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SETTING UP ADB FOR WINDOWS USERS
The example shown in the video tutorial is running Windows 7. XP, Vista should run the same way.
1) Download the SDK program for your OS Here..
2) Download the latest Java Platform if you don’t have an updated version.
3) The SDK program will download in a .zip file. Extract that file somewhere easily accessible [like your desktop!]
4) You should now have a folder on your desktop with a name: android-sdk-windows
5) Drag that folder into the root of your HD…
The pathway should be something like: Computer > Local Disk ( C: ) > android-sdk-windows
6) make SURE to install the USB driver package in SDK... this way your device will be recognized when running adb commands later on...
Now that you have placed the SDK program there you can run ADB commands. But you need to run them Manually. Most people go into the tools folder and click adb and expect it to work its magic… you can stare all you want, but all it’s going to do it open a command prompt, run commands, and disappear. Now, don’t go “ZOMG I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO! IT WONT WORK!” …. Trust me, it will work..
6) Open a command prompt, go to windows start menu and click “search” or “run…” and in the box type: cmd and then press enter. This will execute the command prompt [terminal]
7) Now connect your Eris via USB. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE USB DEBUGGING ON!! If you don’t, go to settings < applications < development and check the box: usb debugging
8) Don’t mount your SD card yet.
9) Now you are almost ready to execute your first adb command. But first you must re-direct the path in command prompt to be your tools folder in SDK… this is what command should look like before:
C:\Users\YourUserName>
Now type in command: cd
But DON’T press enter… drag and drop the path from your SDK tools into that command line, so it should look like this:
C:\Users\YourUserName> cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Now press enter. NOW your command prompt should say:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Ok, last part… to test adb type in command: adb devices
Now it should return something like:
List of devices attached
HT9ANXXXXX Device
Ok so now you can execute Adb commands. Make sure you always have your command prompt pathway set to SDK tools or it WILL NOT WORK! You can now also execute adb commands directly to your device from it’s shell by typing: adb shell followed by your command.
For Visual people here is my short Youtube video explain it all again... and here is my screen shot to show you what it should look like, pay attention to my command prompt.
Another example: Custom boot animation for NON-ROOT USERS.
1) Find / create a boot animation that works with the Eris
2) name the Zip file bootanimation.zip
3) place .zip file in SDK tools folder
4) Follow above instructions to set path in CMD to tools folder and connect your device
5) execute this command:
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
Feel free to PM if you have any questions... I hope this helps
adb
Could someone sticky this please?... and I think themes and apps is a good place for it..unless you think it belongs in general..
Help
I followed your instructions to the "T" everything worked but when I tried to push abd bootanimation command it says access denied is this because I don't have root? I am running on the 2.1 leak Version 2 OTA . Seems to be working fine for me. Although I wish I would have waited for root!! C'mon DEVS I'm pulling for you. Any suggestions?
cornjo said:
I followed your instructions to the "T" everything worked but when I tried to push abd bootanimation command it says access denied is this because I don't have root? I am running on the 2.1 leak Version 2 OTA . Seems to be working fine for me. Although I wish I would have waited for root!! C'mon DEVS I'm pulling for you. Any suggestions?
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how do i install an apk file right to my phone using the "cmd"
jibbz said:
how do i install an apk file right to my phone using the "cmd"
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adb install whatever.apk
n1ghtwish said:
adb install whatever.apk
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ok my problem is tht when i use the cmd n get to my SDK tool folder n type in adb install (app name).apk it dont do anything
Hopefully its this simple
jibbz said:
ok my problem is tht when i use the cmd n get to my SDK tool folder n type in adb install (app name).apk it dont do anything
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You probably don't have the .apk file in the same directory as sdk tool folder
try moving it there and see if that works.
Fixed the typo's in the code, thanks to Contempt4You for pointing it out for me.
