Getting Android SDK to work with Fedora 10

31Jan/094

Getting Android SDK to work with Fedora 10

Just thought I pass this little bit of information on. Fedora 10 (and Ubuntu also) is a little screwy when it comes to connecting the ADP1 device to Eclipse for testing.

Any USB device automatically gets connected as read-only which means the adb server and Eclipse won´t see the device when you plug it in.

This post gives a little information on how to fix it.

The idea is to create a rules file that listens for the Android device and sets the permissions differently. The rules are all located under /etc/udev/rules.d. So in detail,

Create a new rule for Android devices

vi /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

Add the following code

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",SYMLINK+="android_adb",MODE="0666"

And run

udevcontrol reload_rules

Plug it in and it should work.

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mike
July 25th, 2009 - 14:57

hi, i’m the original author of your note. looks like the udev stuff have
been changed yet again. on fedora core 11, it appears that you need to
change SYSFS(idVendor) to ATTR(idVendor):

SUBSYSTEM==”usb”,SYSFS{idVendor}==”0bb4″,SYMLINK+=”android_adb”,MODE=”0666″

also: apparently udevcontrol is being deprecated in favor of:

udevadm control –reload_rules

found your website trying to figure out what I had done!

Mike
David Khosid
July 29th, 2009 - 05:35

Hi,

’50-android.rules’ name is problematic. It should be at least 51-android.rules to be alphabetically after /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

I tried your recipe for connecting Android Dev Phone 1 on Fedora 11. It worked after I with ATTR{idVendor} and udevadm command

Two questions:
1. Why you add SYMLINK+=”android_adb” to its content? It works fine without it also.

2. As I checked, the system uses original files, it’s no need to reload. Why we need to reload rules?

NB, the command is slightly different from mike’s mail.
# sudo udevadm control –-reload-rules

Also, looking on syslog output (#tail -f /usr/var/messages) helped in investigating the problem, this way I understood that it was a problem in the file name.

Thanks a lot to you both!

David
7 String Bass
May 12th, 2010 - 23:56

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nwk
June 4th, 2010 - 23:32

Your post was the solution to the device permissions problem I was having with Fedora 12.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=246154

Thanks for taking the time to post this!

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