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Mounting the Xoom in Linux (as well as adb)

The xoom can mount just fine on Linux but it is an MTP not a Mass Storage device.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage to your device, computer, relationship, etc.... The following is meant as a guideline and worked for me but as always use your head.
I did this on my Kubuntu Maverick laptop, but it should apply to most *buntus plus debian. Other flavors should be similar, post a request and I will help if I can. I am familiar with Suse and RHEL/Centos as well but beyond those it will be guess work.
The first thing I would recommend doing is making the device read/write to normal users.
Code:
sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", SYSFS{idVendor}==\"22b8\", MODE=\"0666\"" |sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
NOTE: This also "fixes" adb so it is useable with the xoom as a normal user. If that is all you want you can stop here.
NOTE 2: You could also set an OWNER rather than changing MODE but I chose the most common route for this example/
Now install either mtp-tools or mtpfs for mounting using FUSE. Since I went the fuse route that is what I will conver here. (I installed the mtp-tools package but beyond using it to debug getting mtpfs to work I have never used it before.)
Assuming you already have fuse configured, for (k|x)ubuntu or debian :
Code:
sudo apt-get install mtpfs
If you do not have fuse already configured then do that first. Look it up online if you have any questions. If you get stuck I will try and help but this post is not about how to configure FUSE.
After that it is simple. Plugin your xoom and from the command line type:
Code:
mtpfs mountpoint
and to dismount it
Code:
fusermount -u mountpoint
so in my case I mount it in a subdirectory under home called xoom
Code:
mtpfs /home/janetpanic/xoom
fusermount -u /home/janetpanic/xoom
I have confirmed moving files to and from the actual directories but not from the meta "playlists" directory. I hope that helps...
EDIT: Fixed Typo... had "(idVendor)" instead of the correct "{idVendor}"

Thanks for sharing your workaround. Unfortunately, it's no joy here. After following the procedure described, the terminal returned no error, but on trying to open the Xoom directory via Nautilus, I received the following message:
Code:
Error: Error stating file '/home/sog/Xoom': Transport endpoint is not connected
Please select another viewer and try again.
Unmounting proceeds without error.
Distribution: Ubuntu Lucid x64

Did you connect your xoom before or after you mounted? The most likely problem is the undeveloped configuration .
Change the line in 51-android.rules to
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="22b8", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", MODE="0666"
[\code]
Restart udev and then do a "ls -lah /dev/libmtp*" with the device attached and list the output. I need to figure out if the problem is the udev rule or elsewhere.
If the ls does not show any files then send the result of "lsusb |grep Motorola" which better list a line or there is something weird going on.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

Updated 51-android.rules as directed, then:
[email protected]:~$ ls -lah /dev/libmtp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-02-27 19:59 /dev/libmtp-1-4 -> bus/usb/001/004
[email protected]:~$ lsusb | grep Motorola
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 22b8:70a8 Motorola PCS

Wait, you aren't able to get the Xoom to mount as a mass storage device?
ed. The leaked Xoom manual suggests it support mass storage. Phew. You were scaring me there a bit.

as far as I know, it's been confirmed that the current stack does not support mass storage, only mtp.

sogrady said:
as far as I know, it's been confirmed that the current stack does not support mass storage, only mtp.
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Which stack, Linux or Honeycomb's? Where is it confirmed?
Non-working mass storage is a potential deal breaker.

honeycomb's. see here or here for details.

Thanks for the links.
This is a real WTF.

Can someone try running this attached apk to see if it enables mass storage? (It just runs enable, it won't run disable, so I don't know what will happen, it might cause apps to crash but rebooting should fix it, standard disclaimers apply, you run this at your own risk, etc., etc., etc.)
I don't have a Xoom, otherwise I'd try this myself.
Relevant code snippet for those interested:
Code:
StorageManager s = (StorageManager)getSystemService(Context.STORAGE_SERVICE);
Class c = s.getClass();
Method m = null;
try
{
m = c.getMethod("enableUsbMassStorage", (Class[]) null);
m.invoke(s);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
There may even be an easier way to achieve this -- I can't verify for myself because Honeycomb isn't in AOSP -- it doesn't work in the sim, but it might on a device: run adb shell, then run "am start -n com.android.systemui/.usb.UsbStorageActivity".

