Android ADB device offline can t issue commands

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I can t connect to my device anymore using ADB through the command line or in Eclipse   Running the command  adb devices   returns the device name  but it says it s offline   Things I ve tried    Toggled Android debugging mode Reinstalled the Google USB driver Restored the OS to a previously working backup  CyanogenMod  Swapped the USB cord Rebooted the phone computer multiple times Updated the Android SDK   I really don t have any clue what s going on  Anything else you think I can try  I m all ears   To be clear  if you re having this same issue the problem is probably an out-of-date SDK  As of 4 2 2 there is a security feature that requires you to confirm the RSA fingerprint of the connecting device  Open the SDK manager and update the tools  Then reboot

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Be sure to use adb from your platform-tools folder  after updating the SDK tools   I finally got this working after I realized I was using an outdated version of ADB copied in  usr bin

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I m surprised to find my solution wasn t listed here   For me  I have an LG G3  The phone must be connected using LG s driver  I went to   Device Manager   uninstall MTP Driver  and immediately adb worked without 1 sec literally

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In Linux  remove the directory    android and restart ADB

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It s just because your computer doesn t have the right driver  To fix that    Download and extract Android SDK  Go to Device Manager  Right Click on Computer --  Properties --  Device Manager On the right pane expand portable devices to find your device Right click on your device name and click Update Driver Software Browse my computer for driver software Browse to your Android SDK folder on step 1  Next and you re done

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I needed to kill multiple adb processes  adb kill-server  amp  adb start-server still left a lingering process alive      ps aux   grep adb    killall adb

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In my case  I was running into this problem with a 1st gen Asus Nexus 7  I had increased the logging buffer size from 256K to 4M  As soon as I restored it to the default value  Settings Developer Settings Logger buffer sizes   unplugged and plugged the tablet back in  it worked perfectly

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I have used ADB version 1 0 29  and it could be connected to my LG-F160K  JB 4 1 2  and Nexus nbsp 7  Android 4 2 2  Jelly Bean    LG-F160K worked with ADB 1 0 29  but the device status of Nexus nbsp 7 was always  offline    I have downloaded adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130219 zip from the Google Android website  and I can connect to Nexus nbsp 7 now  I m currently using ADB version 1 0 31   Just download the latest SDK or update your ADB utility

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If your device normally connects over USB  but suddenly stops working  especially after the USB cable has been disconnected and reconnected  try the following non-invasive steps before doing some of the more drastic things mentioned in the other answers   adb kill-server adb start-server adb devices   If your device is listed with  device  next to it  you re back in business   If your device is listed with  offline  next to it  try restarting the device  The ADB daemon on the device will occasionally get hung  I ve noticed this more when I ve disconnected the cable while LogCat is running and after switching back from connecting via Wi-Fi or Ethernet   If your device isn t listed then you should try the solutions in the other answers  starting with trying a different USB cable and port  Those cheapo cables can go bad

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Restart the device  I tried everything listed here to get my HTC phone  running Android 4 0 3  working  but adb devices kept saying it was offline  After I restarted the phone  it was finally online  Some of the other suggestions here may have contributed to the phone being recognized  but doing a few restarts along the way as you re trying them out certainly won t hurt

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For me nothing worked  I spent about 12 hours constantly searching on the Internet and trying the solutions that worked for other people having similar issues    Finally I ended up with just doing the ADB stuff over the LAN  The setting was right next to the USB Debug setting and in ADB it can be activated with  adb connect  IPADDRESS   PORT    The port was 5555 on my phone   I hope this helps someone to get back to work instead of having to deal with constant drawbacks

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What mostly works for me is this   Removing USB and plugging it again   Using adb devices after adb kill-server  Sometimes  switching to a different USB port on your computer will solve the problem

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I had the same problem  while trying to install CyanogenMod on Galaxy nbsp S nbsp III from Ubuntu  In the end  I simply copied the ZIP file to the external SD card  by attaching the SD card directly to the PC  Then I moved the card back to the phone  and when I rebooted the phone  I could install CyanogenMod from the SD card

