No devices detected when remote debugging in Chrome Developer Tools from Windows 7 Enterprise to Samsung Galaxy Tab A

To get my Samsung S7 to connect, I did the following.

  1. Download Samsung's USB Driver for Windows from here: http://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/others/android-usb-driver-for-windows
  2. Install the driver
  3. Uninstall the driver. It's important to do this step, as your device won't connect until you uninstall. Strange, I know!

I initially reported this solution in the comments section here but I didn't think it was a legitimate solution. I've since been able to reproduce this on 2 Windows 10 Pro devices and others have also confirmed.

2019-05-10 Update

After a Windows Update, this stopped working so I went through the process outlined above again. Installed driver then uninstalled driver and everything started working again.


This was my solution to show device in Chrome Developer Tools:

1) Download SDK Platform-Tools for Windows (7.16MB) from here.

2) Extract zip file.

3) In Windows terminal run your equivalent of:

D:\Users\You\path_to_extracted_folder\adb.exe devices

At first I got:

[5203253125 - long number] unauthorised

And then I think I unplugged and replugged USB cable from tablet and there was a prompt on the tablet:

Allow USB Debugging?
The computer's RSA key fingerprint is:
blah blah etc

to which I click OK

And I can now see device in Chrome Developer Tools!