Can't connect to Android via ADB over wifi - D

Question

I'm basically trying to do this: How can I connect to Android with ADB over TCP? with the Droid X2.

I have USB Debugging on, and my phone is plugged in via USB. The IP Address is 10.0.78.33 (I have verified that I can do TCP communication to the phone on that IP, and I can ping it).

I go to the command line and do the following:

>>adb tcpip 5555

restarting in TCP mode port: 5555

>>adb connect 10.0.78.33:5555

unable to connect to 10.0.78.33:5555

Any thoughts on why this doesn't work? Do I need root access in order to do this? I'm trying to avoid rooting the phone.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your device hasn't to be rooted. I've developed a plugin for IntelliJ/Android Studio to connect your device over wifi pressing just one button. Here is the code and here the plugin ready to be used.

The usage is quite simple. Here you have a gif:

Answer 2

I've encoutered the same problem, and my device was rooted. The problem actually came from adbd Insecure. If you installed adbd Insecure on your device, it will prevent you from connecting to your device via WiFi. You have to uncheck the "Enable insecure adbd" in the app adbd Insecure.

See FIXED: Can't connect to adb over wifi

Answer 3

The problem with me for my Samsung Tab 1 was an adb process was already running on port 5037 on my Xubuntu 14.04 machine, which I was unaware about until I typed pgrep -l -u username. To fix this, I terminated the adb process using pkill adb, navigated to my platform tools folder and ran adb tcpip 5037 and then connected to my device using the 5037 port number. Boom! Worked like a charm.