[Tutorial] How to Ping a website from Android phone - Android General

I do a lot of things with network maintenance, diagnostics, and security on my PC. I found pinging a site to test my latency from my SG3 was useful, testing when/where I get the best latency on my mobile data network.
So without further a due, here is a short, simple but thorough tut
1.) Download "Android Terminal Emulator" by from the Play Store, there are apps dedicated for pinging specifically; however I like to use the terminal/cmd prompt whenever I can. Manual work seems to give me the results I am looking for and nothing extra! (Most of you probably already have the Terminal Emulator downloaded.)
Link to app on play.google.com:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm&hl=en
2) Open the terminal.
Type in the command: ping example.com
Note: example.com is a placeholder, insert any website you want to ping here.
If you do not want to ping the site infinitely, then...
Type the following command: ping -c4 example.com
-c being a counter and 4 being the number of times you want to send a ping packet to the server. Four is the default for the ping function from the Windows Command Prompt so if you are used to that, then use four.

Screenshot of terminal/ping -c command after execution.
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TELNET Client

Hello...
I know some telnet client software but every command i send must be run from textbox. it's hard to run simple vi editor inside. since i want to edit some file inside it..
in better terminal emulator pro, i can run any linux command, but i cannot telnet to any host. it always said bad address even my internet connections is good.
why telnet command cannot communicate to outside connection ?
hendry said:
Hello...
I know some telnet client software but every command i send must be run from textbox. it's hard to run simple vi editor inside. since i want to edit some file inside it..
in better terminal emulator pro, i can run any linux command, but i cannot telnet to any host. it always said bad address even my internet connections is good.
why telnet command cannot communicate to outside connection ?
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NOBODY uses telnet anymore except for local lan connections to a router or such..
I think you mean ssh.
Actually, people use telnet for testing email servers and http.
telnet google.com 80
this command is just saying "bad address" for everything.
Does someon have an answer 7 years later almost?

Security of Android Devices

Hello all. I'm currently taking a computer security class and to make the long story short, at the end of the semester I will have to turn in a research paper and do a 30 minute presentation on it. The topic I chose for this is "Exploring the techniques used to gain access to personal information on Android devices; the methods hackers use and the type of data they are seeking." So if you could please post links to any articles that you come across that talk about security of android devices. Also, I could really use any magazine or book suggestions. Thanks!
Look up open wifi hackers. They can steal your junk if your network isn't secured. Sorry no article
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You should write about the easiest method - allowing to isntall ab with lots of different permisions.
^Installing apps with dubious permissions is what I'm sure he's getting at and that has been the only major "flaw" as of yet. Considering that it requires the user to sideload questionable apps or to download from unprotected app sites it's not the worst thing ever.
Anti-virus/Anti-malware apps still remain next to useless on Android devices. The other main exploits that are used such as spoofing, etc, are simply able to function on any device operating over an unsecured wifi network and aren't unique to Android. I really don't think you're going to find much in the way of peer-reviewed articles on this topic, but I'd recommend that you used the databases available to you through your school rather than just taking articles handed to you by others.
MissionImprobable said:
^Installing apps with dubious permissions is what I'm sure he's getting at and that has been the only major "flaw" as of yet.
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Not really the only flaw, there is a way to get android to install a rootkit which needs no extra priveleges to do what it wants on your android device. It isn't out in the wild but it can be, and has been, done to highlight an android vulnerability.
http://m.networkworld.com/news/2012...tkit&client=ms-opera-mini-android&channel=new
Dave
( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
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keynith said:
Look up open wifi hackers. They can steal your junk if your network isn't secured. Sorry no article
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With all due respect, have you ever *tried* to intercept SSL traffic for a non-browser-based Android app? It's hard as hell to do with a phone & fake AP under your direct rooted control, and damn near *impossible* to casually pull off against a random stranger's phone at Starbucks.
Android MITM is *hard*, and the #1 method of reliably doing it for penetration testing is to hack the app's decompiled SMALI to replace the certificate-validation logic with a dummy class that ignores cert errors.
Put another way, if somebody sniffs your password to something over wifi, it's because the idiot who wrote the app submitted your credentials without using SSL, and not because the access point was "open". Successful Android non-browser SSL MITM isn't "black hat", it's "black magic."
