I want to enter a simple adb shell command, so I navigated to ...\sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe, and opened it. However, I am unable to type in it!
What is the solution?
.exe files are executable files for the Windows OS. They will not work on OSX.
There is a program called Terminal that is installed in OSX that you can use to run the adb shell command. You must open up a Terminal and navigate to the directory that is shown in your screenshot, and then you can run the command
./adb shell and it should work.
Alternatively, you can use the Terminal in Android Studio to perform the same operation.
Here is how I change my directory to platform-tools on a mac terminal:
Search the finder for "platform-tools". Then right-click on it, and left-click on "get info". You'll see a little window pop up with all the info for that folder.
Copy the "where", which is the file path.
Then paste into your terminal like this:
cd /Users/[user-name]/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
Be sure to add /platform tools on after pasting the path to the folder.
Then hit return. Your terminal should then be pointed to that folder and you can invoke the adb commands by using "./adb [whatever command]".
Or you can invoke adb shell commands: for example let's say you want to enable Analytics Debug mode on an Android device. Use the following command:
adb shell setprop debug.firebase.analytics.app [your_package_name]
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I just installed the android SDK with eclipse, straight from google's webpage, but for some reason it won't run, even when I am in the correct directory. When I use 'ls' (crunchbang linux) it show's that the file is there, but when I try to run it, it returns no such file or directory. Any ideas?
type script in your command if you adb configured.
adb stop-server
adb start-server
adb devices
i want to redirect the Android developer tools logcat output to a file into the virtual device from a shell command, before than running the android app test.
The command i usually use to redirect the output to a file is:
adb shell logcat -v time - f log.txt packageName:F *:E > /folder/log.txt
but it puts the log file into a computer directory (/folder/ in this case).
I want to change it with a directory in the virtual device but like above, it says the folder does not exist.
There is way to do it via shell command?
You can simply do
adb shell "logcat -v time -f /mnt/sdcard/log.txt packageName:F *:E"
to accomplish it all in one command from the host shell. You do not need the redirect when you use the -f flag, in fact the redirect would not capture anything if you have directed the output of logcat to a file rather than to stdout.
If that is not working, it is either because you are using a version of Android which mounts the external storage at some other path, or you do not have an emulated sdcard attached to your virtual device.
You can investigate either of these problems by examining the output of
adb shell mount
If you do not have an sdcard at all on your AVD, follow the emulator documentation instructions for creating and attaching one.
For testing purposes only there may be other paths than the sdcard at which you can write, particularly on an emulator where the adb shell runs as root, for example on some versions /data/local or similar.
You can try this one adb shell then #logcat>/sdcard/log.txt now i am sure about the results.you just need a command prompt window to be opened for adb shell,that's not so bad i guess.
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 adb is located. How to pull file to my desktop ?
Use a fully-qualified path to the desktop (e.g., /home/mmurphy/Desktop).
Example: adb pull sdcard/log.txt /home/mmurphy/Desktop
Judging by the desktop folder location you are using Windows. The command in Windows would be:
adb pull /sdcard/log.txt %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\
Be root, Define file on device and define new filename.
adb root
adb pull /data/data/.../databases/launcher.db launcher.db
On Windows, start up Command Prompt (cmd.exe) or PowerShell (powershell.exe). To do this quickly, open a Run Command window by pressing Windows Key + R. In the Run Command window, type "cmd.exe" to launch Command Prompt; However, to start PowerShell instead, then type "powershell". If you are connecting your Android device to your computer using a USB cable, then you will need to check whether your device is communicating with adb by entering the command below:
# adb devices -l
Next, pull (copy) the file from your Android device over to Windows. This can be accomplished by entering the following command:
# adb pull /sdcard/log.txt %HOME%\Desktop\log.txt
Optionally, you may enter this command instead:
# adb pull /sdcard/log.txt C:\Users\admin\Desktop\log.txt
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Use following command to pull data from ADB
adb pull data/user/0/project package name/files/.local/share/dbname C:\Users\vijayalaxmi.k
data/user/0/project package name/files/.local/share/dbname this path you will get when you debug application. i.e database path
project package name example => com.example
instead of C:\Users\vijayalaxmi.k user your own path where you want to save your file. for example, c:\documents
do adb pull \sdcard\log.txt C:Users\admin\Desktop
I'm trying to deal with some SQLiteDB issues and wanted to use the ABD tool to access my emulators database. When I click on the adb file in the platform-tool file, it opens up but very quickly throws a bunch of text on the window and then closes. Its so fast I can't even tell what it is doing. I tried running as administrator and it didn't change. I'm using Vista if that has anything to do with it.
Any suggestions for how I can even get it to stop from closing so I can enter a command?
You start the command shell (WindowsKey + R, enter cmd in the window that appears and hit Enter.), then use it from there. adb shell is probably the command you need.
C:\> cd \Path\to\platform-tools
C:\Path\to\platform-tools\> adb shell
if you add the path to your environment PATH you don't need to cd there. [This] should be a good example how to do that.
As mentioned by zapl, you need to launch command prompt, add adb directory to path and then running adb commands. You may also be able to pull the trick with DDMS.
In the answer, it was not clear that you have to run a windows cmd.exe terminal program first. Make sure you are in the correct directory, Then start ADB from within this cmd program.
To ensure that windows can find adb.exe ("being in the correct directory), you can either navigate to the location of the adb.exe (usually Platform tools) manually using "cd" command, or update your path statement so that windows can find it regardless of where your cmd.exe prompt is pointing.
Other than Eclipse DDMS File Explorer where I can see those(i.e mnt,data,system) folder and files,So i can do modify easily.
Yes you can use adb shell command to browse files of the device/emulator from command prompt or terminal
by issueing adb shell command on your command prompt you can starts a remote shell in the target emulator/device. And you dont need to broswe files from the eclipse FileExplorer view.
Suppose you want to broswe data directory then use this command:
adb shell ls /data
Note: you can find adb in <sdk>\platform-tools\ or <sdk>\tools\
Refer this for more information.