Develop Bugs

How to root on a MAC OSx

Hi guys,
I have a rooted HTC Desire that I rooted myself on a PC but I mainly use my Mac and I wanna know how to root it on the Mac as well. I've followed the tutorial by benko286 on the boards but every time I hit step1-mac.sh, it starts the terminal, then asks my password,I enter my password, it then says the stuff below and it shuts down the terminal.
About to start flash...
sudo: ./fastboot-mac: command not found
Any idea why this is happening? I'd really love to learn how to do this on the mac platform as well.
Thanks in advance,

Do you have the Android SDK for Mac OSX installed?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Hey mas,
Here we meet again. I am the guy with all the adb questions. No, I didn't know that was necessary. What do I do, once I download the file? Where should I save the files in the zip file?

Hi bud,
I'm not that familiar with Macs, but try installing the SDK, extract it to the root of your hard drive. Open terminal and get to the exact folder path of the downloaded r5 folder and then try executing the step1 command. Also ensure you have HTC sync installed.
EDIT: have you come across this?
Works on Macs too and will be alot easier for you:
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

fastboot-mac is a shell script is it not?
so you need to execute it with the correct bash command
so type ' sh fastboot-mac '

Adb help

Hi.i am trying to set up adb on my compaq laptop vista,i tried everything,youtube videos,guides
Still dont work,please help me if there,s any other metod.any help ill bappreciated,
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Have you tried this ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685

Prob solvd thanks so much.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Please help me on this one too
Hi,i am running vista trying to use gfree 2,seems to b everything working finr,adb starts fine,prob is when I run a cmd it says no file or directory found.please I m new on droid,please help me how to execute files through adb.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

imranbandial said:
Please help me on this one too
Hi,i am running vista trying to use gfree 2,seems to b everything working finr,adb starts fine,prob is when I run a cmd it says no file or directory found.please I m new on droid,please help me how to execute files through adb.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you been through the guide that I linked above, and done all the steps to get adb setup on your PC ?
If you're having a problem with the gfree procedure it would be best if you post up a question in it on that thread. Are you sure you're typing the commands exactly as it says there ?

the only thing i wanna know how to execute files,where should i put gfree on my comp and on my phone so the adb cmd recognize it,thanks once again .adb working fine it recognize my device the only thing it dont recognize any cmds,file or directory not found..

imranbandial said:
the only thing i wanna know how to execute files,where should i put gfree on my comp and on my phone so the adb cmd recognize it,thanks once again .adb working fine it recognize my device the only thing it dont recognize any cmds,file or directory not found..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When you are running adb, if for example you do "adb push gfree", where you are trying to copy (push) the file "gfree" from your PC to your phone, it will look in your current directory for gfree. So given you are usually doing this at the command prompt, in Windows do a "cd" (change directory) to change to the directory where you have put gfree.
For example, if gfree is in "\users\fred\desktop", then do "cd \users\fred\desktop", then run your "adb push gfree" and it will find the file.
If you do "adb shell" does that work, does it come up with a $ prompt ? If so, then it's working and has started a command "shell" on your phone.

Help with adb

Hi,i am running vista trying to use gfree 2,seems to b everything working finr,adb starts fine,prob is when I run a cmd it says no file or directory found.please I m new on droid,please help me how to execute files through adb.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Are you doing "adb shell" to open a session with the phone?

Yes sir;but I tried also with simply adb too.it recognize my device too;I don't know wat I m doing wrong,my phone is running desire 0.74,
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

[Q] ADB don't see my phone

Hi, I have a problem with ADB: when phone connected check if adb sees it with the command 'adb devices' shows me the error 'can not connect to daemon, Create Process failure, error 2'. Of course, all of the drivers installed, even i installed a lot of unnecessary packages to be sure sdk is installed correct. I have tried many ways but it's all for nothing. The important thing is that before starting play with the Desire Z went without any problems, without any errors adb seen the phone. Unfortunately, because of the desire goes to sell had to restore it to factory condition, but I had to get rid of the other phone so the Desire Z came back to me. Since then the problems started. If anyone would have any idea kindly ask for help. Thanks in advance.

I assume you made sure adb is turned on on the phone. Try uninstalling then reinstalling the drivers. If that doesn't work (i assume you have windows) change the path in environmental variables. You can try adb kill-server then adb start-server
See if any of this helps
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

Which ROM are you using? I had similar issues with some CM7.2 builds.
If you have the option “ADB over network” in “Developer options” try to switch it on/off. It helped for me.

Thanks a lot for answers but i already did all this methods :/ Realy dont help. And about my rom i have stock 2.2 at the moment, that's why i need adb...for root,S-OF

Have you tried a different USB cable? Sometimes it will work for charging and such but will not work for adb or fastboot, only poorly made cables are like this so its rarely an issue. I still think the problems lie in th drivers, did you uninstall and manually install the right ones? Don't let windows do it
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

Yes sure i tried with 3 different cabels and always install drivers manual on system partition C:

Looking back over your posts it looks like you can even start adb on your computer, phone/cable makes no difference if you can't open adb. What exactly is your path in environmental variables? My guess is this is set up wrong. Find the folder that adb.exe is in on the computer and make sure the path is set correctly to this.
And just for fun, find the folder, find adb.exe, hold shift and right click within that folder. Now choose open command here. Now type just
adb
What happens?
If you need help setting adb up I wrote a fastboot guide (includes setup for adb/fastboot) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728208
Check out the third post for instructions
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

Listen i read about installing sdk 2 years ago, i have of course path edited correctly to the folder where adb is...