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If any of above tips are not working  try these steps to unlock OEM    Open command prompt and set your platform tools path  Type in  adb reboot bootloader   Then type in  fastboot oem unlock   On a few devices it will take more time  Please be patient till  15 min  Reboot the device

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Sometime this may happen because of adb server error  i think   It always saying    device-name is offline  from adb devices command    Just kill server and start again  It worked for me    adb kill-server   adb start-server

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When I am facing the same issues than doing like below    Restart adb by issuing adb kill-server followed by adb start-server in a command prompt Disable and re-enable USB debugging on the phone Rebooting the phone if it still doesn t work  99  of my issues have been resolved with these steps

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Not really an answer  but more contributing to something which is obviously an issue with CM   I ve got an HTC Inspire HD running cm-11-20140309 Unofficial BR1-ace  stable version   I was able to use adb prior to update  but I never installed SDK since I had no need  I ve tried all of the above and more    At first I thought my issue was the MTP driver but it wasn t  After installing and updating SDK to include 4 4 2  the HTC MTP Device driver installed fine when connected via USB but using adb from the new sdk install location still shows the device as offline on both mtp  and ptp modes on the phone with debugging both of and on  When I disable usb debugging the phone automatically reboots  and I receive the error    Unfortunately the process android process media has stopped   The new CM has an option under developer options to enable debugging over WIFI  so I tried that as well  and it simply says unable to connect to the IP address and port   Like the other poster  I can ping the IP address   I also checked the option to enable root access for ADB and apps because it was set to only APPS and still the phone shows offline when I do  adb devices and occasionally it throws the same error shown above   EDIT   Now  my phone just force rebooted  I renabled debugging  plugged it in and ran adb devices  and I was finally prompted by the phone for the RSA key  For some reason I was not prompted before and now the phone is connecting   So perhaps the issue is needing to switch root access from just apps to apps and adb after a fresh reboot   Here is why it shows offline  http   playingwithsid blogspot com 2013 05 android-device-offline-fixing-adb html

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I just started facing the same issue after the latest CyanogenMod nightly update  12th aug 2013  on my Samsung Galaxy nbsp S nbsp III   I used the ADB binaries suggested in the topmost answer  by hack on edited by w  allison   and I got a prompt on my phone asking to allow access to my PC  its RSA key    It s working fine now    Download link  ADB  Fastboot and related binaries only   https   dl google com android repository platform-tools r16 0 1-windows zip

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Tried everything above for several hours   Thing that made it work was running android studio with no app started   You can still use chrome for remote debugging of the device

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None of the other answers worked for me  I have just upgraded to CyanogenMod 10 1  Android 4 2 2  on my Galaxy nbsp S nbsp III  What worked for me was to enable debugging in developer options  to enable  click seven times on the build number in  about phone   and then plug in via USB  Then I accepted the prompt which came up

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The best way I figured is by disabling and then enabling the device from Device Manager and running the adb devices command    Go to the start tab and right click on Computer From the drop down menu  click Manage From the computer management screen  click Device Manager   On the right pane  expand portable devices to find your device Right click on your device name and click disable on the drop down menu   When it gets disabled  repeat step 5 except for enabling it    The device will be back online  It s faster

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Installed the latest android sdk  Changed the USB port of the device  Changed from MTP -  Charge only -  MTP  It worked

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What solved for me on Mac was updating adb to the latest version  1 0 32   Now i can see my device online again

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I updated many times  until I couldn t update any more  but I never got a prompt on my screen  I just kept getting the device offline   My problem was that I was running the ADB command from a different directory to what was actually being updated   The correct updated directory for the ADB exe is   C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk platform-tools

