Android studio doesn't list my phone under "Choose Device"
Have you installed drivers for the phone? http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
It appears that the the sdk does not "install" the USB drivers. You can select that usb drivers in the sdk to see the file location, open that up, and right click to install the driver yourself.
- File -> Settings -> Android SDK -> SDK Tools -> Google USB Driver -> Right click -> Install
- Ensure that Google USB driver is checked.
If above doesn't work, @Abir Hasan appears to have another method in answers below.
I've had this problem many times before with my Galaxy Nexus. Despite having the Android SDK's USB drivers installed, it did not seem to suffice.
I've always solved this by installing a program called PdaNet. While I don't know exactly what it is used for and where it gets its drivers - it comes with the drivers that has always fixed the problem for me. You can uninstall the program itself once it has finished.
Though the answer is accepted, but I'm going to answer it anyway.
From the points perspective, it might seem that it's a lot of work. But it's very simple. And Up un till now it has worked on all the devices I have tried with.
At first download the universal ADB driver. Then follow the process below:
- Install the Universal ADB driver.
- Then go to the control panel.
- Select Device and Printers.
- Then find your device and right click on it.
- Probably you will see a yellow exclamation mark. Which means the device doesn't have the correct driver installed.
Next, select the properties of the device. Then-
- Select hardware tab, and again select properties.
- Then under general tab select Change Settings.
- Then under the Driver tab, select update driver.
- Then select Browse my computer for driver software.
- Then select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
- Here you will see the list of devices. Select Android devices. Which will show you all the available drivers.
- Under the model section, you can see a lot of drivers available.
- You can select your preferred one.
- Most of the cases the generic ANDROID ADB INTERFACE will do the trick.
- When you try to install it, it might give you a warning but go ahead and install the driver.
- And it's done.
Then re-run your app from the android studio. And it will show your device under Choose Device. Cheers!