ydaraishy said:
Can someone try running this attached apk to see if it enables mass storage? (It just runs enable, it won't run disable, so I don't know what will happen, it might cause apps to crash but rebooting should fix it, standard disclaimers apply, you run this at your own risk, etc., etc., etc.)
I don't have a Xoom, otherwise I'd try this myself.
There may even be an easier way to achieve this -- I can't verify for myself because Honeycomb isn't in AOSP -- it doesn't work in the sim, but it might on a device: run adb shell, then run "am start -n com.android.systemui/.usb.UsbStorageActivity".
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I ran the activity manager command and it brought up the usb mass storage screen but did not mount on computer. Also ran the apk but did not mount. Awesome job though. keep fighting the good fight

sogrady said:
Updated 51-android.rules as directed, then:
[email protected]:~$ ls -lah /dev/libmtp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-02-27 19:59 /dev/libmtp-1-4 -> bus/usb/001/004
[email protected]:~$ lsusb | grep Motorola
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 22b8:70a8 Motorola PCS
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Well that is interesting . You have read write privileges on the xoom. Sounds like it is a fuse configuration issue. Do you have any other fuse file systems you run?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

bigrushdog said:
I ran the activity manager command and it brought up the usb mass storage screen but did not mount on computer. Also ran the apk but did not mount. Awesome job though. keep fighting the good fight
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Damn it. Looks like I actually need a device to get it working, and the AOSP drop. It's so moronic why they disabled mass storage.
Hmm. Can someone run, from adb shell, the output from "mount", and "ls /sys/devices/platform" for me?

Never mind. Mass storage has been defined out of the stingray (Xoom) kernel. It's not even in the default kernel.
To get mass storage support, be prepared to build your own kernel and reflash the device (once that's done, the am command above or the enabler app will work properly).

I've founded a working(ish) solution. This Xoom forum post details an approach that permits transfer of video/music/etc to the Xoom via Linux.
Couple of caveats:
1. The gnomad2 application is very unstable. Crashes frequently.
2. It appears to be write-only: I have not been able to delete files from the Xoom using this interface.

Thanks for the instructions to connect to a xoom tablet via Linux! However, I'm using Opensuse 11.3 and 11.4 on two different systems. I did install the mtp-tools with no issues, however, there is NO file by the name of mtpfs. A search on the net does not reveal it either. Where do I get this, or what package is it part of? Thanks again. If I can't get this tablet to connect to my linux box, I will have to take it back, since I do NOT use winbloze or Mac. Pretty short sited of Motorola IMHO.

Personally, I've given up on MTP + Linux Combo. I just use a straigt FTP transfer over wifi ( FTP Server on tablet ). It's about the same speeds.

any headway on this...
i am getting the: Transport endpoint is not connected error still and i have no real experience with FUSE so im stuck to using windows for any transferring.

stlsaint said:
i am getting the: Transport endpoint is not connected error still and i have no real experience with FUSE so im stuck to using windows for any transferring.
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try following the directions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=981774
They are basically a superset of what I posted. If you still have trouble after that post in either thread (this one or that one) and I will try and help as best I can.

followed the thread up unto the fstab part as i dont wan to edit my fstab without confirmation that it will work. But i get the exact same error with the endpoint text. I am trying this on Crunchbang linux which is based off debain the same way ubuntu is. I am probably going wrong with FUSE somehow but i have never messed with it so i dont know how to troubleshoot it.

[Q] ADB not recognizing, please help

Okay, I have a permarooted MT4G with S=Off, and I want to use the gfree method to unlock my SIM and get the universal CID while I'm still on the stock kernel. All of the guides I see for that push the gfree files using the ADB.
Problem: I cannot get the Android SDK to recognize my MyTouch 4g. (SEE UPDATE)
I followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834748 to try and set up the ADB to no avail. This is what I did:
-- Downloaded the SDK, booted it up, let it update. Booted it up again, let it update EVERYTHING (took like 30 minutes) again. It has no more updates to install.
-- I tried adding adb as an environmental variable in windows, but the command prompt, no matter where I start it from, does not recognize 'adb' as "an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file." (works now)
-- The HTC Drivers that came with my device have been installed on my computer. So, I uninstalled them, only to have windows reinstall them as soon as I plug the device in (I'm running Windows 7 x64 home edition, Build 7601).
I tried going here http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/HTC/HOW-TO-Get-ADB-to-recognize-your-myTouch-4G/m-p/540017 and using their technique, no dice. My computer has the exact same drivers as when I started, and I have a digital paperweight of a SDK. (see update)
UPDATE: I now have a working ADB (big thanks to TrueBlue_Drew and his guide for us noobs) that recognizes my MT4G, but I have another issue:
FINAL QUESTION: Now that my MT4G is showing up in ADB, I realized I screwed up again when I discovered a "Android 1.0" item in the misc. section of my Devices window in Control Panel. It currently says that Android 1.0 needs troubleshooting and the drivers aren't working. I tried to direct windows to the usb drivers I downloaded from the both of the guides I've used, but windows wouldn't accept either one. Am I using the wrong drivers? Which ones should I tell windows to install? Should I even worry about it since adb is working? Any help on that end would VERY MUCH appreciated.

