How can I connect to Android with ADB over TCP? [closed]

Answer 1

This is really simple if your phone is rooted.

Download a terminal emulator from Google Play (there are lots that are free). Make sure that your Android device is connected to your Wi-Fi and get the Wi-Fi IP address. Open the terminal program and type:

su
setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555
stop adbd
start adbd

Now go to your computer (assuming that you are using Windows) and create a shortcut on the desktop for "cmd.exe" (without the quotations).

Right click on the cmd shortcut and choose "Run as Administrator"

Change to your android-sdk-windows\tools folder

Type:

adb connect ***wifi.ip.address***:5555

(example: adb connect 192.168.0.105:5555)

adb should now say that you are connected.

Note: if you are too fast to give the connect command it may fail. So try at least two times five seconds apart before you say this doesn't work.

Answer 2

STEP 1.

Make sure both your adb host computer and Android device are on the same Wifi network.

STEP 2.

Connect the Android device with the computer using your USB cable. As soon as you do that, your host computer will detect your device and adb will start running in the USB mode on the computer. You can check the attached devices with adb devices whereas ensure that adb is running in the USB mode by executing adb usb.

$ adb usb
restarting in USB mode
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
ZX1D63HX9R  device

STEP 3.

Restart adb in tcpip mode with this command:

$ adb tcpip 5556
restarting in TCP mode port: 5556

STEP 4.

Find out the IP address of the Android device. There are several ways to do that:

• WAY: 1 Go to Settings -> About phone/tablet -> Status -> IP address.
• WAY: 2 Go to the list of Wi-fi networks available. The one to which you’re connected, tap on that and get to know your IP.
• WAY: 3 Try $ adb shell netcfg.

Now that you know the IP address of your device, connect your adb host to it.

$ adb connect 192.168.0.102:5556
already connected to 192.168.0.102:5556
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
ZX1D63HX9R  device
192.168.0.102:5556  device

STEP 5.

Remove the USB cable and you should be connected to your device. If you don’t see it in adb devices then just reconnect using the previous step’s command:

$ adb connect 192.168.0.102:5556
connected to 192.168.0.102:5556
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
192.168.0.102:5556  device

Either you’re good to go now or you’ll need to kill your adb server by executing adb kill-server and go through all the steps again once more.

Hope that helps!


Reference:

• http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html#wireless
• http://codetheory.in/android-debug-bridge-adb-wireless-debugging-over-wi-fi/

Answer 3

You can also use SSH local port forwarding. But it still involves a USB cable. Connect your phone using USB to a computer (host) with an sshd running. On a remote (guest) pc start an SSH client capable of portforwarding/tunneling. Example:

plink -L 5037:localhost:5037 <host_IP_address>

I use this construction to connect my device to a virtual machine. Eltima USB to Ethernet wasn't stable enough (timeouts during debug).

SSH tunneling works for free and is more reliable.

Answer 4

You Need to do following things:

• First, Add ADB to your environment path.
• From your CLI type this command adb connect YOUR_DEVICE_IP:PORT_NUMBER (example adb connect 192.168.100.100:5555)

Answer 5

There are two ways to connect your Android device with ADB over TCP?

First way

Follow this steps

First use below command to get your device IP Address

adb shell ifconfig

OUTPUT of above command

wlan0     Link encap:UNSPEC    Driver icnss
          inet addr:XXX.XXX.X.XX  Bcast:XXX.XXX.X.XXX

With the help you above command you will find the IP Address of connected device

Now use below command

adb tcpip 5555

The above command will restart this TCP port: 5555

Now use below command to connect your device

adb connect XXX.XXX.X.XXX:5555
            ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
        IP Address of device

Second way

You can use Android Studio Plugin Android device with ADB

Android WiFi ADB - IntelliJ/Android Studio Plugin

IntelliJ and Android Studio plugin created to quickly connect your Android device over WiFi to install, run and debug your applications without a USB connected. Press one button and forget about your USB cable

Please check this article for more information

Connect Android Device with Wifi within Android Studio

Answer 6

Use the adbwireless app to enable the phone, then use adb connect from the Windows machine to talk to it. The adbwireless app on the phone tells you how to connect to it, giving the IP address and everything.

The much less fun alternative is to connect via USB, tell the phone to use TCPIP via adb tcpip 5555, then disconnect USB, then use adb connect. This is much harder because this way you have to figure out the IP address of the phone yourself (adbwireless tells you the IP), you have to connect via USB, and you have to run adb tcpip (adbwireless takes care of that too).

So: install adbwireless on your phone. Use it. It is possible, I do it routinely on Linux and on Windows.