So I've never had a problem using ADB. My path's are setup correctly, I have the most updated version of the SDK and everything that goes with it. My USB ADB drivers are up to date, but for whatever reason about 2 weeks ago, it stopped working.
I usually use programs like AndroidCommander, or something along those lines for backing up my apps on my PC. Now when I launcher them (and my phone is plugged in) they just, don't open. The program loads, it can be seen in task manager, but the program doesn't open. If I unplug my phone, I get an error code (on the pc) then the program opens. Other programs like YouADB get stuck at "loading file structure" when trying to open.
I can still do adb devices, from console, and my phone is shown, and I can shell in to the phone. However I can't use commands like adb install, it will show the "354kbs...."and w/e else is in the first line when it trys to install an app, but instead of giving me a "successful", or even an error, it just drops me back to #, and the app is not installed.
I have tried completely removing, and re downloading the entire SDK, I've tried removing the adb drivers for my phone, and reinstalling them, and I'm just at a lost for what the problem is.
Does anyone have a clue what could be going on here? This is becoming a real pain in the butt.
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Well i just picked up my new Tilt a few days ago and have not be able to try out any ROMs yet cuz activesync is crazy. I had 4.2 running just fine for the longest time with no problems. I now have the tilt and needed to upgrade to AS 4.5, so i did with the cd from the tilt and everything went fine. I restarted after install, clicked AS to open and nothing happened. I connect the tilt and the icon in task bar turns green and spins and says connected, but no AS window. I can explore the phone, go to connection settings from right clicking the icon, but i cannot get the window to open. I have google'd from here to goggleland and back and cannot get it working. I actually did get the window to open ONCE, after i completely uninstalled Kaspersky 7.0. But then after i closed it it never opened again. The one thing i noticed is that if i open the task manager on my pc wcescomm.exe and rapimgr.exe are running, but not WCESMgr.exe. When i double click the AS icon i see in task mgr that WCESMgr comes up but then disappears. Does anyone have any ideas as to what i can do??
Try uninstalling activesync completely, restarting, then trying to install again.
Yes definitely uninstall AS completely, check the registry, restart and then install AS4.5. I've found that was always the best method when "upgrading" to AS4.5.
I have tried that a few times. Not totally sure how to check the registry for anything left behind. What should i look for? thanks for the help
Uninstall Active Sync, reboot, disable any Antivirus you have running, install Active Sync (reboot if necessary) and re-enable Antivirus if necessary. This should work. I've had strange issues with Active Sync in the past and this seems to work.
I want to completely remove windows live 10 from my HTC touch. I installed it, and it keeps suddenly causing my device to restart while logging in. I then tried reinstalling Version 8, but it still does it... how do i completely remove windows live from my phone... so that i can just give it a clean install again.
If it's not in the ROM, you can remove it via start>settings>system>remove programs.
I did this, rebooted the device, and looked in the Programs menu only to still see "Windows Live" there. I click it, and it still doesn't work. It's the version 10 that's still there, yet not showing up in "remove programs"... Please HELP!
Oh thank you for starting me off with a good start, I did however manage to figure it out. What I did was I realized that version 10 was still there, So I installed it again, basically just to add uninstall support, uninstalled it (thinking i would then have it all gone) only to be shocked to see it's still there... out of striking curiosity I run the program one last time and it finally connects without problem.
For some reason when I have my computer connected through activsync I can not really use the computer. It keeps popping up the start bar and when I type anything the computer pauses and misses stuff that I'm typing. It is like it is constantly trying to refresh, but it syncs up fine...
Also, it removes me from windows that I'm in like the computer thinks I selected another window...
It just started happening recently and I don't think I changed anything (that I remember). I have already re-installed the ROM (the one listed in my sig) and did a hard-reset. It doesn't do it on my XP system, but it does it on my Vista system (again it just randomly started that)
Anybody have any ideas why that would happen?
You mean the computer does like if you hit alt-tab between windows every few seconds on its own? I've had that several times too, AFAIK it's Outlook (the PC one) screwing up. Closing and reopening it usually gets rid of the issue, which is indeed VERY annoying when you're trying to type something.
Awesome, it seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you.
I'm trying to fix a friend's G1, which he bought on ebay from US.
I've no experience whatsoever dealing with Android, so this is new. But I'm fairly capable of understanding every technical process you could use, so I think I'll understand your explanations.
Whenever I connect the device to a PC via USB, the computer detects an unknown device, but the phone just restarts at the splash screen. Notice that it has two different behaviors: When there's no cable connected, it just shuts down after 2 or 3 seconds at the Android screen; when I connect a USB cable, instead of shutting down it restarts continuously.
The first thing I did was to unroot the phone and put the official RC29 rom. Unfortunately, the problem persisted.
