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Justin Uthe
Courses Plus Student 389 Pointsandroid phone doesn't show in eclipse
I have installed the windows software for my Galaxy note 3 and plugged it in multiple times and windows detects it but eclipse doesn't detect my phone connected, only the emulator...DDMS doesn't show anything in the window or console view.
6 Answers
Damian Ison
6,398 PointsYou don't use your phone. You create an android device.
Follow along with the videos and Ben shows you how to create an android device.
Akshay Shivpuri
2,917 PointsMaybe for testing the app on your phone. You need to connect the phone through your laptop/deskptop and install the correct phone drivers. If you are a windows user, then go to "Device manager" and under portable devices, check whether your phone is being displayed. If it's not displayed then it means that the drivers are not installed. After fixing the drivers, your phone name would come under the list of emulators when you run your application. Btw, if the phone doesn't work and also as the emulator is slow, you should install Genymotion and test on it. It's pretty fast.
Marcus Pierce
8,752 PointsI have the same problem. My connection seems fine (I can transfer files between the phone and the PC, for example), my drivers seem fine (it shows up in the device manager), but it still doesn't show up in Eclipse.
Akshay Shivpuri
2,917 PointsGo to the DDMS tab on the top right corner in Eclipse. Do you see your phone listed there?
Marcus Pierce
8,752 PointsYes. I followed all of the instructions from the video. My phone is not listed there, only the emulator shows up in the Devices window, regardless of the fact that Windows seems to completely recognize the device. I restarted Eclipse, etc. to no effect.
Akshay Shivpuri
2,917 PointsWell, sorry about that. I'd suggest you use GenyMotion. It's very fast as compared to default emulator that comes along with Windows.
Justin Uthe
Courses Plus Student 389 PointsJustin Uthe
Courses Plus Student 389 PointsThis is the part of the video where he's putting the app on a android phone connected to the computer. My emulator works fine but the built app works by shaking it and I need the app on the phone to do that.