Adb won't start

Question

Running Vista, tried starting adb from shell as admin get daemon not running starting it now

ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *

Any help for this?

Answer 1

This problem has annoyed me for a long time. In addition to the above answer, use these tips:

• Create a bat file with the following and run it. This bat file will solve most of your adb problems.

tskill adb

cd \tools\

adb kill-server

adb start-server

ddms

• Use the command netstat to monitor the state of connections (adb uses 5037)

• If the bat file doesn't work try: disconnect-reboot phone-connect. (hint: use `adb reboot' if adb is responding at all, if not do it the old fashioned way)

• Sometimes Windows can be funny. Reboot the machine.

• Turn on USB Debugging Mode

  • Download the Android SDK and unzip
  • Uninstall all "Android *" from Device Manager
  • Do an "Add Hardware" from Control Panel, choosing "Install the hardware... (Advanced)"
  • Select "Android USB Devices" and click "Next"
  • Click "Have Disk" and enter the path where the SDK was unzipped

• Still not working ? Factory reset the phone.

• MTP detection delays ADB. Sometimes you if need boot time logs you may have to disable the MTP driver in Device Manager (Windows)

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This is a brilliant patch for adb when you get the error :

Adb connection Error:An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote "