ADB Usage Introduction Adb, short for Android Debug Bridge, is Android's commandline debugging utility, which can be used to trace system log, upload/download file, install applications, etc. Before Start In Android system, go to "Settings" -> "Development options", check the "USB Debugging" option.Use a dual male USB data cable to connnect development board and host. The OTG port of the AIO-3128C is shown below: Adb Installation for Windows First, please reference Install RK USB driver to get the driver ready.Then go to http://adbshell.com/download/download-adb-for-windows.html to download adb.zip , uncompress it to "C:\adb" to ease later use.Open a cmd window, input: cd C:\adb adb shell If everything works, you have entered "adb shell", and can run all kinds of commands available in device. Adb Installation for Ubuntu Install the adb tool: sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb Add the device ID: mkdir -p ~/.android vi ~/.android/adb_usb.ini # append following line 0x2207 Add the udev rule: sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules # append following line: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2207", MODE="0666" Replug the USB cable or run the following command so that the udev rule can take effect: sudo udevadm control --reload-rules sudo udevadm trigger Restart the adb server sudo adb kill-server adb start-server Common Adb Commands Connection Management List all connected devices and their serial numbers adb devices If there are multiple devices connected, the device serial no is needed to distinguish: export ANDROID_SERIAL= adb shell ls Adb can also use the TCP/IP network to connect to device: # Restart adbd in device, which will be listened at TCP port 5555. adb tcpip 5555 # Now, the USB cable can be disconnected. # Connect to the device, whose IP is 192.168.1.100 here. adb connect 192.168.1.100:5555 # Disconnect the device adb disconnect 192.168.1.100:5555 Debug Get the system logs adb logcat Usage adb logcat [Options] [Label] Example: # Show all the log. adb logcat # Show only part of the log matching tags specified. adb logcat -s WifiStateMachine StateMachine Run the command adb shell Get the detailed running information adb bugreport "adb bugreport" is used for bug report, which contains lots of useful information about system. Example: adb bugreport # Save to host, then open it with text editor to view adb adb bugreport >bugreport.txt Root privilege If TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT is userdebug, you need to switch adb by: adb root The adb daemon in device will restart in root mode, in order to make 'adb remount' and other root permission demanded commands work. Application Management Install Application (adb install) Usageļ¼š adb install [Options] Application.apk Options are: -l forward-lock -r Reinstall application, keeping previous data -s Install to SD card, instead of internal storage For example: # Install facebook.apk adb install facebook.apk # Upgrade twitter.apk adb install -r twitter.apk If installation is successful, it will prompt "Success"; otherwise, it will fail with following messages: INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS: "-r" parameter is needed to reinstall. INSTALL_FAILED_SIGNATURE_ERROR: The signatures do not match. It sometimes happens that the released application and the debug one have different signatures. If the signature of APK is confirmed to be valid, use adb uninstall to uninstall old application first, then try again to install. INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE: The storage space is not enough, need to check. Install the SD card or uninstall some unused applications to free some space. Uninstall the application adb uninstall Usage: adb uninstall ApplicationPackageName Example: adb uninstall com.android.chrome The package name of application can be listed with: adb shell pm list packages -f Result: package:/system/app/Bluetooth.apk=com.android.bluetooth The former is apk filename, and the latter is the corresponding package name. Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.31 -a - directs adb to listen on all interfaces for a connection -d - directs command to the only connected USB device returns an error if more than one USB device is present. -e - directs command to the only running emulator. returns an error if more than one emulator is running. -s - directs command to the device or emulator with the given serial number or qualifier. Overrides ANDROID_SERIAL environment variable. -p - simple product name like 'sooner', or a relative/absolute path to a product out directory like 'out/target/product/sooner'. If -p is not specified, the ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT environment variable is used, which must be an absolute path. -H - Name of adb server host (default: localhost) -P - Port of adb server (default: 5037) devices [-l] - list all connected devices ('-l' will also list device qualifiers) connect [:] - connect to a device via TCP/IP Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified. disconnect [[:]] - disconnect from a TCP/IP device. Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified. Using this command with no additional arguments will disconnect from all connected TCP/IP devices. device commands: adb push [-p] - copy file/dir to device ('-p' to display the transfer progress) adb pull [-p] [-a] [] - copy file/dir from device ('-p' to display the transfer progress) ('-a' means copy timestamp and mode) adb sync [ ] - copy host->device only if changed (-l means list but don't copy) (see 'adb help all') adb shell - run remote shell interactively adb shell - run remote shell command adb emu - run emulator console command adb logcat [ ] - View device log adb forward --list - list all forward socket connections. the format is a list of lines with the following format: " " " " "\n" adb forward - forward socket connections forward specs are one of: tcp: localabstract: localreserved: localfilesystem: dev: jdwp: (remote only) adb forward --no-rebind - same as 'adb forward ' but fails if is already forwarded adb forward --remove - remove a specific forward socket connection adb forward --remove-all - remove all forward socket connections adb jdwp - list PIDs of processes hosting a JDWP transport adb install [-l] [-r] [-d] [-s] [--algo --key --iv ] - push this package file to the device and install it ('-l' means forward-lock the app) ('-r' means reinstall the app, keeping its data) ('-d' means allow version code downgrade) ('-s' means install on SD card instead of internal storage) ('--algo', '--key', and '--iv' mean the file is encrypted already) adb uninstall [-k] - remove this app package from the device ('-k' means keep the data and cache directories) adb bugreport - return all information from the device that should be included in a bug report. adb backup [-f ] [-apk|-noapk] [-obb|-noobb] [-shared|-noshared] [-all] [-system|-nosystem] [] - write an archive of the device's data to . If no -f option is supplied then the data is written to "backup.ab" in the current directory. (-apk|-noapk enable/disable backup of the .apks themselves in the archive; the default is noapk.) (-obb|-noobb enable/disable backup of any installed apk expansion (aka .obb) files associated with each application; the default is noobb.) (-shared|-noshared enable/disable backup of the device's shared storage / SD card contents; the default is noshared.) (-all means to back up all installed applications) (-system|-nosystem toggles whether -all automatically includes system applications; the default is to include system apps) ( is the list of applications to be backed up. If the -all or -shared flags are passed, then the package list is optional. Applications explicitly given on the command line will be included even if -nosystem would ordinarily cause them to be omitted.) adb restore - restore device contents from the backup archive adb help - show this help message adb version - show version num scripting: adb wait-for-device - block until device is online adb start-server - ensure that there is a server running adb kill-server - kill the server if it is running adb get-state - prints: offline | bootloader | device adb get-serialno - prints: adb get-devpath - prints: adb status-window - continuously print device status for a specified device adb remount - remounts the /system partition on the device read-write adb reboot [bootloader|recovery] - reboots the device, optionally into the bootloader or recovery program adb reboot-bootloader - reboots the device into the bootloader adb root - restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions adb usb - restarts the adbd daemon listening on USB adb tcpip - restarts the adbd daemon listening on TCP on the specified port networking: adb ppp [parameters] - Run PPP over USB. Note: you should not automatically start a PPP connection. refers to the tty for PPP stream. Eg. dev:/dev/omap_csmi_tty1 [parameters] - Eg. defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns adb sync notes: adb sync [ ] can be interpreted in several ways: - If is not specified, both /system and /data partitions will be updated. - If it is "system" or "data", only the corresponding partition is updated. environmental variables: ADB_TRACE - Print debug information. A comma separated list of the following values 1 or all, adb, sockets, packets, rwx, usb, sync, sysdeps, transport, jdwp ANDROID_SERIAL - The serial number to connect to. -s takes priority over this if given. ANDROID_LOG_TAGS - When used with the logcat option, only these debug tags are printed.