How Google’s Pixel Buds will change the world!

Scene: a quietly bustling bistro in Paris’s 14th Arrondissement.

SERVER: Oui, vous désirez?
PIXELBUDS: Yes, you desire?
TOURIST: Um, yeah, I’ll have the steak frites.
SERVER: Que les frites?
PIXELBUDS: Than fries?
TOURIST: No, at the same time.
SERVER: Alors, vous voulez le steak aussi?
PIXELBUDS: You want the steak too?
TOURIST: Yeah, I just ordered the steak.
TOURIST: You got it.


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How to Connect an Insignia NS-15AT10 to ADB on Windows

I bought a nice little tablet at BestBuy, and I wanted to use it to test an Android app I’m developing. In order to do that, I have to connect the tablet to my Windows laptop and run something called ADB. Unfortunately, in order for ADB to connect to it, Windows needs to recognize it as an ADB device, and BestBuy hasn’t done the work to support that.

I did find a post by someone named pcdebol that tells you how to get other Insignia tablets working with ADB, and was able to get mine working using the Google USB drivers with some modifications. I wanted to post this for the benefit of other people who want to test their apps on this model of tablet.

The first thing to do is to download the Google driver, unpack it and modify the android_winusb.inf file to add the following lines in the [Google.NTamd64] section.

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0414&PID_506B&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0414&PID_506B&REV_FFFF&MI_01

I found the “VID” and “PID” codes by looking at the hardware IDs in the Windows Device Manager. They should be the same for all NS-15AT10 tablets, but different for any other model. The next step is to edit the file adb_usb.ini in the .android folder in your user profile (for me, in windows 7, that’s “c:\users\grvsmth\”). If there is no .android folder, you should make one, and if your .android folder has no adb_usb.ini file you should make one of those. Then you put in the file this code, on a line by itself.


It took me a little while to figure out that it’s the VID number from the Device Manager, with an 0x prefix to tell Windows that it’s a hexidecimal number. Once I did that and saved the file, I was able to re-add the device in Device Manager, Windows recognized it, and I was able to connect ADB to it flawlessly and test my app. I hope you have similar success!