start-tunnel.bat and choose edit (or just open it in notepad)

Change the line that reads: "adb.exe forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080" to something like adb.exe forward tcp:8888 tcp:8888 or another port that is available on your system.

Open Proxoid on your Android device and change the Port to match the new port you used above.

Close adb.exe from the Task Manager and then execute start-tunnel.bat, the error should not appear this time. If it does try a few other ports.

Comment by bryancal...@gmail.com, Jul 7, 2009

FANTASTIC!!! THANK YOU!!!

Comment by mji...@gmail.com, Jul 17, 2009

It works. Excelent thank you

Comment by jrosenth...@gmail.com, Jul 20, 2009

Sorry to bother you with this... I am following your instructions and get to 3.4 - It tells me the driver software for your device is up to date. when I do the check.bat it does not list any devices. what am I doing incorrectly?

Comment by stephane...@gmail.com, Jul 24, 2009

I have a way to install it... in your HTC go to: home> setting > application > development > debug and quote it.

Then you should do the setting.

Comment by Omvalent...@gmail.com, Jul 30, 2009

I am using this program with windows 7. when I attempt to get online with my android phone connected, my web browser thinks it is offline since there are no "connections". it is not detecting my phone as a usb modem, however when I turn on my wifi and check my IP address I get the IP of my phone, not of my home ISP. what am I doing wrong

Comment by caron.fr...@gmail.com, Aug 8, 2009

Installé/paramétré en 2 minutes. Vraiment super !! Merci au développeur.

Comment by Alain.Ga...@gmail.com, Aug 10, 2009

Is it supposed to work with all Android phone?

With my Samsung galaxy GT i7500, when i browse to the folder with driver it says : Windows didn't find the driver for my device.

Comment by tec6t...@gmail.com, Aug 21, 2009

Vista install automatically android in settings, i can't stop the automatically install. Help me

Comment by project member mike.bar...@gmail.com, Sep 5, 2009

Yes, i's supposed to work with all phones. See http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/wiki/installation for Samsung Galaxy

Comment by richard....@gmail.com, Sep 7, 2009

Ça marche parfaitement, je poste ce commentaire depuis un connexion avec mon Magic. Par contre le mail ne passe pas avec Thunderbird, même en mettant un proxy avec localhost et port 8080 dans les paramètres de connexion de Thunderbird. C'est moi qui ai raté quelque chose ou bien le protocole pop ne passe pas ?

Comment by stevenso...@gmail.com, Sep 15, 2009

Followed the instructions and internet worked perfectly. but after shutting down my pc and turning it on the next morning Vista won't startup. Says there is a driver conflict and boots up to system recovery tools.. Not cool... gonna have to fix my pc today :-(

Comment by sebastie...@gmail.com, Sep 18, 2009

Thank you for your awsome app. Now just have internet everywhere on my notebook. just to be carefull with my data plan limit ;-)

FYI: configured on windows 7 with vista installation tutorial and drivers ;-)

Comment by sebastie...@gmail.com, Sep 19, 2009

hum... same problem as richard.deangelis. Can't send mail or receive (pop, smtp, imap blocking ?!). Many thanks if you can fix this if you have time. Anyway we can use the webmail for reading or sending mails, but it could be great if we can use our favorite mail client. Thanks

Comment by fallin2t...@gmail.com, Sep 21, 2009

How do i get the samsung galaxy and the samsungPC suit

Comment by jasonlmc...@gmail.com, Sep 22, 2009

Thank you so much! this is awesome!

Was somewhat confusing to get working though, partly because of your directions.

You do not need to uninstall any drivers!

You need to do the following: on your phone, go to settings->applications->development, and enable USB debugging.

Now, plug in your phone. Windows will not be able to find a driver for the Android phone. Click 'Have Disk' and browse to the proxoid-adb-> usb drivers directory and select the driver. Install.

Now you should be good to go!

Got this working on Windows 7 btw.

Thanks again, this is totally awesome.

Comment by hanhv...@gmail.com, Oct 6, 2009

Thank you so much, jgbarry! It works excellence!!! I try so long for connect my G1 to Computer with adb. Now ... I can do.