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It also seems to occur frequently when you connect to the device using the Wi-Fi mode  in Android Studio or in the console by running adb tcpip 5555 for example    To fix    Disconnect the USB connection   or turn off the device s Wi-Fi if you re connected over Wi-Fi  Close Android Studio Eclipse other IDE  Run adb kill-server to ensure adb is not running  Restart your Android device  After your device restarts  connect it via USB and run adb devices  This should start the ADB daemon  Your device should now be online again

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I just got the same problem today after my Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus were updated to Android 4 2 2   The thing that fixed it for me was to upgrade the SDK platform-tools to r16 0 1  For me  this version was not displayed in my SDK Manager  so I pulled it down from http   dl google com android repository platform-tools r16 0 1-windows zip directly   You then need to rename the platform-tools directory and unzip it to android-sdk-windows platform-tools  Using the SDK Manager  I had also updated to the latest sdk-tools before this   If your whole Eclipse and ADT are ancient  you may need to update them as well  but I didn t need to   Note  you may need to run SDK Manager twice  once to update itself  before you will see the latest packages

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adb reconnect offline -   kick connection from device side to force reconnect

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OK  here s no voodoo  no blind-trying and  I hope  well explained solution to this  sorry for the rage  I tried googling for solution almost for a whole day to no avail    First  let s read about ways adb communicates with the device  https   android googlesource com platform system core   master adb protocol txt  Short story  host adb establishes server on 5037  connects to adbd on the device via tcp port 5555  default    That means - to work  your adb s got to have a clear road to your local 5037 and remote 5555  You can setup adbd on the device  using device terminal  to listen without establishing USB connection first  if you cannot or do not want to use USB   setprop service adb tcp port 5555 stop adbd start adbd   Check with netstat -plant   grep adbd if adbd is listening on port 5555  or any other you ve chosen    Now fire up Wireshark with capture filter port 5555  Execute this command on your host  adb connect device ip 5555  replace 5555 if you re using non-standard port    According to the document above  you should see CNXN commands from both directions  If your remote end doesn t reply  adb devices will say your device is offline  And it s a game over  adb devices doesn t do any network exchange  it just shows you the result of the adb connect command   My problem was - I ve been running Android inside a Virtualbox with NAT networking and forwarded 5555 port  Also  I had an emulator running on port 5554  It didn t occupy 5555  but somehow  these two interfered and disrupted Virtualbox s connection at the lower level  as I had lots of weird duplicate ACKs and RSTs flying all over the interface  A solution for this problem was to pick a different port   Please tell me if I m wrong  but I didn t see anyone proposing this before  Neither explaining how and why it should work

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The reason for a device to be reported as offline is that adb can not connect to it   Adb executable from the development environment creates a connection  socket  with the device under control   The device has a service  daemon  that listens for this communication  The daemon is called adbd  as in adbdaemon   When one enables adb on a device in fact one starts this daemon  so comms can be established with the device   When the device is reported by adb as offline is because the daemon is not running anymore or is in a state that will not accept connections  Most often than not this happens if the network goes down on an active  network  connection   The only way that I could fix this was by rebooting the device  One can arrive to fixing the offline status by many other means but restarting the device always works

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None of these answers worked for me  The device was always offline  What really solved it was just patience   Namely  just waiting one minute before issuing adb devices after the adb connect command automatically fixed the issue 100  of the times

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Open Developer options from device and disable then enable USB debugging

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One more possibility for people with flaky ADB connections  and if they re on a Mac and have Android File Transfer installed  I found that file transfer was interfering with my ADB connection  causing it to stop working intermittently    Killing the Android File Transfer Agent app process that looks for compatible devices  for example  the Nexus nbsp 7  being connected to the Mac cures the flakiness for me

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After trying everything two times  I rolled back the phone software to a stable build  and it finally worked  I was running Cyanogen nightlies  Regardless  the things posted in this thread should help anyone who encounters this problem

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Worked for me  in the begining it worked and after a while went to offline  I did the follwong  adb kill-server adb start-server  Plug the phone again with usb to PC adb devices  output of empty list provided  adb tcpip 5555  adb connect  lt mobile wifi ip address gt  Then it became online again

