ADB not responding. You can wait more,or kill “adb.exe” process manually and click 'Restart'

Question

I have installed Android Studio. Then I have updated the Android SDK. Now when I start Android Studio, this message pops up:

ADB not responding. You can wait more,or kill "adb.exe" process manually and click 'Restart'

The dialog has 3 options: Wait more, Restart and Cancel. But all of them gives me the same result, ie a message Waiting for ADB appears and I can't do anything with Android Studio.

I have to kill the program using windows task manager! I'm using windows 7.

Can anyone help me on this?

Answer 1

Go to

Tools > Android > (Uncheck) Enable ADB Integration (if studio hangs/gets stuck end adb process manually)

then,

Tools > Android > (Check) Enable ADB Integration

Answer 2

On my macbook pro, i was occasionally getting this in Android Studio. The following resolved it for me:

Open up a Terminal and, instead of using 'adb kill-server', use this:

$ killall adb

wait a minute and it looks like Android Studio automatically restarts adb on it's own.

Answer 3

From the command prompt run the command adb kill-server . This will shutdown ADB and android studio or Eclipse if you were to use that, would show Waiting for ADB as you said.

Once ADB has shutdown down run adb start-server or run adb devices which will automatically start the adb service and show that your android emulator or development devices has successfully connected.

Answer 4

If you are suffering from "ADB not responding. If you'd like to retry, then please manually kill 'adb' and click 'Restart' or terminal appear Syntax error: “)” unexpected" then perhaps you are using 32bit OS and platform-tools has updated up 23.1. The solution is to go back to the platform-tools 23.0.1.

You can download the platform-tools 23.0.1 for Linux here , for windowns here and Mac here

After the download, go to your sdk location > platform-tools folder to delete old platform-tools in sdk and paste down into the downloaded one.

Woohooo ... it should work.

This is a bug with latest ADT.

Answer 5

For me, on Windows 7, killing the ADB server and restarting it via command line did not help. It would not start up successfully.

>adb kill-server

>adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *

So killing the adb.exe process via Task Manager was actually the easiest solution that case.

Answer 6

Check if any service is listening on port 5037, and kill it. You can use lsof for this:

$ lsof -i :5037
$ kill <PID Process>

Then try

$ adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

This solved my problem.

Answer 7

This issue could be because adb incompatibility with the newest version of the platform SDK.

Try the following:

1. If you are using Genymotion, manually set the Android SDK within Genymotion settings to your sdk path. Go to Genymotion -> settings -> ADB -> Use custom SDK Tools -> Browse and ender your local SDK path.

2. If you haverecently updated your platform-tools plugin version, revert back to 23.0.1.

Its a bug within ADB, one of the above must most likely be your solution.

Answer 8

I ran into this problem and tried a number of solutions on my Mac without any success. I finally got to work with the commands below:

$ rm -rf ~/.android
$ killall adb
$ adb devices

Note that rm -rf ~/.android will remove any AVDs that you have configured, so don't take this step lightly. Personally I had to though and I'm not sure why. Hopefully this helps someone.

Answer 9

1.if your phone system is over 4.2.2 , there will be

2.disconnect the USB and try again or restart your phone

3.After after all try , it didn't work. It may be a shortage power supply so try other usb interface on your computer.

I solved the problem doing the first step . anyway have try.

Answer 10

我有这个问题，并通过这种方式解决了...我的电脑中有一个使用adb的应用程序...我试图禁用它但仍然我的android工作室的adb在unistall应用程序和问题解决后出现问题。

Answer 11

如果您需要使用一个命令终止Windows上的所有adb进程，您可以按如下方式执行：

taskkill /F /IM adb*

Answer 12

I had the same problem. I have restarted ADB in any possible way, I have killed the process and restarted the PC with no results.

Then I found this plugin. Just download and install it in your Android Studio IDE. Under Tools -> Android you have a menu ADB Idea. Here you can kill, start, restart, clean ADB.

Answer 13

None of the above helped me completely. Although Oventoaster made me think. I had a couple of adb on my system. Removed them almost all.

I am running android studio on ubuntu 14.04 64 bit.

So I checked manually /home/xxxxx/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb

where xxxxx was my linux username

this gave

/home/xxxxx/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27415749/4453157

solved it for me.

Answer 14

If the above CMD command option is not working and you cannot make it work in any other way then follow this below.

Click on below link

http://adbshell.com/downloads

and download the first link with name ADB Kits ( contains adb.exe and necessary .dll files).

After downloading replace these files with the ones in the path

Android/Sdk/platform-tools/

Now click on adb.exe and it will open cmd and will start the adb server.

Now it will detect the device and no problem. OOOOOllllaaaaa.....

If the Problem persists again then do the same... save the folder somewhere.... just replace files... it will detect the device automatically then

Answer 15

I run netstat -nao | findstr 5037 netstat -nao | findstr 5037 in cmd.

As you see there is a process with id 3888. I kill it with taskkill /f /pid 3888 if you have more than one, kill all.

after that run adb with adb start-server , my adb run sucessfully.

Answer 16

我在Windows 8上遇到了这个问题，但是我通过使用SDK Manager更新所有Android Studio的插件，然后重新启动计算机来解决了这个问题。

Answer 17

另一个：您可能希望避免同时运行Eclipse和Android Studio，这对我有所帮助。

Answer 18

I had this problem on Windows 7. My situation is this through SDK Manager. I only download API 19 but I had not downloaded related Android SDK build-tools. So it occur this problem.

I went through SDK Manager download build-tools 19 to fix it. Hope to give you help.

Answer 19

Faced this issue on Mac:

I have tried different solution, But below works for me -

1. Uninstall " Vysor " plugin if you have installed for Chrome
2. Under Home folder > find .Android folder and move to trash
3. Goto, Android sdk > delete/move to trash platform-tools folder
4. Again install/download from Android SDK Manager
5. Open terminal -
   • adb kill-server
   • adb start-server
6. Check adb devices , It will work and display you all connected devices.

Hope it helps !

Answer 20

there seems to be about a million reasons this bug happens, but for me (running on ubuntu), it was openvpn running in the background that caused it.

I killed the openvpn service and no more issues.