so i decided i would root my phone(Amaze 4G-mobilicity), so i could install a custom ROM. problem is I can't seem to find any of the files required that need to be placed in the android folder on C:/.
I tried both the zipped sdk and the installer.
can't find the following:
adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
fastboot.exe
downloaded from the developer site.
thanks
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Please forgive me if this is in the wrong section.
I'm overseas right now and tethering via Edge.
I need the Tools folder from the SDK. Mainly adb, the .dll and fastboot etc.
There is no way i can download 230MB SDK.
Can someone zip up the tools folder (whatever i need so i start adb, shell etc) and upload it somewhere.
Thanks
You can get adb and the dll from the sideloading wonder machine http://www.androidcentral.com/sideload-android-apps-all-you-want-sideload-wonder-machine
I downloaded sdk setup tool from this link.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
But I don't know what to install.
Android 2.2 but, which tools?I just want to install ADB
If you installed the SDK from the page you linked to then you have the adb executable. This page tells you where the executable can be found (ex. C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools) and some of the commands.
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
You don't need the entire sdk installed if you just want adb. You just need adb.exe and the two support dlls. Put it anywhere you want and add that directory to your system path to make your life easier. Here are the files from the latest sdk.
http://www.multiupload.com/6TYIX5IB6M
What does that help you do???
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I was asking it for fixing internal partitions.Anyway problem solved.Thanks for your attention
thank you for the helpful information
Is there a way ADB can work without downloading the Android SDK?
Going to flash some ROMS other than I9300 ROMS. I've always used the International S3 Tool Kit.
Is there an universal version of this?
Anybody??..
You don't necessarily need to whole Android SDK to use ADB. If you have the Android SDK installed elsewhere you can just simply copy the platform-tools folder to whatever PC and simply just use ADB commands while CD'd into that directory. If you don't have access to Android SDK at this time, I have the platform-tools folder zipped up and labeled 'quickadb". Here's a link if needed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5xemd05ayevx6s/quickadb.zip
Hope this helps
iAMsalm said:
You don't necessarily need to whole Android SDK to use ADB. If you have the Android SDK installed elsewhere you can just simply copy the platform-tools folder to whatever PC and simply just use ADB commands while CD'd into that directory. If you don't have access to Android SDK at this time, I have the platform-tools folder zipped up and labeled 'quickadb". Here's a link if needed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5xemd05ayevx6s/quickadb.zip
Hope this helps
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Thanks, I'm going to PM you since I ran out of thanks and I have off topic questions that I believe you know.
After doing a bad flash, I wiped my system data for some reason. I want to flash the rom again but ADB won't push files
It says that device hasn't been found in the terminal. I know for sure that not only do I have USB drivers installed, but my ADB, JDK is also installed. The rom file is in my platform-tools folder. Also, I CD'ed to the platform-tools because that is where ADB is located. Any help is appreciated.
i have installed so many different adb/fastboot packages how do i get rid of all the installs and install the latest set only? when i download the platform latest tools for windows what do i do with the files inside the archive?
stackz07 said:
i have installed so many different adb/fastboot packages how do i get rid of all the installs and install the latest set only? when i download the platform latest tools for windows what do i do with the files inside the archive?
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I set the sdk up at some point but now I just download the platform tools from Google instead of updating from the Android Studio app:
Download platform tools
extract
navigate to your platform-tools directory (something like c:/user/you/AppData/Local/Android/SDK)
rename the existing folder to platform-tools-bak
paste new platform-tools folder
Not sure how you would end up with multiple adb/fastboot files, should just have 1 platform-tools folder in the SDK folder (plus a backup if you're like me) and only one adb.exe and one fastboot.exe in there.
How does that update the driver? Just having the folder on your computer you computer runs the latest adb? That doesn't sound right
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How does that update the driver? Just having the folder on your computer you computer runs the latest adb? That doesn't sound right
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Assuming you already have adb setup and you are just updating your adb and fastboot this is exactly what to do. It sounds like you were updating these through Android Studio, correct? You can also continue to do that; it will download the new platform-tools and replace the files with the new ones. If you are not developing apps and just need fastboot/adb then there's really no need for Android Studio so like I said, I prefer to just download and replace the files manually. I think you are confusing fastboot and adb with the basic android usb driver. The driver recognizes your phone, then adb.exe and fastboot.exe send commands to it.