I've read that Motorola doesn't supply drivers for Linux. As a result, I can't mount my phone when connecting through USB, and the only way I have to view its files from the computer is by opening an adb shell.
I'd like to see and manage my phone files in a proper visual file manager in my computer. Is there any solution to this that doesn't involve a network connection?
I tried through bluetooth too, unsuccessfully.
You may try http://qtadb.wordpress.com/download/. It's not exactly what you need but should work.
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Hey guys, I followed the guide, added the lines to the inf, even downloaded the other inf and coppied over it. I can not get ADB to recognize my gTablet. I even removed the mass storage driver that was associated with the tablet
I know my adb works with my mytouch slide.
Has anyone else not been able to connect adb to the gTablet?
I followed the guide exactly.
There are no errors in my device manager.
USB debugging mode is on.
I cant think of anything else to try.
Update driver
This is the steps I took, FYI I'm running Windows 7 on my computer.
Completed the the steps in the Guide (as you did). Then had to Go to Control Panel>Device Manager; and had to manually update the drivers. In Device Manager select the G Tablet>Driver>Update Driver and navigate to your usb_driver folder in your SDK.
ShreddinPB said:
Hey guys, I followed the guide, added the lines to the inf, even downloaded the other inf and coppied over it. I can not get ADB to recognize my gTablet. I even removed the mass storage driver that was associated with the tablet
I know my adb works with my mytouch slide.
Has anyone else not been able to connect adb to the gTablet?
I followed the guide exactly.
There are no errors in my device manager.
USB debugging mode is on.
I cant think of anything else to try.
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Not sure what you are using ADB for however I have had issues with my PC retaining the driver for it as well. I use an app called ADBWireless that allows me to connect wirelessly and use ADB commands for a few simple things. It's a good workaround if your just pushing and pulling a few apps and such.
Emul8or said:
This is the steps I took, FYI I'm running Windows 7 on my computer.
Completed the the steps in the Guide (as you did). Then had to Go to Control Panel>Device Manager; and had to manually update the drivers. In Device Manager select the G Tablet>Driver>Update Driver and navigate to your usb_driver folder in your SDK.
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Thats what I figured I would do. I am also in Windows 7 but X64. I go to the device manager and I dont have a gTablet listed anywhere that I can find, but like I said there are no exclamation points in the device manager.. no devices that are not working.
I tried to update the "Portable Devices>f:" that shows up when I plug in the tablet but it wont let me.
So in your device manager.. there is a top level listing for "gTablet"?
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Not sure what you are using ADB for however I have had issues with my PC retaining the driver for it as well. I use an app called ADBWireless that allows me to connect wirelessly and use ADB commands for a few simple things. It's a good workaround if your just pushing and pulling a few apps and such.
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There is a fix posted for the slowdown issue after resume from sleep, and you ADB to fix it
ShreddinPB said:
Thats what I figured I would do. I am also in Windows 7 but X64. I go to the device manager and I dont have a gTablet listed anywhere that I can find, but like I said there are no exclamation points in the device manager.. no devices that are not working.
I tried to update the "Portable Devices>f:" that shows up when I plug in the tablet but it wont let me.
So in your device manager.. there is a top level listing for "gTablet"?
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Here's what dev mgr looks like on XP...
Jim
ShreddinPB said:
Thats what I figured I would do. I am also in Windows 7 but X64. I go to the device manager and I dont have a gTablet listed anywhere that I can find, but like I said there are no exclamation points in the device manager.. no devices that are not working.
I tried to update the "Portable Devices>f:" that shows up when I plug in the tablet but it wont let me.
So in your device manager.. there is a top level listing for "gTablet"?
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Is there anything under USB drivers at the bottom for android bridge, or something along those lines? If not does it list NVIDIA Harmony drives anywhere? If neither try unplugging and plugging in your device a few times to see what dissapears when you plug it in. Reply back and we can go from there.
davinci07 said:
Is there anything under USB drivers at the bottom for android bridge, or something along those lines? If not does it list NVIDIA Harmony drives anywhere? If neither try unplugging and plugging in your device a few times to see what dissapears when you plug it in. Reply back and we can go from there.
