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can someone help me with adb

ive tried many guides on trying to install adb. i have the drivers installed but nothing is happening when i try to use sdk tools. can anyone help me?

It doesn't really "install," it just resides in a folder on your computer. When you want to use ADB, you just pass the commands through your Windows command prompt (assuming you're using Windows).
Put the Android SDK file in the root of your C: drive. In fact, make it easy and rename it "androidsdk." Inside that is the "tools" folder. Now hit Start - Run - cmd and it will start your command prompt. Then enter "cd c:\androidsdk\tools" (no quotes) and hit enter. Now you're in the ADB directory, just start running ADB commands.
Right?

whatever command i try to type in says its not a recognized internal or external command.

Can you run throught the steps you took?
These are mine:
1. Connect phone and select HTC Sync
2. Make sure you know the location patch to the android-sdk-windows(if you're using windows) folder.
3. Press start........run........then type cmd to open command prompt
4. Type cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools(my location, yours will be wherever you extracted the zip file to)
5. Press enter
6. Type adb devices to confirm it sees your phone
7. Type adb shell and you should see a flashing # symbol
8. Start typing commands.

when i connect my phone and try to sync using htc sync it cant find it on my comp.

Do you have USB Debugging turned on?
And by the way, you don't need to set it to HTC Sync. You may have to make sure the drivers are installed correctly (I suggest TheBiles' Idiot-Proof rooting guide for that), but after that it will connect as long as you have debugging mode turned on, even if your phone is set to "Charge Only." I never put mine in "Disk Drive" mode unless I want to drag a file to my SD card, and I've never ONCE used HTC Sync.

ok thank you, so far so good. im busy doing some other work but the adb shell seems to be working. will edit later.

Edit: nvm that.

Can't move any apk into /sys/app using root explorer

Hi guys I want to install keyboardmanager by installing from /sys/app try as I may i just can't move any apk into the root sys folder. Have read write permission in the folder but after paste or copy request the file remains on the sd. Can copy files from sd to /.
Have searched and searched but can't find out why I can move files to this path. I need access as would like to remove some stock apps also.
Rooted with evoke and am running a desire with cyanogen 6.1.0 stable and clockwork mod recovery 2.5.0.7
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Are you S-OFF?
If not you do not truly have RW access, just the appearance of it in File Explorer.
Try booting into recovery and using adb to move it, or go through the steps to S-OFF.

Try copying it to /system/app/
Not /sys/app/...wrong place.

Mercianary: I think he used sys as short for system.
To answer the question. The desire is nandlocked so even with root you can't write to system while it is booted. You need to hack the phone on bootloader level (get s-off) to gain this write access.

@cwakerly From what i understand, you are trying to install an apk from your sd card to /system/app while the phone is on and running? As suggested above, you cannot do this via a File Explorer app unless you have full root to the /system partition (S-OFF). Try it via ADB instead and follow these steps:
Perform a Nandroid backup first just incase anything were to go wrong.
1. You need to have USB Debugging enabled, HTC Sync and Android SDK installed (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html).
2. To get adb running on the Windows OS platform, for example, download & extract the Android SDK to the following path: C:\android-sdk-windows.
3. Turn on your phone and connect it to your PC via a USB port, and then boot into Recovery mode..
4. Instead of placing the apk onto the SD card, place it into C:\android-sdk-windows\tools in Windows.
5. Open command prompt and type cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools, hit enter.
6. Type adb shell mount /system, then hit enter, to mount the /system partition.
7. Type adb push keyboardmanager.apk /system/app, hit enter.
8. Type adb reboot.
Let me know if that is what you meant and if it works for you.

Hey guys thanks so much for suggestions will try them and let you know if it works
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hi i have installed sdk, htc sync and java plug ins.
using command line when i try to run adb shell mount /system command i get the following error message:
'adb' is not recognised as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file.
any ideas what's happing here?

Have you navigated to the tools folder of the sdk?
Mine is C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Yours maybe something similar....
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cwakerly said:
hi i have installed sdk, htc sync and java plug ins.
using command line when i try to run adb shell mount /system command i get the following error message:
'adb' is not recognised as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file.
any ideas what's happing here?
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try it in smaller chunks, type adb shell, you will then get a # sign, now type mount /system

hi have navigated to tools folder of sdk, still the same error message. when i type adb shell i get the same error!

