Android ADB doesn't see device

Some of these answers are pretty old, so maybe it's changed in recent times, but I had similar issues and I solved it by:

  1. Loading the USB drivers for the device - Samsung S6
  2. Enable Developer tools on the phone.
  3. On the device, go to Settings - Applications - Development - Check USB Debugging
  4. Reboot O/S (Windows 7 - 64bit)
  5. Open Visual Studio

I think it was step 3 that had me stumped for a while. I'd enabled developer tools, but I didn't specifically enable the "USB Debugging" but.


I tried all the ways listed on the web for a whole day, but I didn't get any solutions. Then, I followed a link and in just two minutes my problem was solved!

By the way, it's for Windows users!

Find out the vendor id of the device from device manager.
To do this, connect the OTG port to the USB port of your computer.
Go to Start Menu and right-click on “My Computer” and chose “Properties”.
Select the “Devices” option which will open “Device Manager”.
Select your device (mostly in USB devices or Other devices) and right-click and choose “Properties”.
Choose the “Details” tab and select “Hardware Ids” from the property dropdown, you can see the hardware id, in my case it was x2207 .
Open android_winusb.inf and add these lines: 

;<Device name>   in our case I gave MK808
%SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_INSTALL, USB\VID_2207&PID_0010&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_INSTALL, USB\VID_2207&PID_0010&REV_0222&MI_01

Open C:\Users\.android\adb_usb.ini and add the following entry

0x<device id>  .. in our case it is 0x2207

Restart ADB by

adb kill-server
adb start-server

Now ADB should recognize the device.


The normal way to fix this is indeed to restart the adb server :

adb kill-server
adb start-server

then 

adb devices -l

should list connected devices

But it possible that it doesnt fix the problem. It appends to me.

I had to disable/enable the debug mode on the device, and then restart adb server.

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