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To get a verbose list of all devices connected to adb, write the following command in your terminal: adb devices -l Example Output List of devices attached ZX1G425DC6 device usb:336592896X product:shamu model:Nexus_6 device:shamu 013e4e127e59a868 device usb:337641472X produc...

Write the following command in your terminal: adb shell getprop This will print all available information in the form of key/value pairs. You can just read specific information by appending the name of a specific key to the command. For example: adb shell getprop ro.product.model Here are a...

The standard ADB configuration involves a USB connection to a physical device. If you prefer, you can switch over to TCP/IP mode, and connect ADB via WiFi instead. Not rooted device Get on the same network: Make sure your device and your computer are on the same network. Connect the...

You may pull (download) files from the device by executing the following command: adb pull <remote> <local> For example: adb pull /sdcard/ ~/ You may also push (upload) files from your computer to the device: adb push <local> <remote> For example: adb push ~/im...

You can reboot your device by executing the following command: adb reboot Perform this command to reboot into bootloader: adb reboot bootloader Reboot to recovery mode: adb reboot recovery Be aware that the device won't shutdown first!

Turn on: adb shell svc wifi enable Turn off: adb shell svc wifi disable

Command: adb devices Result example: List of devices attached emulator-5554 device PhoneRT45Fr54 offline 123.454.67.45 no device First column - device serial number Second column - connection status Android documentation

Enter these commands in Android device Terminal su setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555 stop adbd start adbd After this, you can use CMD and ADB to connect using the following command adb connect 192.168.0.101.5555 And you can disable it and return ADB to listening on USB with setprop servi...

Start ADB: adb kill-server Stop ADB: adb start-server

You can run logcat as an adb command or directly in a shell prompt of your emulator or connected device. To view log output using adb, navigate to your SDK platform-tools/ directory and execute: $ adb logcat Alternatively, you can create a shell connection to a device and then execute: $ adb sh...

1. Target a device by serial number Use the -s option followed by a device name to select on which device the adb command should run. The -s options should be first in line, before the command. adb -s <device> <command> Example: adb devices List of devices attached emulator-55...

Screen shot: Option 1 (pure adb) The shell adb command allows us to execute commands using a device's built-in shell. The screencap shell command captures the content currently visible on a device and saves it into a given image file, e.g. /sdcard/screen.png: adb shell screencap /sdcard/screen.png...

One can clear the user data of a specific app using adb: adb shell pm clear <package> This is the same as to browse the settings on the phone, select the app and press on the clear data button. pm invokes the package manager on the device clear deletes all data associated with a packag...

It's possible to send broadcast to BroadcastReceiver with adb. In this example we are sending broadcast with action com.test.app.ACTION and string extra in bundle 'foo'='bar': adb shell am broadcast -a action com.test.app.ACTION --es foo "bar" You can put any other supported type to b...

To install an APK file, use the following command: adb install path/to/apk/file.apk or if the app is existing and we want to reinstall adb install -r path/to/apk/file.apk To uninstall an application, we have to specify its package adb uninstall application.package.name Use the following...

You can use the adb backup command to backup your device. adb backup [-f <file>] [-apk|-noapk] [-obb|-noobb] [-shared|-noshared] [-all] [-system|nosystem] [<packages...>] -f <filename> specify filename default: creates backup.ab in the current directory -apk|noapk...

How to install the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) to a Linux system with the terminal using your distro's repositories. Install to Ubuntu/Debian system via apt: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install adb Install to Fedora/CentOS system via yum: sudo yum check-update sudo yum install androi...

adb shell pm list permissions -g -d

First, make sure your app can be backed up in AndroidManifest.xml, i.e. android:allowBackup is not false. Backup command: adb -s <device_id> backup -noapk <sample.package.id> Create a tar with dd command: dd if=backup.ab bs=1 skip=24 | python -c "import zlib,sys;sys.stdout.wri...

adb -s <serialNumber> shell dumpsys activity activities Very useful when used together with the watch unix command: watch -n 5 "adb -s <serialNumber> shell dumpsys activity activities | sed -En -e '/Stack #/p' -e '/Running activities/,/Run #0/p'"