I realize this isn’t strictly speaking a programming question, but I’d appreciate a tiny bit of leeway here… I’m unable to connect either the xyboard 8″ or 10″ via USB through ADB. All my other devices work fine, and I’ve set the USB Debugging and the Allow unkown content. Does anyone know if Motorola has done something to prevent ADB connectivity? Or is there some other step that’s specific to these devices I’m missing? I can’t find anyone else complaining about this on any other boards, so, I’m really stumped.
TIA
We tested an 8″ and 10″ device here at the Sunnyvale offices with a MacBook Pro running Lion (10.7.2) with SDK tools version 16 (current release). Both devices enumerate and show up with ‘adb devices’ and in MOTODEV Studio. On this MacBook, MotoCast was previously installed as you mentioned in your post.
It should just be the debug connection that is enumerating via USB. But, we’re speculating that the problem is due to the lack of the underlying MTP software that is needed by Macs and Linux for Honeycomb and ICS devices. Motocast possibly installs this as a by-product. Perhaps you could uninstall Motocast if you don’t need it and try installing the separate MTP app from Google. http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Followup
We uninstalled Motocast and installed the MTP file transfer tool. This is not enough to make debugging work. I’ll have to get in touch with the product teams for XYBoard to see how they implemented the debugging protocol.