Device recognized in ADB but not in shell - android

When I use ADB, my phone is recognized. However, once I enter the shell, the phone mysteriously disappears. This is weird especially because the shell lists "root#nozomi", as "nozomi" is the phone's code name.
And because it is not recognized, I can't, for example, push files:

The adb command is available both on your phone and your host/development machine. However, it is not much useful on your phone from the shell.
adb shell opens a unix command shell on your phone. Commands you enter here are executed on your phone.
When you execute adb devices in the adb shell, you ask your phone if it has any other phones connected to it via the android debugging interface. And clearly your phone tells you, that this is not the case.
Same thing holds for adb push you are asking your phone to push a file to another phone via adb. Since none are connected, you get the error message.
Try exiting the adb shell again and execute commands on the host machine instead.

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allow computer to access files on the phone from the computer

I want to access my phone data from the computer and for this I have to allow the computer to do it from the phone.
The problem is that the phone's screen doesn't work, so is there any way to allow the computer to access the phone's data from my computer?
Oh, and if it matters, I'm using ubuntu and android....
You can use adb if the phone has USB debugging turned on. adb is a program that allows you to access a connected android device. just use adb shell to get an interactive shell on the device, or adb shell command to run a command. To push files to the device use adb push, and to pull them from the device use adb pull

android - adb more than one device/emulator

I genymotion emulator and my phone connected , I want to run and debug my application over wifi , I found the instruction to do so but I get this error when I enter this code :
adb tcpip 5555
I get this error :
error: more than one device/emulator
How can I make my device as default or something like that to solve this problem ?
You can send commands to a specific device, according to docs:
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554 device
emulator-5555 device
$ adb -s emulator-5555 do_your_command
Also, if only one is emulator or a real device you can just attach -e or -d and send the command to it:
If you have multiple devices available, but only one is an emulator, use the -e option to send commands to the emulator. Likewise, if there are multiple devices but only one hardware device attached, use the -d option to send commands to the hardware device.
Do following thing which will help you,
You getting the message just because you are connected more than one device.
Run commands
adb devices
after the fire above command, you get the list of the device, From the list select your device id which not emulator
and fire following command
adb -s f725aa8b7ce4(deviceId) tcpip 5555
and after this fire
adb connect yourIp 5555
I was struggling with same issue since months, later while testing in postman I got know that "Appium inspector" is the main reason for this issue. As it creates new session Id and interrupt the running framework server.
Hence, adb kill-server adb start-server resolves the issue as it actually kill the session ID created by Appium inspector and starts new server.

Getting cpu and memory usage for a period of time

I have some old shell scripts that needs to be executed on an android device but the command to fetch the total cpu, memory and swap usage is top. More specific it is:
top -m 1 -d 1.0 -n $duration
Now I have been looking to find a replacement for this and I found out that I can use dumpsys. The problem what I have is that I want to give a timeout like this:
dumpsys -t 20 cpuinfo
I checked this site: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/dumpsys.html but didn't find out why this doesn't work. Even when I try the help I get the same error
dumpsys --help
Can't find the service: --help
Does someone know what is going on? My current android version is 6.0.1 if this is important.
Thanks in advance!
It is true that dumpsys --help does not work. I think there is a mistake in their document. However, below works:
# adb shell dumpsys input
# adb shell dumpsys -l
Add permission on your manifest "android.permission.DUMP".or
There's another (hacky) way to access dumpsys without rooting your device - through adb shell.
This will require allowing USB debugging, and finding the port of the adb service.
Enable USB debugging on your device. This option is found under Settings -> Developer Options.
Connect your device to a PC, and run the following command from the PC's shell/command line: adb tcpip 12345. Then, from your devices shell, issue the command adb connect localhost:12345 from your application. You can now disconnect the device from USB. Alternatively, you can scan the ports on your device one by one without USB connection, using adb connect localhost: and find the port adb service is listening to.
Authorize USB debugging from the pop up confirmation dialog, if prompted. Check the "always" checkbox to do not require this step again.
Now, when you have access to the adb service, use adb shell dumpsys ... from your application code to get whatever service dump you need.

Restart android machine

we have android + linux m/c, we log in into linux shell and boot the machine in android GUI.
now we have the some script that is running on the same machine through linux shell. In that case when the script hangs we need to restart android machine. but it result into restarting the linux machine too. as they are on same machine. so i need the way to restart the android so it comes out of hang state and control remains on the script that is running through the linux shell.
so is there any adb or linux command that work for me?
Have you tried simply 'reboot' with adb?
adb reboot
Also you can run complete shell scripts (e.g. to reboot your emulator) via adb:
adb shell <command>
The official docs can be found here.
You can reboot the device by sending the following broadcast:
$ adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
adb reboot should not reboot your linux box.
But in any case, you can redirect the command to a specific adb device using adb -s <device_id> command , where
Device ID can be obtained from the command adb devices
command in this case is reboot
I think the only way to do this is to run another machine in parallel and use that machine to issue commands to your android box similar to how you would with a phone. If you have issues with the IP changing you can reserve an ip on your router and have the machine grab that one instead of asking the routers DHCP for one. This way you can ping the machine and figure out if it's done rebooting to continue the script.

Sending AT commands from Powershell script to Android phone via adb

I have a little script that I run in adb shell of Android phone (/system/etc directory), which enables to communicate with the modem by sending/receiving a single AT command.
The script itself, if run in adb shell, works OK. That's what it looks like:
cat /dev/pts/7 &
echo -e $1\\r > /dev/pts/7
Here's the output in adb shell:
# ./sendATCommand "at+cops?"
./sendATCommand "at+cops?"
#
+COPS: 0,0,"AT&T",6
OK
/dev/pts/7: invalid length
(need to press ENTER to return control to adb shell)
#
Now I want to invoke this script from a powershell script running on my PC, thus eventually controlling modem via AT commands, but nothing happens.
For example, the below powershell script will send the command at+cops? to check the operator to which mobile is registered to:
$adb = [IO.Path]::Combine([IO.Path]::Combine($Env:ANDROID, "platform-tools"), "adb.exe")
& $adb remount
$atCommand = "at+cops?"
& $adb shell /system/etc/sendATCommand $atCommand
The output may looks sometimes like +ATCMD (any residual [proprietary]AT command sitting in device buffer after bootup), or at+cops?(echo), or nothing at all, but
never +COPS: 0,0,"AT&T",6 which I expect. Could you help me figure out what's going on and how to possibly fix it? Ideally
I want to be able to execute at command, return control to powershell, and have output available for further processing.
I am also open to other solutions to implement same thing.
Would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks!
Not sure to answer your question, my phone is not an Android, but when I connect it via buetooth or USB to my computer a COM port is created. So I build an assembly tool on the top of .NET SerialPort class that allow, for example, to send SMS using the phone Modem.
I think it's usable in your case.

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