adb no longer works with latest Android update (4.2.2)

[Chris Kankiewicz]

With the latest update of andorid to 4.2.2 Android introduced adb whitelisting. According to https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/M2pVM7Y6MTq an updated adb binary is required to support this feature. As it stands, the current adb binary included with android-tools-adb is not compatible with Android version 4.2.2

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Expected: With phone connected to PC and USB Debugging enabled, run "adb devices", get pop-up prompt on phone asking to authorize this computer and, after authorizing the PC see the following output:

$ adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
[DEVICE_ID] device

Actual: run "adb devices", no pop-up prompt for authorization and the following output:

$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
[DEVICE_ID] offline

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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04

$ apt-cache policy android-tools-adb
android-tools-adb:
  Installed: 4.1.1+git20120801-1ubuntu2+2~webupd8~precise3
  Candidate: 4.1.1+git20120801-1ubuntu2+2~webupd8~precise3
  Version table:
 *** 4.1.1+git20120801-1ubuntu2+2~webupd8~precise3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Chris Kankiewicz (phlak)]

Fixed apt-cache policy output.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ricardo N Feliciano (felicianotech)]

Just wanted to add, besides ADB basically not working at this point with Android 4.2.2, the reasoning behind the change on Android's (Google's) part is due to increased security.

I believe that makes this more of a reason to update android-tools for Quantal (maybe even Precise) than just have users wait for Raring.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Per my duplicate bug, a workaround is now available by installing backported adb from phablet-tools PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~phablet-team/+archive/tools

The updated adb is also available in raring.