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@quarry bodger .
Okay, assuming you're using Microsoft Windows, let's do this:
- download our mini-sdk.zip file:
http://androidforums.com/attachments/sdk-tools-zip.77466/
- extract the contents of that file to a folder on your system--say
c:\temp
- after extracting the contents, you'll now see an sdk-tools folder inside
c:\temp
- inside that
c:\temp\sdk-tools folder you'll see these files:
c:\temp\sdk-tools>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 843C-52A5
Directory of c:\temp\sdk-tools
11/11/2014 03:54 PM <DIR> .
11/11/2014 03:54 PM <DIR> ..
10/16/2014 12:33 PM 1,318,951 adb-linux
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 1,324,340 adb-mac
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 1,009,664 adb.exe
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 96,256 AdbWinApi.dll
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 60,928 AdbWinUsbApi.dll
10/16/2014 12:33 PM 215,626 fastboot-linux
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 213,404 fastboot-mac
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 196,608 fastboot.exe
08/26/2011 03:59 PM 28,160 md5sums.exe
05/18/2014 11:16 AM 1,414 sdk.sh
11/11/2014 03:59 PM 83 Version.txt
11 File(s) 4,465,434 bytes
2 Dir(s) 282,473,418,752 bytes free
- be sure that your device is connected to your PC via the USB cable
- we'll also assume that you've already got the proper USB driver for your device already installed (for either/both fastboot or adb--they can indeed be different and is very device-dependent)
- if you're trying to use
adb, be sure that you've got
USB debugging enabled (Settings -> Developer options -> USB debugging (checked/enabled)
- if you're tring to use fastboot, your device will, of course, need to be booted into fastboot / bootloader mode
- start up a
Windows Command Prompt (DOS Window); you can do this by:
- Start button, enter "cmd" in "Search programs and files" box
- Windows key and then the "R" key at the same time, then enter "cmd" in the Open: field of the Run window that appears
- from the
Windows Command Prompt window, you'll navigate to the folder where you extracted the mini-SDK files to, clear the path environment variable, and then issue the desired command:
c:\>
c:\>cd temp
c:\temp>cd sdk-tools
c:\temp\sdk-tools>dir fastboot.exe adb.exe
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 843C-52A5
Directory of c:\temp\sdk-tools
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 196,608 fastboot.exe
Directory of c:\temp\sdk-tools
11/11/2014 03:50 PM 1,009,664 adb.exe
2 File(s) 1,206,272 bytes
0 Dir(s) 282,476,650,496 bytes free
c:\temp\sdk-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx device
c:\temp\sdk-tools>fastboot devices
List of devices attached
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fastboot
c:\temp\sdk-tools>
Hope that helps--for additional information, see this thread re. adb for adb-related info: