Adb does not detect android device on Windows - Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2

Question

Problem

Simple, adb does not recognize my android tablet - Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2

Note: I can access the storage from explorer, that is not the issue. Issue is adb does not recognize it. Hence unable to debug on the device.

This is not a duplicate. Have exhaustively tried solutions in all similar posts on SO.

Things already tried:

Installed drivers from http://support.lenovo.com/ and tried updating from device manager. - It always says drivers are already up to date. Also tried reinstalling but it automatically defaults back to MTP Device
Installed Intel USB Drivers setup from suggestions on this lenovo forum and installed.
Updated ~/.android/adb_usb.ini and adding the vendor id 0x17ef.
Updated ~/.android/adb_usb.ini and adding exaustive list of all vendor ids from here.

None of the above satisfied adb and the device is still not showing up when executing adb devices.

What did I miss? or what else can i try?

can you add a link to the suggested tool and give a brief of how it works? — Viral Patel, Jan 21 '16 at 11:35
Try `adb kill-server` and then `adb start-server` in the console. — Joaquin Iurchuk, Jan 21 '16 at 11:36
did that after every new thing i tried. does not make it work. — Viral Patel, Jan 21 '16 at 11:37
I am pretty sure that you enable the debuging on your device. Did you? — Blady214, Jan 21 '16 at 11:39
You could try to install [this](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Zn9Y8ZbKwAdDVCeV9FU0F0Nlk/view?usp=sharing) driver. It did work for me on a device I had troubles with. Hope it helps — harry, Jan 21 '16 at 11:49
Awesome... that worked! You might want to post it as an answer so that i can accept. — Viral Patel, Jan 21 '16 at 11:52

Viral Patel · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-21T13:13:26.803

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Also found another Universal Windows ADB Driver Tool for Windows users. This one is downloadable from a proper website, if we do not want to go with the anonymous source in the answer I've accepted earlier (although it did work for me). This tool is open source and its source code can be found on GitHub.

Download from clockworkmod.com - Here

Download from author's GitHub repo - Here

If you do any Android development on Windows, this will be ridiculously handy. Every manufacturer ships their own ADB driver on Windows, so getting new devices running on ADB is a royal pain. I've compiled a list of most phone vendor and product ids and rolled them into a single driver.

You can grab the download here. And the source is available on Github.

Source : http://koush.com/post/universal-adb-driver

edited Jan 21 '16 at 13:13

answered Jan 21 '16 at 13:06

Viral Patel

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This answer is being discussed on meta: [Link only answers recommending to run an executable from unverifiable source](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/332860/link-only-answers-recommending-to-run-an-executable-from-unverifiable-source?cb=1) – Ferrybig Aug 23 '16 at 09:59
Thank you for bringing it to my attention. – Viral Patel Aug 23 '16 at 12:19
@Ferrybig, actually the meta topic you linked was discussing another currently deleted answer to this question which was the accepted answer at the time. – Alex P. Sep 06 '16 at 15:44
Doesn't work for me unfortunately. Lenovo S8 tablet and Windows 7. – Czechnology Dec 09 '16 at 09:17

Adb does not detect android device on Windows - Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2

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