If you are using true blues method are you changing your target folder to c:\adb?
Sent from my HTC Glacier using Tapatalk

neidlinger said:
If you are using true blues method are you changing your target folder to c:\adb?
Sent from my HTC Glacier using Tapatalk
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Do you mean the target of the environmental variable? If so, then no, because the name of the folder is android-sdk-windows, making the target C:/android-sdk-windows/tools, unless I'm totally off-base, which is probably what's happening.
Still, I don't think the target is C:\adb, cause I don't have anything in the root of my C drive that's named adb

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Do you mean the target of the environmental variable? If so, then no, because the name of the folder is android-sdk-windows, making the target C:/android-sdk-windows/tools, unless I'm totally off-base, which is probably what's happening.
Still, I don't think the target is C:\adb, cause I don't have anything in the root of my C drive that's named adb
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Is the adb.exe file in your tools folder? Also you should change the name of your SDK folder just so that its easier to type in the terminal. I made mine simply ANDROIDSDK.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Have you installed the drivers successfully? Here's what I do and it's worked on multiple computers and on both Windows 7 and XP:
- Install SDK
- Turn on USB Debugging on the phone.
- Plug the phone into the computer and let it try to install some stuff. Ignore any dialogs saying there were errors
- Mount the SD card and run the HTCDriver.exe file that came on the sd card when you got the phone.
- Unplug it from the computer and plug it in again.
- Open a command prompt and navigate to the tools subfolder of the android sdk. Run adb devices. (Even if the first time doesn't return your device's serial number, it should say that it's installing more drivers. Once that completes, adb devices should return your S/N and you should be good to go.)

So close, yet...
TJBunch1228 said:
Is the adb.exe file in your tools folder? Also you should change the name of your SDK folder just so that its easier to type in the terminal. I made mine simply ANDROIDSDK.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
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Actually no, adb.exe isn't It has a .txt named "Adb has moved," not really sure how to proceed from here; I downloaded the SDK that was in the topic I linked above, and just allowed it to update. More below, and thanks for the response.
jdkoren said:
Have you installed the drivers successfully? Here's what I do and it's worked on multiple computers and on both Windows 7 and XP:
- Install SDK
- Turn on USB Debugging on the phone.
- Plug the phone into the computer and let it try to install some stuff. Ignore any dialogs saying there were errors
- Mount the SD card and run the HTCDriver.exe file that came on the sd card when you got the phone.
- Unplug it from the computer and plug it in again.
- Open a command prompt and navigate to the tools subfolder of the android sdk. Run adb devices. (Even if the first time doesn't return your device's serial number, it should say that it's installing more drivers. Once that completes, adb devices should return your S/N and you should be good to go.)
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Yeah, the problem is that my PC doesn't list any errors when I plug it in. BUT BIG NEWS, I followed the ADB for noobs guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928370), and I realized, as I said above, that my adb.exe file was nowhere to be found, so I used the one from the noob guide, and it could recognize my device in ADB. BUT it could not recognize my device in fastboot, so after much frustration, I decided to uninstall the drivers and reinstall using pda.net. Whatever it did, it worked, because adb and fastboot both show my serial number under devices. Thanks to the both of you for your help.
FINAL QUESTION: Now that my MT4G is showing up in ADB, I realized I screwed up again when I discovered a "Android 1.0" item in the Misc. section of my Devices window in Control Panel. It currently says that Android 1.0 needs troubleshooting and the drivers aren't working. I tried to direct it to the usb drivers listed in the both of the guides listed above, but windows wouldn't have it. Am I using the wrong drivers? Which ones should I tell windows to install? Should I even worry about it since I can use adb anyhow? Any help on that end would VERY MUCH appreciated.

[Q] Troubles with ADB on Windows XP SP3. Help.