Also, WPA(2), WEP, etc might give some speedbump-like protection against totally random strangers who stumble upon an access point from the outside, but they won't do jack to protect you from the guy sipping a lattè next to you & running Wireshark while connected to the AP using the same key YOU are.
Wifi encryption is there to keep people from leeching free internet service, not to keep your traffic safe from other connected users. That's why ipsec & SSL exist.
There's exactly one safe way to use public wifi -- through a PPTP vpn tunnel (L2TP has a few known Android vulnerabilities).
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An application called adb (or android debug bridge) will get you significant access to an android handset via a USB cable. This is part of the android software development kit. Set up your PC with the SDK, install the add-on platform tools, login as root and start the adb server. You can run a shell with the "adb shell" and use "adb pull" and "adb push" to transfer files. The "adb shell" command gives you a shell prompt on the android device and the "su" command gives you root access. This works even with the screen locked with a PIN.
Want to root your device? Download the zip file for rooting a handset and look at the installer script. That can tell you where to copy the su binary - remount your devices /system partition as read-write using "mount -o rw,remount" and follow the installer script.
adrian816 said:
An application called adb (or android debug bridge) will get you significant access to an android handset via a USB cable. This is part of the android software development kit. Set up your PC with the SDK, install the add-on platform tools, login as root and start the adb server. You can run a shell with the "adb shell" and use "adb pull" and "adb push" to transfer files. The "adb shell" command gives you a shell prompt on the android device and the "su" command gives you root access. This works even with the screen locked with a PIN.
Want to root your device? Download the zip file for rooting a handset and look at the installer script. That can tell you where to copy the su binary - remount your devices /system partition as read-write using "mount -o rw,remount" and follow the installer script.
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Thanks a lot!!
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User loses group information when su to another user in an ssh session, why?

What I'm doing:
- I've built GNU emacs for native use on the phone.
- I run emacs in daemon mode on the phone, so I connect to it anytime with emacsclient, to continue working with regular files, run processes, etc.
- When logging in from the terminal on the phone, I'm currently user 10157, everything works:
Code:
$ id
uid=10157(10157) gid=10157(10157) groups=10157(10157),1015(1015),1023(1023),1028(1028),3003(3003)
- When I connect via ssh to the phone from a PC (I use DigiSSHd on the phone), it logs me in as a regular user 10282, everything works:
Code:
$ id
uid=10282 gid=10282 groups=1015(1015),1023(1023),1028(1028),3003(3003)
Emacs runs fine etc. However, this way I can't connect via emacsclient to the emacs process running under user 10157. This is desirable, since I don't want to start two emacs processes, since I want to continue working with files that I have open in emacs under user 10157.
Therefore:
Code:
$ su - 10157
Fine, I can run emacs etc. However, I cannot access the web.
Code:
$ ping -c1 google.com
You must have internet permissions to use ping. Aborting.
$ id
uid=10157(10157) gid=10157(10157) groups=10157(10157)
Thus I'm no longer in group 3003, necessary for internet access, besides other groups also.
Why does this group info get stripped, and how can I remedy this, so I can continue accessing the web when su as this user under ssh?

[Q] App for PING with timestamp

Hi,
I am looking for an application for Android which will allow me to ping a server (or webpage) of my choice, will allow me to log the results and the results will be with a timestamp. I have tried several apps for pinging but none of them seems to do the trick. If any of you have a tip for a tool that will meet all the requirements listed above your help will be very appreciated! Thanks in advance!
J.
Any Idea? Thanks.
Have you tried the ping command in a terminal emulator? That might help
samsungrockz said:
Have you tried the ping command in a terminal emulator? That might help
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I did but I didn't get any positive results. There is an option to add a timestamp but it is not working for me. What I tried to do in there:
ping -T tsonly 8.8.8.8
But after trying this command I don't get abny printout. Also I don't know if there is an option to do a logfile.
I m confused too, when i try pinging localhost, i get a printout data displayed but when i ping some other site like google.com, no printout appears just like you!!!
And then you asked how to save logfile of a command, its pretty easy, just redirect the output thus-->
Code:
command >output_file.txt
try it
samsungrockz said:
I m confused too, when i try pinging localhost, i get a printout data displayed but when i ping some other site like google.com, no printout appears just like you!!!
