ADB doesn't detect Motorola Droid

Question

I have a Motorola Droid1 phone, running android 2.2.3 (not rooted). When I run adb devices it doesn't detect the Droid. I checked in Device Manager on my 64bit Win8 machine, and I see an Android ADB Interface listed there. I never had this problem with my other Motorola phones (Droid X1, Droid X2, Droid Bionic).

I have tried many things: - reinstall Motorola USB drivers - kill adb process - kill adb server - restart the machine - factory-reset the phone - pub 0x22B8 into adb_usb.ini

Nothing helps. Has anybody experienced a similar issue?

Thanks, Igor

Answer 1

I've never been able to get my Motorola Droid (first gen) to connect over ADB in Windows 8, even with all the above set. Other devices in Windows 8 64-bit work with those settings. Not my original Motorola Droid though.

But ADB works for me in Windows 7 64-bit, once all the above settings are also made. I think the modern ADB USB driver for Windows 8 only half supports devices as old as the original Droid. It's quite frustrating, but I don't know of any other way around this for now.

Answer 2

I had the same problem then tried to turn off USB debugging and then managed to connnect.