Hi,
I have a Windows XP SP3 (i386) that just won't let me use ADB. It doesn't work in ways I will describe shortly, and it never worked, on none of the ROMs I had. I had four roms in total in the past 3 weeks: Rooted original 2.1, non rooted JPM, rooted Kyrillos 3.0 and now I run rooted Lestatious 2.0 Build 1.2.6, akin' to go for 1.7.0.
I am primarily a Linux user (fedora 14 x86_64), and adb works fine for me there. As does ADB over WiFi (both Linux and Windows). For all my needs so far, Linux was enough, ODIN worked from the start, so I never bothered to find what's wrong with the Windows' adb.
But trying out Lestatious, I now have the need to update the rom using Windows, and it wouldn't be bad at all to use some other already prepared scripts for Windows I stumple upon on the forums.
As far as drivers go, I have the freshest Kies installed. I have the necessary Android SDK parts installed. Debugging mode is selected on the phone.
Actually, I am at the point where I have the WHOLE Android SDK installed, and have spent way more time on researching and googling and debugging than I would've needed to convert Lestatious' batch scripts into bash ones. And almost literally, pulling my hair out.
I'm no total noob when it comes to flashing/hacking/rooting/modding devices. I've even done my own Pandora battery switch mod for PSP for God's sake!
But this just stumps me....completely.
All this behaves the same, no matter what combination of starting and killing adb I do, pulling cable out, disabling debugging mode, plugging in, unplugging, enabling debugging, plugging in, etc. It also makes no difference whether I use Android SDK adb or, let's say, Lestatious' supplied adb.
Also note that I have both tools and platform-tools folder in my PATH variable.
Code:
C:\>adb kill-server
C:\>adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
C:\>adb devices
List of devices attached
myserialno;-) device
C:\>adb remount
error: protocol fault (status 72 65 6d 6f?!)
C:\>adb shell df
error: protocol fault (status 2f 64 65 76?!)
C:\>adb shell ls
error: protocol fault (status 73 71 6c 69?!)
C:\>adb root
error: protocol fault (status 61 64 62 64?!)
Although it does give me protocol fault, the device does disconnect/reconnect:
Code:
C:\>adb usb
error: protocol fault (status 72 65 73 74?!)
Phone does reboot:
Code:
C:\>adb reboot
error: protocol fault (no status)
Have to break this one, because it never returns:
Code:
C:\>adb shell
^C
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

can i post reply?

[email protected] said:
can i post reply?
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STOP! NOW!
Sent from my ACID Lestatious 2.0 BUILD 1.7 Galaxy 3 FROYO

Sounds like a Samsung USB driver issue to me. Make sure you got the right ones. Are you using 64-bit or 32-bit windows?

Thom47 said:
Sounds like a Samsung USB driver issue to me. Make sure you got the right ones. Are you using 64-bit or 32-bit windows?
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Thanks for taking interest in my problem.
I'm using 32-bit Windows XP (with SP3).
I did not fiddle with any drivers, I would if I found any . The drivers were installed with the Samsung Kies software. I also tried uninstalling and installing Kies. The Kies is version Kies_2.0.0.11032_12_9.exe downloaded from UK Samsung Support for Galaxy i5800.
Just to be sure, and because I have access to two completely identical machines (yes, hardware and software is the same, except the Android part).
On one machine I have the complete Android SDK, earlier version of Kies (updated yesterday to the latest version).
On the second machine I have only the latest Kies (never updated, installed it this morning). And no SDK, just Lestatious' adb.exe and AdbWinApi.dll.
The behavior stays the same.
Thanks

Well, try these. They're Samsung's USB drivers for our phone. If possible, try starting from the beginning eg. remove all traces of KIES and your phone, and then apply the downloaded driver. By this I mean "uninstall" the phone from your computer.

Thom47 said:
Well, try these. They're Samsung's USB drivers for our phone. If possible, try starting from the beginning eg. remove all traces of KIES and your phone, and then apply the downloaded driver. By this I mean "uninstall" the phone from your computer.
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Thanks. I will try it as soon as I get home from work.
Thanks again.

