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Have you tried a different USB port? Should be recognised as a new device and sort of start from scratch where drivers are concerned.

Of course. As far as the PC is concerned, the phone doesn't exist, until I put it in USB Debugging mode.

Should've read hippy's posts...

It didn't work on a Mac either.

works for me on mavericks

Can someone not copy the driver they're using and send it to you?

Anyone have a working Win7 64-bit Nexus 5 USB driver they want to send me?

The Android developer site is shit - it references the SDK driver and that path doesn't even exist in the current SDK download. Fuck you, Google.

You techie types!

You want to do something really obscure and niche with your phone, like plugging it into a USB port, then when it doesn't work you moan about it.

Pfft.

Anyone have a working Win7 64-bit Nexus 5 USB driver they want to send me?

Hold on, I think it's here somewhere under this pile of rocking horse dung, hen's teeth and Essex virgins...

Send me your phone, if I can get it to work I'll send it back with the driver on the SD, if not I'll burn the phone for you. You can trust me.

Any ideas what this Media Server is that's taking up all my battery on the Nexus 5? There seems to be a lot on Google about it but no real consensus.

Is that the Media Server that reports all your communications traffic to 65.196.127.226?

Is that the dialling code for Langley?

So it would seem that the over sized ring around the Nexus 5 lens has a purpose. It's magnetic. It would appear to be for those smartphone lenses that attach via magnets.

http://redd.it/1q6jv7

Neither work.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19838016/google-failed-to-provide-usb-driver-for-the-nexus-5

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/BA2QePyhees

"Unfortunately we all will have to wait for March 2014, when the LG D820 support is ready. Google will not support this phone. It is LGE's device. When LG gets their support setup on the web they will get around to publishing this. Until then, everybody who wants develop with their Nexus 5 will have to ROOT it and use the usual methods."

So it would seem that the over sized ring around the Nexus 5 lens has a purpose. It's magnetic. It would appear to be for those smartphone lenses that attach via magnets.

http://redd.it/1q6jv7

Ooh I've got a couple of those - cheapy fish eye and wide/macro from fleabay - good to know

Photjojo ones? I'm half tempted for the hell of it.

was same as this plus another, very more cheaps than this though - search ebay Hong King - work OK

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180-Fisheye-Magnifier-Close-up-Lens-for-iPhone-3G-3GS-4-4S-iPad-1-2-3-iPod-/300796543429?pt=UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item4608df01c5

So it would seem that the over sized ring around the Nexus 5 lens has a purpose. It's magnetic. It would appear to be for those smartphone lenses that attach via magnets.

http://redd.it/1q6jv7

The new nexus wireless charger holds phones in place with magnets, seems like the more likely reason for it being magnetic to me...

But how do they work?

^ Magic!

The new nexus wireless charger holds phones in place with magnets, seems like the more likely reason for it being magnetic to me...

I think that the magnet is on the charger for that, but I could be wrong. I can say that the only magnetic part, when playing about with a paper clip, was the circular area around the lens, so not sure it'd be any good for charging.

Guys, I dropped my Nexus 4 and broke the screen glass. The screen still works but the touch detection is dead. Time to get a Nexus 5 I guess... How can I get a backup of the broken phone with no touch input, from a computer maybe? I have vanilla 4.3 (no root or anything). Or was there some automatic cloud backup that I can rely on for the next phone?

What are you trying to find from it? It's an Android, virtually everything is backed up to the Google account.

SMS, photos (didn't have automatic backup), call history?