Question

I have been developing a project app to learn about android, I can upload my app to my htc desire on my desktop using linux ubuntu and eclipse, I have the same setup on my laptop but I cannot upload apps to my phone. When I try to install the app to the phone it shows up in avd manager as ??????? ????? Unknown, I’ve googled this and the general advice is to setup a script which I have tried but I get an error message saying path does not exist, when I try to kill the adb server it says no such command even though I am in root and can see the adb file in the sdk folder, I am completely lost here anyone help with this…..

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Looks like you are running Linux on your laptop. Try these steps as your normal user:

If you haven’t already set up the udev rules for your device, follow these steps:

1. sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
2. copy/paste this line into that rules file: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
3. sudo service udev restart

Then, restart the adb server:

cd </path/to/your>/android-sdk/tools directory
sudo ./adb kill-server
sudo ./adb start-server

If it’s not there already, you can add the /path/to/your/android-sdk/tools to your $PATH variable so you don’t need to cd to the directory and also won’t have to use the ./ to use the adb command.

You may need to unplug/replug the USB cable to your phone after you do all this.