I have access to the recovery menu and the bootloader (I don't know if this is the correct term, it's the Camera+Power menu).
The major problem (I think) is that I don't have access to the console, as the recovery menu I have is the original one.
So, can anyone help me with this? Thank you.
Options:
Root the phone and use a custom recovery.
ADB also enables use of the terminal through the shell command. -- You could also use ADB to get a logcat and see what happens before the reboots.
But I don't see how the terminal would help, it sounds like hardware failure if it does it with a stock and custom rom.
Don't I need access to the OS in order to root the phone?
Which SPL do you have?
A boot loop or crash at startup can be caused by many, many things.
Get hold of the android sdk.. inside the /tools folder are 2 programs called ddms and adb, you can start the phone while connected by usb and use either of these programs to grab a startup log. Post the log here and we can hopefully see what's causing the crash.
You probably shouldn't have unrooted the phone.. that's going to make things more difficult.
adb and ddms can't find the device. There's an "Android Phone" in the Device Manager, but as the phone keeps restarting, I guess it isn't on enough time to be able to be detected by adb and ddms.
Edu115 said:
adb and ddms can't find the device. There's an "Android Phone" in the Device Manager, but as the phone keeps restarting, I guess it isn't on enough time to be able to be detected by adb and ddms.
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Did you install the usb driver that's packaged with the sdk? the one windows installs by default doesn't work for adb or ddms.
If you've got this driver installed and ddms doesn't see the phone, that's pretty ominous.. it should show up there as "offline" as soon as you power it on.
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Did you install the usb driver that's packaged with the sdk? the one windows installs by default doesn't work for adb or ddms.
If you've got this driver installed and ddms doesn't see the phone, that's pretty ominous.. it should show up there as "offline" as soon as you power it on.
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Thanks, I fixed that and I got the ADB drivers, but the same thing happens. I can't get the attached devices, nothing appears on the list.
One note: this last time I tried to connect the phone via USB it booted, but I couldn't sign in, because as soon as I slid the keyboard, the phone shut down.
So, now I have a "Android ADB Interface", but still no devices listed with adb device.
Right now sometimes (like in 40 tries) the phone turns on and I can use the touchscreen, but when I need to sign-in, it tells me to slide the keyboard and it shuts down.
I still can't get the attached devices using adb, even after trying in other computers.
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Right now sometimes (like in 40 tries) the phone turns on and I can use the touchscreen, but when I need to sign-in, it tells me to slide the keyboard and it shuts down.
I still can't get the attached devices using adb, even after trying in other computers.
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what happens if you start with the keyboard open?
you know, it could be a hardware fault, a dry joint or loose wire
the sliding of the keyboard just jolts it.
Long story short, no gimmicks.
I dropped my Motorola Droid/Milestone/A855/Whatever in a toilet, and it died. I dried the guy out in rice, and all is well, it turns back on, and all that jazz. Sadly, the screen is dead. Remember that.
So I go to Gmail to get contacts from there (synced, right?) t put in my backup phone (yes, I'm a baller) and find that my contacts are severely out of date. Turns out when I got a replacement phone from Verizon (due to the former's ghosting or 'self-touching' (LOLWOWOMG)), the default setting was to not have my contacts synced to my Gmail anymore. Bummer, right? Remember this point as well.
So I need to get my contacts out of my phone, but I can't connect via USB to import due to the fact that I can't use the screen to allow USB debugging.
Nextly, a Verizon person at one of their stores (I have no faith in those people) told me they CANNOT pull anything off the phone with on of their machines, not even contacts.
My question is can you? If so how? Can it be done without a Verizon Employee, because that would be all rainbows and butterflies as I hate most of them. Lastly, I'd ask that you post your ideas in a clear step-by-step format, as I share 99% of my DNA with cavemen. Thanks? And I love you.
Don't know how it works on Droid, but on Milestone if you run the Androidiani Open Recovery then adb will works automatically after start of recovery. So if your buttons are still working, then get to your phone's Recovery, plug in usb and try to run adb on your computer (with command line).
Maybe ClockWorkMod Recovery have the same function, so you can try it if you have a rooted phone.
To pull your contacts from phone using adb open command line and type:
adb shell
$ su (if you've got hash "#" symbol instead of "$" in the beginning of the command line, then you don't need that)
# ls /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases (if you see contacts1.db, contacts2.db etc then write it bellow instead of contacts.db)
# dd if=/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db of=/sdcard/contacts.db
My phone isn't rooted, and USB Debugging is still in the default 'no' setting.
try to, and i know its not easy, to press ur find key, type market, remember the steps to go to download, and try downloading some backup software, they create a file on the sdcard, so u can get them, and export...
I know, is not the easiest thing to do.... but is the only option i can think of, with ur dead screen.