And then you asked how to save logfile of a command, its pretty easy, just redirect the output thus-->
Code:
command >output_file.txt
try it
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Thanks for that - it is logging flawlessly but I am still not able to insert timestamp.
Without:
Code:
ping 8.8.8.8 >storage/sdcard0/ping/out.txt
works fine and logs.
With:
Code:
ping -T tsonly 8.8.8.8 >storage/sdcard0/ping/out.txt
does absolutely nothing.
Any Ideas
jendus said:
Thanks for that - it is logging flawlessly but I am still not able to insert timestamp.
Without:
Code:
ping 8.8.8.8 >storage/sdcard0/ping/out.txt
works fine and logs.
With:
Code:
ping -T tsonly 8.8.8.8 >storage/sdcard0/ping/out.txt
does absolutely nothing.
Any Ideas
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When i try
Code:
ping -tsonly 8.8.8.8
something shows up, see it, i don't think its a timestamp though
Once I try that i just get "Can't set unicast time-to-live: Invalid argument"
So the most suitable (working) solution for my needs seems to be running PING with -D parameter. It is doing everything I expected and in the end you just have to recalculate UNIX time to whatever you need.
Code:
ping -D 8.8.8.8 >storage/sdcard0/ping/out.txt

[adb] [Wireless debugging] [Wi-Fi] Is there an updated XDA tutorial yet on setting up adb COMPLETELY wirelessly as of Android 11+ (no USB cable!)?

Is there an updated XDA tutorial yet on setting up adb COMPLETELY wirelessly as of Android 11?
Why do I ask?
Using adb is a critical developer/hacking/user tool
As of Android 11, adb has been fundamentally changed for Wi-Fi
As of Android 12, adb was further improved for Wi-Fi
The existing XDA Developers' tutorial doesn't contain that info
I figured it out on my own (see below)...
(Which meant a LOT of new questions popped up that had to be solved that could have been answered in a tutorial)
Unfortunately, almost everything out there that I can find about adb is (wrong / inaccurate / incomplete [choose one]) in terms of how to set up a wi-fi connection as of Android 11 & 12.
The problem is there are important questions to be solved that are MISSING from that old tutorial
(These problems revolve around connection completely from the PC side only)
Where I would think EVERYONE would have the SAME questions as I do about the new setup
(And for which an updated XDA Developers' adb tutorial would be very useful!)
Mostly these new Android 11+ Developer options Wireless debugging features eliminate the USB cable.
But that then instantly brings up the non-intuitively fundamental question of ESTABLISHING the connection solely from the PC...
(which - let's never forget - is how the older, well documented USB-cable-first-then-Wi-FI adb connection had always been done)​
Hence my question of:
Is there an updated XDA tutorial yet on setting up adb COMPLETELY wirelessly as of Android 11+ & 12+?
DETAILS:
Spoiler: Short summary of steps which should be in a tutorial
Given how important adb is to Android software development and hacking, I searched for an XDA Developers writeup on how the newly added Android 11+ Developer options Wireless debugging works and which incorporates a few of the even more newly added Android 12+ Developer options Wireless debugging tiles (which are CRITICAL but it's not obvious to those who haven't done it why those new Android 12 tiles have to be used every day all day!) & Android 12's separate ability to randomize the phone's MAC address for every Wi-Fi connection for added privacy (not just for every Wi-Fi SSID as Android 11 did it) which itself has further implications for reserving IP addresses (usually erroneously referred to as "static IP addresses" in the router and on the phone) for those daily random-port connections using adb over Wi-Fi only. You can no longer connect "from" the PC until after you physically "look" (using live human eyeballs!) to locate either the random port assignment (for "adb connect") or a different random port assignment plus a random pin assignment (for the new Android 11+ encrypted "adb pair" command). Now you can connect via adb over Wi-FI from the PC. But bear in mind the catch! Frequently (upon reboot for example), the Android 12+ tile turns off, as does the Developer options:Wireless debugging toggle, as does the Wi-Fi connection (in my case for privacy, as I have Wi-Fi toggle off when I leave the range of the LAN - which then turns off Wireless-debugging in an unintended cascade) but more importantly, frequently the random port assignment changes as does the random pin assignment. So you have to perform the all-important human-eyeball LOOK frequently - which you would rather not need to do if you could help it
Whew! I said what "should" be in a tutorial so others don't have to figure all of that out on their own just to set up adb completely wirelessly (without first establishing a USB connection on the PC).
