I am pulling my hair out. I have SDK installed and whatever I was instructed to install on SDK, for the life of me I can't get the command shell to work. When I open a command shell and type adb. I get a message 'adb' is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable batch or program file.
My phone is plugged in debugging checked, I have it set to mass storage, not kies. What am I doing wrong.
Sorry for the noob question. I have been reading every forum I can find, every document I can find. I am trying to learn and I like to mess with my phone and should know how to use adb command shells.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
Rhiannon224 said:
I am pulling my hair out. I have SDK installed and whatever I was instructed to install on SDK, for the life of me I can't get the command shell to work. When I open a command shell and type adb. I get a message 'adb' is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable batch or program file.
My phone is plugged in debugging checked, I have it set to mass storage, not kies. What am I doing wrong.
Sorry for the noob question. I have been reading every forum I can find, every document I can find. I am trying to learn and I like to mess with my phone and should know how to use adb command shells.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
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PC or mac?
On a PC cd /Android/Tools then use adb commands
on a Mac: cd /Android/Tools then use ./adb then the command
PC. Thanks I will try that.
update
system cannot find the path specified
I am ready to delete everything and start over, maybe the path is wrong and I borked something in the download. There should be an Android for dummy's book or something, for us noobs.
where did you install the files? You had to download the SDK and unzip it.
Then you use a command window to change directories to where ever you installed it. Then run the commands.
If you don't know how to move around directories using DOS commands, you better find a tutorial on that first.
Your problems sound like you are not in the tools directory - CMD issues not Adroid - CMD is the windows shell btw.
alphadog00 said:
where did you install the files? You had to download the SDK and unzip it.
Then you use a command window to change directories to where ever you installed it. Then run the commands.
If you don't know how to move around directories using DOS commands, you better find a tutorial on that first.
Your problems sound like you are not in the tools directory - CMD issues not Adroid - CMD is the windows shell btw.
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downloaded and upzipped. It's in a folder named Android, in my c;/drive. I watched a tutorial and put it where I thought I was supposed to, then I made sure to edit the path. I can undo that. I know it's a CMD issue. Great DOS commands, this is a little over my head.
I's probably easier for me to delete everything and start over.
Is there an ADB for dummies or anything. I find them for other devices not Captivate?
if you change directories to the tools directory, do you see adb.exe listed? I am not sure which tutorial you used, but there is no reason to edit the path if you change directly into the android sdk/tools directory.
In a CMD window, change to the tools directory and do a DIR and see if the first file is adb.exe
Deleting and starting over is not going to change things at this point. Also ADB is a command that works the same regardless of which phone you have. The only things that are different is if you can mount the system partition - depends on your kernel - is it custom. Not phone dependent though.
alphadog00 said:
if you change directories to the tools directory, do you see adb.exe listed? I am not sure which tutorial you used, but there is no reason to edit the path if you change directly into the android sdk/tools directory.
In a CMD window, change to the tools directory and do a DIR and see if the first file is adb.exe
Deleting and starting over is not going to change things at this point. Also ADB is a command that works the same regardless of which phone you have. The only things that are different is if you can mount the system partition - depends on your kernel - is it custom. Not phone dependent though.
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Thanks I did this and no it isn't listed. the Android folder is, that is where I extracted all the files. Should I move from the folder. After extracting the files did I need to install anything from it?
Rhiannon224 said:
Thanks I did this and no it isn't listed. the Android folder is, that is where I extracted all the files. Should I move from the folder. After extracting the files did I need to install anything from it?
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You should have extracted everything. You should have a folder that extracted:
android-sdk-windows and in that a tools folder. In the tools folder is ADB.exe
It is one big zip file - nothing to install - just unzip where you want it.
hold shift and then right click on that tools folder(wherever you put it), select open command window here from the menu, then type adb to make sure it worked
Kagoshema said:
hold shift and then right click on that tools folder(wherever you put it), select open command window here from the menu, then type adb to make sure it worked
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Thank you. That did the trick. It is there and it worked. So I am guessing that when I want to open a command shell and use ADB this is how I will be able to do it. Thank you so much for all of your help everyone.
I am very new to Android and smart phones, 7 weeks now and I am trying to learn as much as I can and I try to find the information without asking too many questions.
Last night with SRE and it's sleeping death made me realize that I need to know how to use ADB and a command shell should things go wrong.
Again, thanks to everyone for the help.
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
So I'm just now installing the SDK on my gf's computer and it puts ADB in /tools and Fastboot in /platform-tools. Fastboot refuses to run.
Code:
This application has failed to start because AdbWinApi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
What's this about?? I downloaded the sdk.zip (the installer exe wanted me to install the java jdk, which I definitely don't need) and extracted it to C:\android-sdk-windows. Then I ran the SDK manager and installed the platform tools. Should I copy the platform-tools contents into tools or the other way around?
I haven't set the environment variable in system properties yet because I'm not sure which directory to use. The computer has the drivers for my phone and adb works fine. I booted into fastboot mode and it installed drivers.
Why would they give me an SDK with a non-working fastboot? Kind of irritated...
Copied contents of \platform-tools into \tools (DID NOT REPLACE ANY FILES!) and now everything works.
I would still like to know what was going on with this, and is there any advantage to adding the environment variable? I'd like to be able to run commands from any directory if possible, instead of having to cd all over the place.
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
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
stackz07 said:
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.