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How to resolve "Warning: debug info can be unavailable. Please close other application using ADB: Restart ADB integration and try again"

I am having a slight issue when trying to debug and android app via usb to external device. I keep getting the error "Warning: debug info can be unavailable. Please close other application using ADB: Monitor, DDMS, Eclipse
Restart ADB integration and try again
Waiting for process:"
I have tried stopping adb.exe in task manager , closing android studio and restarting , taking out the cable and putting it back and going to tools => android uncheck adb intergration then recheck it . All to no avail

This is a problem of ADB connections as sometimes ADB cache a dead connection on your real/virtual device and due to which the port is busy and u cannot connect to it.
The simplest solution to this is RESTART your ANDROID phone that's it.

What worked for me was to disable and re-enable USB debugging on the device.

Following steps resolved this issue to me:
Disconnect the device.
Restart android studio.
Run the project.

Simply go to your Android phone developer settings, disable USB debugging, delete all authorizations for USB debugging and turn the debugging on again.

First make sure you close any application use ADB , DDMS
like if you open Eclipse with android studio
Second restart your ADB from terminal
adb kill-server
adb start-server

The issue occurs when I open the Android Studio and IDEA together.
Restart the Android Studio does NOT fix the issue
Re-plugin the cable either does NOT fix the issue
Restart the Mac either does NOT fix the issue
Restart the ADB from terminal FIX the issue
adb kill-server
adb start-server
In this way, you do not need to close the IDEA.
Updated: 2022-09-19
Restart the Android Studio does NOT fix the issue
Invalidate and Restart the Android Studio does NOT fix the issue
Re-plugin the cable either does NOT fix the issue
Restart the Mac either does NOT fix the issue
Restart the ADB from terminal either does NOT fix the issue
Restart the Android device fix the issue.

This problem sometimes occur when Android Studio is opened with another IntelliJ Editor. Just close the other IntelliJ Editor.

Open USB preferences in your device. Like the image below.
Click another option. (eg:File Transfer)
Click the no data transfer.
If it doesn't work,please try again.
The operations on the android devices are similar.

this may happen when you created two instances of android studio, or else you are using same device in multiple ADB programs, so simply disconnect you device and then open your desired android studio instance and then connect again. now it will work fine.
i also use same method and every time it works.

IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate, probably also Community) comes with Android plugin. If IntelliJ is started and any project is open and has been compiled (even without any Android code-base) then IntelliJ (apparently) steals the adb-connection from Android Studio. Either close IntelliJ or disable the Android plugin in IntelliJ.
If IntelliJ is open with android plugin, rebooting phone, killing adb etc. are only sporadic and short-time fixes of the problem as IntelliJ steals the adb connection again.

I resolved this issue by changing the Use USB for settings
Go to setting select transfer settings in my case MIDI was selected.

Go to Airplane mode ON and OFF , After that everything back to normal.

In my case, I had my device connected both via WiFi (with adb tcpip) and USB cable. Disconnecting the USB cable solved the issue.

Quite awkward issue, I think none of the solutions mentioned above worked for me.
Ultimately, I had to invalidate caches and restart.
File -> Invalidate caches... -> Select both options -> Invalidate and restart

For me was Eclipse using DDMS and conflicting with Android Studio, I wasn't using, so I just uninstall it.
If is your case, go to Eclipse > Help > About Eclipse IDE > Installation Details > Select DDMS and Uninstall..

At times ADB caches a dead connection on device(real / virtual) due to which the port is busy and it is unable to establish a connection.
You can try different ways:
You can kill and restart the server:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
2). Try disconnecting the device(phone) and reconnecting it.
3). Restart your device (phone).