Note, i had to remove the links due to the restrictions of being a new user, but the tools can be found fairly easily, you will need the revert.zip that contains flash_image and mtd0.img, the evo-root.zip from the how to root android 2.2 on the evo 4g on this forums and all you need is the rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin, and an original PB31IMG.zip from the RUU 2.1
I adapted this guide from these instructions
As always, I have no responsibility when you try this things go really foobar, and you have a nice paper weight.
I am going to copy and paste much of the instructions off of the page above, make the changes specific to the DInc, and will try to update the links for the stuff to download as I can. Everything that is needed is already hosted somewhere on the internet.
Make sure your phone is unplugged from your computer until I tell you to plug it in!
If you already have the Android SDK and HTC Sync set up on your computer, skip to Step 4 now
Step 1: Download the Android SDK here
Step 2: Extract the Android SDK zip. Move the contents of the extracted zip to C:\
Your Android tools folder path should now be C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Step 3: Download HTC Sync 2.0.40
Run the installer. Move on once installed. If reboot is required, do so and then move on.
Windows 7 Users:
Go to your start menu, then control panel. When that is open, (if you are in category view mode) click on "Uninstall a program" and then choose HTC Sync to uninstall. If you are in Icon view mode choose "Programs and Features" and then click on HTC Sync to uninstall. This will load the proper drivers needed for unrevoked3.
Other Windows Version Users:
Go to your start menu, then control panel. When that is open, select Add/Remove Programs, and then choose HTC Sync to uninstall. This will load the proper drivers needed for unrevoked3.
next download
It contains a few files necessary to root the DInc.
Unzip the contents of the zip to your android sdk tools folder.
Also download the original 2.1 PB31IMG.zip file, or is a download link to the RUU 2.1.
Put this zip in your sdk tools folder as well, as a zip, not extracted.
After unzipping the contents of revert.zip to your android sdk tools folder and placing the PC31IMG.zip move on.
Step 4: Make sure USB Debugging is ON (checked) on your EVO. Go to Settings > Applications > Development > and make sure it is checked.
Step 5: Plug your phone into the computer via USB, Make sure that the connection type in the Notification Pull-Down Bar is "Charge Only", not "Disk Drive" or else this won't work.
If your computer asks you to restart after the new drivers were installed, do that now.
Step 6: Open up a command promt from your android-sdk/tools folder.
Windows 7 users:
Open up the android sdk folder and hold shift and right click on the tools folder. You will see an option that says "Open command window here" Choose that one and you will be set. the command prompt should read something like C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>
Other Windows Version Users:
Go to the start menu, go to All Programs, then Accessories, and click on command prompt. Once open type
Code:
cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Once ready, type these commands in cmd prompt from your adb tools directory. After every line press enter.
Code:
adb push unrevoked-forever.zip /sdcard/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/
adb push mtd0.img /sdcard/
adb push PB31IMG.zip /sdcard/
Note: the PB31IMG.zip will take longer than expected to transfer to the sdcard. It is a BIG file.
Now we chmod a few things. After every line press enter. It should repeat what you typed in and then return you to a blank line with an $ for everything in adb shell
Code:
adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
cd /data/local
chmod 0755 /data/local/flash_image
Ok now for the root shell.
*
(still in adb shell)
Code:
cd /data/local/tmp
./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
You will now see some text on your cmd prompt screen explaining the exploit.
Wait for the adb shell to go away, and it will dump you into your windows command prompt again (no shell) should look something like this:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>
Once that dumps you out of the shell, type
Code:
adb shell
and you will see you now have a
Code:
#
instead of a
Code:
$
now type
Code:
cd /data/local
./flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd0.img
that will flash your misc partition with Toast's mtd-eng.img.
This should return you to a blank line with #.
If you get an "Out of memory error" with a huge list of weird lines, here's how to fix it.
Reboot your phone normally.
Open a command prompt and go backwards in this guide until you see the big red * and start from there.