I figured it all out, of course, but that XDA Developers writeup didn't help (in fact it hurts)... because it contained completely outdated information (which is why I wrote that long paragraph above, to summarize what's completely missing).
Here's what needs to be done on the phone:
Enable Wi-Fi (mine is set up to NOT auto-reconnect, for privacy)
Establish a connection over Wi-Fi to an SSID on your LAN
Enable Developer options:Wireless debugging (Android 11+)
Enable Developer options:Wireless debugging Tile (Android 12+)
Enable random MAC address per SSID (Android 11) or per connection (Android 12+)
Enable the (so-called) static IP address of the phone
Physically eyeball the random Wireless debugging port assignment (&/or random port + random PIN)
Note all the questions are related to the fact everyone wants to eliminate that last step above!
On the PC:
Simply assure yourself that the phone is on the LAN (e.g., ping 192.168.0.2) (duh)
Remember - it's using a RANDOM MAC address so the router has to be configured for that
Then connect from the PC adb to the phone completely over Wi-Fi (encrypted or not)
Remember - there's no initial establishment via USB - which means you need to know random ports!
adb connect 192.168.0.2:12345 (or) adb pair 192.168.0.2:12345 123456
Remember - everyone's goal is to obtain those random ports 100% from the PC side of things
You may have to accept an encryption dialog on your phone if this is the first time using that PC
At this point, adb over Wi-Fi works the same as adb has always worked (over USB first, then over Wi-Fi).
Until, of course, Android randomly resets the port assignment - which it does frequently!
Then you're back to having to look at the phone for the random port assignment
Notice that most of the issues people are having (see reference list below) are related to the fact that the random port assignement, as far as we know, can ONLY be obtained from a visual inspection of the Android phone - but also notice that nobody used to need to do that in the olden days (when we connected via USB cable first!).
My observation is nobody wants to do that visual inspection of the phone every time, all day, every day, whenever Android re-randomizes the MAC address (which, for me, happens frequently but my phone is set up specifically for Wi-FI privacy).
In summary, this thread asks if there is an XDA Developers' writeup for connecting adb on the PC completely wirelessly to Android 11 and Android 12 and up.
The REASON I believe that XDA Developers' updated adb tutorial is needed by hackers/developers/users is:
a. The way adb works over Wi-Fi is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT as of Android 11 (this is why finding an updated tutorial is needed!)
b. I had to figure all this out on my own, so that means everyone else does too (unless I missed the XDA Developers' tutorial), and,
c. There are still a ton of open unanswered questions that everyone also has.
REFERENCES: (in no specific order, these are attempts to make it work the way everyone wants it to work!)
(PSA) Using the new Android 12 TILE for 'Developer options' 'Wireless debugging' to establish adb connection over Wi-Fi without USB
What's the difference between Windows/Android adb "connect" versus adb "pair" when mirroring Android 12 over Wi-Fi onto a Windows PC?
Android 12 Developer options adb "Wireless debugging" option keeps turning off
[adb,scrcpy,vysor] What ports does Android 12 randomly set when Wi-Fi connecting via Wireless debugging adb "pair" or "connect" commands?
[adb] What is the adb syntax to connect wirelessly to Android by unique serial number (instead of by Wi-Fi LAN IP address & random port assignment)?
Note that none of those threads would be needed if we could have found a comprehensive tutorial that was updated to Android 11 and 12 new connect-adb-over-Wi-Fi-without-USB functionality that answers those basic obvious questions to ask. (See illustrative screenshots below).
Is an updated XDA Developers' writeup extant for connecting adb on the PC completely wirelessly to Android?
I simply use ladb - it's an app that makes the whole process a breeze
See a big xda write up about it here ..
How to debloat your phone (and more) without connecting to a PC
LADB is an app that lets you run ADB shell commands from your phone, no root and no PC needed! Use it to debloat your phone and more!
www.xda-developers.com
CFKod said:
I simply use ladb
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Thanks for that advice to use Local ADB which "leverages Android’s built-in support for ADB over WiFi to provide a GUI for sending shell commands straight from the Android device."
