How to resolve “Waiting for Debugger” message?

Question

I have HTC Comet connected to Eclipse with SDK 2.2. I do a debug build - the application does not run; though it does get installed on the device. On the device I get this m

Answer 1

What solved the problem for me was going to: "Run"->"Attach Debugger to Android process" and then select your process.

You do this in Android Studio.

Answer 2

I tried all the solutions above, it fixes the issue sometimes, but still from time to time I happened to get stuck with the "Waiting for the debugger to attach" message box.

The final solution in my case was to unplug all the Android devices but the one I want to debug on. I don't know which one is the culprit: the Nexus 7 running JB 4.2, the HTC One X running ICS, the HTC Desire S running Gingerbread, or the combintation of the 3, but as soon as I only have one device plugged in, it runs smooth as silk.

Answer 3

Android Studio 1.2.2 on Mac OS 10.10 Same problem as others have reported. I closed Android Studio, then checked from command line in terminal:

ps -efw|grep -i android

This reported a java process (.gradle/daemon) associated with Android Studio. I killed this process, restarted Android Studio, and the problem went away.

Answer 4

disable you developer option in your phone.

Settings > Developer option > Disable

This worked for me, when i tried to use my application without debugging it.

Answer 5

I ran into this problem today. After spending most of the day trying to fix it, the only thing that ended up working was to create a new workspace and import my project into it. I hope this helps someone avoid all the trouble that I went through.

Answer 6

For Android Studio users I encountered this problem first time while trying to run a bare bone project just after updating my jdk location. So I stumbled across this post. In my case simple Build->Clean Project did the job.