Once it is flashed correctly, move on:
Type
Code:
reboot bootloader
Remember how you pushed that huge PB31IMG.zip to your sdcard earlier? This is where that comes in handy. Once you booted into hboot, Select "bootloader" with your volume up/down buttons and hit the power button. Let it sit for a little bit while it loads the PB31IMG.zip. This can take up to 5 minutes. When it finally asks if you want to apply this zip, choose YES. (Remember, this is the same as running an RUU, so it will delete all of your user data).
Once it is finished, select restart. You now are on the stock 2.1 build of Android.
From here you can root your phone and do unrevoked forever and what not for the people that updated to 2.2 without being s=off
Confirmed Works.
Thank You So much
I have been tyring to find a way to do this all day...works perfectly...took a little effort to find the files but overall great right up....
If someone who has enough post wants to post the links to the files, please do.
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well really all you have to do now is flash a original PB31IMG.zip in HBOOT if you have s-off which you should if you're hacking in the first place.
borgey420 said:
well really all you have to do now is flash a original PB31IMG.zip in HBOOT if you have s-off which you should if you're hacking in the first place.
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Don't you think the whole point of his post was for people who didn't do S-OFF and did the latest leaked RUU and are stuck now because they fail to read.
Yeah, that is what this guide is about is for the people who were not s-off. At the time I did the ruu update I didn't feel comfortable doing s-off and then I learned about it, felt better, but then it was too late, I already updated to froyo. This is how I solved that problem so I could s-off my phone after the update.
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nice man so this is for people who didn't do s-off before doing the 2.2 RUU and can now go back to 2.1 so essentially they could now s-off to get root for 2.2? great work, bro!
** would this work for new phones, or say a refurb that came with 2.2 already, and unrevoked hasn't come out with a new root method yet, so you could use this method to get back to 2.1, s-off, then ota to 2.2 and attain root. even better.
excellent post assuming it works
lots of people will want this if they need to root now.
In theory it should work, I don't see why it wouldn't. I don't have one that came with 2.2 so I don't know for sure.
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Confirmed this is working. Some typos in the writeup but that's easily fixed once you catch it.
zeiroe said:
Confirmed this is working. Some typos in the writeup but that's easily fixed once you catch it.
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I took a quick glance at this and stopped because right away I noticed errors and didn't wanna screw anything up. Glad to see it works, thanks.
here you go!
Android SDK
HTC Sync 2.0.40
revert.zip that contains flash_image and mtd0.img
the evo-root.zip contains rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
original PB31IMG.zip from the RUU 2.1 or if you prefer rapishare, here you go
I believe he used this guide
sorry if this is a stupid question, but to confirm, does this process downgrade the radio too? The radio is what worries me the most, and presumably because the 2.15 radio was in the RUU, this process would downgrade it back to 1.x? Is it contained in the PCI...zip file? thanks all (used the RUU and now don't have any sound from internal speaker, trying to get back)
If you will send me a PM with what typos I made, I will fix them. I am currently in AIT with the guard and don't have much time. The code should be correct, I believe the typos is where I wrote it up, and then had to remove the links because of the forums restriction of posting links when you are new.
Yes, this does downgrade the radio too. You are making your phone exactly like it came originally.
Thank you so much for posting he links.
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I'm getting permission denied errors
Code:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push mtd0.img /sdcard/
failed to copy 'mtd0.img' to '/sdcard//mtd0.img': Permission denied
what am I doing right?
edit: nevermind....figured it out....my SD card wasn't mounted on my phone
im doing this now. i hope i do everything right. i will post
Hey smwoodward, I hope you don't mind but I posted a reiteration of your guide on my blog. I see this being needed in the future for the new DInc's that will come with flavor of 2.2 out the box.
zeiroe said:
Hey smwoodward, I hope you don't mind but I posted a reiteration of your guide on my blog. I see this being needed in the future for the new DInc's that will come with flavor of 2.2 out the box.
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No dude, 100% cool with me.
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what am I doing wrong?