The great news is that was the first XDA Developers' tutorial that I've seen that showed cognizance of the new Android 11 features of setting up adb completely wirelessly (without need for USB first).
* GitHub: LADB (A local ADB shell for Android!)
The bad news is that, at least upon initial inspection, ladb doesn't do anything you can't do inside of Termux as far as I can tell (is that correct though - maybe the ladb apk can do more privileged actions?).
Spoiler: Example of doing in Termux what would often be done in adb
1. Install F-droid <https://f-droid.org/>
<https://f-droid.org/F-Droid.apk>
2. Install F-Droid Termux <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/>
<https://f-droid.org/repo/com.termux_117.apk>
3. Add F-Droid Termux Widget <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux.widget/>
<https://f-droid.org/repo/com.termux.widget_12.apk>
4. Run the F-Droid Termux & create an alias we'll name "rad" for reset ad id.
$ rad
(This should report: No command rad found)
$ alias rad 'am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity'
$ rad
(this should pop up the "Reset Advertising ID" Activity on your phone
(manually close that Activity for now - we can programmatically close it later)
$ cat ~/.bashrc
cat /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.bashrc
No such file or directory
$ alias > ~/.bashrc
$ cat !$
alias rad='am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity'
$ unalias rad
$ rad
(This should report: No command rad found)
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ rad
(this should pop up the "Reset Advertising ID" Activity on your phone
(manually close that Activity for now - we can programatically close it later)
5. Run the F-Droid Termux and create two directories for the shortcut widget
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.shortcuts (we will put our shell script here)
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.shortcuts/tasks (we didn't use this directory yet)
6. Create a shell script to open up the reset ad id Activity.
$ cd $HOME/.shortcuts
$ nano ./rad.sh
Edit the result to look like this:
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
$ chmod +x ./rad.sh
$ ./rad.sh
(nothing will happen)
7. Modify termux to be able to execute user shell scripts on Android.
$ pkg install termux-exec
8. Test your shell script.
$ ./rad.sh
(this should pop up the "Reset Advertising ID" Activity on your phone
(manually close that Activity for now - we can programmatically close it later)
9. Add the Termux Widget to your homescreen.
Long press your Android homescreen.
Select "Widgets" & then "Termux:Widget" & place it on your Android homescreen.
It will ask: Create widget and allow access? to which you press "Yes"
Then press the "rad.sh" entry showing up in that Termux Widget.
"Termux requires "Display over other apps" permission
to start terminal sessions from background on Android >=10."
"Grants it from Settings -> Apps -> Termux -> Advanced"
10. Grant Termux permission to display over other apps:
Android11:Settings > Apps > Your apps > Termux > Appear on top = (change off to on)
11. Now press the Termux Widget entry named "rad.sh"
(this should pop up the "Reset Advertising ID" Activity on your phone
(manually close that Activity for now - we can programmatically close it later)
12. Reboot the phone & ensure everything is persistent.
Tap the new homescreen icon after rebooting
& the "reset ad id" Activity should pop up.
But worse, the LocalADB instructions clearly say to do the same manual (aurgh!) steps we've been doing all along.
That is, even with LADB, they're still NOT obtaining the random port address programatically; they're getting it manually - just like I've been doing all along without LADB.
So ladb doesn't change anything... as far as I can tell (but maybe I'm wrong?).
"Copy the 6 digit “Wi-Fi pairing code” and paste it into the “pairing code” box in LADB. Copy the 5 digit port number from the IP address (the 5 numbers after the colon) and paste it into the “Port” box in LADB."
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If I were to "guess" wildly - then that means what everyone wants is perhaps impossible to accomplish; but I'm still hoping that's not the case - but - the point is to find an updated XDA Developers' tutorial that shows an awareness of the stated problem set.
EDIT: I have an idea. I installed LADB on Android, and now I'm trying to see if I can query that LADB from the PC using adb commands where the goal is maybe the PC adb can query the Android ladb to figure out what the current random port assignment is???
GalaxyA325G said:
So ladb doesn't change anything... as far as I can tell (but maybe I'm wrong?).
If I were to "guess" wildly - then that means what everyone wants is perhaps impossible to accomplish; but I'm still hoping that's not the case - but - the point is to find an updated XDA Developers' tutorial that shows an awareness of the stated problem set.
