android pair command not found ( Wireless Debugging )

Question

I am trying to connect to my phone wirelessly for USB Debugging using following :

adb pair 192.168.30.27:41424 .

But I am getting following error:

"Unknown command pair" error.

I have already updated Android SDK Platform tools to 31+ version, still this does not fix this issue.

Answer 1

Prior to Android 11, the command to connect ADB over WiFi was:

adb connect 192.168.30.27

Not pair.
Also, no code was needed.

Note, that you must first connect your device over USB and run:

adb tcpip 5555

To turn ADB over WiFi on.

Note, that to use the new pair command, your device must it self be running Android 11+, if it has an older OS, the SDK version on your PC will not matter.

Answer 2

I had similar issues. Uninstalling and installing Android SDK Platform-Tools solved the problem. Please make sure that the "Android SDK Platform-Tools" version is at least 30 or above.

Answer 3

If you updated recently then even though the update is on your system, you might have an older version of the adb server running. So try:

adb kill-server

and then adb pair again. Found this here: ADB pair unknown command using r32 platform tools

For me, adb pair still didn't work but the "pair devices over wifi" option in Android Studio did, after running that kill-server command.