After noticing that Logcat messages were not showing up in Android Studio, I tried every solution out there, and nothing worked. I eventually tried the command adb devices and sure enough my device was there, but as soon as I tried adb logcat it returned "logcat read failure".
Developer settings are turned on, and so it debugging. I'm on a rooted phone running 7.0 Nougat, with an open bootloader.
Could it be that I'm rooted and it somehow messed up some permissions? I've never encountered this issue before, even on a rooted phone.
Logcat works when using an emulator.
I was facing the same issue as yours. Then I asked the developer of the ROM if he is facing the same issue. The developer said that it is working fine for him. So I flashed the ROM again and noticed that logcat was properly working. So it was clear that the problem was due to some apps or changes that I did on the ROM.
After debugging , I found that it was ARISE Sound System that was the root cause of this problem for me.
So if your are using ARISE Sound System dirty flash the ROM to remove it and check if this solves the problem for you. For now I am only using Viper4Android.
Did you try to use alogcat ROOT app. Is it work on the device? App link
So, post here right answer because I spent a such many time to solve this.
Ok, when in Android Studio I start debug an app on real Smart TV device I saw in logcat nothing. When I ran "logcat" on device directly I got "logcat read failure"
A year before I removed "logd" from "system/bin" and this was a problem.. but I forgot about it. Even if I've copied it back it doesn't work. Because SELinuxe Security Context
Solution: give the logd it's context back with a chcon util.
More details you can find here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-restore-logd-to-your-device-fix-adb-logcat-read-failure-or-empty-logs.3512946/#post-69930494
Believe me, I know there are a TON of these posts in SO, but I've gone through most of them and have yet to find a solution. Some notes:
I'm running Mac OSX Yosemite
Both my devices are USB-debug-enabled (rooted HTC One X, and Motorola Moto G)
On both devices, I have successfully run the app via Eclipse before (in fact the HTC is my main testing device)
My usual method when the device fails to appear is to quit Eclipse, then run adb kill-server killall adb and then restart Eclipse.
This time that method didn't work. I've also tried restarting the phones, and restarting Eclipse multiple times.
Running adb devices shows the device there (the device's ID, and 'device')
I've checked the SDK Manager, just in case there were some magic Mac drivers that I could use. Nope, so such luck.
Anyone got any ideas for this?
Man, you guys are good. The device magically started working again.
If anyone else wants to try and reproduce the solution:
Attempt to debug on device for about an hour with no success.
Consider selling soul. Check craigslist for soul buyers.
Post issue on SO.
Play several rounds of Zuma. Plug in and out the device each time. Quit Eclipse each time.
Swear profusely as you see adb devices showing your device just fine, and even the friggin Logcat in Eclipse itself showing the device tittering away, but you just can't use the device.
Consider changing careers.
Call it a night.
Open Finder, poke through folder on phone (in my case it just had HTC's software installer).
Try again, because you hate yourself.
It works now.
Don't mark this as a duplicate. Let me explain what's wrong and tell you what I've done. So here's my problem. When I open Android Studio, it gives me an error like so:
So then I went to my windows firewall settings. Here is what I have:
As you can see, Firewall is off. Then, I went to my antivirus security program and turned the settings off there:
As you can see here too, I disabled Smart Firewall. Then, I opened Android Studio again. I got the same error here too.
I pressed the OK button and moved on. Then, Android Studio loaded up and everything. After that, ADB started loading. This is where the real error occurs.
I have also tried it with Eclipse, but it also says ADB not responding. For the past month or so, Android Studio has been working fine. I have never gotten these error or warning messages with Android Studio before, so this is rather new to me.
Here is what I have tried:
In cmd, adb kill-server then I pressed the restart button on the ADB not responding message
Restarting computer
Turning USB Debugging on and off on my Nexus 5
So, I really can't find a solution to this. Any help regarding this problem would be extremely appreciated.
Sometimes it just gets into a mess. Close your ide then Go to processes and terminate all adb processes.
Then when you open up android studio it should kick off adb again fresh (or you could run something like 'adb devices' from command prompt before opening the ide if you're worried it gets in to a bad state while the ide is waiting for it to initialize)
If none of that works you could also reboot your device. I've very rarely found it necessary, but it has helped me in the past
Kill processes bas_deamon & bas_helper Then press restart for ADB and it will work.... this what I do in WIndows 7 when I face this issue.
You may want to make sure your phone is unplugged. When it is plugged in, I have noticed this happening and the solution for me (which may be Mac specific) is to unplug my phone from the computer.
I had the same error messages, but a different problem.
Port 5037 was not in use, but still adb couldn't start.
So after hours of trying I finally realized, that it was an installed VPN-client (Checkpoint Endpoint Security). Even though there was no connection (and I even killed the process) the connection didn't work. After uninstalling everything worked like a charm.
Maybe it helps someone who reads this question, because everywhere else you just read about the blocking port. And in addition, while the client was installed some other TCP-based Frameworks and even Windows-Remotedesktop stopped working too.
This happened to me as well. I solve it by terminating all process that is using port "5037" which is, by default, the port used by adb.
Sir,
Actually Sometimes our parent control software interfere with it. but after turning off its real time protection , we got this error. so basically you need to check the whether we are using 32 bit Android Studio or 64 bit. just try to av same bit operating system as of Android Studio , u ll get this error removed after that. :)
For Windows: add a system variable as following and then restart your Computer then try again - it will be OK
ANDROID_ADB_SERVER_PORT
10501
I had the same problem on Mac OS X. After some research I've found a bad entry in my /etc/hosts file for my localhost (192.168.99.100 localhost).
I removed the bad line and left the line 127.0.0.1 localhost for ipv4 and some entries for ipv6 in.
After a reboot the Android Studio was able to communicate with adb and found my connected Android device again.
I've seen this question asked a couple of times, but none of them have a working answer for my situation. I have Windows, I'm using Eclipse, using a Droid Mini which I have plugged into my laptop (of course), and I have USB Debugging on my phone on.
Another post I saw:
Why is Eclipse's Android Device Chooser not showing my Android device?
showed an unknown device, but mine doesn't show any device at all. I updated APIs 16-18, all of the tools, the Android Support Library, and the Google USB Driver. I went into Manage>Device Manager, and according to http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#Win7 I should look in Other Devices to find my phone to install the driver, and then it should show up under "Android Phones" later for me to update the driver. Mine was enver under "Other Devices", it was under "Portable Devices", and it still is. The "Android Phones" section never showed up.
Guess I missed that lol The answer is Geobits' comment above. THANKS! Just too many things to install, and I'm pretty sure it failed to install something the first time, and it worked the second time... Anyways, thanks I can now use my apps on my phone instead of the laggy emulators :)
I am using LG-P500. When I try to select it in the 'Android device chooser', Eclipse recognizes the phone but not the target. It says target "unknown". Because of this problem, I can't choose the phone as the Android device.
How can I get Eclipse to recognize the target?
Had the same problem with an LG phone. Rebooting it (phone) worked for me
One solution I am aware of is to just turn off and on USB Debugging on your phone. It also happens to solve a bunch of other device-not-recognized kinds of problems.
Follow these steps, if your device is recognised but the eclipse is stating it as unknown:
->open cmd
->go to the your android sdk directory --> Go to platform-tools
->adb kill-server
->adb start-server
this will definitely solve your problem :)
If you already installed USB driver and still your device showing as unknown then follow this solution. I had same problem with my MOTO G and this solution works fine for me
Check your device that
USB connected
and
USB debugging connected
or Check the following
The solution was to create a udev rule for the device. See http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#setting-up for how to setup a udev rule for your specific vendor device.
With the rule in place. Eclipse was able to launch and debug.
One simple trick works fine for me.
Disconnect device from PC
Tap revoke USB debugging authorization in phone setting
Reconnect device to PC
Tap OK for RSA authorization
The reason that my SCH-I535 device was not being targeted... is because I had the device plugged into a USB 3.0 port.
Once I plugged it into a 2.0, everything began to work properly.
Also try this, On your phone:
Go to "USB computer connection"
Select Connect as "Media Device (MTP)"
I tried these suggestions, but unfortunately, nothing worked.
What worked for me was:
close Eclipse
end the adb.exe process (using Windows Task Manager)
restart Eclipse (the device was now recognized in Android Device Chooser)
Go to Settings -> Storage -> Click on Top right menu button -> USB computer connection-> Check Media device(MTP) is enable or not
Do you have a driver for your phone installed on your computer, eclipse doesn't automaticly come with drivers for phones.
My problem solved by changing the cable. Nothing else worked for me.