Thanks a lot

Comment by stefanie...@gmail.com, Oct 6, 2009

I did everything.. nothing is wrong! But i can't browse i really don't understand WHY! Would be so great! Help!!

Comment by JoMi0...@gmail.com, Oct 7, 2009

I somehow got this to work on my laptop. I am trying to get it to work for my roommate. I can't get his laptop to update the driver for the Android Phone. It says that the driver is up to date. Therefore I can't get to the ADB interface/HTC Dream Composit ADB Interface stage. HELP>>>> Please!!! :)

Comment by nir3...@gmail.com, Oct 7, 2009

How do I set up the proxy settings in the browser so when the phone is not connected it would go to the my regular home wireless network?

P.S. Thanks a lot!!! Works very well!

Comment by laura.el...@gmail.com, Oct 10, 2009

I, like stafanie, have installed the application. I have tried both IE and firefox and I do not get an IP address when I am running thru the proxy and with the tunnel. I can use my phone as a USB device. Windows Vista 32 bit, latest IE and Firefox. Get error with Firefox "the proxy server is refusing connections" Am using 8080 both in IE, Firefox and on phone.

Comment by mtatim1...@gmail.com, Oct 10, 2009

Why I can't access secure pages (https)???

Comment by CWBPi...@gmail.com, Oct 11, 2009

hey thanks works ok. and i got it to work on firefox

Comment by FatEd...@gmail.com, Oct 13, 2009

Works great. If Vista is giving you problems with the driver get usbdview from download.com and uninstall all HTC drivers, then plug your phone back in. Any way to browse through secure https sites?

Comment by benji...@gmail.com, Oct 31, 2009

WINDOWS 7 Starter Worked !! AMAZING WORKS FREE APP

Please READ and DO

"IMPORTANT 1" at top of this page before installation driver http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/wiki/installationPhone

Comment by darkmind...@gmail.com, Nov 5, 2009

doesnt work on my 32-bit system with vista upgrade....

Comment by ig.att...@gmail.com, Nov 8, 2009

Think you. I'm browsing with my phone and i enjoy it.

Comment by MIme...@gmail.com, Nov 24, 2009

I'm running win7 motorola droid and having issues please help! Only way I am keeping droid is if I can resolve, I need access to laptop from phone while in ambulance (paramedic) need to look up med conditions at times. please email me mimedic@gmail.com DONATION probable

Comment by henryx...@gmail.com, Nov 24, 2009

Failed with internet explorer wayyyyyyyyy easier using fire fox! =)

Comment by lhanson7...@gmail.com, Dec 4, 2009

OMG>>>FReaking awesome for when I'm on the road and there is no wifi....love it!!!!!!

Comment by Matticus...@gmail.com, Dec 22, 2009

Windows Vista automatically installs driver for Android phone when I uninstall it. Also, USBDeview doesn't work for me. I highlight the drivers that I want to uninstall and yet they remain. Not sure if it's worth it. Maybe I'll just pay Cox the $22/month for the internet.

Comment by gabima...@gmail.com, Jan 11, 2010

Hi, with my Motorola Milestone the driver installation don't work. I have uninstalled all the Motorola Drivers. In the Milestone when the USB is plug, ask the connection type: Motorola Tools, Windows Media Sync, Mass device or none. Witch one is the rigth? Thanks.

Comment by aspil...@gmail.com, Jan 16, 2010

Works Great!! I already had the HTC Sync software/driver installed on Vista for my HTC Droid Eris. I did not replace the driver, I just downloaded and unzipped proxoid-adb and ran the script start-tunnel.bat Thanks for the great software!

Comment by Micah...@gmail.com, Jan 16, 2010

Works Great! Thanks! Windows 7/MyTouch?

Comment by NachoInT...@gmail.com, Jan 17, 2010

Working fine with Chrome, IE, and FF on W7 x64 on a Sprint Hero...Was looking for a free wired alternative to PDAnet, but just like pdanet when the trials over, I can't get to any HTTPS and my speeds seem lower on speedtest.

Comment by byroness...@gmail.com, Jan 22, 2010

This is awesome, now I can surf anywhere and don't have to buy a broadband dongle. Using G1 and Vista, pretty fast too. THANKS!!!!!!!!!

