Questions tagged [adb]
ADB (Android Debug Bridge) is a tool that comes with the Android SDK that allows you to control and interface with your Android device.
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Run/install/debug Android applications over Wi-Fi?
I thought there was a way to test your applications in development over Wi-Fi. Is this possible?
I'd love to be able to untether my phone and develop wirelessly.
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Set up adb on Mac OS X
I spent quite sometime figuring how to set up adb on Mac, so I figure writing how to set it up might be useful to some people. adb is the command line tool to install and run android apps on your ...
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How can I connect to Android with ADB over TCP? [closed]
I am attempting to debug an application on a Motorola Droid, but I am having some difficulty connecting to the device via USB. My development server is a Windows 7 64-bit VM running in Hyper-V, and so ...
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How to use ADB Shell when Multiple Devices are connected? Fails with "error: more than one device and emulator"
$ adb --help
-s SERIAL use device with given serial (overrides $ANDROID_SERIAL)
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554 device
7f1c864e device
$ adb shell -s 7f1c864e
error: ...
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How do I get an apk file from an Android device?
How do I get the apk file from an android device? Or how do I transfer the apk file from device to system?
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Installing ADB on macOS [duplicate]
I had issues finding a good solid tutorial on how to setup ADB for Mac.
How can I add ADB to macOS in such a way that it can be used in the terminal?
UPDATE
For those reading this post. Yes, as ...
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How to start an application using Android ADB tools
How do I send an intent using Android's ADB tools?
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ADB Android Device Unauthorized
Since I reinstalled Eclipse (simply deleted and downloaded it again) I can't debug my applications on Samsung Galaxy i9001 (with CyanogenMod - Android 4.4.2). It worked fine before reinstallation.
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INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS when install apk
I tried to install my app into Android L Preview Intel Atom Virtual Device, it failed with error:
INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS
What does it mean?
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'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I am trying to run google map v2 on emulator, I am following this tutorial.
When I was trying to install required apk file on emulator, I am getting below error.
I tried to solve this using this ...
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How to access data/data folder in Android device?
I am developing an app and I know my database *.db will appear in data/data/com.****.***
I can access this file from AVD in Eclipse with help of sqlite manager
But I can't access this file in my ...
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Android ADB device offline, can't issue commands
I can't connect to my device anymore using ADB through the command line or in Eclipse.
Running the command
adb devices
returns the device name, but it says it's offline.
Things I've tried.
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INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED : android studio using redmi 4 device
Got this freaky error
Installation failed with message Failed to finalize session : INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED: Install canceled by user.
It is possible that this issue is resolved by uninstalling ...
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Not able to access adb in OS X through Terminal, "command not found"
I have installed Android SDK and Eclipse on my Mac system. I am able to program using Eclipse and have created few sample applications. But I am still not able to access adb through the terminal ...
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adb command not found
I need to run an adb forward command before I could use the ezkeyboard application which allows user to type on the phone using browser.
When I run adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080 command I get the ...
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set up device for development (???????????? no permissions)
I am using a Samsung galaxy nexus phone (Android 4.0 platform) .
I am developing Android app on Ubuntu linux OS. I would like to run my application directly on the Samsung handset device, so I ...
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Error "The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occurred."
I've spent days trying to launch any Android program. Even "Hello World" gives me the same error:
"The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occurred".
I'm running Eclipse v3.5 (...
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ADB Shell Input Events
What is the basic difference between adb shell input keyevent and adb shell sendevent? Which one should I use for inputting a character? Are the keycodes the same that we pass to both the commands?
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ADB Install Fails With INSTALL_FAILED_TEST_ONLY
I am having issues installing an apk to my device.
adb install <.apk>
Using the above command returns the following:
5413 KB/s (99747 bytes in 0.017s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/AppClient....
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Where is adb.exe in windows 10 located?
I installed android studio 1.5 on windows 10.
When I type in command line:
adb
I get command not found.
Where can I get it from or where is it installed?
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Stopping an Android app from console
Is it possible to stop an Android app from the console? Something like:
adb stop com.my.app.package
It would speed up our testing process so much. Right now we uninstall/install the app each time to ...
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ADB No Devices Found
I am attempting to install an Android app on my brand new Nexus 10. I have a .apk file. I have downloaded the Android SDK, installed "Android SDK Tools", "Android SDK Platform-tools", and Google USB ...
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My Android device does not appear in the list of adb devices
I have a HP Slate 21 that is connected to my Windows box using a USB cable.
USB debugging is enabled on the device.
After adding the proper %SingleAdbInterface% and %CompositeAdbInterface% entries to ...
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ADB access denied to data folder?
I connected to my live device using the adb and the following commands:
C:\>adb -s HT829GZ52000 shell
$ ls
ls
sqlite_stmt_journals
cache
sdcard
etc
system
sys
sbin
proc
logo.rle
init.trout.rc
init....
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adb not finding my device / phone (MacOS X)
Doing Android development on a Mac and this very new phone I have doesn't show up in the devices list in adb. Lots of other phones and devices work fine for me so I know my setup is good.
I have ...
