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Got a new computer and Im having trouble getting my ADb setup. When I try to run adb devices I get
adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I have adb setup on C, JDK is installed. Downloaded drives from htc sync, but did not install htc sync. Under Device Manager, the phone is listed as
-Android USB Devices
-My HTC. the monitor has a lilttle yellow triangle with an !. I tried to update the drives, but it says I have the most recent installed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Edit.....need to use the platform-tools folder, not tools.
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I have tried to run ADB on my Inc, Nook Color and now the TBolt.
I just cant get it to work.
It would be easy to just say I am a dope, but I have had a highly successful run with the Inc. I have flashed/installed/performed/restored every worthwhile mod available for the INC and Nook with no trouble. I just cant get ADB to run.
ive just helped someone with this.
they HTC Sync software has the ADB drivers
download
install
then cancel HTC sync instalation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000751
It sounds to me like your problem is that the adb executable is not in your path and you're not trying to run it from within the directory it is installed in, as indicated by your saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
In your terminal window, try using the cd command to switch to whatever folder the adb.exe file is in, and then try running the command. You don't even need the phone hooked up to test at first...just type adb devices or something to see if the app runs or not. On my Mac, if I just type adb at the command line, adb responds with a list of all available commands.
Do a dir command (Win) or ls (Mac/Linux) to confirm the file is in the same directory you are.
distortedloop said:
It sounds to me like your problem is that the adb executable is not in your path and you're not trying to run it from within the directory it is installed in, as indicated by your saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
In your terminal window, try using the cd command to switch to whatever folder the adb.exe file is in, and then try running the command. You don't even need the phone hooked up to test at first...just type adb devices or something to see if the app runs or not. On my Mac, if I just type adb at the command line, adb responds with a list of all available commands.
Do a dir command (Win) or ls (Mac/Linux) to confirm the file is in the same directory you are.
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Yea, the error is the one you get when you use a windows command thats not in the path. So do this, or add it to your path environment variable
Thanks to all who answered. That is why this community is the best. The older version of adb just had tools folder, while the new version has platform tools that needs to be used. Again thanks.
sent from my commando style T-Bolt.
I'm on win 7 32 bit.
I have HTC sync installed, adb installed, added system variables and cannot get adb to recongize my device in command prompt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1SOSXwkc_8
Ok, this might be a real noob question.
I've read threads on how to use ADB and all they say is: use these and that command. None of them say WHERE to type in those commands.
So to my question... how exactly do i get to ADB mode and type in those commands?
well, i'm guessing you have ADB downloaded? if not, you can get it at http://developer.android.com/index.html
then extract ADB files to a folder on your computer, preferably right on the C drive. i have my in C:/Root
then go into the command promt, and do the command cd c:/(adb directory here)
my command is cd c:/root
after that, use your adb commands as instructed. like 'adb devices'
OR, you can just type the commands in the terminal emulator.
Do i have to plug in my phone already booted into android for ADB to work?
yes, your phone has to be on and connected to your computer.
Lil' Help... New stock SGS2 phone arrived today... I successfully flashed Entropy512's "stock kernel + rooted stock system image" via Odin3 (v1.85). Worked perfect, phone rebooted, now I have root. 2nd step, I extracted the zImage from Codeworkx's CWM tar file (put zImage in same PC desktop folder as my adb.exe files). I want to use adb push to push zImage file to phone so I can avoid the triangle/counter of death. Anyway, I got this error in my CMD window:
C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb push zImage /sdcard/zImage
error: device not found
What went wrong? The "phone" and "card" are recognized by windows explorer, but when trying to use adb commands, get "error: device not found"
Thx.
DoctorQMM said:
Lil' Help... New stock SGS2 phone arrived today... I successfully flashed Entropy512's "stock kernel + rooted stock system image" via Odin3 (v1.85). Worked perfect, phone rebooted, now I have root. 2nd step, I extracted the zImage from Codeworkx's CWM tar file (put zImage in same PC desktop folder as my adb.exe files). I want to use adb push to push zImage file to phone so I can avoid the triangle/counter of death. Anyway, I got this error in my CMD window:
C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb push zImage /sdcard/zImage
error: device not found
What went wrong? The "phone" and "card" are recognized by windows explorer, but when trying to use adb commands, get "error: device not found"
Thx.
