Android Studio doesn't see device

Question

The AVD Manager in Android Studio doesn\'t show my device but adb devices does show it. Am I missing something obvious here?

Answer 1

If you still have this problem (later than summer 2015) maybe you should:

1. Go here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html#top
2. Download the driver
3. Reinstall it

I recently installed Windows 10 (not an upgrade, a clean installation) and I forgot the ADB USB driver

Answer 2

When I faced this problem I was on Android Studio 3.1 version. I tried a lot of approach above, nothing worked for me ( Don't know why :/ ). Finally I tried something different by my own. My approach was:

Before going to bellow steps make sure

*Your "Google USB Driver" package is installed ("Tools" -> "SDK Manager" -> Check "Google USB Driver" -> "Apply" -> "Ok").

*If you are trying to access with emulator then check "Intel x86 Emulator Accelarator(HAXM installer)" is instaled. ("Tools" -> "SDK Manager" -> Check "Intel x86 Emulator Accelarator(HAXM installer)"" -> "Apply" -> "Ok")

1. Goto Tools.
2. Then goto SDK Manager.
3. Open SDK tools.
4. Uncheck "Android SDK Platform-Tools" (On my case it was checked).
5. press apply then ok.
6. Again goto Tools.
7. Then goto SDK Manager.
8. Open SDK tools.
9. check "Android SDK Platform-Tools"
10. Restart Android Studio :)

Hope this will help somebody like me.

Answer 3

I use the Android version of Nougat API 24, I solved a device problem not detected by replacing the USB cable.

Answer 4

The AVD Manager is for emulator images. It never shows hardware. This is true for any usage of the AVD Manager: Eclipse, Android Studio, etc.

Answer 5

I have been troubleshotting same problem. I have tried all the tips in this topic in posts above me.

My situation was: - computer have seen my tablet - had debug usb options in developer mode on - adb in sdk was not seeing my device, killing & start didnt help

The problem was I had Samsung Galaxy drivers on my win8. When I went to devices manager, there was Lenovo A7600 Tablet with yellow marking. Settings -> actualize drivers -> choose from existing ones and i hooked up the Samsung drivers to this one.

It worked like charm.

Answer 6

I had to killall adb because somehow, Android Studio managed to crash and did not want to communicate with adb anymore. Thus, my device did not show up.

So quitting Android Studio, terminating all adb instances in Terminal and starting Android Studio again (should ask if it should enable debugging then) worked.