Eclipse DDMS error “Can't bind to local 8600 for debugger”

Question

I get the following error in Eclipse:

[timestamp - ddms] Can\'t bind to local 8600 for debugger

Why?

Answer 1

I had the following hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.2 localhost

and i started getting the error continously and it was very annoying

“Can't bind to local 8600 for debugger”
“Can't bind to local 8601 for debugger”
“Can't bind to local 8602 for debugger” and so on

I deleted the second line from the hosts file 192.168.1.2 localhost and everything is back to normal.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Try another cable and if that doesn't work try another phone.

I wrestled with this and all the tips above for several days. But the connector on my devices was flakey. As a test move the phone and see if you get connections dropping.

Some of the tips such a ADB USB will fix it temporarily and explicitly (re) selecting the device process to debug. But for me the root cause was that the physical connection.

So now with the new device I have no problem ever! A flakey cable would cause the same issue. Good luck! I feel your pain.