Eclipse doesn't find my HTC Sensation

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I don't have my Sensation any more, so obviously this no longer is a problem for me. I've decided not to delete the question since it might help others with the same problem.

Thanks for all your attempts to help!

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I'm trying to program apps for my HTC Sensation (ICS, 4.0.3), but I Eclipse doesn't find it. When I press the Run "[Application Name]"-button I just get the message "No compatible targets were found. Do you wish to a add new android virtual device?", and no devices is shown in the "Android Device Chooser" that is shown.
I tried with my friends Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro (2.1-update1), and that worked.
I tried with both version 2.1, 2.3.3 and 4.0.3 of the application, but none worked on my Sensation.
I have USB-debugging, Stay Awake, and Allow mock locations activated.
I've been Googleing around for days, but I haven't found a solution. I've tried the following for example (found it here):

1. Make sure that your project is set to debuggable in the manifest android:debuggable="true"
2. On the Hero make sure that it is set for remote debugging
   Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging (next three steps I got from http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html)
3. Install HTC Sync (3.0)
4. Use USBDeview to remove device
5. Plug in device
6. Check device is added by running "C:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\adb.exe devices" which said the server was out of date and automatically killed and restarted it and showed my device as connected.
7. Also ran this to be safe "C:\Program Files\HTC\HTC Sync 3.0\adb.exe devices"
8. Then in eclipse click the drop down menu on the debug tool bar item > Debug Configurations... delete all the existing configurations and close
9. The next time you debug it finds the HTC Hero and runs debug on it

I've tried to "Run Configurations -> Target -> Select 'Manual' instead of 'Automatic'"

I've installed the Google USB Drivers, and my phones drivers via HTC Sync from HTC.com

Edit:
I've got some more questions:

• What version of Eclipse am I supposed to use? I started with Classic, but a friend of mine suggested me to use the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers-version instead.
• What connection type, on my phone, am i supposed to use? Charge only? HTC Sync? I assume it's not Disk drive?
• When I try to run a project for the first time after I start the Eclipse it tells me to ensure that adb is correctly located at 'D:\Documents\Eclipse\android-sdks\platform-tools\adb.exe' and can be executed, that is the directory of the file, and if I go there and run it manually it works, or at least I get past that error (and that's when it tells me I have no device connected).

Some quick info:

• I'm running Windows 8 (64-bit) Consumer Preview in Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro
• My phone is a HTC Sensation, Android 4.0.3, HTC Sense 3.6
• Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers, version: Indigo Service Release 2, Build id: 20120216-1857
• adb version: 1.0.29

Answer 1

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