[android] Adb Devices can't find my phone

I am trying to get adb to see my Samsung Fascinate phone so that I can install my Android apps via usb to the phone. I am using osx 10.6.7.

When I run "adb devices" it does not list my device and "adb usb" says "device not found".

USB debugging is enabled and I have tried connecting in storage mode as well as media mode. When I am in storage mode I can see the phone's drive in Finder so I know that the usb connection works, however adb still can't find it.

I read that for Mac there are no usb drivers, that it's just supposed to work, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Any suggestions?

I have a ZTE Crescent phone (Orange San Francisco II).

When I connect the phone to the USB a disk shows up in OS X named 'ZTE_USB_Driver'.

Running adb devices displays no connected devices. But after I eject the 'ZTE_USB_Driver' disk from OS X, and run adb devices again the phone shows up as connected.

I did the following to get my Mac to see the devices again:

• Run android update adb
• Run adb kill-server
• Run adb start-server

At this point, calling adb devices started returning devices again. Now run or debug your project to test it on your device.

Try doing this:

• Unplug the device
• Execute adb kill-server && adb start-server(that restarts adb)
• Re-plug the device

Also you can try to edit an adb config file .android/adb_usb.ini and add a line 04e8 after the header. Restart adb required for changes to take effect.

I have a Fascinate as well, and had to change the phone's USB communication mode from MODEM to PDA. Use:

• enter **USBUI (**87284)

to change both USB and UART to PDA mode. I also had to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable. Once Windows re-recognized the device again, "adb devices" started returning my device.

BTW if you use CDMA workshop or the equivalent, you will need to switch the setting back to MODEM.

I just spent half a day trying to connect my various Android devices to my MacBook Pro (running 10.8.2). It turns out to have been a Micro USB cable problem. I have many Micro USB cables, but only the one that came packaged with my Galaxy Nexus works to connect the phones to my computer. I don't know if this is due to damage, or some proprietary manufacturing, but please remember to try connecting the phone with the cable that was packaged with it.