I followed directions step by step and I get it all done correct, but when it comes to loading the image off of the SDcard onto the phone in HBoot, I get error message "no image or wrong image"
HELP PLEASE!!!
ok... i am a little confused to what "adb" is and how to get "su" (superuser) via a Terminal app that i downloaded for my phone.
I type "su" and and I get "su: not found" same with "adb"
what am i not understanding?
trying to follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797397 but the commands are not working..
i am a little new to my captivate here, so help me out. I install 2.2 and i would like to root it..
thanks in advance, and forgive my ignorance.
ADB is the Android Debug Bridge. You can read what it is here Android Debug Bridge
To use this you must first install the Android Software Development Kit found here Download the Android SDK
Read up a bit on those and search the forums to find more help. Good luck.
I was / am in the same boat.
I spent 4 hours last night getting it figured out, I sure wish I could find an Android for dummies book.
Anyway, here is what cha do....
once you dowload the adb package unzip it to the root of your c drive, you may want to rename it to some thing shorter, I just called it android.
next download the root package from the root thread here and unzip the files and copy or cut them into the tools folder of the ADB folder you placed on the root of C:
navigate to the tools folder and copy adb.exe and adbwinapi.dll to the system32 directory in windows, you will need to reboot. This will allow you to use the windows cmd line.
now I am on window 7 64 so I ran the commond line as administrator to be safe. to do this click start all prograns accessorires right click cmd and select run as admin.
change directory to the tools folder, for me "cd c:\android\tools"
Connect phone be sure usb debugging is on in the phone, (settings, application, development. it will install drivers. (I manually installed the samsung 64 bit drivers I had downloaded from samsung)
from the command promt type adb devices and hope fully it will see your phone and return with the serial number and them you are good to go with following the instructions to root from there.
I hope this helps...
Cappy
the information on how to use this is really not in one place, I spent 4 hours last night searching all over to figure it out, just so I would not ask and be belittled because there is NOT good information.
I have even been searching for any books I can find on Android so I can understand how this system works, but have found no good ones yet.
I need a nice Android for dummies type thing.
I spent an hour just to figure out it still won't run right unless you change directory to the tools folder where everything is at. ( it's been like 15 years since I messed with dos).
Some where in the wiki or bibles or all the other how toos being posted we really need better information on how to use the tools and what they are.
Cheers
Jeff
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=android+for+dummies
WOOT looks like they have one now...
Quick Tip: Once you get the Android SDK installed, you can add the location of the Tools directory to the Windows path variable and be able to call the programs from anywhere on your computer.
Masacrk said:
Cappy
the information on how to use this is really not in one place, I spent 4 hours last night searching all over to figure it out, just so I would not ask and be belittled because there is NOT good information.
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Sorry you feel I was trying to belittle you. I was trying to be helpful by pointing you to the proper information. You know the old saying, "You'll never learn by letting others do it for you."
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it's all good man I did not mean you.
I was taught along time ago that there are no dumb questions but it don't seem to hold true around here I have noticed.
Quess the new generation are not as patient or willing to help as mine was.
Ha ha ha. Guess I should have picked a better screen name.
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ugg.. I dont get it.. I finaly got it to connect to the phone, but even in windows when i type in SU I get invalid command..
uggg..
i dont get it.. please help!
go to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797397
at the bottom of the first post you will see a link to Captivate2.2rootpack.zip.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=411708&d=1285997559
download , unzip, copy contents to the tools folder of the sdk package.
Also this thread was a help,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
Cheers
Jeff
Masacrk said:
go to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797397
at the bottom of the first post you will see a link to Captivate2.2rootpack.zip.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=411708&d=1285997559
download , unzip, copy contents to the tools folder of the sdk package.