Slightly different answer, but I'm including it for completeness.
For me Android Studio had frozen as well with the spinning beach ball of death.
I rebooted the emulator (by having it emulate a power-off/restart cycle)
Killed Android Studio (on a Mac by using ⌘⌥esc)
Restarted Android Studio.
After that everything was back to normal.

if you open two Android Studio at the same time (android studio preview),Will be like this

A possible temporary work around that may work prove useful for progress sake when intending to debug is to run the app in android studio , then immediately click on run => attach to debugger

Android studio doesn't recognize the running emulator

When I run my app from AndroidStudio 0.4.3 using Run I see Choose Device which has two sections choose a running device or Launch Emulator. I don't have a running emulator at the moment so I click the ... to launch AVD manager and start an emulator. At this point I see that under choose a running device the emulator I just launched shows up but its listed as offline.
In the past the offline status went away when the emulator was fully up and running. However, now I've noticed that when the emulator is launched fully, it no longer appears in choose a running device.
I feel like I'm always playing cat and mouse game with android studio picking up the emulator. Is there a better way to do this? Am I missing something?

Disable and then Enable ADB Integration
In Android Studio go to
Menu -> Tools
Android
Enable ADB Integration (should be checked, click to remove check)
Enable ADB Integration (should not be checked, click to add check)
Run your app again. Emulator that was previously missing from Run dialog should be available to be selected upon which to run your app.

Try to kill the adb server and restart it.
Locate your adb binary (linux/osx) or adb.exe (windows) and do:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
this should fix your problem
Even if your problem still not solved then Restart emulator.

Wipe Data and restarting emulator helped me, hope this helps to someone.

inside AVD manager, select your virtual devices, then 1 stop, 2 wipe user data, 3 cold reboot, works for me.

On Windows, running Android Studio with administrator permissions can help (in addition to restarting adb server).

Unchecking the "Enable ADB " worked for me

In Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) it helped me to cold boot the device.

add -port 5037 on ../[some_emulator]/emu-launch-params.txt file & try again...
like image

ADB not responding. You can wait more, or kill "adb.exe" ... windows 8

When I try to test my Android application with an android emulator as always I now suddenly get an error message. I'm working with Windows 8. So far I tried the following things which unfortunately could not solve the problem:
reinstalling eclipse with android adt
reinstalling java
installing "android studios" first solved the problem but after one day mysteriously also here adb, stopped working with the error message given in the title " ADB not responding ...
furthermore I unsuccessfully tried out some advice from Mr. Google:
Stopping adb.exe via task-manager and restarting eclipse / android studios
"adb kill-server" then "start-server" via command prompt
setting the path to adb.exe as an environment variable
switching off any antivirus or firewall
starting the IDEs as an administrator
updating the IDEs
The only thing I can remember doing which may have destroyed adb on my computer for all times: I connected my motorola smartphone to my laptop and installed the motorola usb drivers but as I said the adb also won't work with the emulator.
Any help would be kindly appreciated. The issue bothers me for more than an entire day now. Maybe someone had similar problems on Windows 8 ?

On OSX helped:
Close Android Studio
Kill all processess using 5037 port
sudo lsof -i |grep 5037
sudo kill PID_NUMBER
Run adb devices from console
adb devices

Meanwhile the emulator is working again. I cannot definetly say what solved the problem. What It could be a combination of two things:
Deleting the hidden ".android" folder under C:\Users...
(Probably there was some malfunctioning automatically created code)
Deleting and recreating the Path variable to the folder with adb.exe ( ...\sdk\platform-tools\;)
Finally it could be a Windows 8 issue which I don't understand.

Try this,
Open a command prompt with administration permission and type
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
This worked for me
Edit: Windows only

Kill the adb.exe with a command prompt. Open a command prompt were your adb.exe is located and type
adb kill-server

Maybe HTTP Proxy blocked the localhost 127.0.0.1:5037
If you have config the HTTP Proxy, make sure to exclude the localhost like picture below
Also, port can also be blocked by the firewall and anti-virus firewall, please notice as well.

Try this,
at the prompt try adb kill-server
Start one of your AVDs
at the prompt try adb root
The prompt should say adbd is already running as root.
That should fix it.

In case it helps anyone else, for me the problem was related with the USB hub that the tablet was plugged into on the computer (unplugging the webcam which was in use fixed it).

I got the same error. Don't worry. I have an solution. Go to Task Manager. Kill the process called adb.exe. You will find 2 or 3 processes. Kill all of them. You are done. It will work.

