If you have been in relation with the Android sphere, I assume you know of what ADB is. Even if you don’t, you shall now recite it as here we’re going in to a little depth about the same.
We will begin out journey with defining and explaining its structure, commands and end it with setting it up and exploring its daily applications for Android users/developers. Lets now lean forward towards the basic, followed by the complications. This guide and the information indulged in it, is meant for anyone and everyone related to Android. You shall find its necessity at several occasions like taking logs, flashing firmware images, updating phone software, flashing ROMs/Recoveries & even while developing a ROM/Kernel/Application. So, from users to developers, it will come in handy. ADB or Android Debug Bridge, is a fully equipped and loaded command-line tool which is put to use in order to communicate with an Android device. ADB tool is provided along side the Android SDK and one could easily find this tiny but versatile tool under /platform-tools/ It comprises of three basic and important components.
Adb logcat logcat.txt Here, “logcat.txt” is the name of the file, you may vary it in accordance to your needs. Adb logcat ROMlogcat.txt The same file shall be stored in C: Users for Windows & Linux. Pull/Push commands hold equivalent importance as it saves the trouble of manually extracting a specific apk using a file manager with Root permissions and then transferring it to the PC. What it does is, directly pull out/push in the desired apk from/to any location under the device without much hassle.To pull an apk file, type: adb pull eg. Adb pull /system/app/SystemUI.apk To push/copy over an apk file to the device, type: adb push eg. Adb push SystemUI.apk /system/app/SystemUI.apk NOTE: The file names and file paths in these commands are case-sensitive.
Also, in case of system apks, its advised to first mount using the following command. Adb remount. There are several occasions when a user has to use his device accessed in shell mode and ADB makes it easier. To initiate a shell connection with the device/emulator, type in the following command: adb shell While in the ADB shell, a user has access to some unique and new commands which are as following: cd The above commands changes the CMD/Terminal directory to a specified directory inside the Android device/emulator. E.g: cd /system/app ls The above command lists all the files in the current shell directory e.g: ls /system/app rm The command removes a specified file from the directory e.g: rm /system/app/SystemUI.apk cp The command copies a specified file to another location eg.
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Cp /system/app/SystemUI.apk /sdcard/SystemUI.apk To exit the shell, type: exit. Booting commands also hold their place and come in very handy while rooting processes and even while Android development. Below are stated such 3 commands: adb reboot The command simply reboots your device at any instance adb reboot recovery The command reboots a device into recovery mode adb reboot bootloader The command reboots a device into its bootloader (fastboot) mode. In case you’re in bootloader mode, your device shall never show any response to ADB commands. But, here comes fastboot in action, which has a limited, but a few and very useful commands. This is the same reason that bootloader mode is often referred to as fastboot mode.
Fastboot devices Displays the device ID of the Android device connected while in bootloader mode. Fastboot reboot Reboots a device fastboot reboot-bootloader Reboots the bootloader fastboot oem unlock Initiates the bootloader unlocking sequence fastboot oem lock Re-locks the device bootloader fastboot flash recovery Flashes a recovery image to the device eg: fastboot flash recovery clockworkmod-6.0.3.1mako.img fastboot flash radio Flashes the Radio (baseband) image file eg. Fastboot flash radio radio-crespo-i9020xxki1.img fastboot flash bootloader Flashes a bootloader image to the device partition eg. Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-crespo-i9020xxlc2.img This is all!
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We’ve guided you setup Android SDK, ADB and use the simple command-line tool. We do not expect everyone to grasp this knowledge all at once, so in case you’re in any trouble while setting up or while using these commands, comment below and we shall give you an helping hand.