Debugging Android Nexus 5X on Ubuntu
After plugging my Nexus 5X (and activating debugging), I did get: $ adb devices List of devices attached 00d60721d971c30400d60721d971c304 no permissions (verify udev rules); see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] First i used lsusb to find my vendor id (here I guess google) $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8009 Intel Corp. ... Bus 003 Device 011: ID 18d1:4ee7 Google Inc. ... Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub As suggested in https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device.html the solution was to sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules Add the following # Google SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" I simply did: $ sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules $ adb kill-server $ adb devices List of devices attached 00d6...