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Setting Up The Pixel 4a - EconoAlchemist - Bitcoin Magazine
In this video EconoAlchemist walks through the process of setting up a Google Pixel 4a.
Start by connecting your Pixel 4a to your desktop, turn it on, do not insert the SIM card yet, step through all of the setup prompts skipping the parts where it asks you to enter personal information, and connect to WiFi.
Next, on your desktop, open your computer manager by right-clicking on "This PC" from your file explorer.
You should be looking at your computer management window now.
Click on "Device Manager, Portable Devices, Pixel 4a."
Right click on Pixel 4a and select "Properties."
Click on the “Details” tab and then from the drop-down menu choose “Driver Description.”
You want to see "MTP USB Driver" here.
If you have a different driver then you may need to update it.
To update your USB driver, you will first need to download the Google USB driver. This driver along with more detailed instructions can be found here. This will download another ZIP archive called "usb_driver_r13-windows.zip" which should be roughly 8.3 MB in size.
Save this ZIP archive to a different folder location than the folder with the CalyxOS image file ZIP archive and device flasher executable file.
Then extract the Google USB driver ZIP archive.
Navigate back to your Computer Management window.
Go back to "Device Manager, Portable Devices, Pixel 4a."
Right click on “Pixel 4a, Update Driver,” this will launch the Update Wizard.
From the Update Wizard, it will ask you where to find the new USB driver, point it to the folder location that you extracted the ZIP archive contents to.
Select "OK."
Then the Update Wizard should walk you through the rest of the necessary steps.
If you encounter problems with updating your USB driver through Windows Computer Management, it may be necessary to install Android Studio and then update the USB Driver with the SDK manager. I'm not entirely sure what happens after you tell the Update Wizard which driver to use since my computer already had a working driver. I imagine that you should be able to go back through the steps to check if you have the best driver installed and end up looking at a message like the one in the image above.
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