For this problem I had tried disconnecting/reconnecting the USB cable, toggling on/off the USB debugging and relaunching Eclipse with no effect. Trying a different android device showed exactly the same eclipse errors, with two entries marked 'offline' and after disconnecting the USB connection it still showed one entry while nothing was connected.
My problem was solved by rebooting my computer and starting again. Probably ending the adb.exe programme (answer 4) would have done it too in my case.
GALAXY S5
I know this has been answered heaps of times already but if you have a Galaxy S5 then the turn off and turn on of USB debugging works to resolve this problem
When the phone is plugged in and the Eclipse window shows the "Unknown" icon...on the phone turn off USB Debugging then on again, it will then ask to allow that computer to connect, and you can say to always let it do so. Then it comes up OK.
create a udev rule for your development device.
I had this same issue, and I found this post, which fixed it for me.
Just download
http://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r16.0.1-windows.zip
unzip it and replace your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools" directory with that
Credit goes to hack_on
Here is his post that helped me:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15000565/342497
Thanks! :-)
If you cannot select the ok button when choosing a device it probably means you cant do things like adb logcat either in my experience.
I usually kill adb from Task Manager and it starts working. I noticed adb kill-server only sometimes works, and that there are often multiple processes called adb running... not sure if this is a bug or by design.
step 1 : rigth click on the project => properties => android => select api level that your device suport.
step 2 : restart your phone
work for me ...
Had the exact same problem. Working fine for over two years then all of a sudden this error pops up. The fix for me was running the SDK Manager.exe located here on my machine: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk
Turns out I did not have the ability to run on the device with Android operating system 4.2.2, only 4.0.2. After the SDK updated recognition worked perfectly. Turns out my phones operating system was updated and I forgot to update the SDK.
Had the same problem. Turns out I had changed my USB connection mode from MTP to MSC. Changing it back to MTP solved the problem. Thanx.
I used to debug w/o problems in my HTC One X, I broke the screen and until they repair it I managed to get an HTC One (M7 I think it's called internally).
I was unable to debug with this same problem, what actually happened is that besides having to follow a weird procedure to make Debug options appear (press 7 times in the firmware version in "About" menu) the phone was showing a message asking me to verify that the computer trying to debug on it was authorized.
I had not seen this behavior before in any the the phones I have used, not sure if this is a new functionality or simply it was not enforced on the other ones.
It is because that you didn't allow your phone to be debug by this computer.
Lock your screen, unplug and plug it then unlock screen click allow in the dialog.
KITKAT 4.4.2+ users, TRY to switch from ART to DALVIK or from DALVIK to ART. :) solved mine.
I tried different drivers, turning USB debugging on/off, rebuilding program with lower level API, killing ABD and restarting. Then I saw post on here regarding cable swap. Changed USB cable to Samsung USB cable and worked immediately.
you need to authorize the device to that computer. I was connecting the phone to my centos VM and kept getting this. I had to kill the adb server and then run it as root user. then you will get the prompt on the phone to authorize machine.
For me it worked by disabling and enabling the USB-Debugging option while ADB is running. Thanks for all the suggestions.
I had the same problem, restarting the PC worked for me.
(Debugging was already on, USB cable plugged in, fresh restart)
SOLUTION:
Switched USB connection from Media Device (MTP) to Camera (PTP).
When I did this it the PC installed device drivers, then phone gave me my computer's fingerprint and had a dialog concerning allow device to use USB Debugging. Accept. Device shows up in eclipse. All good.
(On Samsung Note II API 19)
Note: it's good habit to always try toggling the USB mode. I don't think it's the act of designating Camera (PTP), but the dialogs that are generated when doing so. Also, I had my phone replaced: I remember seeing this dialog before but not on this phone. Maybe there's an option somewhere to enable it per device?
I had the same problem. Turns out my device was prompting a dialog asking me whether I should allow connecting to my laptop or not. After clicking yes this problem went away.
The problem for me turned out to be insufficient rights of adb server.
I run Android Studio through remote desktop (used laptop to connect to a local, more powerful computer). Apparently i didn't have all the privileges when running through remote desktop.
After stopping adb server and restarting it with root privileges solved the problem.
sudo ./adb kill-server
sudo ./adb root
Edit:
Turns out i had to do this just the first time. Since the first time i don't have to do this anymore.