Samsung Galaxy S8 not recognised by Android Studio

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roberto.sannazzaro picture roberto.sannazzaro · Jan 17, 2018 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

I am trying to use my Galaxy S8 with android studio as an external device but it seems like my Mac cannot recognize it.

  • I have developer mode and USB debugging enabled
  • ADB drivers are installed, but when I run ADB devices on terminal it does not display anything
  • I tried to restart the ADB server several times but it does not work anyway
  • I tried on a different Mac and on a Windows computer - same problem-
  • I tried all the previous solutions with a different USB cable - same problem-
  • I installed SmartSwitch, but also this program does not recognize my device, same for AFT, I also deleted one of the two and tried singularly, but as always, it does not work.

Basically it seems that the phone can only be charged via usb, but I have no reason to believe that the usb port might be damaged.

Answer

Sampa picture Sampa · May 1, 2018

I solved this problem downloading this driver from the oficial Samsung page. After install it, the whole drivers will re-install again. Besides, make sure you have enabled the Debugging mode and try to run again. I hope this helps.

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