EDIT: I have an idea. I installed LADB on Android, and now I'm trying to see if I can query that LADB from the PC using adb commands where the goal is maybe the PC adb can query the Android ladb to figure out what the current random port assignment is???
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Yes .. everything you have said is correct
I wouldn't say it has any special privileges. It just guides you through the connection process.
You end up with a blank canvas in terminal - just as you would using termux
Not sure what the app costs, I purchased pre release so cost barely a thing
either way , it cuts out some of the faff and i'd certainly recommend for a less tech savvy person...
Then again.. why wouldn't anyone with no clue, use adb?
If I can assist in any way. Feel free to give me a shout on telegram
CFKod said:
Yes .. everything you have said is correct
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I must again thank you for letting me know about local adb.
I installed ladb the instant you informed me about it.
Yesterday and today I started to test it out.
CFKod said:
It just guides you through the connection process.
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I'm hoping maybe this ladb running on the Android device "might" give it something special that the PC doesn't have in terms of access to the information of the random port assignment on Android.
There are multiple levels of this problem set, the top level being the almost complete lack of XDA Developers' tutorials that have any cognizance of what's new in Android 11 and up with respect to adb wireless connections - where - again - I thank you for finding the one and only XDA Developers' tutorial that shows that awareness.
However, the more important level of this problem set is to find a way to connect adb wirelessly to Android WITHOUT manually grepping the random port with our eyeballs.
CFKod said:
You end up with a blank canvas in terminal - just as you would using termux
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It may very well be that the Android developers made that impossible (e.g., for security reasons); but in the absence of any information or tutorial stating that as a fact, I'm not going to assume it's impossible (yet).
AFAICT, the way to solve the problem is to find a way to either:
a. Keep the port assignment static, or,
b. Set the port to a specific assignment (as we did with USB), or,
c. Determine the random port assignment programatically
It "may" be that local adb can help in that latter method... dunno yet... but I didn't even know ladb existed until you mentioned it so I'm starting from scratch without a tutorial (for this part of the problem set).
CFKod said:
I wouldn't say it has any special privileges.
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Actually, after looking it up since yesterday, I think local adb DOES have more privileges than does Termux; so I was wrong in that assumption.
The ladb developer, @tytydraco said so himself on Dec 18, 2020 when he announced the existence of the ladb APK on XDA Developers.
tytydraco said:
for those of you who have used or encountered ADB in the past, you know that you usually need a PC to shell into your phone. While yes, apps such as Termux exist, they don't have elevated privileges as ADB does.
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So we can safely assume ladb has "elevated privileges" which Termux doesn't have (which is a good thing as we may need them!).
CFKod said:
Then again.. why wouldn't anyone with no clue, use adb?
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Well.... just as "mock location" GPS spoofing is a "Developer option" that has gone mainstream, I suspect we're at an inflection point where with screen mirroring of scrcpy and vysor, that adb usb/wireless debugging has gone mainstream too!
In summary, here's the status so far (which may change over time)...
a. Unfortunately, nobody knows of an updated XDA adb tutorial
b. But there is an updated XDA ladb tutorial
c. But even that ladb tutorial REQUIRES an eyeball grep of the random port assignment (aurgh!)
Note with the brand new Android 12 tile that it's not in the least difficult to do that eyeball grep of the current random port assignment (although you have to get up from your computer to find the phone in order to do so) - but the whole point of computers is they are supposed to do that stuff for you (are they not?).
While it may be designed that way by Google, I'm hoping I can figure out a programatic way to obtain that random port assignment from the PC, where the suggestion of perhaps implementing ladb as a middleman "might" solve that problem (if I can figure out the method).
Thanks for your help and advice, as everyone has the same adb random port assignment problem who wants to mirror their phone onto the PC completely wirelessly - and for which there is no known XDA tutorial to help them (yet).
BTW, I've noticed only recently since I started testing out ladb that the serial numbers are different where I wonder if anyone can explain why there is both a long and a short serial number when using adb completely wirelessly.
Note the question matters because "maybe" we can omit the random port if we can connect via the static serial numbers...
Adb source changes a lot, with the adb wifi stuff being added in, you could probably compile a modified adb binary to use via an apk like ladb that could use a static serial number connection method.
