How to Connect to Android with ADB over TCP?

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

In this article, we will discuss how we connect the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) over TCP. ADB is used to communicate with the device. It provides access to a Unix shell that you can use to run a variety of commands on a device. It has mainly three components: 

  1. Client: It is the user who sends the commands, it runs on the development machine.
  2. Daemon: Background process on each device.
  3. Server: It establishes communication between client and daemon.

Installing steps for Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

  • Go to the SDK platform tools for downloading the ADB (zip).
  • Extract the downloaded zip file.
  • Open the folder and copy/cut the platform-tools folder.
  • Then in C-Drive make a new folder and insert the copied folder in it.
  • Open the environmental system variable tab from settings and set the path of the platform-tools folder: C:\Android\platform-tools.
  • Now it's all set, you can check it with run the command:
$ adb version

For checking the other features and help for ADB run the below command:

$ adb

Steps for connecting the Android with ADB over TCP

  • Run the Command Prompt/ Terminal/ Windows PowerShell with Run as administrator.
  • Firstly check if your ADB tool was installed successfully or not, if not then follow the above steps carefully.
  • Connect your android device with a laptop/pc using a USB cable. Then in the android device turn on developer options from settings, and in developer options turn on USB Debugging (PTP/ MTP).
  • After that on the windows terminal run the command to remove previous devices on the ADB server:
$ adb kill-server

This command kills all devices which connected with ADB on your pc.

 

After that start your Daemon (Default port 5037) with the following command:

$ adb usb

Connect your device using TCP/ IP odd number port which is 5555 or 5037: 

$ adb tcpip 5555
 

Connect the android device with your pc using ADB using the below command:

$ adb connect <Your Android Device IP Address>:<Port Number>
 

For checking if your android device is connected successfully or not just check by the below command:

$ adb devices
 

For checking your android device background process type the below command:

$ adb logcat

Conclusion

Finally, we connected our android device with the pc/ laptop over TCP/ IP with the help of the Android Debug Bridge. We can handle many more features of our android with the help of the ADB tools like file sharing, installations, etc.

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