Printminion's Weblog: [SOLVED]Connect Nexus 7 and/or Galaxy Nexus to ubuntu

August 3, 2012

You want to develop on your new shiny Nexus 7 and

adb devices

keeps giving you

???????? device

oprn your rules file

gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

probably you will see following line (if you already configured your Galaxy nexus) If not add it to the file, just in case

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860", MODE="0666", OWNER="YOUR_USER_ID"

Now we should get the idVendor and idProduct from the Nexus 7. Connect it to your computer and

lsusb

you will see something like

Bus 001 Device 013: ID 18d1:4e42 Google Inc.

we need this two values

paste this string with proper values to 51-android.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e42", MODE="0666", OWNER="YOUR_USER_ID"

Save the file. Do the

sudo service udev restart

Now run

adb devices

you should see your device

List of devices attached
015d172c98280c0b device