Can't connect to Android via ADB over wifi - Do I need root access?

Question

I\'m basically trying to do this: How can I connect to Android with ADB over TCP? with the Droid X2.

I have USB Debugging on, and my phone is plugged in via USB. The

Answer 1

The problem with me for my Samsung Tab 1 was an adb process was already running on port 5037 on my Xubuntu 14.04 machine, which I was unaware about until I typed pgrep -l -u username. To fix this, I terminated the adb process using pkill adb, navigated to my platform tools folder and ran adb tcpip 5037 and then connected to my device using the 5037 port number. Boom! Worked like a charm.