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Try to start by verifying that adb can see your phone.
type "adb devices" (no quotes)
This should return a number, if not, the phone is not being seen by adb.
If not check drivers, cable, try different usb port.
If it does return a number you are properly connected.
Proceed to:
adb push zImage /sdcard/zImage
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/zImage of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5
Might need to as su if prompt shows $ instead of #
Try adb remount
i didnt realize so many people cared about a little triangle that you see for about 3 seconds on boot.
DoctorQMM said:
Lil' Help... New stock SGS2 phone arrived today... I successfully flashed Entropy512's "stock kernel + rooted stock system image" via Odin3 (v1.85). Worked perfect, phone rebooted, now I have root. 2nd step, I extracted the zImage from Codeworkx's CWM tar file (put zImage in same PC desktop folder as my adb.exe files). I want to use adb push to push zImage file to phone so I can avoid the triangle/counter of death. Anyway, I got this error in my CMD window:
C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb push zImage /sdcard/zImage
error: device not found
What went wrong? The "phone" and "card" are recognized by windows explorer, but when trying to use adb commands, get "error: device not found"
Thx.
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You're missing drivers or haven't enabled USB debugging. Drivers for USB Mass Storage are built into Windows, drivers for ADB are not. Not sure what the procedure is for installing Windows ADB drivers... It's one of the reasons I almost never use Windows for working with my phone.
I've heard Droid Explorer might come with a drivers package, not sure.
Entropy512 said:
You're missing drivers or haven't enabled USB debugging. Drivers for USB Mass Storage are built into Windows, drivers for ADB are not. Not sure what the procedure is for installing Windows ADB drivers... It's one of the reasons I almost never use Windows for working with my phone.
I've heard Droid Explorer might come with a drivers package, not sure.
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PDANET is free and simple to install on any Windows based machine. Less than 30 seconds and it recognises every phone I have tried so far. You just need to be sure to get the right one for you OS, 64 or 32 bit.
I sent to my kids that are too lazy to install the Android SDK.....
SNadler said:
Try to start by verifying that adb can see your phone.
type "adb devices" (no quotes)
This should return a number, if not, the phone is not being seen by adb.
If not check drivers, cable, try different usb port.
If it does return a number you are properly connected.
Proceed to:
adb push zImage /sdcard/zImage
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/zImage of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5
Might need to as su if prompt shows $ instead of #
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I appreciate everyone's input... OK, here's where I stand:
adb does now recognize phone. After typing "adb devices", cmd window showed my phone in list of devices attached. I then proceeded to "adb push zImage /sdard/zImage... that seemed to work also [cmd window came back with "2544 KB/s (6718048 bytes in 2.578s)]. Next, I typed "adb shell dd if=/sdcard/zImage of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5" [cmd window came back with "/dev/block/mmcblk0p5: cannot open for write: Permission denied"]
so is still a drivers issue? cable issue? or something else? Thx again
EDIT: one additional clue for all the experts: the zImage is now on my /sdcard. When I type "adb shell", I do get "$" instead of "#" in cmd window... and I know I have root on phone. When I type "adb shell su" in cmd window, I get "Permission denied".
Sometimes the root install won't completely work until you go to the Superuser app once manually. (e.g. in Applications).
Also, another possibility may be that there are two ways to run adb shell:
One is
Code:
adb shell <command>
Where it'll run <command> and then exit
Then there is
Code:
adb shell
<command1>
<command2>
exit
In the second, when you first type "adb shell" you'll get a shell prompt on your phone.
Then you'll type su (this will give you superuser privileges)
Then you run the dd command
Then you should be good.
The difference is: If you have a custom "insecure" kernel, an ADB shell defaults to root privileges. If you have a stock kernel, ADB shell defaults to "mortal user", and you need to manually use su to get root privileges.
Pushing the file to the SD card does not require root, writing the kernel to the kernel partition (mmcblk0p5) does.
Entropy512 said:
Sometimes the root install won't completely work until you go to the Superuser app once manually. (e.g. in Applications).
Also, another possibility may be that there are two ways to run adb shell:
One is
Code:
adb shell <command>
Where it'll run <command> and then exit
Then there is
Code:
adb shell
<command1>
<command2>
exit
In the second, when you first type "adb shell" you'll get a shell prompt on your phone.
Then you'll type su (this will give you superuser privileges)
Then you run the dd command
Then you should be good.
