Question

When I first installed Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, I was able to see a physical Android device (connected via USB) in the Android Device Chooser (launched from Eclipse). But, after upgrading my kernel from 2.6.35-22-generic to 2.6.35-24-generic, no devices are listed any more, and I am unable to see any results when running adb devices like so:

$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached 

$ 

I have tried booting in the previous kernel version, but I get some udev error, so I was hoping I could get it working with the newer kernel version.

I figured SO was the best place for this question, as it seems more developer related.

Answer 1

Turns out it was the cable! Perhaps coincidentally the cable sopped working after I did the kernel upgrade – hard to tell. I just bought a Nokia data cable, and that seemed to work fine with my HTC Legend.

Could also be worth noting that I had the seemingly common permissions problem (caused by not starting the adb server as root). So here’s the solution:

# su

# ./adb devices
List of devices attached 
????????????    no permissions

# ./adb kill-server

# ./adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached 
HT03HNX00920    device

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