Thom47 said:
Well, try these. They're Samsung's USB drivers for our phone. If possible, try starting from the beginning eg. remove all traces of KIES and your phone, and then apply the downloaded driver. By this I mean "uninstall" the phone from your computer.
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So, I used usbdeview to uninstall the device first. Then I uninstalled Samsung Kies. And finally Samsung USB drivers that get installed with Kies automatically.
I rebooted, just to be sure. Installed the drivers linked in Thom47's post, and rebooted again.
I ran the adb start-server. Connected my device (which was correctly recognized, just as before). The end result is the same. Although status gives a bit different numbers:
Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\Miki>adb shell ls
error: protocol fault (status 1b 5b 31 3b?!)
C:\Documents and Settings\Miki>adb shell
^C
But looking at the adb client source code, I see that the numbers represent 4 Bytes of data read from some file descriptor when getting adb status. It's a bit too late to follow up what file descriptor, but as readx (used to transfer the first 4B from file descriptor into buffer) is sometimes used for reading device drivers because of its portability, this definitely points a finger to some sort of driver issue.
Just thought that it might help to list connected devices when the phone is plugged in (debugging mode, of course):
ADB Interface->Samsung Android Composite ADB Interface
Disk Drives->SAMSUNG GT-I5800 Card USB Device
Modems->Samsung Android USB Modem (is this supposed to be here?)
USB Controllers->SAMSUNG Android USB composite device
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Update: I just quickly skimmed through the code to see what is the file descriptor, and it's actually just a socket connection to ADB port. So, if I understood it correctly, the first 4B read by readx are reply from the device (?!). Still could be driver related in my opinion.
Thanks

Right, well that's where my knowledge on linux and stuff ends, so I think you should make a new thread to some general forum, since this might not be related to our phone only.

Will do. Thanks for the help.
--
Sent from my GT-I5800

i really dont understand

I am still having same issue with adb and linux not recognizing my epic I have posted in regards to this and had no responses there all so many devs that work with epic and yet not one has commented to offer a fix i have tried adding 99-samsung.rules with proper edits and changed the 51 rules to match i have reloaded those rules I have added the edited adb i have restarded linux i have changed cables phones usb ports and it picks up my friend og droid no prob but neither me nor my fiances epic will be recognized. any help please.

mikeew83 said:
I am still having same issue with adb and linux not recognizing my epic I have posted in regards to this and had no responses there all so many devs that work with epic and yet not one has commented to offer a fix i have tried adding 99-samsung.rules with proper edits and changed the 51 rules to match i have reloaded those rules I have added the edited adb i have restarded linux i have changed cables phones usb ports and it picks up my friend og droid no prob but neither me nor my fiances epic will be recognized. any help please.
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This is the way its done. Sorry up front for quoting myself but I have responded to this issue in the past:
Download the file from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8752645&postcount=5
Follow the steps with this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14199959&postcount=11
Profit!

Holy run on sentence Batman.
Sounds like a drivers issue, or that you don't have USB debugging enabled on the phone.
Open the Dalvik Debugging Monitor Service (DDMS) that came with the Android SDK.
Does it recognize the phone at all in DDMS?
If yes, then does it say "online"? If yes, then you have something blocking adb from talking to your phone from your computer. (firewall?)
If no, then you have a driver or USB connectivity issue. (bad driver installation, usb debugging not enabled on phone, bad usb cable, plugged usb cable into a port not directly on the motherboard)
EDIT: Looks like the post above me could understand the run on sentence more than I could.

You can also run the command lsusb and it should tell you if your system is seeing the device.
What Linux distro your running?
Sent from an Epic with 4G

ok to recap
I have followed your prior threads does not work. I have usb debugging on as explaiend i have tried everything means I have searched for hours on end and come with nothing. I have replaced the ADB and created 99-android.rules and edited that as well as editing the 15-android.rules files I have run lsusb and it does show samsung device.

tried your directions again
I have tried them again and they do not work.

Try the usb cable for the droid x. Its a really good one.

if that were an option
I have an incredible cord i can try that is about the only one but i dont see how it has anything to do with the usb cable when lsusb recognizes the device plugged in just adb will not list it on devices so that i dont think is the answer but thank you for the suggestion.

mikeew83 said:
I have followed your prior threads does not work. I have usb debugging on as explaiend i have tried everything means I have searched for hours on end and come with nothing. I have replaced the ADB and created 99-android.rules and edited that as well as editing the 15-android.rules files I have run lsusb and it does show samsung device.
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You should only have 1 rules file, my suggestion, delete the 15 one and keep the 99.
Make sure the permissions are configured correctly, the biggest issue to run this type of operations in linux is the permissions and the ownership on the config files
Sent from an Epic with 4G

thanks
could you possibly explain this a bit more in detail as im still very new to this im a quick learner and great at researching.