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I tried dturvene and all the other solutions  but they didn t work  I needed one more step    Run these commands   adb kill-server  android update sdk --no-ui adb start-server   To verify that it worked  run  adb version  before and after the commands and make sure it is the latest  The reason for the adb kill-server command is that it it most likely running  and it can t be updated while it is running  so you have to kill it first

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For me  it s that the USB cable was not plugged in all the way into the slot  Although it shows charging on my Nexus 5

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Try running adb devices after running adb kill-server  Security question pops up after that  Worked for me

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Try to restart the adb server as follows   adb kill-server  adb start-server   I have also came across the same problems as yours  And restarting the adb server will resolve this problem

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As nobody gave an answer for my situation  you may not have access to the    android adbkey file  If you initially start adb with sudo  it will generate a public key pair  writing this to    android adbkey pub and   android adbkey  Of course  the private key is chmod 600 - only readable for root in your home directory  Subsequently starting adb as normal user will give no access to the private key file  which in turn will fail silently with  device offline

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Here are the steps you can do it through command line No need to access devices  Step 1  do  quot adb devices -l quot  and you will see the offline device  Now note down the number after usb  Example  gt  usb 1-1 4 2 Step 2  echo   1-1 4 2    sudo tee  sys bus usb drivers usb unbind Step 3  echo   1-1 4 2    sudo tee  sys bus usb drivers usb bind Step 4  Check  quot adb devices -l quot   That devices should be online

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None of these answers worked for me  tried Wireless too   I noticed adb exe was constantly running in my system processes   Right clicked on them and found adb was running automatically from an installed app  Droid Explorer in my case    Once I uninstalled the app that was automatically starting ADB  i could kill the process and see that adb was no longer running on it s own   Ran the updated adb from platform-tools and good to go   Hope this helps someone

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Try by turning off usb debugging once and then enabling it agin and then connect your device with system  link

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For anyone wondering about 4 2 2  there is a security question that appears on the phone requesting RSA verification with the PC  Be sure your tools are updated AND you allow the PC access by verifying the security question on the devices in question  This fixed it for me   And as always  verify you have debugging enabled in the developer options

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Multiple adb exe files    My problem was solved when deleted a copy of OLD adb exe from C  Windows   I don t know how a copy of adb exe got to the C  Windows     When I launch adb exe from android-sdk platform-tools  I had no problem with detection

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I ran to through same problem this fixed for me  connect your phone via usb first then make sure you check your mobile ip which is under settings    about phone    status run the following commands     adb kill-server adb start-server adb tcpip 5555   it resets port so put port you want to connect adb connect 192 168 1 30 5555   ip port of your mobile to connect adb devices   you will be connected over wifi

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Just enable disable ADB integration from Tools -  Android  That worked for me  I am using Android Studio beta

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I can t stress that switching USB ports is key   Often front panel USB ports can be defective

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Try   adb usb    i changed my connection method to tcpip and then i thought if i kill the server and start it  it will reset the connection method but it will not   this is why none of the previous answers worked in my case

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late but I found the easiest way just go to DDMS and follow as shown in image

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Most likely this is due to an out dated adb process   This may happen due to crappy developers who package adb  the dlls and install them in the root directory of Windows  Such as C  Windows adb exe  Open task manager kill adb exe  located the adb exe most likely in root  Windows and remove it  Then use an up to date SDK

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This is a lame case  but just in case    I have a mac laptop with a power usb hub but it only has a couple usb ports so I hung another powered usb hub off that  Seems seemed to work fairly well  but for some reason my android device wouldn t keep a connection  Plug it in  it shows  device   but try to do anything via adb and get an error and status goes  offline   Drove me crazy  Then I decided to try plugging in Android device straight to the first hub    worked immediately and solidly  I had been using the two hub setup for a while  but all of a suddden it just stopped working  Hope it helps somebody

