I have been testing an android application in the device using the monkey tool for stress testing.
I have referred to the link developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.htm(This is URL). After executing the command ($ adb shell monkey -p your.package.name -v 500) in the terminal emulator from the device i can see the status as killed your.package.name (my package name).
Is the command executed successfully? or not!
is there any way i can log the errors or results in the device?
help is appreciated
Thank you
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Hi all!
I was using Modaco 2.9 before and it was amazing stable.
Later on I tryied [email protected] worked well, but not as stable as the modaco, so I thought lets change to the 3.0. Since that I have al lot system crashes, so I thought I need to do "deldalv and/or ext_wipe" with the RA-recovery-1.2.3
Figured out that it didnt work, it says I should use "adb deldalv"
I couldnt get the adb to run on my ubuntu linux, so I tried to find an update for the RA-recovery.
And there is RA-recovery-1.5.1 and I can just install it (cause I have a previous version) via adb.
Now My Question:
How does it work?!?
Code:
[email protected]:~$ adb usb
error: insufficient permissions for device
[email protected]:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
???????????? no permissions
[email protected]:~$ adb kill-server
[email protected]:~$ adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
[email protected]:~$ adb usb
error: insufficient permissions for device
[email protected]:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
???????????? no permissions
Code:
[email protected]:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
#Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bb4:0c02
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS(idVendor)=="0bb4",MODE="0666"
How do I connect the device then, if not like that?
How can I test if everything works?
Thanks in advance
Unicate said:
How do I connect the device then, if not like that?
How can I test if everything works?
Thanks in advance
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afaik this looks good, try starting adb as root. this is what adb devices says for me:
Code:
[email protected]:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
HT98XXXX427 device
Code:
./adb start-server
./adb shell
works for me (with root ofcourse )
I set up my system so that the adb deamon starts at boot.
Created a script in the /etc/init.d directory called adb:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
/home/joeblow/AndroidSDK/tools/adb start-server
;;
stop)
/home/joeblow/AndroidSDK/tools/adb kill-server
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
Created a link to it in /etc/rc2.d:
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-01-09 19:17 S10adb -> ../init.d/adb
Off Topic...
Am sorry to be a little off topic.. I just got my Hero and was trying to figure out all the stuff about it here on XDA.. Can anybody tell me what is ADB ??.. Whats it used for ??.. As far as I have understood, I think its some sorta software to connect hero to the computer to transfer files and stuff.. Is it right ??.. If yes.. Then what is the difference between this and HTC SYNC ??.. Thanks in advance.. Cheers !!!
if You want only transfer files, You don't need ADB.
htc sync is for synchronizing phone (contacts, calendar, etc) with PC (i guess, i don't use it ) and for upgrading SW.
Right, I'm currently working on a project which involves imaging Android phones - specifically, the program I've written is mean to automate identifying the memory block containing the userdata and then using the following sequence of commands (using Android Debug Bridge) to copy it to the computer that the phone is connected to:
Code:
adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
busybox nc –l –p 5555 –e dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd[mtd block number] bs=4096
This is done in command prompt and then you have to manually open another command prompt and type in:
Code:
adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | dd of=[chosen file name].bin bs=4096 -- progress
This copies the memory block over without any problems when done manually and even shows you in real time how much data has been transferred.
The problem I have is with automating the process in C#. Specifically, I can get every stage of it to work through using a process to write the commands to standard input and using a tcp listening port to receive the data. Apart from this crucial element of the process:
Code:
adb shell "busybox nc –l –p 5555 –e dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd[mtd block number] bs=4096"
For some reason, no matter how I try to phrase it or do it, C# hates that command and won't execute it. I can manually type the exact same thing into the command prompt and it works fine but trying to do it in C# just leads to busybox acting as though I typed the command in incorrectly - this is what it gives me:
Code:
BusyBox v1.15.2 <2009-11-27 10:38:30 GMT> multi-call binary
Usage: nc [-in] [-wN] [-l] [-p Port] [-f FILENAME|PADDR PORT] [-e PROG]
Open a pipe to IP:port or file
Options:
-e PROG Run prog after connect
-i SEC Delay interval for lines sent
-w SEC Timeout for connect
-f FILE Use file <ala /dev/ttyS0> instead of network
-l Listen mode, for inbound connects
<use -l twice with -e for persistent server>
-p PORT Local port
The problem appears to be particularly with the use of bs=[bytes] but I've no idea why - and I've spent several hours searching all over the web for solutions.
