Android Studio recognizes physical Device as Null?

Just run this command after you connect your device to your Ubuntu system:

adb devices

This works for me.

Note: Make sure you have selected file transfer option in your phone.


Ok So I finally found the problem, apparently on this device you have to set to connect as camera(even after usb debugging is already enabled)

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Also this link describes the setting up process


I've seen this error a few times when adb hasn't been connected with correct permissions.

On the terminal try

~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools> ./adb devices    

if it returns

<deviceIdentifier> no permissions

then you need to restart adb with correct perms

~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools$> ./adb kill-server
~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools$> sudo ./adb devices

if that worked then you'll get

List of devices attached
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
<deviceIdentifier>  device

No more Sdk version resolution issues in Android Studio after that.