Constantly getting ...DeviceMonitor] Failed to start monitoring

Question

I find that after running or debugging my application a few times using eclipse, that I get the above output in my console (in red) and I get no feedback from Dalvik as to the connection status to my phone is going. My application will still debug etc. I just get nothing useful in my Console.

Any ideas how to fix this? It appears intermittent. It starts doing it after a few minutes, continues to do it for quite a while and occasionally goes away again. This has happened on my last laptop and now on my new laptop with a completely fresh install etc.

See this [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7622641/8524) solved it for me — Diederik, Jun 13 '12 at 13:45

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '12 at 20:07

35

ok so here's what fixed it for me and I think this is retarded that I have to do this. I'm on Windows 7 64 bit, but maybe 2 or 3 times during the day I get this same error. I tried the reboot thing sometimes it worked, sometimes it does not...

I have to:

Close Eclipse
Unplug USB
Open task manager and find the "adb.exe *32" and End Task
Open Eclipse (not done yet)
"Clean All" (clean all not just project)
Then build the project (for me just building the project works)
Plug USB back in and there ya go!

Always works for me. Like I said retarded, Android dev sucks, but makes money... iPhone/xCode is BETTER!

If anyone knows of an update to something I can down load to avoid doing this all the time, I'd love to know!

answered Jun 26 '12 at 20:07

Tim Maxey

701
6
13

3

tks, killing the adb.exe did it. first year of development is spending 10 minutes writing code and the rest of the day researching stack overflow for a new cryptic error message and doing odd fixes like this one. I only clean as a last resort however, as that can initiate the dreaded "R not found" error on all lines of codes involving a resource. – Androidcoder Oct 29 '13 at 00:28
3

All I had to do was kill adb.exe as instructed above. Thanks. – Twice Circled Nov 20 '13 at 14:10
I only needed steps 1-3. – theblang Jan 10 '14 at 16:05
Worked for me. Nothing else worked but following these steps worked. – Muhammad Tanweer Feb 28 '14 at 23:24

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '12 at 14:46

16

I had the same problem - Try to use a different USB port. From my experience, the USB connections on the PC front are not recommended.

answered Apr 29 '12 at 14:46

Asaf Pinhassi

14,214
11
102
121

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 16:59

2

Year almost 2018 I just had same problem which doubled my gray hairs. It turned out my test phone Samsung Galaxy S6 does not like the USB ports on my Apple Thunderbolt Display. I just plugged the USB cable directly to my Mac Pro and it worked right away. Funny thing is my Google Pixel Phone never complains about the USB port on Thunderbolt.

answered Oct 17 '17 at 16:59

Devrim

41
4

the solution,connect the usb in other port WDF! – David Hackro Nov 17 '17 at 15:44
2020, the same solution worked - one USB port was disliked, one not and complete lack of any useful error message.... – reducing activity Jun 11 '20 at 07:12

Dilruk · Answer 4 · 2013-01-26T04:08:17.843

You may have to kill the deamon and restart it. Following are the steps;

open a command prompt and locate the SDK's platform tools folder. E.g.:- cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
then execute "adb kill-server" command. You will see the disconnected icon in run configuration panel is now cleared.
then again execute "adb start-server" command.
Then try running the device, if it doesn't work try restarting the eclipse.

etherton · Answer 5 · 2012-03-22T18:17:01.937

1

To keep the error message from showing up I did the following on Eclipse 3.7:

Window->Preferences
On the left side tree select Android->DDMS
In the DDMS settings window choose logging level "Assert"
Click "Apply"

edited Mar 22 '12 at 18:17

answered Mar 22 '12 at 17:25

etherton

874
2
8
20

This will just hide the problem – reducing activity Jun 11 '20 at 07:13

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 16:40

0

problem causes bay USB bug

1- save your work 2- Close Eclipse 3- restart your computer 4- Open Eclipse and enjoy ^^ it works for me

good luck

answered Mar 15 '14 at 16:40

hchems

55
3

score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 12:46

I was using a USB 3.0 port too and a device Xoom with ics 4.0. To solve my problem, I needed to restart my Windows, because in the DDMS my device was showed twice. After the restart, I needed to change the USB port to a 2.0 USB port and it work for me.

score -1 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 03 '12 at 13:40

-1

restart your dev machine, worked for me :)

answered Jan 03 '12 at 13:40

Dori

17,514
16
69
112

I have the same problem as the OP, but resetting only occasionally helps and for a short time, if at all. – Amir Rachum Apr 21 '12 at 18:41
Switch to IntelliJ IDEA - much better and no problems! http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/google_android.html – Dori Apr 23 '12 at 09:17
Amir, check out my "answer" with steps 1 through 7. You ever find something else that fixed that takes less steps? – Tim Maxey Jun 26 '12 at 20:09

Constantly getting ...DeviceMonitor] Failed to start monitoring

8 Answers8

Linked