So basically, I was wondering whether anyone else might have encountered this issue before and if anyone has any ideas to get around it? At the moment I'm using a script to send the commands to the command prompt but that's a kludge that I'd really prefer not to have to use.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments and apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place.
Probably has to do with syntax.
In the first instance you don't have it in quotes.
Code:
busybox nc –l –p 5555 –e dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd[mtd block number] bs=4096
Then you do have quotes the second time.
Code:
adb shell "busybox nc –l –p 5555 –e dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd[mtd block number] bs=4096"
Sometimes, using a newer busybox helps too... 1.15.2 is kinda old
The first time is meant to show that it's being done on two different lines though I probably should have made that clearer.
Thanks for the suggestion - I just upgraded to the latest version of busybox and also altered my code so it would open cmd.exe and then run adb.exe rather than skipping straight to running adb.exe. This seems to have fixed the problem some of the time so there's probably a timing issue as well.
So I don't know whether it was the busybox version or the adb.exe/cmd.exe thing but, either way, the problem seems to have disappeared so I'm not going to change anything else in case I break it again.
Thanks very much for your help
Yep I find that there is always 2 or 3 ways to do something and usually only 1 way works all the time (lowest common denominator etc...)
@Antonine May I ask you what's the project you're talking about? I'm interested...
When I start the ADB shell from the Windows command line, and type the command "ls", the list of files I get is not sorted by name. Also, if I enter "ls -r" which should reverse sort, I get the error message "no such file". If I type "busybox ls -l", I get the expected sorted list. Also, other commands like "busybox ls -la" work.
My Phone is a Samsung Captivate i897, rooted from Gingerbread with Corn Kernel v7.06 with Superuser and BusyBox installed.
How can I get the Busybox version of the shell commands to run without having to type "busybox" all the time?
The same problem
How to force sort in ls result ?
Hi All,
In my Java program I would like to capture screen of android device attached through adb. For that in command prompt I am able to execute
"adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g' > Screen.png"
How to do this in my program. I wrote code that create process and execute "adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g'". but I am unable to read input stream and write it to a .jpg file. File is corrupted and cannot open,
Thank you
iua said:
Hi All,
In my Java program I would like to capture screen of android device attached through adb. For that in command prompt I am able to execute
"adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g' > Screen.png"
How to do this in my program. I wrote code that create process and execute "adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g'". but I am unable to read input stream and write it to a .jpg file. File is corrupted and cannot open,
Thank you
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Are you talking about Android Java or regular Java?
Have you tested using the command separately and tested what the output is?
BTW. Your perl line is wrong!, This is the good one
Code:
adb shell screencap -p | sed 's/\r$//' > screen.png
the one you tried is only for MAC OSX
broodplank1337 said:
Are you talking about Android Java or regular Java?
Have you tested using the command separately and tested what the output is?
BTW. Your perl line is wrong!, This is the good one
Code:
adb shell screencap -p | sed 's/\r$//' > screen.png
the one you tried is only for MAC OSX
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Hi, I am talking about regular java. My java application is a desktop app run on PC. Yes I tested command in consol, it nicely captures screen of device attached via adb and save as a image files as per command given.
Now my requirement is to write a java program run on PC to capture screen, issue is I don't have idea how to do it with that way. If explain further I hope I could use "Runtime.exec" to pass "adb shell screencap -p | sed 's/\r$//' " but how can I create a image file on Workstation.
I can ad hoc open any given Activity on the Android phone while connected over USB to adb on the Windows PC, but how do I DUPLICATE the SAME THING, but from the phone itself?
