Chrome s remote debugging USB debugging not working for Samsung Galaxy S3 running android 4 3

Question

Ever since I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S3 to android 4 3  from 4 1 2  I am unable to use Chrome s remote debugging for android  more details here    I have the developer options and USB debugging enabled on my phone  and this worked perfectly fine on android 4 1 2  Now  when I connect my phone to my PC  it simply connects as a media storage device and is not discovered as a USB device by chrome   I am ruling out any problems with chrome as I could USB debug with a Google Nexus4  also  looking at some other thread  here and elsewhere  it seems to be a problem with Samsung s 4 3 upgrade   Any pointers to get this working

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My devices stopped working as Chrome de-activated the now depracated ADB plugin as it's built in dev-tools now.

I downloaded the SDK and followed the instructions at Chrome Developers. How ever I found the instructions served by Alphonso out not to be sufficient and I did it this way on Windows 8:

Download Android SDK here ("SDK Tools Only" section) and unzip the content.
Run SDK Manager.exe and install Android SDK platform tools
Open up the Command prompt (simply by pressing the windows button and type in cmd.exe)
Enter the path with ex: cd c:/downloads/sdk/platform-tools
Open ADB by typing in adb.exe
Run the following command by typing it and pressing enter: adb devices
Check if you get the prompt on your device, if you still can't see your phone in Inspect Devices run the following commands one by one (excluding the ") "adb kill-server" "adb start-server" "adb devices"

I had major problems and managed to get it working with these steps. If you still have problems, google the guide Remote Debugging on Android with Chrome and check for the part about drivers. I had problems with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus that needed special drivers to be compatiable with ADB.

Update

If you are using Windows 10 and couldn't find the link to download Android SDK; you may skip #1 and #2. All you need is activate "Android Debug Bridge". Go straight to #3 - #7 after download and execute "platform-tools"(https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html)

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In case it helps anyone I will post what worked for me   I had to plug my S3 into a direct USB port of my PC for it to prompt me to accept the RSA signature  I had my S3 plugged into a hub before then   Now the S3 is detected when using both the direct USB port of the PC and via the hub   NOTE - You may need to also run adb devices from the command line to get your S3 to re-request permission   D  apps android-sdk-windows platform-tools gt adb devices List of devices attached   daemon not running  starting it now on port 5037     daemon started successfully   9283759342847566        unauthorized      accept signature on phone     D  apps android-sdk-windows platform-tools gt adb devices List of devices attached 9283759342847566        device

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I have Samsung Galaxy S3 and it was not showing in the  Remote devices  tab nor in chrome   inspect  The device did show in Windows s Device Manager as GT-I9300  though  What worked for me was    Plug the mobile phone to the front USB port On my phone  click the notification about successful connection Make sure the connection type is Camera  PTP  On my Windows machine  download installer from https   github com koush UniversalAdbDriver Run it    Open cmd exe cd  C  Program Files  x86  ClockworkMod Universal Adb Driver  adb devices Open Chrome in both mobile phone and Windows machine On Windows s machine navigate to chrome   inspect - there  after a while you should see the target phone      I m not sure if it affected the whole flow somehow  but at some point I ve installed  and later uninstalled the drivers from Samsung  http   www samsung com us support downloads    Mobile   Phones   Galaxy S   S III   Unlocked   http   www samsung com us support owners product galaxy-s-iii-unlocked downloads

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For me  the menu item Inspect Devices wasn t available  not shown at all   But  simply browsing to chrome   inspect  devices showed me my device and I was able to use the port forward etc  I have no idea why the menu item is not displayed   Phone  Android Galaxy S4  OS  Mac OS X

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I know this is an older question  but I thought I would also post my solution    Update your Chrome on your phone and on your PC  Even if it says you have the latest driver for your device inside Device Manager  you may need an alternative   Google latest Samsung drivers and try updating your drivers

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After looking around a little longer I came across this  Apparently  there isn t a solution to this issue yet  but there is a workaround - going back to the legacy workflow   The legacy workflow did work for me  and the only additional thing I had to do was to go to the platform-tools folder from android SDK download  open a command window here and run command  adb devices   This caused the computer RSA key fingerprint panel to pop on my mobile screen  and after granting permission  the device showed up under Chrome s Inspect page   Turns out that it was not an issue caused by mobile OS upgrade but by Chrome  I was thrown off by the fact that it worked on my Nexus4 somehow   In the older versions of Chrome there was t a need to download the 500 odd mb Android SDK  as it supported an ADB plugin  But with latest version of Chrome  I guess  going legacy is the only way to go

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I had success after using ade exe as explained above  plus using the latest version of Chrome Canary   Apparently your desktop version of Chrome has to be higher than the version running on your Android device

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Having attempted to follow Valros nu s answer  i discovered that the sdk download is now bundeled with androind studio  in an 840MB exe installer   As all you need for this particular program is the adb program  you can get this in a standalone installer from the xda guys   http   forum xda-developers com showthread php t 2317790  Note that you do not need to type adb exe  simply type adb devices into the command prompt that is launched after install   Also  i had to unplug and replug in my samsung s4 to get the remote debugging prompt to appear on the phone

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Those who updated their device to Android 4 2 Jelly Bean or higher or having a 4 2 JB or higher android powered device  will not found the Developers Options in Settings menu  The Developers Options hide by default on 4 2 jelly bean and later android versions  Follow the below steps to Unhide Developers Options    Go to Settings  About  On most Android Smartphone and tablet  OR   Go to Settings   More General tab   About  On Samsung Galaxy S3  Galaxy S4  Galaxy Note 8 0  Galaxy Tab 3 and other galaxy Smartphone and tablet having Android 4 2 4 3 Jelly Bean  OR  Go to Settings   General   About  On Samsung Galaxy Note 2  Galaxy Note 3 and some other Galaxy devices having Android 4 3 Jelly Bean or 4 4 KitKat  OR  Go to Settings  About  Software Information  More  On HTC One or other HTC devices having Android 4 2 Jelly Bean or higher  2  Now Scroll onto Build Number and tap it 7 times repeatedly  A message will appear saying that u are now a developer    Just return to the previous menu to see developer option    Credit to www androidofficer com

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For me the solution was to download the Android SDK and launch adb devices which started the adb daemon

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