Comment by vitordem...@gmail.com, Mar 5, 2010

What about drivers for IA64? I'm on Win7 with a 64bit Intel processor, so downloading the 32 bit drivers or the amd64 drivers is no use for me.

Comment by melian.the.queen, Mar 19, 2010

Sympa sur HTC Hero seulement si le user agent peut etre modifier par celui d'origine, la quand je vais sur http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ le user agent est 'unknow' sa a aucun intéré si l'on veut passer inapercue, dc je zap ce logiciel et utilise le partage de connexion d'origine et change moi meme le user agnet ds firefox ...

Comment by sheloves...@gmail.com, Mar 29, 2010

Followed the directions, downloaded the zip, extracted - made sure my Droid was configured but when I get to step 3, I've come to a standstill. When I select the x86, it wont install. I get this message.. "Windows could not find driver software for your device." Its like the files arent even there, but I know they are.

BTW, I have a motorola droid, and i'm trying to install proxoid on my vista laptop.

Comment by Corporea...@gmail.com, Apr 4, 2010

Works perfectly. Instructions are full of spelling and grammatical errors, but the app and instructions work great. Configured on my Win7 Dell netbook and HTC Eris phone. Thanks for making a great free product

Comment by MDrakes4...@gmail.com, Apr 19, 2010

I HAVE A SAMSUNG MOMENT AND WINDOWS 7..... help!!!!

Comment by crws...@gmail.com, Apr 30, 2010

I have the droid and do everything in the instructions but but it does not show the device on the list. Windows 7 ultimate with droid 2.1

Comment by BumblyWu...@gmail.com, May 28, 2010

"Followed the directions, downloaded the zip, extracted - made sure my Droid was configured but when I get to step 3, I've come to a standstill. When I select the x86, it wont install. I get this message.. "Windows could not find driver software for your device." Its like the files arent even there, but I know they are.

BTW, I have a motorola droid, and i'm trying to install proxoid on my vista laptop. "

I'm having the exact same issue as this guy. YES i'm in debugging mode. It just can't find the drivers :/

Comment by nyshi....@gmail.com, Jun 6, 2010

i tried it today but when i specify the path for step 3.4, there is no x86 file after the usb drivers.. im using acer aspire timeline windows 7 OS.. and using nexus one phone... so whats the next thing??

Comment by natalia....@gmail.com, Jun 9, 2010

WOW! OMG! the best thing EVER!!! thank you so much!! :D

Comment by JEDEN...@gmail.com, Jun 10, 2010

HTC HERO WORKS GREAT......

Comment by justcruz...@gmail.com, Jun 28, 2010

Mike... wanted to thank you for your post... I am running XP PRO x64 and have been banging my head against the wall for the past three trying to get PdaNet? and HTC drivers to inter-operate together as well contacting PdaNet? technical support for drivers that work so I'll be able to run their application on my laptop. No go! Came across your posting and now I'm surfing the Internet big time... you are the man. Thanks a lot.

Comment by PaulAron...@gmail.com, Jul 6, 2010

Just got this working on my Incredible on Windows 7 and it's amazing! I did run into a problem where I had the drivers installed, and it showed up properly under Device Manager, but was not showing up at all under the check.bat, even though I had turned on USB debugging. I think the problem was that I had never synced the phone with my PC. After downloading HTC Sync and running it, I had no problems. Cheers!

Comment by james.co...@gmail.com, Jul 19, 2010

I have this problem too(below) and the issue that usbdeview wont delete/uninstall things.

"Followed the directions, downloaded the zip, extracted - made sure my Droid was configured but when I get to step 3, I've come to a standstill. When I select the x86, it wont install. I get this message.. "Windows could not find driver software for your device." Its like the files arent even there, but I know they are.

This is with htc desire, it wored fine till two weeks ago and now nothing always says abd not available on install. Very frustrated I spoke to HTC who blame my computer!

Any ideas

Comment by magmobil...@gmail.com, Aug 21, 2010

Merci au développeur Attend avec impatiente le document pour paramétrer Mozilla

Comment by karthi.e...@gmail.com, Sep 4, 2010

I am using Windows 7 and its working cool... great work. Though, I have problems viewing secured pages (https:). Any special configuration missing for that?

