Android Debug Bridge adb device - no permissions

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I have a problem connecting HTC Wildfire A3333 in debugging mode with my Fedora Linux 17  Adb says     adb devices List of devices attached                  no permissions   my udev rules  first rule for Samsung which works just fine and second for HTC which is not    SUBSYSTEM   usb  SYSFS idVendor    04e8  SYMLINK   android adb  MODE  0666  GROUP  plugdev   SUBSYSTEM   usb  SYSFS idVendor    0bb4  SYMLINK   android adb  MODE  0666  GROUP  plugdev    For Samsung devices everything s okay      adb devices List of devices attached  00198a9422618e  device   I have been trying all of the answers given in a simmilar thread wthout any luck  Using HTC wildfire for android development

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Stephan s answer works  using sudo adb kill-server   but it is temporary  It must be re-issued after every reboot   For a permanent solution  the udev config must be modified   Witrant s answer is the right idea  copied from the official Android documentation   But it s just a template  If that doesn t work for your device  you need to fill in the correct device ID for your device s    lsusb  Bus 001 Device 002  ID 05c6 9025 Qualcomm  Inc  Bus 002 Device 002  ID 0e0f 0003 VMware  Inc  Virtual Mouse       Find your android device in the list   Then use the first half of the ID  4 digits  for the idVendor  the last half is the idProduct  but it is not necessary to get adb working    sudo vi  etc udev rules d 51-android rules and add one rule for each unique idVendor   SUBSYSTEM   usb   ATTR idVendor    05c6   MODE  0666   GROUP  plugdev    It s that simple  You don t need all those other fields given in some of the answers  Save the file   Then reboot  The change is permanent   Roger shows a way to restart udev  if you don t want to reboot

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On THL W100 running the device as root  as described above  worked only together with tethering enabled  I used AirDroid for that

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I encountered the same problem today   I followed the official instructions  but I didn t noticed that I SHOULD  run command  chmod a r  etc udev rules d 51-android rules   After I set this file to world readable and re-plug my usb cable the status became unauthorized  Then just grant the permission and everything goes fine

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Close running adb  could be closing running android-studio  list devices      usr local android-studio sdk platform-tools adb devices

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I had the same situation where three devices connected to one same host but only one had  no permissions  others were online   Adding SUID or SGID on adb was another issue for me  Devices seen offline every time adb restarts - until you acknowledge on the devices every time   I solved this  no permissions  issue by adding  o w  permission for a device file      chmod o w  dev bus usb 00n xxx

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The output of ls -al  usr bin adb should show that it is owned by user root and group root  You can use Linux ACL  Access Control Lists  to give your local user permissions for adb as follows   setfacl -m  u userName rwx   usr bin adb  This is preferable to setting the SUID bit on  usr bin adb and also limits the users who can use adb to userName and root

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The cause of that problem has to do with system permissions  thanks    IsaacCisneros for this suggestion   Somehow HTC Wildfire  and maybe the others  need something more from the system than Samsung devices  Simple solution is to run Eclipse as a root  but this is not very comfortable with non-sudo Linux systems like Fedora   I ve found another way of achieving the same goal  which seems to be more user friendly and is lesser security hole then running entire IDE with super user privileges  Mind this is still only a workaround of the problem  System root usage should be minimalized only to administrative tasks  and    adb    was designed to work with normal user account without SUID  Despite of the fact that the proper setting of SUID is quite secure  every single permission increase is a potential system security hole   1 Setting ownership of the adb binary  owner     root  owner group - user group    chown root user group adb   2 Setting permissions with SUID   chmod 4550 adb  This should result something similar to this  ls -llh    -r-sr-x---  1 root user name 1 2M Jan  8 11 42 adb   After that you will be able to run adb as a root  event though you ll be using your normal user account  You can run Eclipse as a normal user and your HTC should be discovered properly     adb devices  List of devices attached  HT0BPPY15230    device

