no permissions (user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong?)

If you are trying to access your android devices shell using adb on a new ubuntu machine, there are higher chances that your may seen an error like below,

 

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$ adb devices List of devices attached * daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 * daemon started successfully B2NGAA8831702707    no permissions (user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong?); see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html]

 

OR

 

1 2	error: insufficient permissions for device: user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong? See [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] for more information

 

This error is because, your Ubuntu machine user is not able to access adb shell due to some permission restrictions. As we have observed, there are 3 possible solutions for resolving this issue, either one of these should work for you.

Solution 1

In our case, if we use with sudo permissions i.e. “sudo adb devices” was working fine and we could access adb, but we were getting above errors with normal user. In our case, rest of 2 solutions didn’t worked because “our mobile was connected to laptop in “USB Tethering Mode” from Hotspot and Tethering settings options

 

Till you access adb shell, switch USB to “File Transfer” mode

 

and try again, as,

 

$ adb kill-server

$ adb devices

Solution 2

As mentioned in https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device Make sure that you are in the plugdev group. Add your user to playdev group as below,

$ sudo usermod -aG plugdev $LOGNAME

$ adb kill-server

$ adb devices

 

 

 

Solution 3

Know the USB Vendor Id and Product Id of your android device using lsusb command as,

$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 019: ID 2e04:c008

As seen above, For Our mobile idVendor is 2e04 and idProduct is c008, add this details to udev rule as, [ Replace idVendor and idProduct as per your device ]

$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

 

1	SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2e04", ATTR{idProduct}=="c008", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

 

$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

$ adb kill-server

$ adb devices

 

 

 

 

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