I have a strange issue that I can not seem to find any record of but it has now happened to me on two separate machines! I am building Windows Phone 8.1 apps and testing the
I had the same problem but solved it. Went to Control Panel > Device manager > Portable devices and uninstalled the phone. Plugged the phone back in and everything worked on both 2013 and 2015 Community.
It's taken me all day to find this though :-)
I sometimes get that, too. Here's how I fix it (phone remains connected via USB)
I've had some problems sometimes registering some WP devices as developer devices. I've never had this particular error, but maybe this will work.
When the device is connected to the computer, in the taskbar click in the icon which shows that a device is connected (the one where you can "Safely remove" the device) and right click on it and select the show devices and printers option. When it opens, you will see all the windows phone devices you have connected to the computer. Disconnect your device and uninstall it and its drivers by selecting the appropriate option after right clicking on it.
Connect it again, it should now install its drivers again.
Update 1 :-