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I ll prepend this postscript here at the top so it won t get lost in my earlier explanation   I can reliably produce and resolve the no-permissions problem by simply changing the USB connection type from Camera  PTP  to Media device  MTP   The camera mode allows debugging  the media mode causes the no-permissions response in ADB   The reasoning seems pretty evident after reflecting on that for a moment  Unsecured content on the device would be made accessible by the debugger in media server mode                The device is unpermissioned until you accept the RSA encryption warning on the debugged device  At some point after connecting  the device will ask to accept the debugging connection  It s a minimal security protocol that ensures you can access the device beyond the initial swipe lock  Developer mode needs to be enabled  I believe   The  no permissions  flag is actually a good first indicator that adb recognizes the device as a valid debugging target  Notice that it doesn t list your other USB devices    Details at the following and related pages   http   developer android com tools device html

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I just had this problem myself under Debian Wheezy   I restarted the adb daemon with sudo   sudo   adb kill-server sudo   adb start-server sudo   adb devices   Everything is working

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I have a similar problem     adb devices List of devices attached  4df15d6e02a55f15    device                 no permissions   Investigation  If I run lsusb  I can see which devices I have connected  and where     lsusb     Bus 002 Device 050  ID 04e8 6860 Samsung Electronics Co   Ltd GT-I9100 Phone     Bus 002 Device 049  ID 18d1 4e42 Google Inc     This is showing my Samsung Galaxy S3 and my Nexus 7  2012  connected   Checking the permissions on those     ls -l  dev bus usb 002  049 050  crw-rw-r--  1 root root    189  176 Oct 10 10 09  dev bus usb 002 049 crw-rw-r--  1 root plugdev 189  177 Oct 10 10 12  dev bus usb 002 050   Wait  What  Where did that  plugdev  group come from     cd  lib udev rules d    grep -R  6860  plugdev      40-libgphoto2-2 rules ATTRS idVendor    0bb4   ATTRS idProduct    6860       ENV ID GPHOTO2   1   ENV GPHOTO2 DRIVER   proprietary       ENV ID MEDIA PLAYER   1   MODE  0664   GROUP  plugdev    40-libgphoto2-2 rules ATTRS idVendor    04e8   ATTRS idProduct    6860       ENV ID GPHOTO2   1   ENV GPHOTO2 DRIVER   proprietary       ENV ID MEDIA PLAYER   1   MODE  0664   GROUP  plugdev     I ve wrapped those lines   Note the GROUP  plugdev  lines  Also note that this doesn t work for the other device ID     grep -Ri  4e42  plugdev       nothing is returned   Fixing it  OK  So what s the fix   Add a rule  Create a file  etc udev rules d 99-adb rules containing the following line   ATTRS idVendor    18d1   ATTRS idProduct    4e42   ENV ID GPHOTO2   1     ENV GPHOTO2 DRIVER   proprietary   ENV ID MEDIA PLAYER   1     MODE  0664   GROUP  plugdev    This should be a single line  I ve wrapped it here for readability  Restart udev    sudo udevadm control --reload-rules   sudo service udev restart   That s it  Unplug replug your device   Try it    adb devices List of devices attached  4df15d6e02a55f15    device 015d2109ce67fa0c    device

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You udev rule seems wrong  I used this and it worked   SUBSYSTEM   usb   ATTR idVendor    0bb4   MODE  0666   GROUP  plugdev     ATTR instead of SYSFS