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I hit the same issue on a Nexus nbsp 7 running 4 2 2 OTA update  I m almost certain I had an ADB connection over USB and Wi-Fi after the update until it just stopped working  To fix  I updated my SDK using    android update sdk --no-ui   Now my development tools are    SDK rev 16 0 2 SDK tools rev 21 1 SDK API 17  rev 2

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Just share my condition   In my LAN  all andorid boards have same MAC address default  So it will get same IP through DHCP as it have same MAC address   In LAN  there are multiple android boards with same IP  And adb could connect to the board one of them   and could open shell of the board one of them   but get  device offline  when push file to board  or other operation   Solution  rewrite MAC address  get different IP

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I tried absolutely everything you could think  6hrs on this     For a dumb solution  What appears to have worked for me was shut down laptop  unplug laptop  pop the battery  holding the power button for 10s  starting it again  So mad   But maybe it will help someone else  NOTE  My situation was  everything was working hunky dory  literally had devtools windows open and working  and  poof all 3 devices went offline    and never came back no matter the number restarts  computer   devices   install uninstalls of drivers adb android studio  windows updates  toggling of debugging options   My theory is some kind of charge power thing happened

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I have a dodgy USB connection so I tried to get wifi connectivity going   Tried basically everything here  but one thing I did not try until last  and suddenly it worked   So  if you end up stuck  try these steps   1  Connect with USB cord  2  adb devices List of devices attached HT85X1A00342    device 10 0 0 43 5555  offline   3  adb usb restarting in USB mode   4  adb reconnect reconnecting HT85X1A00342  device    5  adb tcpip 5555 restarting in TCP mode port  5555   6  adb devices List of devices attached   7  adb connect 10 0 0 43 5555 connected to 10 0 0 43 5555  Sweet   I don t know exactly if forcing it to restart USB mode then TCP IP in sequence helped  or just the last three commands  but clearly it started working   I also found there s a Developer Option to Enable Debugging on Wifi  and you select your hotspot   That may also prevent it working  so check that as well  Good luck

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I used adb connect  lt device ip gt  and non of the other solutions worked because my problem was on the other side  On the device I needed to stop adbd and restart it start adbd  Device is now  online  again

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I encountered this problem as well  I updated everything I could in the Android SDK Manager  uninstalled my device using Device Manager  and now it works correctly  I issues a few  kill-server  and  start-server  along the way

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I was having this problem and none of the other answers helped  What was necessary  after updating the SDK and installing the API for 4 2 2  was running   android update adb   Another problem I was having was that I was trying to connect ADB over Wi-Fi  which is my only option because the USB ports on my Mac are really finnicky  Unfortunately  ADB over Wi-Fi doesn t show the security question in 4 2 2  so you need to find a USB cable that ll work and connect over USB at least once to accept the security question  but after you do that once  you can connect over Wi-Fi

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For me  it turned out that I had two different SDK installations  When I launched the Android SDK Manager and updated the tools from Eclipse  the SDK path pointed to one location  but the PATH environment variable used on the command line pointed to another location  that had an older version of the SDK  which always shows the 4 2 2 device as offline

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Disable your antivirus  reconnect usb and check if adb exe was not moved to quarentine

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This approach worked for me    adb kill-server Disable the offline device in Device Manager  see image below  Enable the device in Device Manager adb start-server     Device Manager   View  menu   Devices by Connection

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If you ve previously authorized the RSA fingerprint of your PC and tried adb kill-server etc  with no luck  your problem might just be that you re trying to connect to it while it s locked  Try pressing the screen-on button and entering your pattern - this fixed it for me

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I initially encountered the same problem  with ADB fastboot downloaded from GitHub   but I eventually got it to work  What worked for me    Android SDK  ADB version  1 0 31 Using the front USB port  MacBook Pro 15   Restarting the phone after enabling Dev options and USB debugging  do so by 7x tap on settings   about phone   build   Kill adb server in case no device is listed  adb kill-server  The debug icon should be visible on the phone  Be sure to unlock lock-screen to check for the RSA fingerprint confirmation dialog

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