I have the same problems. Verify port 5037 is free and ports 5555 to 5585 are available and never used by another process.
"ADB server sets up connections to all running emulator/device instances. It locates emulator/device instances by scanning odd-numbered ports in the range 5555 to 5585"
FROM: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
To find out which process is listening on a port on Windows yo can use:
C:> netstat -an -o
FROM: How can you find out which process is listening on a port on Windows?

I had the same problem, here is my simple fix:
-Go to task manager in windows, look for adb.exe, and kill it
-Go to command prompt, and tap adb devices ==> it will automaticaly start adb daemon

I finally just restarted the computer, and that solved the issue for me.

Uninstall HTC Sync. Or disable it somehow.

Try to open adb from command prompt from directory location as <sdk>\platform-tools,
If adb file is missing try to re-install Android SDK with latest version,
And try to run again..
I think issues will solved, by this procedure.

I saw this on a Mac OS X.
I shut down Android Studio and ran adb get-state in the terminal. When I started Android Studio back up, the warning had gone away.
BTW, I did just try restarting Android Studio without any luck. I am sure a restart of OS would have fixed it too.

The same thing with the Asus Sync utility (with the both our Transformer's 700 and 701).
I think there is a USB-port conflict between ABD driver and Sync utility.
Exit from Sync utility resolve the problem.

Looks like this could be caused by a bunch of different issues. This just happened to me because I had my android phone device plugged in for USB debugging, then after a few hours (and multiple android studio/phpstorm restarts) I had to do unplug the device manually. Things started working again after unplugging.

I have faced this problem few days ago. When I opened my task manager it showing me two adb runnig. It may be because of I am using mobogenie for connecting my android phone for debugging application. This problem is because of moboginie and adt port conflict. then I have followed following procedure to sort out this issue.
!) close eclipse
2) Go to task manager and kill all adb processes.
3) Now go to platform-tools in android sdk
4)press shift+right click mouse and select "open command window here" option
5) type
adb kill-server
adb start-server
6)if server sucessfully started then start eclipse and then connect your phone
(Remember dont connect your phone before starting eclipse)

Following works for me every time:
go to File->Invalidate Caches/Restart
select Invalidate and Restart
And, You are good to go.

error "The connection to adb is down" when run an android app

I'm new with android development, and I have problems installing all the recent platform. I'm a java developer that I would like learning android.
I've installed all programs succesfully in windows xp sp3 (JDK 1.6 with environment vars created, eclipse 3.5, 3.6 & 3.7 well configured, Android SDK with all the features, devices, platform-tools, APi's, etc, and ADT Plugin 12 for eclipse with an emulator to API 8 -Target 2.2-), but, when I'm running an android project into eclipse (Run -> Android Application), the eclipse console show me: "The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has ocurred... You must restart adb and eclipse... Ensure that adb is in this path 'D:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\adb.exe'" (or something similiar).
I'm very sure that the path is right, adb is correctly running on command-line, and the commands 'adb kill-server' and 'adb start-server' works fine, but doesn't solve my problem (like I've read in other answers).
The emulator, via Eclipse, not working, but if I start the emulator via Eclipse ADV Manager, emulator starts fine, but when I runs the android app, I take the same error.
I suppose that Eclipse can't start adb,but I don't know why.
Other issue, when I executed 'adb devices', console show me an empty list, no 'no devices' message, but when I plugged my HTC, adb is running fine in console, but Eclipse doesn't.
In addition, I also try restarting adb with Eclipse - Devices tab, but the list of devices are empty too.
Anyone can help me, please? I've read so much that my eyes are pixelated. xD
Best regards!!
PD: sorry, but my english is a bit poor ;)

in the DDMS perspective (if it doesn't show, add it by click window>open perspective>other...>DDMS)
then click the triangle of the devices tab > reset adb.
this works for me.