Also this thread was a help,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
Cheers
Jeff
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thanks.. i think i got that far,.. I copied the files into the tools folder and I still get
Code:
$ su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3: not found
$
i even copied the files to the android, and ran it from that folder.. still no luck
what am i doing wrong?!? gosh.. i never felt soo dumb about things like this before
eatonjb said:
thanks.. i think i got that far,.. I copied the files into the tools folder and I still get
Code:
$ su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3: not found
$
i even copied the files to the android, and ran it from that folder.. still no luck
what am i doing wrong?!? gosh.. i never felt soo dumb about things like this before
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OK. took me a little while to figure this out, too. Not sure of your level of knowledge of the terminal. If I over-simplified please forgive me.
"Extract RootPack zip file" Did you do this? I think you did from you post. Make sure you've copied the files to your "tools" subfolder in the android sdk folder.
Click the start button, click run, type "cmd", press enter.
When that window opens type "cd.." and press Enter. Keep typing "cd.." and pressing Enter until the only thing you see at the prompt is "c:\"
Now navigate to the Tools folder where ever it is you put the android sdk.
I put mine at "c:\android_sdk" so I would type "cd c:\android_sdk\tools"
Plug your phone into your computer.
Go to home screen>menu>settings>applications>development and select "USB debugging".
At the command prompt type "adb devices" and your phone should return a value (the serial number).
If that works you should be able to follow the directions below.
It's been mention that you should be able to copy the commands from the web page and right click the terminal window and select "Paste". Makes everything faster, easier and more accurate. One other thing to mention: after you perform these steps and you want to do something else through adb where you're instructed to type "su" you'll need to open the SuperUser application on your phone and press "approve" after typing "su".
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
(wait for you to get kicked from adb)
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system
exit
adb push su /system/bin/su
adb push busybox /system/bin/busybox
adb push sqlite3 /system/bin/sqlite3
adb push superuser.apk /system/app/superuser.apk
adb shell
cd /system/bin
chmod 4755 su
chmod 4755 busybox
chmod 4755 sqlite3
reboot
eatonjb said:
thanks.. i think i got that far,.. I copied the files into the tools folder and I still get
Code:
$ su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3
su,busybox,sqlite3: not found
$
i even copied the files to the android, and ran it from that folder.. still no luck
what am i doing wrong?!? gosh.. i never felt soo dumb about things like this before
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those arent even commands. just random words you put into the terminal....
follow the instructions exactly like PersonOfKnownOrigin has posted. it works
I too was having trouble, turns out the files were extracted and were in a sub folder in the Tools folder so I copied and pasted them directly into the tools folder one by one, that worked great for me. Also, I find it easier to open command shell and use the Android Tools by holding the shift key and right clicking on the Tools folder and choose open command window here. I hope this helps.
I have a stupid path becaue my laptop messed up when I first got it and I haven't been able to fix it because DOS is difficult to me. It works fine but I am too lazy to type such a long path and if you are off at all it dosen't work.
just copy and paste the commands so you don't get them wrong, worked for me. The command is su then hit enter then enter the next command line and hit enter, works like a charm.
ok, I got it.. I misinturpted that the first line (the 3 commands in one line) was a command that I was supposed to run..
it was not..
dohh.. thanks guys for all the help... i felt kinda dumb, but now I think I am kinda smrt. I mean Smart!! (Simpsons Humor)
thanks again for the paitence.
Eaton
I followed all of these instructions. Link: Here
But when I try to navigate to AndroidSDK folder in my home directory I can't get adb shell to start.
Code:
cd ~/AndroidSDK/tools
adb shell
After that the terminal says command not found and stuff.....anyone know how to set up adb shell on linux? (I'm running linux mint 10 specifically but I am a experienced linux user, i've used ubuntu and linux mint 10, so if you give me ubuntu commands for fixing this i can convert them into linux mint commands if need be).
Thanks for helping me get this set up on linux. I've mainly been a windows user and as easy as it would be for me to dual boot into windows instead i'm trying to make linux my main operating system slowly b/c i'm liking this operating system more than windows 7. so before i do that I want to make sure i know how to complete all the task i would want to do on windows 7 on linux instead, starting with adb shell
Those instructions are for an earlier version of android SDK. I am sure you downloaded and installed the latest from google's official website. If so, the adb command has moved to a different folder - platform-tools.
