Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Detecting connected devices

The following adb command provides a list of all the devices connected to the forensic workstation. This will also list the emulator if it is running at the time of issuing the command. Also remember that, if the necessary drivers are not installed, then the following command will show a blank message. If you encounter this situation, download the necessary drivers from the manufacturer and install them:

We now have a list of devices connected to the workstation. Next, we will see how to kill the local ADB server.