Terminal Commands for Mac Users (Noob edition) - Nexus 6P General

Just wanted to create a quick thread for my fellow noobs. This is my first time using terminal and this is my first nexus device and I was able to unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery, flash the necessary files and flash a custom rom without any issues.. For the more experience guys, please take it easy on me if I put something incorrect Please make sure you have the Android SDK and adb/fastboot otherwise all of this is irrelevant. Also want to thank the community for all the help and giving me all this information as I was learning on the fly. Made the experience super easy and a lot of fun.
You can download the adb and fastboot here... Thanks @corbin052198 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexu...d-xda-t3226767
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damaged devices. These are simple commands and pretty hard to screw up so if you do I'm not responsible.
Here are the commands and what they do:
adb devices - shows adb devices (this is important, if it doesn't see your device then don't do anything else until is does)
adb reboot bootloader - reboots into bootloader
fastboot reboot-bootloader - reboots bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock - unlocks bootloader
fastboot flash recovery <filename>.img - flashes recovery (TWRP)
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img - use command to flash vendor image
fastboot flash boot boot.img - use command to flash boot image
fastboot flash system system.img- use command to flash system image
Note: If you are having issues with the commands try using "./" I didn't have to but you might. Ex: ./fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
PSA: 1) Make sure your terminal is pointed in the fastboot folder so you can type cd desktop then cd fastboot if that's where the folder is then you can type ls which will show what's in that folder to make sure you are in the right folder.
PSA: 2) If flashing Vendor, Boot and System files, I'd recommend doing it one by one and rebooting the bootloader after each one to be safe..
PSA: 3) A lot of PSA's, I know.. When flashing anything, instead of typing out vendor.img for example, you can just drag it from the folder and drop it into terminal.. Ex: fastboot flash vendor then drag the vendor.img from the fastboot folder..
Hope this helps..

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dont all the commands need to be preceded with "./" (without quotes)
ie to flash vendor image w filename vendor.img
./fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
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Nope not anymore. I actually got an error when typing the "./"
johnandbodhi said:
dont all the commands need to be preceded with "./" (without quotes)
ie to flash vendor image w filename vendor.img
./fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
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this also helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/tool-nexus-tools-2-8-featured-xda-t3226767

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Will add to thread. Thank you.. This is where I added adb
dwertz said:
this also helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/tool-nexus-tools-2-8-featured-xda-t3226767
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Very simple to install to where you can use the commands ANYWHERE instead of having to CD to the folder..
Open a terminal
Make sure Java is installed "java -version" (Should say Java version "x.x.x")
Download the SDK from Google. (Don't worry about Android Studio, just the SDK)
Extract the folder and move it to ~/.android-sdk
In the terminal type "cd ~/.android-sdk/tools
In the terminal type "./android"
Install the Android SDK Tools, Android SDK Platform-Tools, Android SDK Build-tools, Android Support Library
Modify your shell (.bash_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, ect...) to include (below the PATH variable): export PATH="/users/<username>/.android-sdk/platform-tools:$PATH"
Close your terminal and reopen it. Upon doing so, you should be able to use fastboot and adb in any folder you'd like.
Following these steps make it quite a bit easier to install factory images or sideload ROMs since you can use the fastboot/adb commands directly within the ROM or factory image folders. Let me know if you have any questions

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Just FYI, the commands are the same across all platforms. The "./" would be if you are accessing the in the current directory, if you were using a portable version or didn't install things properly so they are in the path.
Dupe thread, we have all this info pinned in general.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928

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So you don't really need to put the "./"? I didn't use it at any point and had no trouble at all.
designgears said:
Just FYI, the commands are the same across all platforms. The "./" would be if you are accessing the in the current directory, if you were using a portable version or didn't install things properly so they are in the path.
Dupe thread, we have all this info pinned in general.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928
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XavierD8188 said:
So you don't really need to put the "./"? I didn't use it at any point and had no trouble at all.
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I had to use ./ when typing commands to unlock my bootloader. The regular commands without ./ gave me errors.
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It was the opposite for me. "./" gave me errors but when I just typed the commands without it, worked perfectly fine. Weird..
wwevoxnj said:
I had to use ./ when typing commands to unlock my bootloader. The regular commands without ./ gave me errors.
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There are at least 2 other threads with this same information, therefore, I'm closing this one.