I can't connect to my Firefox OS device

Question

I've bought a Firefox OS mobile lately and I thought of flashing it with a new version of Gaia. According to MDN, I gotta set up ADB in my computer. I've done all that. But, over the last few hours, I'm having a major trouble connecting my device to my computer. In order to make-reset Gaia, I need to have connected to my device.

I ran lsusb, and I've found this as my device

Bus 002 Device 043: ID 1782:5d24 Spreadtrum Communications Inc.

So, I updated my 50-android.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d with the following information:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1782", ATTR{idProduct}=="5d24", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev", OWNER="wafflespeanut"

^{I also tried the methods suggested by this answer & this answer, which didn't make a difference :/}

Every time I made a reasonable change, I rebooted my system. For other minor changes, I just pull the cable, logout/login and try connecting it again.

But, despite of whatever I do, whenever I run adb devices (along with udev restart, kill-server, start-server), I get nothing other than this default string.

List of devices attached

... which doesn't encourage.

So, is there anything I might've overlooked, or any ways at all to connect my mobile? Can you please help me out?

In my android-rules I only had to specify subsystem, the idvendor attr, mode, and group to get my tablet to connect to adb. Maybe try removing the other entries? Just a guess though. — Organic Marble, May 30 '15 at 13:37
@OrganicMarble: Yeah, that's what I did at first. I added the other entries only when I found that the conventional ones had failed to work. — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, May 30 '15 at 14:05
@OrganicMarble: apt says that I'm running the latest version (4.2.2, I guess). — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, May 30 '15 at 14:13
@OrganicMarble: Oops, it says 1.0.31. I first ran apt-cache policy android-tools-adb which said 4.2.2 (which must've been the entire package) — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, May 30 '15 at 14:20
I had to go install 1.0.32 for some reason. I don't know if that is worth the trouble for you though. — Organic Marble, May 30 '15 at 14:26
@OrganicMarble: It now shows some device! Wait, I'll check it. — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, May 30 '15 at 14:45
@OrganicMarble: It worked! My device is now shown in adb. I dunno how it did, but thanks to you. You can write that as an answer :) — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, May 30 '15 at 14:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '15 at 15:15

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Perhaps try installing version 1.0.32? I may have had to do that to get it to work. But it's been quite a while.

answered May 30 '15 at 15:15

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It somehow worked (I never imagined a simple version change would make a difference). It now shows a device. Thanks :) – Waffle's Crazy Peanut May 30 '15 at 15:47

I can't connect to my Firefox OS device

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