Android – could not install *smartsocket* listener

If you have the situation where this keeps happening and killing and restarting still doesn’t work it may be a problem with your adb installation. I had to reinstall adb to resolve this problem:

  1. Reboot to ensure no instances of adb is running
  2. Launch SDK Manager in Android Studio: Tools->Android->SDK Manager
  3. Select the SDK Tools tab
  4. Deselect Android SDK Platform-Tools item
  5. Hit Apply
  6. Check the on screen logs to make sure the un-installation succeeded and that the SDK/platform-tools folder is empty.

This should completely remove adb from your SDK.

  1. Now re-select the Android SDK Platform-Tools item
  2. Hit apply
  3. Check the on screen logs that installation was successful.

I suspect in my case an update of the platform tools had failed perhaps because it failed to kill a running adb.exe and only a partial update was applied resulting in an unstable adb installation.

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