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Android Debug Bridge (adb) device - no permissions [duplicate]
I have a problem connecting HTC Wildfire A3333 in debugging mode with my Fedora Linux 17. Adb says:
./adb devices
List of devices attached
???????????? no permissions
my udev rules (first rule ...
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Nexus 7 not visible over USB via "adb devices" from Windows 7 x64
I have done the obvious -- the USB driver was installed from the latest Android SDK, and USB debugging was turned on in the tablet.
When the Nexus 7 is connected, the device shows up in the ...
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Huawei, logcat not showing the log for my app?
OK, logcat is showing system logs but it is not showing application log on my Huawei Ascend. If I switch to another device such as my Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 then for the same app (same APK even) log ...
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adb devices => no permissions (user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong?) [duplicate]
I am getting following error log if I connect my android phone with Android Oreo OS to Linux PC
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
xxxxxxxx no permissions (user in plugdev group; are your udev ...
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How to empty (clear) the logcat buffer in Android [duplicate]
How can I empty (clear) the logcat buffer in Android?
I use adb logcat from command line and pipe the output to a file, since the DDMS has a very limited buffer. At the moment, when I restart my app (...
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How to use adb command to push a file on device without sd card
How to push a file from computer to an Android device having no SD Card in it. I tried:
C:\anand>adb push anand.jpg /data/local
3399 KB/s (111387 bytes in 0.032s)
C:\anand>adb push anand.jpg /...
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Android adb "Unable to open sync connection!"
I can run and debug my Android app on my phone just fine, most of the time. Then, seemingly randomly, when I try to run or debug my app from Eclipse, the Console in Eclipse says:
[2010-10-12 09:36:48 ...
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adb server version doesn't match this client
Whenever I try to run adb devices:
$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
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Using ADB to capture the screen [duplicate]
I'm trying to get a screenshot of the phone screen as fast as possible.
Currently, I am doing:
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screencap.png && adb pull /sdcard/screencap.png
However it is too ...
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ADB not recognising Nexus 4 under Windows 7
I'm running on Windows 7, and I've updated all the drivers as it says on the Android developer website regarding using hardware devices. However, Eclipse is still not recognising my Nexus 4 when I try ...
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Eclipse error "ADB server didn't ACK, failed to start daemon"
After updating the SDK, Eclipse shows this error:
ADB server didn't ACK, failed to start daemon.
When I run an Android application, it gives me the following:
Please ensure that adb is ...
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Is there any way to ignore INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE on application install with the Android Debug Bridge?
It seems like the most recent Android 4.2 has introduced this error condition on installation when one attempts to install an APK with a lower version. In prior versions of Android, one would be able ...
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Clear android application user data
Using adb shell we can clear application data.
adb shell pm clear com.android.browser
But when executing that command from the application
String deleteCmd = "pm clear com.android.browser"; ...
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USB Debugging option greyed out
I have an LG-E405 phone running Android 2.3.6.
I connected my phone with a USB cable and selected the mode as Charge Only.
Now when I try to turn on USB Debugging, I find that that the option is ...
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What's the Android ADB shell "dumpsys" tool and what are its benefits?
I'm looking for the full list of ADB shell dumpsys commands with a full explanation of all of the commands.
Where can I find this information?
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Can't connect Nexus 4 to adb: unauthorized
I have a Nexus 4 with Android 4.3 and I am trying to connect the device to a computer with Windows 7 64bit.
I installed the latest drivers and the latest adb version. I think I tried almost ...
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Android ADB devices unauthorized
Configuration:
Windows 8.1
ADB version: 1.0.32
Smartphone: Oneplus One
Problem
I installed the Samsung drivers as it is said to do. When I run the ADB devices command, it said unauthorized.
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Android: adb pull file on desktop
Trying to copy file from device to desktop, here is a command:
adb pull sdcard/log.txt Users/admin/Desktop
But this command creates a folder Users/admin/Desktop inside platform-tools folder where ...
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"unable to locate adb" using Android Studio [duplicate]
I have been trying to test my app on real device. I keep receiving error message that "unable to locate adb". I have the USB driver for my phone installed. Thank you for the help. The snap shot is ...
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Error:Unable to locate adb within SDK in Android Studio
Does anyone know what this means? When I click the "run" button on my simulator I get this message.
Throwable: Unable to locate adb within SDK
I am running the latest version, 0.8.14.
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Get application version name using adb
Is there an easy way to get the version name of an application on an Android device using adb shell?
I found the application version number (not the version name) in /data/system/packages.xml.
It ...
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How do I view the SQLite database on an Android device? [duplicate]
I have a set of data in an SQLite database. I need to view the database on a device. How do I do that?
I have checked in ddms mode. The data in file explorer is empty.
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Solving "adb server version doesn't match this client" error [duplicate]
I'm running my Appium script with Python instead of py.test because py.test does not play nicely with variables I want to get from a text file. When I run my script with Python everything works except ...
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I am trying to test android deep link urls through adb to launch my app
When I type the command in adb:
./adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "example:gizmos" com.myapp
I get this error:
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=example://...
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adb shell command to make Android package uninstall dialog appear
I have adb running and device is connected to my system in debugging mode,
I want to uninstall app using intent launch using adb shell am start <INTENT>
I don't want to uninstall using adb ...
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