The difference is: If you have a custom "insecure" kernel, an ADB shell defaults to root privileges. If you have a stock kernel, ADB shell defaults to "mortal user", and you need to manually use su to get root privileges.
Pushing the file to the SD card does not require root, writing the kernel to the kernel partition (mmcblk0p5) does.
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Entropy512... you da man! I'm good to go now. As you recommended, even though I've been using Root Explorer and I know I was 'rooted', had to open SuperUser app on phone... then in the cmd window when I typed "adb shell" I got the "$" prompt. So at the $ prompt I typed "su"... this gave me the "#" prompt. SuperUser App then asked for SU permission acceptance. Then did the "dd xxxxxxxx" command, and it came back with:
13121 +1 records in
13121 +1 records out
6718048 bytes transferred in 2.895 secs (2320569 bytes/sec).
Rebooted phone to recovery, and have the light blue CWM Recovery 5.0.2.3.
Now I'm rooted, have CWM, and no triangle/counter of death. Hope this helps anyone else with a similar situation.
Again, a BIG shoutout to Entropy512, SNadler, jivy26, et al., for your constructive and quick replies. This forum is the best!
DocQ
One last [Q] Do I have to leave the large "zImage" file (6.41mb) in the /sdcard folder, or can it be removed /moved now that CWM successfully flashed?
DoctorQMM said:
One last [Q] Do I have to leave the large "zImage" file (6.41mb) in the /sdcard folder, or can it be removed /moved now that CWM successfully flashed?
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No need to leave it, although I keep a bunch of various kernels in /sdcard/kernels myself - it's up to you.
Ive pushed all kinds of other stuff, I did do the add system enviromental variable to XP so this could be my issue, though like i said its worked for other things ...
ERROR I GET>
CANNOT STAT
adb push stock-hc-flyer-hboot_1.11.0006.nb0 / && adb shell dd if=/stock-hc-flyer-hboot_1.11.0006.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY
a thourough explanation or a cut and pastable pointing my adb to this file, its in the root, the variable is to the root C also, so....
PLEASE HELP, to get me past this 10+hours of hell
May be a connection between your computer and phone issue. I have this error when I wanted to root my nexus s. Try different driver for your flyer.
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
Make sure the adb works via "adb devices" and "adb shell". If it does not work you can try "adb kill-server" first.
I don't think you can write (push) to "/" without "adb remount". Not sure if it is a good idea to write to root directory.
Alternatively, you can use the storage in /data/local/tmp, it is always writable.
when I type adb devices cmd in the terminal it does not list my device and its plugged in....
when I try to type adb usb it says no devices found...
for the record nothing is wrong with my USB connection cable because, I'm able to connect my HTC ReZound via USB cable to my macbook, the CDROM and STORAGE auto mounts to my desktop so i know the connection is working, because I'm able to copy files, update music via winamp sync playlists, also my paid EasyTeather copy works, etc.
I updated & installed most recent Android SDK adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917 and updated the device manager for my ver 4.0.3 and all tools, even tryed using a stand alone platform-osx-tools.zip that contains a adb and fastboot...\
I read up on this and found nothing tryed everything....
adb kill-server > adb start-server - does nothing
adding device in the adb_usb.ini didn't help either.
chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules after creating file didn't help.
rebooted many times .
i've attached a terminal cmd window below to show.
USB debugging is enabled on the device, yes? Does the "USB debugging enabled" notification show up when you plug it into the computer?
MaxxPayne said:
when I type adb devices cmd in the terminal it does not list my device and its plugged in....
when I try to type adb usb it says no devices found...
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are you doing proper methods in command prompt for sdk's adb such as directing it to the folder its in...example did you type cd c:/androidsdk/platform_tools/ in command prompt for example
I used to have a mac ....but here
Download htc sync for mac
http://www.iskysoft.com/convert-mobile/sync-htc-to-mac.html
Download the sdk and all you need is a folder called platform tools
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Extract the platform tools folder Put it on your desktop
Open terminal type "cd" then hit space then drag and drop the platform tools folder into the terminal after that hit enter
Then you can run any command just make sure to put "./ " before the command without quotations so if you wanna flash a boot you would put
./fastboot flash boot boot.img and hit enter
Note that adb works perfectly well on my Mac without the HTC Sync drivers.