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Why is Eclipse and ADB not recognizing my Android Device?

My device is Alcatel OneTouch 890 with Android 2.1. I configured in 51-android.rules in rules.d of /etc/udev folder.

My operation system is Ubuntu.

I enabled the usb debugging mode in my device.

HTC and Samsung devices are detecting, but not my Alcatel,

Here is my 51-android.rules file.

#HTC
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
#samsung 
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}==”04e8”,ATTRS{idProduct}=="689e", MODE="0666",OWNER="abcd"
#alcatel
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1bbb", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1bbb", MODE="0666"


root@abcd:/home/abcd# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0461:4d15 Primax Electronics, Ltd Dell Optical Mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1bbb:00f2 T & A Mobile Phones  // what is T & A in this line....?
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@abcd:/home/abcd# Android/android-sdk-linux_86/platform-tools/adb devices
List of devices attached
Solution

  • First, check the kind of quotes you are using in your udev rules. It looks like you might be using non-ASCII double quotes. See the difference between the quotes around usb and usb_device, etc.

    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1bbb", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”1bbb”, MODE="0666"

    You can also just use sudo with ADB, as suggested by @JeremyD. Doing that makes this file essentially irrelevant.

    Second,

    1. Edit ~/.android/adb_usb.ini (or if you are running as root, check /root/.android)
    2. If the file already exists, add 0x1bbb to the end; otherwise do: echo 0x1bbb >> adb_usb.ini
    3. adb kill-server
    4. adb start-server
    5. Check output of adb devices for your device

    Hope this helps.