For example, how can I run this Activity, ad hoc, on the Android phone?
ACTION: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
PACKAGE: "com.google.android.gms"
CLASS: "com.google.android.gms.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity"
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For illustrative purposes, below is a trivial example of ad hoc opening the "Reset Advertiser ID" Activity on the Android phone.
1. Install & test adb on your PC (I tested this only on Windows 10)
2. Connect your Android device over USB (mine is Samsung, Android 11)
3. Paste this command into a Windows command window:
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
That's just a trivial example where I can't yet figure out yet how to duplicate that popping up of a given Activity on the android phone for any given Activity, if all I know is the name of that given Activity (and which isn't already found in a static list inside of the shortcut creator apps).
Here are more examples I've tested for other Activities.
Code:
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.location.settings.LocationAccuracyActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.applications.ManageApplications
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.update.SystemUpdateActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.samsung.android.secsoundpicker/.SecSoundPickerActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$NotificationAppListActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$AppMemoryUsageActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$NotificationAppListActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$SecDisabledAppsActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$PowerUsageSummaryActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$AppAndNotificationDashboardActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.app.settings.GoogleSettingsLink
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.app.settings.GoogleSettingsIALink
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/co.g.Space
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.gcm.GcmDiagnostics
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.nearby.exposurenotification.settings.SettingsActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.nearby.sharing.ContactSelectActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.mdm.settings.AdmSettingsActivity
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.network.telephony.MobileNetworkActivity
After each command line above you can close the previous results using the adb command shown below (because you can't open an Android Settings Activity on top of an existing Android Settings Activity):
Code:
C:\> adb shell am force-stop com.android.settings
I'm well aware that we can create permanent homescreen shortcuts using shortcut creator applications; but this question is not about creating a homescreen shortcut for permanent access to Android Activities.
This question is how to instantly open ANY given Activity ad hoc (i.e., on a case-by-case basis) on Android whenever you want to - just from the name like we did above using adb (but without needing adb to do it).
Pack all the ADB commands listed in a Linux shell script ( means omitting "adb shell" part ), put this script into /data/local/tmp, make script executable and finally run this script in Terminal Emulator on phone.
jwoegerbauer said:
Pack all the ADB commands listed in a Linux shell script ( means omitting "adb shell" part ), put this script into /data/local/tmp, make script executable and finally run this script in Terminal Emulator on phone.
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That worked! Thank you!
Below is my first testcase, which was the simple example of popping up the "Reset Advertising ID" Activity on Android when all you know is the unique name of the Activity.
This alias (which I named "resetadid") that worked first was:
$ alias resetadid='am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity'
This saves that alias into your bashrc file for safekeeping.
$ alias >> ~/.bashrc
To run that alias at the Android Termux command line, I just type:
$ resetadid
(which will pop up the named Activity on your phone)
Then I put that line into a shell script that I named "resetadid.sh"
$ am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
And I put the following line into another shell script (named "closegms.sh") to close that gms (google mobile services) Activity.
$ adb shell am force-stop com.google.android.gms
Note for the shell scripts to work, I had to run these commands.
$ pkg install termux-exec
$ termux-fix-shebang ./resetadid.sh
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This is the "./resetadid.sh" shell script that survives rebooting:
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
To run that script at the Android Termux command line, I just type:
$ ./resetadid.sh
(that will pop up the named Activity on your phone)
Normally we won't need to close that Activity because resetting the advertising ID will close it when we hit the "reset" and "ok" buttons, but for now we need to close the Activity after we pop it up.
To that end is this temporary "closegms.sh" shell script.
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
adb shell am force-stop com.google.android.gms
There are only two things left.
1. How to put that Termux command in a homescreen icon for free?
2. What to add to that shell script to actually press the "Reset" button?
Anyone know how to add a shell script to the Android homescreen?
Anyone know how to add a command to press the "reset" button?
Typically by long tapping on the home screen, you can create a shortcut to an existing script or add a live folder that contains all of your scripts.