In source, there's a lot of testing binaries you can compile, iirc in maybe 11-dev branch there was some code commented out to allow for more insecure connections.
Hey I have noticed that shizuku also uses wireless adb...
I may have time to test it later.
Surge1223 said:
you could probably compile a modified adb binary to use via an apk like ladb that could use a static serial number connection method.
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Thank you for that suggestion, because if it was easy to connect purely over Wi-Fi (sans USB) between adb on the PC and the Android 11+ phone (WITHOUT eyeballing the randomly assigned port address), it would have been documented already (since it's what EVERYONE wants to do).
So we're breaking new ground...
And, while I definitely harbor the optimism that there (almost always) is a way, I do agree that nobody on the Internet (that I can find) has found THAT way.
Still... as you suggested, ladb does have some extra "hooks" on the phone itself which may allow ladb to REPORT back to the PC over Wi-Fi what our EYEBALLS have to see for themselves today (of the random port address).
This report back to the PC (of the random port address) over Wi-FI has to be done in some OTHER protocol than adb itself, I suspect... as it's a chicken-and-the-egg scenario otherwise.
BTW, we "might" be able to use the Android serial number to good effect, but probably not as my tests using the Android serial number only work AFTER the adb connection has been prior established.
Code:
C:\> adb devices
*daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5555
*daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
C:\> adb devices
List of devices attached
C:\> adb devices
adb-YFVR80V7YFY-yF7kj8._adb-tls-connect._tcp. device
C:\> scrcpy -s adb-YFVR80V7YFY-yF7kj8._adb-tls-connect._tcp.
C:\> adb connect -s adb-YFVR80V7YFY-yF7kj8._adb-tls-connect._tcp.
C:\> adb connect -s 192.168.0.2
CFKod said:
Hey I have noticed that shizuku also uses wireless adb...
I may have time to test it later.
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Thank you for that pointer to Shizuku which, like ladb, I had never heard of until you mentioned it as a possible solution.
What's nice is Shizuku has its own updated tutorial on XDA Developers which, at least, is aware of the new Android 11+ Developer options:Wireless debugging toggle, as it says...
"On Android 11 or above, you can enable Wireless debugging and start Shizuku directly from your device, without connecting to a computer."
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By which they really mean:
"On Android 11 or above, you can enable Wireless debugging and start Shizuku directly from your device, without first needing to connect by USB to a computer."
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I'm not rooted; but, since Shizuku can be started on the Android device, maybe it can be used to tell the computer over Wi-Fi what the current random port address assignment is (or the unencrypted adb connect command) or the random port and pin assignment (for the encrypted adb connect command).
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I want to apply this program, Yasser, as much as possible
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ااريدتطبيق هذا البرنامح ياسر مايمكن
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and not google
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زين said:
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I want to apply this program, Yasser, as much as possible
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ااريدتطبيق هذا البرنامح ياسر مايمكن
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زين said:
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and not google
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1. This thread is a question (mostly) about a missing XDA tutorial.
2. The NEED for the tutorial is embedded in the details
Essentially...
a. We need an updated adb TUTORIAL for Android 11+ new features
b. Specifically, how to connect COMPLETELY via Wi-Fi (no USB)
Keeping in mind...
i. The OLD USE model used adb over USB first
ii. And then, after USB connection, adb could move to Wi-Fi
What we want is...
A. The Android 11+ use model is to eliminate the need for USB
B. But STILL connect using adb over Wi-Fi from the PC
Where...
A. The OLD use model was done COMPLETELY from the PC
B. And we're simply trying to REPLICATE that old use model
However... the problem is...
1. So far, we MUST first ascertain VISUALLY the random port (& PIN)
2. Which means we can no longer connect FROM the PC
That's the problem exposed by this thread, in a nutshell...
But... I do NOT understand what the two posts above are asking us to answer...
a. "I want to apply this program, Yasser, as much as possible"
b. "And not google"
Huh?
A. Which program? (adb? ladb? shizuku?)
B. Who (or what?) is Yasser?
C. And what does "not Google" have to do with it?
D. What does that poster want as an "answer"?
I want to help the guy (just as I'd want to help anyone).
But I don't understand what the heck the guy is even asking.
Can someone translate that English translation to something that makes sense in English that can be answered in English?

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