Getting Android SDK to work with Fedora 10

31Jan/096

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.

Tagged as: Android, bugs Leave a comment

mike

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

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
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nwk

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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The SYSFS identifier seems to be deprecated in newer Fedora/udev builds, I wrote a recipe for how to get it running under Fedora 14 as a gist here: https://gist.github.com/715264
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