Me: Enables USB debugging, plugs in phone
ADB: Doesnt see phone
Windows: Doesnt have drivers
Me: Downloads drivers
Windows: Nah
Me: Tells windows to use drivers
Windows: Naah
Me: Tells windows where drivers are
Windows: Naaah no drivers there

@Haxk20 Ill do that once I finally manage to install grub

i have this issue but it's thanks to my phone being garbage, it even causes Linux to kernel panic sometimes on connection

This sounds like Windows 7, renowned for not detecting ADB drivers.

Are you sure the cable supports data transfer?

Some cables are beyond fucked up. Cost me once quite a while to figure out

@IntrusionCM File transfer works. Windows detects 3 usb devices, one is the file management, 2 are unsupported (adb + idk what the third one is).
Btw it isnt the original cable, that one didnt support data transfer at all.

@dontbeevil Well it literally told me that the dir with all my drivers had no drivers in it. Sounds like a windows problem...

@WIPocket Did u try the Universal ADB drivers from CWM or the one from Google?

ADB CWM
https://adb.clockworkmod.com/

Google
https://developer.android.com/studi...

@IntrusionCM Didnt try CWM, but google didnt work and Samsungs official drivers didnt work

I have witnessed this.

One of many "last straws" before i went full time nix.

@WIPocket
1. bad cable
2. check your unknown devices, and force a driver install from there, using a generic adb. phone must be set correctly with adb on, and selected in the usb connected popup.

and yes - adb on win is fucked up.

@magicMirror Changed cable (original was bad)
File transfer works
Cant force windows to use ANY drivers on 2 unknown devices

One more day of this and Ill just forward it to a Linux VM

I gave up Android development on Windows a long time ago. ADB on Windows is such a mess, while it works perfectly fine on Linux.

@GXGOW works perfectly fine for me on windows. Only difference is drivers vs kernel modules. I'll stick with windows. Now to get iOS development on windows thats the trick.

Naah

@WIPocket If you want to give Linux a try, no need for grub, just use an old hard drive and use motherboard boot drive order. Or even just an old USB dongle. Or a toaster.

@bittersweet
All my old hw is waaaay too old to run android studio, so even a vm is a lot faster. I do have a live usb, but I would probably need to setup persistance on it.

I will probably try to dual boot anyway (I want to switch to Linux as my main os, but so far I cant install grub)