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the OP   s own answer is wrong in so far  that there are no    special system permissions         The    no permission    problem boils down to     no permissions   Unfortunately it is not easy to debug  because adb makes it a secret which device it tries to access  On Linux  it tries to open the    USB serial converter    device of the phone  which is e g   dev bus usb 001 115  your bus number and device address will vary   This is sometimes linked and used from  dev android adb   lsusb will help to find bus number and device address  Beware that the device address will change for sure if you re-plug  as might the bus number if the port gets confused about which speed to use  e g  one physical port ends up on one logical bus or another    An lsusb-line looks similar to this  Bus 001 Device 115  ID 4321 fedc bla bla bla  lsusb -v might help you to find the device if the    bla bla bla    is not hint enough  sometimes it does neither contain the manufacturer  nor the model of the phone    Once you know the device  check with your own eyes that ls -a  dev bus usb 001 115 is really accessible for the user in question  Then check that it works with chmod and fix your udev setup   PS1   dev android adb can only point to one device  so make sure it does what you want   PS2  Unrelated to this question  but less well known  adb has a fixed list of vendor ids it goes through  This list can be extended from    android adb usb ini  which should contain 0x4321  if we follow my example lsusb line from above       Not needed here  as you don   t even get a    no permissions    if the vendor id is not known

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Same problem with Pipo S1S after upgrading to 4 2 2 stock rom Jun 4     adb devices List of devices attached                   no permissions   All of the above suggestions  while valid to get your usb device recognised  do not solve the problem for me   Android Debug Bridge version 1 0 31 running on Mint 15    Updating android sdk tools etc resets    android adb usb ini   To recognise Pipo VendorID 0x2207 do these steps  Add to line  etc udev rules d 51-android rules  SUBSYSTEM   usb   ATTR idVendor    0x2207   MODE  0666   GROUP  plugdev    Add line to    android adb usb ini    0x2207   Then remove the adbkey files  rm -f    android adbkey    android adbkey pub   and reconnect your device to rebuild the key files with a correct adb connection  Some devices will ask to re-authorize   sudo adb kill-server sudo adb start-server    adb devices

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Changing the USB Mode from phone did the trick for me   I set it to File Transfer

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The answer is weaved amongst the various posts here  I ll so my best  but it looks like a really simple and obvious reason   1  is that there usually is a  user  variable in the udev rule some thing like USER  your user  probably right after the GROUP  plugdev   2  You need to use the correct SYSFS idVendor            and SYSFS idProduct          values for your device s  If you have devices from more than one manufacture  say like one from Samsung and one from HTC  then you need to have an entry rule  for each vendor  not an entry for each device but for each different vendor you will use  so you need an entry for HTC and Samsung  It looks like you have your entry for Samsung now you need another  Remember the USER  your user   Use  lsusb  like Robert Seimer suggests to find the idVendor and idProduct  they are usually some numbers and letters in this format X X   X X I think the first one is the idVendor and the second idProduct but your going to need to do this for each brand of phone tablet you have   3  I havent figured out how 51-adb rules and 99-adb rules are different or why   4  maybe try adding  plugdev  group to your user with  usermod -a -G plugdev your user   Try that at your own risk  though I don t thinks it anyriskier than launching a gui as root but I believe if necessary you should at least use  gksudo eclipse  instead   I hope that helped clearify some things  the udev rules syntax is a bit of a mystery to me aswell  but from what I hear it can be different for different systems so try some things out  one ate a time  and note what change works

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Try  android update adb  command  It helps me with samsung galaxy gear

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I agree with Robert Siemer and Micha  l Witrant  If it s not working  try to debug with strace  strace adb devices   In my case it helps to kill all instances and remove socket file  tmp ADB PORT  the default is  tmp 5037

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Another possible source of this issue is USB tethering  If you have used USB tethering  turn it off  then unplug the device from USB  plug it back in  then do   adb kill-server adb devices   That did the trick in my case  Ubuntu 12 04  Nexus S  SDK in home dir  never needed root to get it running   Depending on your device  you may need to run adb devices as root  though

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Had the same issue  It was a problem with udev rules  Tried a few of the rules mentioned above but didnot fix the issue  Found a set of rules here  https   github com M0Rf30 android-udev-rules  Followed the guide there and  voila  fixed

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under ubuntu 12 04  eclipse juno  I face the same issue  This what I found on Yi Yu Blog  The solution is same as same as Leon  sudo -s adb kill-server adb start-server adb devices

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