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Found it.. it was under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" and called "USB storage device" i believe.
I tried updating the driver with the andoid one, but it errored out and wouldnt load it. After that however, 2 new devices popped up.. both the Nvidia harmony drive, and another nvidia tegra one. The harmony drivers failed to load.. so I pointed at the directory in the SDK and bam it works!!
Thanks guys!
But also btw.. before I got this working, I did use ADBWireless to run the adb shell and run that camand mentioned in the main thread that is supposed to stop the slow downs.. and I think its working.
enjoy, can you point me to the post that you needed this for? Also, now that ADB works you can start making your own apps. With either Eclipse and Android SDK (more advance route, but there is alot of good books that could help you alot) or with app invnetor that just got released to the public.
Trying to run ADB from a Win 7 x64 system to push items to my Xoom 3G. ADB Devices shows nothing yet I'm able to see files and folders on my Xoom. Any help in what driver I need to install in order to be able to take advantage of ADB would be most helpful as I'd like to root my tablet.
Is USB debugging enabled? If not, that's the issue.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
Already checked that. Not the issue.
Install the Moto Helper from here:
Link
Once installed plug in the device and it should install the required drivers.
If you have already done this then look for a Motorola folder in your START menu. There you should see a "Mobile Drivers" folder and in that folder a "Motorola Driver Installer" Executable.
Run the executable and tell it to "update". If that doesn't work try selecting "reinstall"
Running Update worked. FYI, the current version doesn't have a "reinstall option."
trouble with adb
I am not hay luck running ADB. It worked several months ago but I'm not sure why it doesn't now and I forgot what I did way back when
When I connect the USB to my PC (Win7), the XOOM mounts and I can see the files, etc., but when trying ADB it says "error: device offline."
I know on my EVO, I have to set the phone to charge only; is that the case here as well?
Any suggestions?
Hi all,
the Acer 510 contains the Stockrom, which is rooted and CWM is installed. If I connect the the Tablet via USB with W7, I can see the internal and external SD-Card. If I connect the same tablet under Linux (Suse 11.4), the tablet / filesystem is unknow and could not be mounted
Normaly I see every Android Device under Linux and can mount this one without any problems , so that I 've an access to the SD-Cards.
Does someone has seen the same issue and hopefully has a solution for this one?
Since ICS the protocol used is MTP and linux is not familiar whith it
take a look at this article, it will help you even if it's written fo ubuntu
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sandwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access/
Wesie said:
Normaly I see every Android Device under Linux and can mount this one without any problems , so that I 've an access to the SD-Cards.
Does someone has seen the same issue and hopefully has a solution for this one?
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Tablet doesn't use Mass Storage mode but MTP which you have to setup on your Linux machine.
Ubuntu tutorial (required packages should also work on other distros)
Alternative (I've never heard about this before TBH)
THX !
I'll try it on evening and let you know
Before you proceed in futher steps, did you try connecting the tablet to the Linux machine with USB debugging off? (Win XP for example, cannot use the A510 as MTP if usb debugging is on.)
Even if you get it to work, don't expect somethign good. The Support for MTP is really bad in most Linux distros. probably because MTP is a Microsoft thing. I got it to work once and all i could do was copy small files in already existing folders. Creating folders or copying large files always resulted in a force unmount.
I agree with you that why I only use FTPserver instead now
Simplest alternative to MTP- QtADB, I know it wasn't updated for over a year but worked for me (various 2.1-4.0 firmwares and hardware)
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I agree with you that why I only use FTPserver instead now
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wifi file transfer from the play store is another option.
I posted this question over on Phandroids but this forum seems perhaps more appropriate. My Lenovo laptop running XP sees my phone just fine (Samsung Gravity Smart SGH-T589) and I'm able to transfer files to/from the phone. However, adb doesn't seem to be able to see it. A search about this problem turns up solution suggestions that mostly involve drivers, but my Samsung driver is up to date and clearly working (or else the phone wouldn't show up to Windows and I wouldn't be able to transfer files). My phone is rooted, which also makes it obvious that my laptop can talk to it just fine -- I used OneClick to root it last week using the same computer.