mikeew83 said:
could you possibly explain this a bit more in detail as im still very new to this im a quick learner and great at researching.
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Let me go over what to do:
After downloading the rules file on the above post, for example I have the SDK (adb) installed on my PC on the following path: ~/android/tools/, so go to your SDK folder (where adb is located) and run the chmod a+rwx adb command.
After this, take the rules file you downloaded from the above post and moved it to the /etc/udev/rules.d/ folder (logged as root, NOT SUDO). After doing this, run the following commands:
make sure that 51-android.rules file has the following permissions -rw-r--r (read and write for owner, group + others read only)
su [then placed the password] (Once again DO NOT USE SUDO)
chown root:root 51-android.rules
Once done, restart the PC and it should be working 100%. Before connecting the phone, make sure USB Debugging is active, and restart your phone.
Connect your phone via USB and run the lsusb command to confirm the connection of the device and then run ./adb devices and check for the positive return!
Note: if you have never had a password on su, run the following command: sudo passwd and change the password and try running the series of command above.
Note2: add your user to the plugdev group on your computer
Note3: sometimes while performing the ./adb devices command will return a response stating that a device by the name ?????????????? is connected, this is OK, you can connect via ./adb shell and you will see your device file structure, if you request SU permissions you will have to authorize it on the phone via the SUPERUSER app that gets installed when rooting the device.
IMPORTANT: The password for ROOT (su) user is not the same as the password you enter for the SUDO command (your user) unless you make them the same!

I'm not sure what exact problem you are having, but I was having a similar problem until this morning (of ADB not recognizing the phone) until I did this:
A) Open the phone dialer.
B) Enter "##8778#".
C) Set both options to "PDA".
D) Make sure sure "USB Debugging" is enabled under "Settings", "Applications", "Development".
I have no idea if this fully applies to your issue, but if it helps, great. If not, no harm done.

SweetBearCub said:
I'm not sure what exact problem you are having, but I was having a similar problem until this morning (of ADB not recognizing the phone) until I did this:
A) Open the phone dialer.
B) Enter "##8778#".
C) Set both options to "PDA".
D) Make sure sure "USB Debugging" is enabled under "Settings", "Applications", "Development".
I have no idea if this fully applies to your issue, but if it helps, great. If not, no harm done.
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Though this is good info (thanks for pointing it out), I would highly suggest to leave UART as Modem, and just change USB to PDA.
Sometimes you may have issues with Tethering if you set the UART to PDA.

I have been a bit busy I appreciate the run down and will try it here tomorrow or its 2am so later today I also checked the 8778 and my usb is already set to what was specified.
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Nexus 4 not being recognized by adb (Ubuntu 12.10)

Hi all,
I am trying to connect my Nexus 4 device to my computer via USB. I am currently running Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest Android SDK installed.
The problem is that I can't seem to properly connect the Nexus 4 so that I can see the device in the devices list of adb (using ./adb devices).
An entry to the USB rules list has already been added, which is this one:
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4ee5", MODE="0666"
The file is named "99-nexus4.rules" and properly chmodded.
The output of lsusb is:
Code:
Bus 002 Device 012: ID 18d1:4ee5 Google Inc.
I have already tried to restart the adb server several times, but with no success. Starting the server as root didn't help either. I choose to mount the phone as MTP device on the phone itself.
Currently I am lost about what the problem is in this case. I would love to hear some feedback from you guys.
Thanks in advance!

Is adb enabled on your phone ?
Did you restart udev or rebooted ?
btw, saw this and work allot better than standard 12.10 mtp
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs-with-mtp-support-in.html
lvandam said:
Hi all,
I am trying to connect my Nexus 4 device to my computer via USB. I am currently running Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest Android SDK installed.
The problem is that I can't seem to properly connect the Nexus 4 so that I can see the device in the devices list of adb (using ./adb devices).
An entry to the USB rules list has already been added, which is this one:
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4ee5", MODE="0666"
The file is named "99-nexus4.rules" and properly chmodded.
The output of lsusb is:
Code:
Bus 002 Device 012: ID 18d1:4ee5 Google Inc.
I have already tried to restart the adb server several times, but with no success. Starting the server as root didn't help either. I choose to mount the phone as MTP device on the phone itself.
Currently I am lost about what the problem is in this case. I would love to hear some feedback from you guys.
Thanks in advance!
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nardusg said:
Did you restart udev or rebooted ?
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Yes, every time after I changed something in the rules list I restarted udev and rebooted as well.

Do you have java installed properly? Here is the post I used to get adb working on Ubuntu 12.10 (its post #62 the OP was for Ubuntu11). It didn't work till I set the proper permissions as stated in the post under editing the udev rules (line in post where it shows sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules). I did a 64-bit install and it worked perfectly. Basically what you are doing is manually entering the Nexus 4 into the list of devices as its not there by default.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19446284

That solution worked for me! Many thanks.