HOW TO MANUALLY INSTALL QUALCOMM QDLOADER DRIVER
I’ll just go straight to the point. This simple tutorial will show you steps to properly install Qualcomm QDLoader drivers on Windows, either Windows 8, 8.1 or 10. You may need it in few occasions involving your MIUI device powered with any variant of Qualcomm chipset. As we know it that many of Xiaomi’s most popular phones like Mi5, Mi 5, Redmi Note 3, and so on, are powered with Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Any way, let’s just start the guide.
HOW TO
Step 0 – Extract the Qualcomm QDLoader .zip file using either Winzip or Winrar.
Click - Download qdloader USB Driver
Click - Download qdloader USB Driver
Step 1 – Open up Device Manager from control panel and you will notice a new device is detected but its driver is not installed properly
Usually it is displayed as “QHSUSB_BULK” under Other Devices.
Step 2 – Right-click on QHSUSB_BULK and choose “Update Driver Software“
Step 3 – A dialog window shall appear. Choose “Browse my computer for driver software“.
Step 12 – Now click on the Browse button and locate the extracted Qualcomm QDLoader drivers.
Step 13 – The installation process shall take place immediately and a system notification will appear. Just choose “Install this driver software anyway“.
Step 14 – Once done, you will see something like this.
Step 15 – Click the Close button and check back at Device Manager window. You will now see “Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM10)” under Ports (COM & LPT) section.
Done! Congratulation, you have now installed Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader successfully on your computer.