An It-slave in the digital saltmine

I wanted to use the Android SDK on my Ubuntu machine, mainly to grab screenshoots but also to play around with it.

I followed the guidelines at this guide, but it did not work. DDM just show garbage as the device and when trying to get a screenshoot it complained with:

54:42 W/ddms: Unable to get frame buffer: device (????????????) 
request rejected: insufficient permissions for device

After some googling i figured out that I had to hack my udev rules.

I added to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0c87", MODE="0666"
 

and run

reload udev

The idVendor and  idProduct was found by running lsusb:

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0bb4:0c87 High Tech Computer Corp. 

Now when starting DDM:

And I can take screenshoots:

2 Responses to “Hint: Howto get Android SDK working on Ubuntu”

1. Joaquim Homrighausen Says:
   September 4th, 2010 at 12:33 am

   Very nice write-up! The “permission denied” stuff had me baffled too, until I found your post 🙂

2. Herbert Mühlburger's Weblog » Blog Archive » HowTo set up the Android SDK on Ubuntu for HTC Phones Says:
   March 12th, 2011 at 7:19 pm

   […] (Thanks to the post of it-slav.net) […]

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