If you have latest sdk you need the "other" tools folder. I'm not at my pc so I'm not sure the exact name.
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if you haven't got it done yet use this update.zip
open the zip then put the apk you want to install in /system/app then zip it back up. it wont be signed so turn off signature verification in recovery before you flash it.

Hurray using the update zip worked!! Thank you everyone for your help on this
Have a great Christmas.
Craig
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Forgot to transfer ROM

I tried to root my Nexus to get Jellybean...all went well till I realized I forgot to get the ROM onto the phone.
I made a backup onto the computer but didn't do it after I booted into clockwork mod. I wiped the cache etc. and installed the Gapps and that is when I realised the ROM wasn't on the phone. My phone wont connect to the computer and the only backup I have is on my computer.
Is there a way to get the stock ICS on the phone or somehow get the JB ROM onto my phone?

Not an expert, but fastboot and flash stock???
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If your phone is recognized by the PC, push the ROM with ADB. You can then flash it.
Code:
adb push rom-file.zip /sdcard/
Alternatively if you just want to return to stock, flash the images via fastboot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895

martonikaj said:
If your phone is recognized by the PC, push the ROM with ADB. You can then flash it.
Code:
adb push rom-file.zip /sdcard/
Alternatively if you just want to return to stock, flash the images via fastboot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
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Phone is not recognized by the computer. It tries to install the driver then says it can't.

adb push it.
You can adb push from a custom recovery (CWM)

Jubakuba said:
adb push it.
You can adb push from a custom recovery (CWM)
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I can't find the AndroidSDK folder on my computer at all...
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downloaded and installed Android SDK.
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got to cmd....I get to the point where I need to adb push but I get this message: 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
and on cwm, I can't toggle the /sdcard to unmount. It stays on mount.

cwpmz3 said:
I can't find the AndroidSDK folder on my computer at all...
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downloaded and installed Android SDK.
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got to cmd....I get to the point where I need to adb push but I get this message: 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
and on cwm, I can't toggle the /sdcard to unmount. It stays on mount.
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You need to be in the sdk folder where the adb.exe is located, and the file you want to push must be in the same folder aswell.
Swype'ed on my CM10 Galaxy Nexus

cwpmz3 said:
I can't find the AndroidSDK folder on my computer at all...
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downloaded and installed Android SDK.
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got to cmd....I get to the point where I need to adb push but I get this message: 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
and on cwm, I can't toggle the /sdcard to unmount. It stays on mount.
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Open the directory where you put the adb.exe file. Shift+Right Click the blank screen. Click Run Command Prompt Here. Now you should be able to use adb and all its commands when your phone is in recovery mode and connected to computer. Just to make sure, you can always do "adb devices" to check it the phone is recognized.
Also make sure that the ROM you want to transfer is in the same directory as adb.exe.
After you've done that, do "adb push NAME OF THE ROM.zip /sdcard/"
Now use CWM to flash that zip file and you're good to go.

Thanks everyone! Got it working!
Definitely made my heartdrop before haha but man I learned a lot haha again, Thanks!:good:

[Q] ROM install SDCard USB issues.

So, my problem is that I have recently unlocked the bootloader on my HTC One X using my Mac and the very helpful guide provided on this YouTube link
http://youtu.be/8Y3VbFJIwWU
No problems with the process in that video and I've gotten to the end with the phone bootloader definitely.
My problem is that I've then attempted to install a custom ROM from the SD card. Again, this seems to work fine, but upon reboot I'm immediately hit with a continual pop-up 'unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped' with the only option to press ok. It loops continuously.
I suspect I may have to reinstall the ROM onto the SD card, but this is my problem. I cannot get my phone's USB access to work on my Mac as I am stuck with the above pop-up preventing me. I can't seem to access it via Recovery either.
Can I use fastboot to 'flash' over the *.img or *.zip of a new ROM to get it onto the SD card? Stuck with a phone I can't use otherwise. :crying:
Thanks.

Mount usb storage from the recovery.
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or while in recovery type
Code:
adb push rom.zip sdcard/

Thanks for that, athulele . :good:
I have tried that. On a Mac, for USB access requires that I use software called 'Android File Transfer' rather than the way Windows would do it. That software doesn't kick in via Recovery mounting. So, I'm going to need a different approach.
Since I have Windows installed via Bootcamp, I think I'll try to connect the phone up via Windows and see whether I can access the SD card via USB using that route.
Any other help is most welcome.

you do not need that file, just boot into recovery and type the command above... it's the easiest way

matt95 said:
you do not need that file, just boot into recovery and type the command above... it's the easiest way
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Having booted into recovery, using Terminal on my Mac and typing
adb push sentinelrom_v4_30_endeavoru.zip sdcard/
gives the following message:
-bash: adb: command not found
Am I doing something wrong here?

well, have you got the sdk installed on your mac?

matt95 said:
well, have you got the sdk installed on your mac?
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I've now downloaded the sdk for mac. It's a adt bundle folder with many files inside. I've installed 'Eclipse' but I'm still getting the same message as before from the Terminal. What else do I need to do here?

