adb devices command not working

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I m running Ubuntu 10 10 64 bit  I have ia32-libs installed along with Android Debug Bridge version 1 0 26   My problem s     adb devices                   no permissions sudo adb devices       sudo  adb  command not found adb shell     error  insufficient permissions for device   I guess these are all related  Here s the relevant info     echo  PATH  home me bin  usr local sbin  usr local bin  usr sbin  usr bin  sbin  bin  usr games  opt android-sdk-linux x86 tools  opt android-sdk-linux x86 platform-tools    which adb  opt android-sdk-linux x86 platform-tools adb    adb devices   daemon not running  starting it now on port 5037     daemon started successfully   List of devices attached                  no permissions    sudo adb devices sudo  adb  command not found    adb shell error  insufficient permissions for device   I get the same results with a rooted Moto Droid running CM6 1 and a rooted G-Tab running a CM7-based ROM   I have reviewed the following related posts    http   forum xda-developers com archive index php t-522827 html http   ubuntuforums org archive index php t-1164359 html adb command not found in linux environment   I tried most  not all  of the suggestions and I have not been able to resolve my issue  The things I didn t try seemed inappropriate  I would appreciate a few more tips and I ll keep troubleshooting   One thing I didn t try was editing  etc udev rules d 70-android rules  Is that likely to be the issue  I can t see how that would cause  sudo  adb  command not found   Maybe my problems are not all related  Anyway  at this point I think I need some input from other people because I don t believe I have a path problem or the other common problems discussed in those other posts   EDIT  SOLVED thanks to EboMike and RivieraKid  This was actually two different problems    Item  2 above  sudo  adb  command not found  was solved by making a symlink as follows     sudo ln -s  opt android-sdk-linux x86 platform-tools adb  usr local sbin adb   That allowed me to then do as EboMike suggested and use this solution  Doing that was required for my Moto Droid   Running adb as sudo was not required for my Viewsonic G-Tablet  however   My other two items were resolved by implementing the udev rule as RivieraKid suggested  from this link

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On my Gentoo Funtoo linux system I am having similar problems   I gotting always not the correct device description and insufficient permissions     sudo   adb devices List of devices attached                  no permissions     adb usb error  insufficient permissions for device   For me helps the howto from Google   In my case I needed to add the udev rule     cat  etc udev rules d 51-android rules  SUBSYSTEM   usb   ATTR idVendor    18d1   MODE  0666   GROUP  plugdev     and setting up the filesystem rights    chmod a r  etc udev rules d 51-android rules   After replugging my smartphone the access to the phone was successful  it also appears now in Eclipse  Android Device Chooser     sudo   adb devices List of devices attached  3XXXXXXXXXXXXXC device   sudo   adb usb restarting in USB mode   You also have to check the membership of your user to the plugdev-group

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I just got the same situation  Factory data reset worked well for me

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Please note that IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA tend to start their own adb-server   Even manually killing the server and running an new instance with sudo won t help here until you make your IDE kill the server itself

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I fixed this issue on my debian GNU Linux system by overiding system rules that way    mv   etc udev rules d 51-android rules  etc udev rules d 99-android rules   I used contents from files linked at   http   rootzwiki com topic 258-udev-rules-for-any-device-no-more-starting-adb-with-sudo

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One thing I didn t try was editing    etc udev rules d 70-android rules  Is   that likely to be the issue    Any particular reason why you didn t do that  To answer the question - YES  The udev rules are what informs Ubuntu what your device is and allows user-space tools to therefore access it   You will not be able to use adb without correctly following the instructions   With that in mind however  you don t say what version of Ubuntu you re using but I had issues with 10 10 - let me know if you need me to post the contents of my rules file   Don t worry about running adb via sudo  you don t need it  The MODE  0666  from the udev rule allows you to access the device as any user     EDIT   Don t forget to reload the rules   sudo udevadm control --reload-rules   EDIT  2   As  Jesse Glick correctly points out  if adb is already running in daemon mode  you ll also need to restart it for this to work   sudo adb kill-server   I ve used sudo here  since that will guarantee that adb will be killed   and it s the officially supported method to stop the server  It will be automatically restarted the next time adb is used  but this time with the correct environment

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restarting the adb server as root worked for me   see   derek zoe   Downloads  adb sideload angler-ota-mtc20f-5a1e93e9 zip  loading   angler-ota-mtc20f-5a1e93e9 zip  error  insufficient permissions for device derek zoe   Downloads  adb devices List of devices attached XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    no permissions  derek zoe   Downloads  adb kill-server derek zoe   Downloads  sudo adb start-server   daemon not running  starting it now on port 5037     daemon started successfully   derek zoe   Downloads  adb devices List of devices attached XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    sideload

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You need to restart the adb server as root  See here

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Every answer I ve read indicates the SUBSYSTEM   usb   However  my  perhaps ancient  udev needed this to be changed to DRIVER   usb   At last I can run the adb server as a non-root user    yay   It can be instructive to look at the output of udevmonitor --env  followed by the output of   udevinfo -a -p  lt DEVICE PATH AS REPORTED BY-udevmonitor gt

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HTC One m7 running fresh Cyanogenmod 11   Phone is connected USB and tethering my data connection   Then I get this surprise   cinder ultrabook   temp htc m7 2015-11-11  adb shell error  insufficient permissions for device  cinder ultrabook   temp htc m7 2015-11-11  adb devices List of devices attached                 no permissions   SOLUTION  Turn tethering OFF on phone   cinder ultrabook   temp htc m7 2015-11-11  adb devices List of devices attached HT36AW908858    device

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