• Open the Device Manager, select the ADB Device and open the Details tab. Look for “Device Instance Id”, it should be something like vid_0bb4&pid_0c0*.
  If your * is not 2, these instructions will probably solve your issue.

• Disconnect your device and uninstall the two discovered devices (i used usbdeview but you can do it manually from the Device Manager).

• Open with a text editor android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\usb_driver\x86\android_usb.inf.
  Replace all the vid_0bb4&pid_0c02 with vid_0bb4&pid_0c0* (e.g. vid_0bb4&pid_0c03).

• Connect your phone and when asked for driver choose to specify manually a path and select android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\usb_driver\x86\.

• If the installation is successful, to verify that all is ok execute android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\tools\adb devices, your phone should be listed in the device table.

Thanks to Wysie, for the full discussion see the original thread. After following this procedure even HTC Sync should work.

UPDATE: This procedure should likely work for HTC Hero, Touch and Samsung Galaxy too, just substitute where needed the “Device Instance Id” found at step 1.

UPDATE 4/10/10: Confirmed, this procedure still works for newer phones like the Desire, just use a correct Device Id.