Im not into macs .... but don't you need to enter sudo commands before the adb/fastboot commands ?

no, he only needs to navigate to the adb directory with the terminal and then type
Code:
./adb push rom.zip sdcard/

matt95 said:
no, he only needs to navigate to the adb directory with the terminal and then type
Code:
./adb push rom.zip sdcard/
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Hi matt95
I'm grateful for the help you are giving me here. I've found the adb file within the following downloaded directory path:
act-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130219 - sdk - platform-tools - adb
When I changed directory in Terminal to this path and ensured the specific rom.zip was also in that path, Terminal is still giving me this:
./adb push sentinelrom_v4_30_endeavoru.zip sdcard/
-bash: ./adb: No such file or directory
I must be doing something not right. Please help further.

that's strange, could you provide me the platform-tools folder and the rom.zip folder? i'll write down what you exactly have to write...

matt95 said:
that's strange, could you provide me the platform-tools folder and the rom.zip folder? i'll write down what you exactly have to write...
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Folder contents as described.
Thanks.

ok now i need their directory, for ex. /User/yourusernane/Docuemnts/ecc ecc......

matt95 said:
ok now i need their directory, for ex. /User/yourusernane/Docuemnts/ecc ecc......
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/Users/srafferty73/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130219/sdk/platform-tools
and
/Users/srafferty73/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130219/sdk/platform-tools/sentinelrom_v4_30_endeavoru
Thanks.

ok, now open the therminal ans type
Code:
cd /Users/srafferty73/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130219/sdk/platform-tools
./adb push (drag the rom.zip into terminal) sdcard/
now it should work

matt95 said:
ok, now open the therminal ans type
Code:
cd /Users/srafferty73/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130219/sdk/platform-tools
./adb push (drag the rom.zip into terminal) sdcard/
now it should work
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Slowly making progress. Latest Terminal message after doing that reads 'error: device not found'.
I am using ClockworMod Recovery v5.8.2.7 and have clicked on 'mount /sdcard'. I have tried to 'mount USB storage' but am getting an error message which reads 'E: Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or directory).'
What should I do next?
Thanks.

fingerbob said:
Slowly making progress. Latest Terminal message after doing that reads 'error: device not found'.
I am using ClockworMod Recovery v5.8.2.7 and have clicked on 'mount /sdcard'. I have tried to 'mount USB storage' but am getting an error message which reads 'E: Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or directory).'
What should I do next?
Thanks.
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Flash a newer recovery.

Mr Hofs said:
Flash a newer recovery.
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I managed to find a copy of ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.0 and flashed this as advised. This has somehow enabled the USB facility on my phone to start working again and I can replace the ROM I've downloaded onto it.
I just tried reinstalling the ROM I had again, but once again got the original message stated in my first post. I'm about to now try a different ROM to see if that makes any difference.
:good:

PUSH ZIP FILES To SDCARD While in RECOVERY

SEND FILES THROUGH ADB When IN RECOVERY MODE
1. Connect phone in recovery mode to pc….
2. In TWRP mount menu select sdcard to mount
3. Copy the Rom.Zip(I want to push the Zip file which name is Rom.Zip) file to platform tools folder which can be found in sdk folder .
4. Now open command prompt and change the directory path to sdk\platform-tools.(mine platformtools path is C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20140702\sdk\platform-tools so check yours and change it to that path)
5. Now check wheather device is connected or not. type adb devices and press enter(if device not connected then goto www.adbdriver.com and download adb driver installer,its about 9 mb,then install it and run the program while your phone is connected in recovery mode and it will automatically detect your phone and click on istall adb driver(in this process your phone should stay connected as in recovery mode and internet is required) then move to next step
6. If device found connected type adb remount and press enter(it will give message remount succed)
7. Here you type the push command to push the file
adb push Rom.zip /sdcard press enter and it will send file to your phone.now you can flash the Rom.zip through recovery….
Hope it will help you…press thanx button if it helps you