Why Genymobile/scrcpy: Display and control your Android device over ethernet cable sucks – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on February 6, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org

Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org reported about this problem:

The solution for the problem I had with my smartphone since 10 years

But now he found out when he uses this instruction:

with an ethernet adapter for his android phone, he always has to plug the Android phone over usb to the Ubuntu PC

then type:

adb tcpip 5555
remove usb cable
and then connect the Android ethernet adapter
then type: adb connect 192.168.1.101:5555
scrcpy

This is rather complicated. But it is the only solution we found which works. Peter has an adapter for his android phone which has ethernet, a plug to charge the phone, and an SD card reader. This makes the Android phone very comfortable to use. It has almost features as a Pinephone.

But since it is rather complicated, such instruction bring other options such as Raspberry Pis closer to be Peters next smartphone:

Why my next phone will be a Raspberry Pi if also the Fairphone becomes unfair

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