Comment by david.ho...@gmail.com, Sep 16, 2010

L'installation se déroule normalement mais comment dois-je me connecter par la suite ? Windows 7 me prend ma connexion comme un modem traditionnel et donc me demande un nom d'uilisateur et un mot de passe ???? que je n'ai pas. Bref comment est-ce que je peux me connecter ensuite ?

Comment by jeremiel...@gmail.com, Sep 30, 2010

Je post ce commentaire grace a la connexion de mon HTC magic. Je tourne avec google chrome et donc comme vous le voyez, pas de soucis!

Comment by brunz...@gmail.com, Nov 4, 2010

whenever i try to install the driver to my phone, it says "windows cannot find driver software for your device". i know its there since i downloaded it from this page but it just wont load. any help?

Comment by sefiatti...@gmail.com, Dec 22, 2010

HTC Evo WORKS Great with windows 7, even Firefox works good, thx so much man

Comment by kiki.mel...@gmail.com, Jan 13, 2011

not work for me Sony erricson X8 with Windows7

Comment by calm...@gmail.com, Jan 17, 2011

I dont have anything thats x86...

Comment by pjober...@gmail.com, Feb 25, 2011

I got the app. to work for a couple of days, but now every time I connect my Samsung Captivate I get an "I897f64d35bc offline" in the check.bat and also an error: "device offline" message in the tunnel. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by krishan...@gmail.com, Mar 10, 2011

saying corrupted format

Comment by mjo...@gmail.com, Mar 17, 2011

Wow - this works great (HTC EVO) - I get a pretty speedy 1mb connection (speedy when my home internet goes down).

The install directions were pretty decent - but Windows itself was a pain in the ass. Mostly, you have to make the right selections to have windows allow you to not only pick the directory, but also the INF. Sorry I can't help more, but once it's installed, I can't retrace my steps to tell you step by step how to do it - but if you fiddle for a while, it will work as promised.

Just glad to have internet while my ISP tries to figure out what's wrong with my connection here.

-MikeJ

Comment by took...@gmail.com, Apr 1, 2011

Samsung Galaxy, Install Samsung PC Suite? Can someone help me out. I cant find this for my laptop, OS is windows 7. phone is Samsung Captivate. Every time i click on some link it puts me some where else. and i cannot find wat i am looking for. Thank you if u can point me in the right direction.

Comment by giovanic...@gmail.com, Apr 4, 2011

I have an XT - 300 SPiced Win7 AMD64 and the program was unable to communicate with him. What to do giovanicoutinho@bol.com.br

Comment by raven4...@gmail.com, Apr 8, 2011

Works good on my Samsung Galaxy Indulge :)

Took.. you can go to the Samsung website to download the drivers for your Captivate, http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I897ZKAATT

Comment by pierre.a...@gmail.com, Apr 25, 2011

thanks, even i made several tries/error, finally, it's work

my exprience can be useful for others...

Windows 7 + Galaxy S I had to delete line per line every trace of KIES in windows registre (uninstalling kies run in error, so i deleted file, checked with cccleaner, and finally regedit with search kies and delete...

then i need to download another driver (with the one proposed in this page, i had the message "no driver in this directory" i installed the following one http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml

but after... that's ok

lpam@free.fr

Comment by giovanic...@gmail.com, May 20, 2011

Can you help me? Cell is Motorola XT300 with Android 2.1 HTC Drean instaled in Windows is ok, but don’t comunication with check.bat What is the email that you send pictures?

Thanks, Giovani


Comment by gilles.b...@gmail.com, Jun 27, 2011

Attention quand vous chargez PROXOID sur smartphone Android , ne soyez pas sur le Samsung en mode WIFI, car seul le mode WIFI fonctionnera et pas le 3G. Installez le en mode 3G et cela fonctionnera en mode 3G et WIFI .

Comment by luc.mend...@gmail.com, Dec 23, 2011

WOOPAAA !!!! It's OK for me !! Thanks my boy ! In fact, to run the both "batch" (.bat), you got to run these "as administrator" for Vista/7 users... here is the solution ! [B Additionnal .inf : you got to select in "user-agent filter" >> "replace by a fake" That's all!

Thanks MIKE


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