Do a search in the android sdk folder for "adb.exe", you should be able to find it and then use that folder as your base adb folder. Alternatively, you can setup the folder to be part of the path, that way you can execute adb from anywhere. If you need help, let me know.
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Those instructions are for an earlier version of android SDK. I am sure you downloaded and installed the latest from google's official website. If so, the adb command has moved to a different folder - platform-tools.
Do a search in the android sdk folder for "adb.exe", you should be able to find it and then use that folder as your base adb folder. Alternatively, you can setup the folder to be part of the path, that way you can execute adb from anywhere. If you need help, let me know.
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Can you give me full instructions on how to set up adb using the latest android sdk from google? Thanks
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kifno said:
Can you give me full instructions on how to set up adb using the latest android sdk from google? Thanks
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What I found when setting up mine on linux was to start adb, navigate to the tools directory where you have it setup, and use the command "./adb shell" minus the quotes. This seems to work fine, I don't know why. I beat my head against the wall, and don't remember how I found out about this. It's safe to say, the ./adb should need to be used with all the adb commands.
Kifno check the dev section for my thread on how to install adb on Ubuntu should help you out. It might be buried but I posted a full guide.
Edit---- If you look on my thread on how to indtall adb in windows. On the bottom of the post its a link to my other thread..
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.
Step-by-step guide to setting up android sdk on linux:
1. On your linux box, go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download the package for linux
2. Create a "androidsdk" folder in your home folder
3. Unzip the contents of the "android-sdk-linux_x86" from inside the tgz file - into the above folder. You should have "add-ons", "platforms", "tools" and "SDK-readme.txt" in the above folder
4. Open a terminal window and navigate to androidsdk -> tools directory
5. Execute command "android" without quotes - this should open a UI
6. Go to available packages and install all packages you need
7. Once it has installed everything, exit the application
8. Navigate to your androidsdk/platform-tools directory - you should have adb there.
Now you can run adb from here or setup your computer to run from anywhere - following steps are to setup so that you can run adb from anywhere...
1. Append the following code in your .profile file - replacing "full path to your platform-tools directory" with the actual path with quotes:
if [ -d "full path to your platform-tools directory" ] ; then
PATH="full path to your platform-tools directory:$PATH"
fi
2. Save your .profile
3. Logout and log back in.
Now you should be able to execute adb from anywhere on the linux box, when you login using your credentials.
andythegreenguy said:
Now you can run adb from here or setup your computer to run from anywhere - following steps are to setup so that you can run adb from anywhere...
1. Append the following code in your .profile file - replacing "full path to your platform-tools directory" with the actual path with quotes:
if [ -d "full path to your platform-tools directory" ] ; then
PATH="full path to your platform-tools directory:$PATH"
fi
2. Save your .profile
3. Logout and log back in.
Now you should be able to execute adb from anywhere on the linux box, when you login using your credentials.
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the bold is where i'm having trouble....where is the .profile file located?
also would this be the correct full path leading to platform tools? (so i can know when i get ready to do the .profile file thingy once you explain that)
~/AndroidSDK/platform-tools
btw thanks for the help (clicking thanks button.....lol)
edit: i also just got this problem
Code:
kevin-Satellite-L305 platform-tools # ./adb shell
error: insufficient permissions for device
it won't let me launch adb shell even after i typed su and put in my password
.profile is in your home directory. You can get to your home directory from anywhere in linux by typing "cd $HOME" at the shell prompt without quotes and as is here. If you know of DOS, you can relate to a .profile file as an autoexec.bat, that executes everytime a user logs in.
You need the absolute path to the platform-tools folder - which you can get by being in that folder and typing "pwd" without quotes.
The last error, it has something to do with your computer OS not recognizing your device.
