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Android

Posted by Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
10,322 Points

Getting Eclipse recognize my Android Phone in Windows 8!

Hello everyone,

I want to start developing an android application and test it on my Google Nexus 4.

I tried several troubleshooting guides from the interweb and also from the google developer site.

My PC is running on Windows 8 64 bit. I manually installed the correct driver for the phone, got the windows device manager to recognize the phone as an "android device" but in Eclipse it still doesnt show up.

Any thoughts?

~ Nikos.

9 Answers

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Hard to tell what's the problem. The Nexus 4 plays pretty nicely with everything from my experience. Have you tried this:

Press the windows key. Type sdk Click SDK Manager Scroll down to extras Install Google USB Driver

Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
10,322 Points
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
10,322 Points

Yeah i have the Google Usb Driver installed... This driver is made for older devices though.

I got the correct one for my Nexus 4 installed, but the AVD remains empty... I activated the debugging mode on my phone also.

I suppose it has something to do with windows 8 and/ or the 64-bit version.

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

I doubt it. I have 64bit Win 8 installed on one of my machines and the nexus 4 worked with no problems. Do you have USB debugging enabled on your phone?

Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
10,322 Points
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
Nikolaos Papathanassopoulos
10,322 Points

Yes, as i wrote on the previous post.

So what did you do to get it to work? Just plug it in?

Gyasi Story
Gyasi Story
1,540 Points
Gyasi Story
Gyasi Story
1,540 Points

I am have the same issue with both of my windows machines I have 64bit Vista and Windows 7. I am also looking forward to a solution because I don't want to keep using the mac that my job provided me.

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Sorry, didn't notice you wrote that. And yes, I just set debugging to enabled and it works perfectly, like my nexus 7 and nexus 10.

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

There is a good post about this issue on StackOverflow. Hopefully the answers from this can help:

ADB not recognising Nexus 4 under Windows 7

Gyasi Story
Gyasi Story
1,540 Points
Gyasi Story
Gyasi Story
1,540 Points

I actually found the solution. I feel kind of slow now. I went to the Samsung website the manufacturer of the Galaxy Nexus and found an driver install for it. It is know running perfectly.