Which API do you have? Older ones put adb in tools, newer in platform-tools, if you just open a command and type adb (without phone even connected) it should open. If not then you will need to change directories (or the path) if it still won't run then you don't have adb.exe installed correctly.
What happens when you open a command prompt from within the folder adb.exe is in? Have you tried that?
Adb does not need a phone connected just to run, having the right drivers won't matter if adb isn't even running on pc.
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

Btw. now im installing again sdk, tell me is it normal on start of installing packages i see: "Installing Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 14
Stopping ADB server failed (code -1)."
Or is it a problem and that's why i cant work with adb ?

Completely uninstall all of the SDK and remove your path in environmental variables. Then install SDK directly from google, install all the platform tools (the whole first section) make sure you check you updated java (jdk needed?) Open a command window where adb is and type adb and check for error codes, if all is good then update path in environmental variables
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

Tell me if i delete PATH accidentally can i create it again in environment variables ?

Yup, and just so you know creating a path just makes things easier, it isnt needed. If you want just open the command where adb.exe is located or change directories.
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

And in PATH i should only add "C:\SDK\platform-tools" nothing more ? Sorry for my noobish questions, i didnt work with Android for 7 months i lost a lot of memories
I remember i should always add backslash on the end right like: "C:\SDK\platform-tools\" ?

yep and don't forget to seperate the values with a ;
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium

About drivers i should install HTC Driver installer and HTC BMP Driver ? All in same location ? Best on partition system C or other ?
EDIT: I tried so hard as i can and now everything work, adb se my phone and my Desire Z is rooted Thanks a lot for all answers.

[Q] htc g2 hboot

i flash the htc desire z hboot now i cnt restore my back up do i need 2 go bck to htc g2 hboot i need help plz

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348266
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

htc g2
demkantor said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348266
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thnks im trying 2 install ubuntu on my htc g2 t-mobile but i cnt cd ubuntu on the cmd

I think you will have to give a bit more detail than this if you want accurate help
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/

So again, need more information
In the fifth post from that link describes the type of info you may want to share
Also in the post I linked you has a link for how to install Ubuntu on the g2 which seems to be what you want
You need to explain all what you have tried and where you got stuck along with all info pertinent about your phone
Without this all I can do is write a guide for you which you have already read so... Yeah
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

demkantor said:
So again, need more information
In the fifth post from that link describes the type of info you may want to share
Also in the post I linked you has a link for how to install Ubuntu on the g2 which seems to be what you want
You need to explain all what you have tried and where you got stuck along with all info pertinent about your phone
Without this all I can do is write a guide for you which you have already read so... Yeah
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
(What it looks like after copied over to the SD Card)
1) Again, make sure you have your Android smartphone/tablet “rooted”!
2) You must have Android SDK installed or have access to adb.exe.
3) Make sure your Android phone/tablet is in debugging mode. Go to Settings->Applications->Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.
4) Connect your Android device to your computer via USB cable and set the USB mode to “Just Charge”.
5) Your Android device should be recognized as “ADB Device” under Device Manager. If not, install appropriate drivers.
For all HTC Android smartphones/tablets (such as G2 Phone, Nexus One), you can download Windows drivers here:
HTC Windows 64-bit driver download – Click Here to Download Driver
HTC Windows 32-bit driver download – Click Here to Download Driver
6) Open up a command prompt by typing “cmd” under Start->Search programs and files.
7) Browse to your SDK directory where you installed the Android SDK:
8) Then go into platform-tools directory:
9) Type “adb devices” to double-check your Android device is recognized.
In this example, I used an HTC G2 Phone, which shows up at “HT09SR204261″. This is fine. However, if you get an empty device, that means you didn’t install the drivers for your phone/tablet correctly. (Go back to #5)
im stuck at step 10 Type “adb shell” to enter the Android shell.
"Then type “su” to enter super user mode, then type “cd /sdcard” and “cd ubuntu” to enter the ubuntu directory in your SD card of your Android device." ← this part

So your device is recognized by adb, then you type
adb shell
And you see a # after su
But when you type
cd /sdcard
cd ubuntu
What happens, does it say something like no file or directory? This would mean there is no file on SD card named Ubuntu
Maybe if you can copy and paste all input/output from cmd here
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

demkantor said:
So your device is recognized by adb, then you type
adb shell
And you see a # after su
But when you type
cd /sdcard
cd ubuntu
What happens, does it say something like no file or directory? This would mean there is no file on SD card named Ubuntu
Maybe if you can copy and paste all input/output from cmd here
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
after i type cd ubuntu it says on my cmd "cnt cd ubuntu" thts problm im getting