1. Go to /etc/udev/rules.d
2. Look for a file 99-android.rules - if one does not exist, create one
3. Append the following line to the file: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", OWNER="linux user name" GROUP="linux user group", replacing linux user name and linux user group with the actual values.
4. Save the file and restart your computer
This should do it.
Trying to be charitable and cautious, I'm trying to back up my EFS folder before I go messing around and it is consistently failing. I'm using:
SGS Tools Vz 0.5.7
Busy Box Vz1.17.2
On my previous captivate this works just fine. Now I get
"could not create backup folder /sdcard/SGSToolbox/backup (date string)" and then the bluebox saying creating backup. This never goes away and to clear I have to reboot.
Any helpful hints?
I tried to download the latest and greatest SGS Tools but Google knows I have it installed and won't let me get the newest one. Haven't figure out how to get around that unless I just have to un-install my current one.
Rooted 2.2, KB2, running existz KB1 kernel.
Knowing there are no successful backups... just successful restores.
If you're willing to use your computer and can get the Android SDK and ADB going, just get into a command prompt in the ADB directory and type "adb pull /efs". That will back it up to your computer.
Or you could open a file explorer and copy the directory from there to your sd card
You could use an app called nitrality
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Try to update your su binary, the simpliest way is use Root Explorer to backup whatever u want
Well just to be daring, I tried to install the ADB tools. Had to install the Java development software first. After I installed what I thought was the ADB suite, I can't seem to find the place to type in commands, dumb as that sounds. I may not have gotten the right package. Going to tinker with it though.
My SU is up to date.
I can see the folder with Super Manager so I guess I'll just copy with that. Interesting though I can't see anything in the /efs directory. Probably just something else I don't understand.
Still curious though as to why SGS Tools is failing... part of my nature.
Thanks to all that replied.
Make a note of where adb is installed (e.g. c:\users\person\Android-sdk-windows\platform-tools). Then hit the windows key and R, and type cmd. Once in the prompt, type CD (directory from before, no parentheses) and hit enter. From there, type your adb commands.
Ahhhh.... I get it. Was expecting something a bit more elegant. Gotta love DOS commands.
Well..there are a couple more elegant ways to do it.
Open up a new note in NotePad, just type:
Cmd
Exit
And save, but instead of a .txt file extension save it as a .bat, now drop that into your adb directoty, then just double click on that to open a prompt in that directory, so you don't have to do the cd command every time.
Or..the most elegant way is to add adb to your environmental variables so you can enter adb commands from anywhere
That's a good solution. I've got a set of files put into my C:\Users\(my username) folder called "adb", "adbr" (adb reboot), "adbrd" (adb reboot download), and "adbrr" (adb reboot recovery).
Each of these is a .bat file with a version of this text in it:
@ echo off
cd "C:\Users\(me)\Other\tools\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools"
adb reboot
That way, all I have to do is hit Win-R and type one of those file names and it does that command for me. Or, I can type cmd, then adb, and automatically be where adb is installed without cd'ing through a long file list.
My suggestion is Root Explorer. I was able to backup the EFS directory without problems also create a .tar file.
I used root explorer to do my backups, another option is the explorer inside the rom tollbox aplication its also very good
Now I have another adb question...
First off, now I'm just trying to learn and get better. I've built my bat files and I can get adb working. Thanks to those that helped with that. When I tried to pull the /efs folder it said there was no device recognized. I was in "mass storage" mode at the time.
Whenever I've seen people talk about using adb, I don't recall anything being said about if it should be in Download, debug or what. One of those assumed knowledge things.
So what do I have to do to the phone to let adb recognize it?
gnawing on the bone....
I'm also thinking of pulling a logcat or something when SGS tools fails... just to see. That's my next step.
Enable usb debugging in settings> applications> development
SGS Toolbox doesn't work with efs backups. Are there easier ways to do the backup?
Adb or root explorer.
I did both... just to say I did it and finally got adb working.