I want to get back to 8.1 yet i will hold off if the nexus 5 will not be recognized. incidentally, nexus 7 (2012 & 2013) and nexus 10 also were not recognized in 8.1 and were in 8 but if others have been successful with 8.1 i may have had a corrupted 8.1 system.. Lg nexus 5 usb drivers for windows like we said, the usb drivers for nexus 5 are bundled with android 4.4 kitkat. for transferring media content, photos and other files from your phone, you need to have a micro usb cable (preferably the one you got with the phone) for the phone.. Read also: how to download google maps offline in google nexus 5 uninstalling will remove the driver files related to acer adb from the computer. disconnect and connect back the phone again, i’m sure it will install the default google nexus driver and you should be able to browse/open your nexus 5 phone storage on windows 8.1.
I would never have expected that hooking up a nexus 5 phone could be a pita on a windows 8.1 n machine. symptoms. so you have a freshly installed windows 8.1 n machine and you want to transfer some photos from your nexus 5.. If you have a bright new nexus 5 then one of the first things you’ll want to do is to install the windows drivers. this will let windows recognize you nexus 5 correctly. this will also be required if you want to do any modifications like rooting which required adb to recognize.. Download the nexus 5 drivers from here. extract the zip contents and place all files in a single folder on your desktop. now, the windows installer will search for nexus 5 drivers, click.