Android Development Tip - adb Finds No Devices

Posted on Jul 11, 2010

I am busily working on an article about developing AIR for Android following the instructions from this excellent video tutorial by Lee Brimelow. However, when I connected my Nexus One and ran the ./adb devices command from the Console, it returned me an empty list of items. It turned out to be a very simple problem. I simply needed to enable USB debugging on my device. This setting was found at Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging on my Android phone. It seems that by default this setting is turned off (which makes sense really since few people really need it). Once I turned this on, running ./adb devices returned the connected device and I could continue developing and publishing to the device.

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why Sadly, this is not the only reason it returns no devices.
I installed adb on two difference notes running Ubuntu, and one running OSX. The same device was set to USB debugging. On the two Ubuntu notebooks it returned no devicecs (the daemon was running), and on the Mac notebook it worked. Never got it running on Linux so used the Mac instead. Crap!

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Posted By why / Posted on 09/27/2010 at 1:15 PM

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My name is Brian Rinaldi and I am the Web Community Manager for Flash Platform at Adobe. I am a regular blogger, speaker and author. I also founded RIA Unleashed conference in Boston. The views expressed on this site are my own & not those of my employer.