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Root [Sprint/Cricket] Mac - SPRINT galaxy 3 + gear question

jujubeads

jujubeads

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I AM HAVING trouble getting my galaxy 3 to show up in my finder. I have installed dev. tools, fastboot and adb. But everytime i attempt to connect my device nothing happens. When i attempt to veiw my device via adb in get this:

c-50-184-13-153:android-sdk margaretwebster$ ./adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
bd597584 unauthorized

Please help. (please note i am attempting to mod my Galaxy gear but need to get it to connect via usb first. Debugging is activated on both my watch and my phone)
 
So is your issue with connecting to your phone or your watch? Let me know and I can move your thread into the appropriate forum where someone familiar with the device can help you out :)
 
adb devices has returned a serial number, so it's connected. It's just the "unauthorised" that looks odd. Was there any pop-up on the device when you made this connection? Recent Android versions added a "adb whitelist", so if that's the cause (the Mac not being known to the device) there should have been a pop-up to ask you whether you wanted to authorise it.

ADB won't make it appear in the Finder though. That's for storage devices. If you want to copy files either use adb push from the terminal (maybe after understanding the" unauthorised" ) or try installing Google's Android File Transfer on the Mac, which will give you a Finder-like view of the device storage (no idea whether it works with the Gear though).
 
thanks soooo much for the response guys! No, its not returning and error. The issue is with connecting my phone to my mac. First, i attempted to try .?fastboot devices - from within my desktop folder= /android-sdk then ./fastboot devices. That returned nothing just went back to my ~bash$user. Then i decided to try./adb (within my android-sdk) that connected but the end result ended with the "unauthorized) messgage..... basically my computer wont let me in! its really been pissing me off because i have had problems with this mac from day one!!!:o
 
oh and i tried the Google android transfer too in the beginning and that too returned several connection errors. Could it be a bad USB connection? i have tried using several different cable but no luck
 
Codesplice... sorry about that/. the issue is with my macs connection to my phone. Haven't been able to get far enough with my gear yet! lo9l
 
jujubeads said:
Codesplice... sorry about that/. the issue is with my macs connection to my phone. Haven't been able to get far enough with my gear yet! lo9l
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No worries! I moved the thread into the Sprint Galaxy S3 All Things Root subforum. Hopefully someone will be able to help you out with the specifics here. The "unauthorized" message actually sounds like the phone isn't accepting inbound debugging connections; I could tell you how to fix it with a Nexus device but I'm afraid I'm clueless with Samsung.

Do let me know if I can do anything else to help though! :)
 
You need to put it into a different mode to use fastboot - that won't work when running Android.

On my HTCs you access fastboot mode through the bootloader, so I guess it's similar on a Samsung. But it may be called something different - Samsung owners talk about "download mode" and "Odin mode", but never having modified a Samsung I don't know what these are in detail.
 
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