You shouldn't have to worry about port forwarding. But if adb doesn't see your device it probably means you don't have the correct adb driver installed. If you can't find an adb driver supplied by the manufacturer (Lenovo ?) you might try this:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/post/universal-adb-driver.
Good reports of it - but I just tried using it with a HiSense phone without success so obviously not all devices are supported.....
>>Does the 'adb devices' command show your device as being connected?
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>No it doesn't but when I plug the USB cable in, I get the normal dialog boxes to browse the tablet's drive.
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>The first time I run adb devices, it starts a daemon on port 5037. Not sure if that is the correct port. I read in the docs about using port forwarding but not sure that is necessary since I can get to my web browser from the tablet. Last, just to clarify, all I am trying to do is debug a web app running on my Android tablet.
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>Thanks.
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>>>Thanks Viv. The first link has a link for Lenovo but it is all in Chinese. Even after translation, I couldn't find the driver. The generic driver on your second link installed and seems to be working but I still can't get Chrome's device inspector to find the tablet.
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>>>I saw Android Studio by JetBrains and I will probably download it when I get to that point. I use PhpStorm by the same company and it is probably the best IDE I have ever used.
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>>>>>I have been trying to get the to work with my tablet and I am stuck on installing the usb driver to talk to my tablet. The docs from google say install in from here sdk\extras\google\usb_driver\ but they are not there. I even downloaded the SDK and still not there. Any idea where I can find the drivers?
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>>>>Think it depends on your device :
http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#Drivers>>>>Google driver is here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html>>>>
>>>>FWIW, I recently switched to using Android Studio ( I'm pretty sure the download includes everything you need - but I'm not sure since I had the SDK already installed) :
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