I finally resolved the problem, please see my blog
you can do this steps to solve the problem:
task manager-> process
right click on adb.exe and left click on "properties"
check the path of the process:
-if the path is like "Programs\android-sdk\platform-tools", which means it is the android sdk that is running this process.
-if not, that means there is another process this is running adb.exe, you have to kill the process or service which runs adb.exe.(you can identify the process by the path)

I've had this problem too. The solution I've found is to kill eclipse, open up task manager and kill the adb.exe process. Then when you start eclipse again, that should also kick start adb and it should work from there.

Try the following steps :
- Close Eclipse IDE
- Go to the Android SDK platform-tools directory in Command Prompt
- run adb kill-server
- run adb start-server
- Now start Eclipse again.
Hope this may help you :)

In my case, in Windows7
Close all opened emulators
Go to task manager > processes and then click on adb.exe and press the button 'end process'.
Then go to command prompt go to plate-form tools and type
adb start-server
Then run your application through eclipse.
It worked fine for me.

you try
Open Task Manager > Processes > eclipse.exe > End Process > restart eclipse

In my case the problem was the FIREWALL!.Turn off your windows firewall , Then restart adb and eclipse from task-manager

How to attach back the Android emulator to ADB?

After I start the emulator by hitting Debug in Eclipse, after certain time it disconnects from the ADB, but the emulator stays open. It is responsive, I can navigate and start apps.
How can I attach back the emulator to ADB, to be able to debug from Eclipse?
(the current workaround is the terminate the emulator, close Eclipse and restart both of them, which takes 10 minutes as you know the emulator needs time to start up)
EDIT 1
Check out this image:
EDIT 2
After I kill and restart server. One emulator process shows up in Devices tab in Eclipse. But that cannot be expanded, and I don't see sub-processes.
I can't hit debug already, as it says: Debug already running. (How to I stop the debug?)
If I managed to start the debugging of another project, It hangs out in the emulator telling me: Waiting for the debugger to attach. Nothing happens.

As you said, the problem is not Eclipse losing contact with the Emulator, but ADB - the Android Debug Bridge - losing contact with it. As Eclipse uses ADB to communicate with the emulator when ADB is broken Eclipse can do nothing.
To fix this stop the ADB server by running the following command:
adb kill-server
Eclipse will then usually try to restart ADB, or you can restart it yourself by running an ADB command, such as:
adb devices
If you do, you'll see output like this:
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
emulator-5554 device
You can also do this via the mouse, using the Reset adb option in the Devices view in Eclipse.
It's also worth noting the Console view has two modes, DDMS and Android. You're usually in Console mode but it's DDMS mode which will show ADB status messages. Select modes by clicking the button with the Monitor icon, or using the arrow next to it:
If all else fails, try killing the adb processes from the OS. On Windows XP I use:
TASKKILL /F /IM adb.exe

There is an easier way. From eclipse you can reset the adb from DDMS panel.
Here's a short video on doing that "Reset ADB on DDMS"
Here's a quick screenshot of where you can get the option.

Sometimes a kill-server won't help at my machine (WinXP). For example I can't see the emulator in the DDMS-View any more or I do see it but no processes running on it.
In these cases I close the emulator and eclipse and manually kill the adb.exe-process from the process list.
When I then restart eclipse and the emulator, everything's fine again.
Now I just need a keyboard-shortcut for that :-)

on a mac, i just had to kill adb from activity manager and manually re-open the program again. had eclipse open all through and it worked just fine.

Try with adb kill-server and adb start-server. Even then the same problem occurs kill your running process from ddms prespective. Refer this link(http://www.jiahaoliuliu.com/2011/02/stopping-android-applications-already.html). This solved my issue. Hope for you also.

I am testing an application on an Android 4.0 (API level 14) emulator and once I run the app the emulator starts up and as soon as it loads, Eclipse DDMS disconnects from the emulator.
Here is the workaround that I am using: Open terminal, navigate to platform tools (C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\ or wherever you have your android-sdk installed), and run adb kill-server, and then run, adb start-server. DDMS should now list the emulator - from Java perspective, right click on the app -> Run As -> Android Application.
Hope this helps.

My handy bash script
#!/bin/bash
./path/to/adb kill-server
./path/to/adb start-server
./path/to/adb devices