Android Device Chooser — device not showing up

Question

I'm using Eclipse + ADT, and my physical device (listed below) is unlisted on Android Device Chooser. I have updated Eclipse and all of the Android packages. My phone is running Android OS 1.6, which corresponds to the target version listed in the Eclipse Project.

Also, the reason I decided to try testing on a real device is because the emulator doesn't seem to be working right anymore when I run my project. The emulator launches, but the program never does. Any ideas?

(using windows 7/t-mobile mytouch 3g)

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Sony Experia Z, that is because I'm running on windows 8 and apparently I need to download a driver for it.

As mentioned by stkhou, I check my Device manager and saw the eclamation mark. Which it was the model of my phone, to double check so I remove the usb and it dissapeard. So I plug it in again and the icon appears again.

So it's pretty sure the driver issue, so I have download it and install. After installation, run the android device chooser on eclipse again and it works for me.

I hope same for you.

Here below I saved the links that might intrests someone who has sony issue. ;)

Here are the list of available driver for sony devices:

http://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/drivers/

Sony SDK

http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/sony-add-on-sdk/install-the-sony-add-on-sdk/

Answer 2

One possible reason is to check Android SDK Manager and install Google USB Driver in Extras folder if you have not installed it.

Answer 3

If none of the options work, I change the port and then enable USB debugging and it works fine.

Answer 4

Using the Android SDK Manager may or may not actually install the Google USB Driver.

Following the steps here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/oem-usb.html#InstallingDriver allowed Eclipse to display the device.

Answer 5

Disable debugging mode and developer options in your phone.

Start Android device monitor.

Now enable developer options and debugging mode in your phone.

You should be able to see your device listed after this in android device monitor. There after you should be able to see it under Android device chooser.

Answer 6

After following some of the steps in other answers here, as well as what is found here: ADB Driver for HTC Incredible, I had to issue two commands before my phone would show up.

adb kill-server
adb start-server

Finally, after those two commands would my device show up when I ran

adb devices

From time to time, the ADB process may get stuck (technical term there). When that happens, the above commands will not work. I have found that killing the ADB process (look in for adb.exe in the Processes tab in Task Manager on Windows, or kill the PID for adb under linux), and then use

adb start-server

generally fixes that problem.