ADB Usage Preface ADB, full name Android Debug Bridge, is Android command line debugging tool, can complete a variety of functions, such as tracking system logs, upload and download files, install applications. Ready to connect Connects device OTG port and host USB port with dual male USB data cable. You need to turn on "USB Debug" item in advance in system setting. ADB installation on Windows First of all, follow the section installing RK USB drives to install any of these drivers. Then, go to http://adbshell.com/download/download-adb-for-windows.html to download "adb.zip"，and extract it to "C:\adb". Open a command line window and type: cd C:\adb adb shell If everything is normal, you can enter "adb shell" to run commands on the device. ADB installation on Ubuntu Install adb tools: sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb Add device identification: mkdir -p ~/.android vi ~/.android/adb_usb.ini # Add the following line 0x2207 Add the udev rule: sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules # Add the following line: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2207", MODE="0666" Replug the USB cable, or run the following command to make the udev rule work: sudo udevadm control --reload-rules sudo udevadm trigger Restart the adb server sudo adb kill-server adb start-server Frequently-used ADB command Connection management Lists all connected devices and their serial Numbers adb devices If you have multiple connected devices, you need to use serial Numbers to distinguish them: export ANDROID_SERIAL= adb shell ls Connect the specified device under multiple devices adb -s serial number shell The adb can be connected through the network: # Restart adb on the device side and listen at TCP port 5555 adb tcpip 5555 # Disconnect the USB connection, the IP address of the device is 192.168.1.100 adb connect 192.168.1.100:5555 # Disconnect adb disconnect 192.168.1.100:5555 Get system log usage adb logcat [options] [Apply labels] For example # View all logs adb logcat # view only partial logs adb logcat -s WifiStateMachine StateMachine Get detailed running information "adb bugreport" for error report, containing a large number of useful information. For example adb bugreport # Save to local, easy to view with the editor adb bugreport > bugreport.txt Root permissions If "TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT" is in userdebug mode, you need to run it to get root permission: adb root Switch the device of adb to root mode so that "adb remount" and other commands which need root permission can be used. Install the application Usage: adb install [Options] application.apk Options: -l forward-lock -r reinstall the application and retain the original data -s installed on the SD card instead of internal storage For example: # Install facebook.apk adb install facebook.apk # Update twitter.apk adb install -r twitter.apk If the installation is successful, the tool will return a prompt of "Success". Otherwise, is generally the following circumstances: INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS: You need to reinstall with the -r parameter. INSTALL_FAILED_SIGNATURE_ERROR: The applied signatures may not be the same, and may be due to differences between the release and debug signatures. If you are sure that the APK file signature is ok, you can uninstall the old application by using the adb uninstall command. Then install again. INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE: Insufficient storage space, you need to check the device storage. Uninstall the application Usage: adb uninstall Application package name For example: adb uninstall com.android.chrome Application package names can be listed with the followsing commands: adb shell pm list packages -f The running result: package:/system/app/Bluetooth.apk=com.android.bluetooth The apk file is ahead，and the follows is the corresponding package name. Command line help information 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.