How to Install MediaTek VCOM Drivers

Hi all, today I’m gonna explain how to install MediaTek VCOM Drivers which I believe everyone know his/her reason for having to install the drivers. Basically, it’s a registry trick that takes a little techniques since in this tutorial we are gonna learn how to manually install VCOM. You may have to do this if your phone get bricked and hold a hard one that when you plug your phone to A PCs it won’t detect even if detected your phone, it’d rather attempt installing it drivers but unfortunately, you watch it woefully failed.

I believe you have your reason for installing VCOM drivers and also it is obvious that you are having a bricked phone, that’s why you found you self-viewing this page. Thank your ancestor, you may now Install VCOM drivers and have a sigh of relief.  No more botheration about a common problem which yourself and your device found yourself in. WHEN you flashed a wrongly ported ROM or you just flashed a wrong Chipset which is contrary to your devices, yet you aren’t sure of the ROM then you should get ready for a flash

REQUIREMENT FOR THE INSTALLATION

1. A Pc (windows 7 or 8)
2. An MTK phone
3. VCOM DRIVERS (Download here)
4. ….And a working brain of course

Download VCOM Drivers from the above link and extract the file to your desktop. Make sure you download it properly. You must be a profession in the game and or if you want me to give guides on how to extract it won’t be that difficult. 

I am running on Win7 here, but you should be able to follow these steps on win8 as well (that’s if you are an expert in the game). So from desk top click on start button and move the course to the text bax saying “search programs and files” then type in device manager. Win8, I believe you can locate you Pcs search bar. It’s somewhere at the right screen side. Take the course to the other end and a searching icon should slide out. 

After typing in “device manager” windows would give you some list of result based on the keywords, there just select “device manage”. Click on it.

From the displayed window, you should have s list of Devices running with you system, click/highlight any of the items there and move the cursor to the “Action” link from the menu bar. From the options, select “add legacy hardware.

Now, you should have a new window on you screen that raises; “Welcome to the Hardware Wizard! If your hardware came with an installation of blah blAH, who cares to read that? Click on Next!

Then, a new window will appear asking you what you want the wizard to do, well, from the options there tick on “Install the driver I manually select from a disk (advance)” and of course click on Next!

Yes, the new window says; from the list below select the type of hardware you are installing. Highlight the “Show all device” then Next. 

On the new window, select the device driver you want to install for this hardware. You are gonna browse the path now, I mean the file you extracted earlier. Now click on “Have Disk” from the window.  Click on browse from the dialogue that pops up. 

You extracted the VCOM Drivers folder to you desktop, browse it and open the folder, there should be a folder in side, Open it, then open “USB VCOM Drivers” from the three folders. Now, it is left to you to decide the set of OS you are using, open the appropriate one select either “usb2ser_Win7.inf” (for 64 bit) or “usb2ser_Win764” for 86bit and click on ok.

 From the model, click on Mediek Preloader USB VCOM Port and kindly click next. Ignore driver not digitally signed caution.  Next, next, and finally, wait for the installation to complete. A window will come up saying the software for the device is then installed and may not work. This might get you bothered but don’t worry. It will work fine. Ignore the (Code 10) blah and click finish. 

Noticing Mediatek Preloader USB VCOM Port (COMXX) is indicating the installed drivers. You can now flash whatever as the PC is now able to detect your device.  

 

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