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[Q] Installed sdk and fastboot won't run + fastboot and adb in separate folders now

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.

[Q] How to install Android Debug Bridge?

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 Universal ADB, like a Toolkit

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.

[Guide] Windows RT 8.1 Kits

This is a guide to setting up Windows Kits on Windows 8.1 RT. While it itself is a set of debugging & testing tools that Microsoft publishes officially for Windows 8.1 RT, I haven't looked at them in detail and possibly there are tools in it that are useful for you.
Mandatory Warning
This is a set of development tools and should not be toyed around with if you don't know what you are doing.
Disclaimer
These tools were provided by Microsoft Corporation and this guide only points you out to the tools I've found.
There is no warranty, express or implied for these tools, either from me or from Microsoft.
Includes
ARM Kits Policy (Needed to run development binaries on Windows 8.1 RT) Info here (MSDN)]
ARM Debugging Tools (WinDbg, Gflags) Download here (Source)
ARM App Certification Kit Info and Download here
ARM Windows Performance Toolkit (included with above)
Guide
Make sure you are sane enough and you need to install these.
Download the ARM Windows App Certification Kit (third in the list above) and install.
Go to C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\arm\SecureBoot. Open InstallKitsPolicy.cmd with an Admin CMD Prompt.
This will install the Kits Policy (other tools will not work without this). After rebooting, use Volume Down to select "Install" in the black screen that appears, and press the Windows button on your RT Device to proceed.
After it boots, try to run C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\arm\dxcapsviewer.exe and see if it runs. If it does, your Kits Policy is now installed. Download the ARM Debugging Tools from above.
Install it. It'll also install to C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\8.1. The Debugger is located at \Debuggers, other useful binaries are around in \bin\arm. They also install Start Menu entries.
Notes
If the Kits Policy fails to install (black screen does not show up on next boot), try running the commands manually in an elevated command prompt. It failed to work for me in the first few tries, maybe due to a repeated command in the .bat file provided by MS. Running it manually should allow you to ignore that error.

jimmielin said:
ARM Debugging Tools (WinDbg, Gflags) Download here (Source)
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Thanks for the info's. Any chance someone can mirror this, MEGA does not work for readers with certain browsers and security settings.
http://www.datafilehost.com/

uninstalling old and installed new adb/fastboot

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.