Android device chooser – My device seems offline

I’ve seen this happen a few times on my HTC Desire. I’ve never figured out whether the problem is in adb or the device but I usually do the following:

  • Restart adb by issuing ‘adb kill-server’ followed by ‘adb start-server’ at a cmd prompt
  • Disable and re-enable USB debugging on the phone
  • Rebooting the phone if it still doesn’t work.

99% of my issues have been resolved with these steps.

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