Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to install split spoofed APKs on Android using only your PC (Windows or Linux)
On Fri, 5/8/2026 8:14 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
Lawrence D›Oliveiro wrote:
7. I sideload the apks using a spoofed origin label
adb.exe install-multiple -i com.android.vending base.apk split_config.arm64_v8a.apk split_config.xhdpi.apk split_config.es.apk
Does Windows still require special USB drivers installed in order for
the SDK to talk to an Android device?
This isn›t necessary under Linux.
I don't think so. When we install adb, there's always a page for drivers
for all sorts of phones, but I've never had to install a special driver.
So I think if the USB works using the default driver that Windows installs the first time you connect the phone, then I think adb will also work.
Besides, adb nowadays works over Wi-Fi also, which doesn't need a driver.
The beauty of adb is that you can do everything you need to on the phone
from the PC keyboard/mouse/speakers/clipboard which is extremely handy.
Scrcpy, which mirrors the phone two feet tall, is powered by adb also.
<https://i.postimg.cc/pr8NPNKs/scrcpy33.jpg>
When I'm home, I use the phone without even knowing where the phone is. :)
(I have to play a song on the phone from the PC just to find the phone.)
WinUSBCoInstaller2.dll = 1 <=== we need to find out what a "WinUSB" driver is
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll = 1 <=== grease for installing the Windows Device Framework driver
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/usbcon/introduction-to-winusb-for-developers
"Components of WinUSB
WinUSB includes:
A kernel-mode driver (winusb.sys)
A user-mode dynamic link library (winusb.dll) that exposes WinUSB functions described in winusb.h.
You can use these functions to manage USB devices with user-mode software.
By default, winusb.sys is installed in the device's kernel-mode stack as an upper filter driver.
Apps communicate with the device's User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) function driver to
issue read, write, or device I/O control requests. In this configuration, winusb.sys serves as
the device stack's Plug and Play and power owner. You can also install winusb.sys as the
function driver for a USB device.
"
That doesn't tell me what it does, but I do have that winusb.sys file and
I don't own a phone so it could not have been triggered by
connecting a phone to the PC and a driver getting automatically downloaded.
Paul
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