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Re: Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition - adb connection is not working?

 

Is vendor id 0x2a45 present in ~/.android/adb_usb.ini? MaartenI found this
to be critical.

Cheers,
Maarten

On Sunday, 5 July 2015, Juhapekka Piiroinen <juhapekka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Juhapekka Piiroinen <juhapekka@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 02.07.2015, 20:20 +0300 schrieb Juhapekka Piiroinen:
>>>> Issue 1:
>>>> I have ran all the recent updates for the MX4 via the UI. It looks
>>>> like that even few reboots and enabling the developer mode etc, I am
>>>> unable to connect to the device via adb. Is this some kind of known
issue?
>>>> I can see that the adbd is running on the MX4 via the terminal app.
>>>
>>> do you use the phablet-tools PPA and specifically the android-tools-adb
>>> and libmtp packages from there ? i think older libmtp and android-tools
>>> versions (i.e. from the archive) might be missing the MX4 bits.
>>>
>>
>> I think that this might be the case, at least I did not find any
>> mention/line for the MX from usb_vendors.c file from the
>> android-tools-4.2.2+git20130218. This was the source package from the
>> phablet-tools PPA for trusty (14.04 LTS). One thing is also what I am
>> seeing that the lsusb does not contain any string identifier.
>>
>> <lsusb line for mx4>
>> Bus 001 Device 017: ID 2a45:0c02
>> </lsusb>
>>
>> I have managed to see the MX4 on vivid (15.04) vmware image once with
>> adb, last week, while I gave a quick test with it. With that image I
>> think that I was using a slower usb emulation as well, instead of the
>> USB 3.0 which I have on this native installation.
>>
>> I tried to patch that usb_vendors.c file with the usb vendor id, but
>> it looks like that it did not either work, but I am sure that it is
>> still part of the solution. I somewhat managed to send the original
>> email twice for the mailing list, and in the other thread it was
>> suggested that part of the solution is to find a different usb hub
>> etc.
>
> It seems that now the adb started to work on 14.04 LTS with Lenovo
> Y500 which has the USB 3.0. It required restarting of the adbd on the
> laptop side as well.
>
> So confirmed, MX4 works with the android-tools-adb from the
> ppa:phablet-team/tools with 14.04 LTS. It looked like that for some
> reason it required few times to tap on the phone "enable/disable"
> developer mode. At least it seemed like that the developer mode UI
> checkbox is enabled after reboot of the device, but the state is
> "disabled".
>
> $ apt-cache policy android-tools-adb
> android-tools-adb:
>   Installed: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu39~trusty1
>   Candidate: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu39~trusty1
>   Version table:
>  *** 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu39~trusty1 0
>         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/phablet-team/tools/ubuntu/
> trusty/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> Cheers,
> JP
>
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