BTW:
Termux is a Terminal Emulator what allows you to run ( Linux conformant ) Android Shell commands / scripts.
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Typically by long tapping on the home screen, you can create a shortcut to an existing script or add a live folder that contains all of your scripts.
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Thanks for that advice which works to create, not a shortcut to a script, but a widget to a script (a shortcut would be nicer as it fits in homescreen folders).
It's not as simple as just long tapping because there is a ton of syntax involved, and the files have to be in critical directories, and even the version of Termux matters extremely greatly.
But it does work. Thanks.
So we can now create a homescreen widget that will bring up any given Activity if all we know is the Activity name!
I'll write it up in the next post.
jwoegerbauer said:
BTW:
Termux is a Terminal Emulator what allows you to run ( Linux conformant ) Android Shell commands / scripts.
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The "right" Termux appears to be that on F-Droid and NOT the one on Google Play as documented elsewhere on the net, this being one link.
For this kind of shell scripts (to run Activities) do you think Andronix will help (Andronis is apparently Linux on top of Android along with Android without the need for rooting).
So we can now create a homescreen widget that will bring up any given Activity if all we know is the Activity name!
For anyone who reads this, may I ask that you please invest five minutes in testing this out and letting everyone here know how it works for you?
What I wrote below is designed so you can just follow the cookbook and you should end up with a widget on your homescreen which will open up to ANY named Activity (but I only give one example below) if all you know is the unique name of that Activity.
Install the F-Droid Termux
(Do not use the Google Play Termux!)
Install the F-Droid Termux:Widget
Start Termux on your Android device
All commands below are run on the Termux command line.
If you had to back out the Google Play Termux in favor of the F-Droid Termux, you'll want to re-create & re-test the alias to a simple Activity such as "Reset Ad ID" as explained earlier in this thread, just to test your syntax.
Re-create:
Code:
alias resetadid='am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity'
Re-test:
Code:
$ resetadid
Then re-create & re-test the shell script we previously described earlier in this thread.
Re-create:
Code:
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
Re-test:
Code:
$ ./resetadid.sh
Now we're ready to put that command on your homescreen!
Create two directories which are defined in the Termux-Widget help.
Code:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.shortcuts
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.shortcuts/tasks
Note I'm not sure what the "tasks" directory is for but Termux:Widget docs say to create it.
Move the shell script you created earlier into the $HOME/.shortcuts directory.
Code:
$mv ~/resetadid.sh $HOME/.shortcuts/.
Add the Termux Widget to your homescreen.
Long press your Android homescreen.
Select "Widgets"
Select "Termux:Widget"
Place that "Termux:Widget" on your Android homescreen
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Depending on your Android version...
It will ask:
"Create widget and allow access?"
To which you press "Yes" to put your widget on the homescreen.
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To interact with the now-running widget, just press the named entry showing up in that Termux Widget.
Code:
resetadid.sh
Depending on your Android version...
It may ask: "Termux requires "Display over other apps" permission
to start terminal sessions from background on Android >=10."
"Grants it from Settings -> Apps -> Termux -> Advanced" [sic]
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If needed, grant Termux permission to display over other apps:
Code:
Android11:Settings > Apps > Your apps > Termux > Appear on top = (change off to on)
Now you can press the always running Termux:Widget icon on your homescreen to bring up the desired Activity.
Does this work for you to bring up the named Activity on Android with the only thing you know being the unique Activity name?
If so, here's what's left that I know of:
a. Figure out how to add a step to actually press the "Reset" button!
b. Figure out how to use a shortcut instead of an always-running widget (which can't be placed inside a homescreen folder)
c. Figure out how to run this automatically such as when there is a screen unlocking event.
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Notes: Keep in mind the goal is to be able to interact with ANY known Android Activity using only freeware (so that everyone can do it); resetting the ad id is just one of the simplest examples.
Interested users can try this on the "Show Running Services" Activity (e.g., for implementing a "ps -aux|kill -9" shortcut).