Adb Devices can't find my phone

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Justin picture Justin · Jun 24, 2011 · Viewed 282.7k times · Source

I am trying to get adb to see my Samsung Fascinate phone so that I can install my Android apps via usb to the phone. I am using osx 10.6.7.

When I run "adb devices" it does not list my device and "adb usb" says "device not found".

USB debugging is enabled and I have tried connecting in storage mode as well as media mode. When I am in storage mode I can see the phone's drive in Finder so I know that the usb connection works, however adb still can't find it.

I read that for Mac there are no usb drivers, that it's just supposed to work, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Any suggestions?

Answer

Mykhailo Gaidai picture Mykhailo Gaidai · Jun 24, 2011

Try doing this:

  • Unplug the device
  • Execute adb kill-server && adb start-server(that restarts adb)
  • Re-plug the device

Also you can try to edit an adb config file .android/adb_usb.ini and add a line 04e8 after the header. Restart adb required for changes to take effect.

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