I'm using the DOS prompt (cmd) to run adb, and adb works fine. It simply doesn't see any devices. Here's an actual text transcript:
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C:\Android\adt\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
C:\Android\adt\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
error: device not found
C:\Android\adt\sdk\platform-tools>
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Any ideas? I'm pretty new to this, so perhaps I'm missing something really simple. I hope so anyway!
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Craig
Sunnyvale, California
Make sure that USB debuggin is enabled on your device. (This option should be changed only while device is disconnected from USB).
Also, try to restart adb server by killing it from the device manager.
Thanks for the suggestions. I had indeed already done both of those things. USB debug must be enabled to do file transfers, so I already knew it was definitely on. I still cycled it off/on anyway to make sure. And I did both kill-server and start-server commands as part of my checkout to assure myself that adb was in fact working correctly. I had Windows task manager up as well so I could watch adb disappear and reappear with those commands.
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Craig
Sunnyvale, California
Hmmm... Try to reboot both your computer and device.
Have you tried to connect other devices to ADB? May be there is a problem with ADB installation?
Phone and laptop have both been rebooted many times. I also tried it with the phone in charge-only mode because that's what One Click Root required, but nothing changed. I also tried using all of the different USB ports on my laptop and tried two different USB cables, although that was silly because the phone is obviously talking to the laptop via USB. It shows up in file explorer, and I am able to transfer files using Windows drag and drop.
I'm afraid I have only one device, my recently rooted Samsung Gravity Smart phone, so I can't try it out on anything else.
I'm not sure how the adb installation could be at fault since the commands work as long as they don't involve the USB port. And I know that it MUST be possible to shell to the phone with what's already on this computer because One Click did it. I tried running the adb commands from the One Click Root > ADB directory just in case something about that particular install of adb was different, but I got exactly the same result.
It seems to me that I must be failing to do some setup step that an experienced Android developer might know about. I've never done anything like this before, so I wouldn't have even known about downloading the Android sdk if it weren't for forums like this! I sure appreciate the community of knowledgeable people here, who are clearly willing to help newbies like me.
If there are any software tools that anyone can suggest using to help me figure out what's going on, please let me know.
EDIT: Is there something that I need to load on my phone before adb will work? It occurs to me that OneClick might push something to the phone when it does the root, then delete it when the task is complete. I tried using QTadb, which is an adb GUI, and got the same result: no devices seen on the port even though Windows sees my phone and can talk to it via USB.
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Craig
Sunnyvale, California
I've tried every solution recommended. My smartphone is not rooted, it is an LG L355DL, LG K31 Rebel, Android version 10. I got many tabs on my browsers that I need to transfer & review. When I try to transfer each tab one by one using my phone, old social media sessions, Facebook links, etc, I open the tab, but they reset their URL to facebook.com/login, so I often lose where I was at completely when I try to click on them to share/transfer them to my PC or anywhere.
In other words I have to open the tab again, refresh the URL, but in the process the URL changes & sometimes resets itself to the domain, common thing that happens when you're not re-logged into social media, etc. So I need a walk-through to access the session/tab files via adb method, or something.
I do not have root access to my phone. I tried to do adb pull /data/data/com.styxbrowser.browser/app_chrome/Default/* etc. I connected my PC to my phone via USB, but it doesn't work. Also this forum post may help. Here are my terminal results/attempts: www.rentry.co/cyube.
Lastly, there is interestingly another very different approach to accessing these files, it worked for my Android Kiwi browser. I connected my android to my PC via USB, opened my kiwibrowser on my Android, turned on adb on my phone, then I went to chrome://inspect/#devices in my browser on my PC. I could see all tabs & could back them all up. it works like a charm. However, it doesn't work with Styx or Duckduckgo. Not sure why.
-Thanks!
To access files in Android's /data partion this partition must got mounted R/W - what requires either Android is rooted and you run specific ADB commands or ADB can be run as root.
How do i run adb as root? i think i tried that.
have u try kde connect