[GUIDE] (For Noobs) SDK, ADB, and Drivers

[mukden]

Very good tutorial, thx.

 

[guptadh456]

Thanks

Thanks

+1

 

[Statixx91]

No device listed

First off, really nice Guide.
I did everything and it worked fine so far but now I'm encountering a problem.

When I enter adb devices, daemon starts but my device is not shown. I've aleady searched for a solution but couldn't find anything helpful.

Would be great if someone could help me. Thanks in advance.

 

[xdaco]

First off, really nice Guide.
I did everything and it worked fine so far but now I'm encountering a problem.

When I enter adb devices, daemon starts but my device is not shown. I've aleady searched for a solution but couldn't find anything helpful.

Would be great if someone could help me. Thanks in advance.

which phone do you use ? are you on windows?? did you install driver?? Is you device listed in device manager??

 

[Statixx91]

Sorry, was kinda stupid to ask without any information :/

I have the HTC Sensation and I use Windows 7. I have installed every driver and it is also listed in the device manager.
HTC Sync and everything else works well on my pc.

 

[xdaco]

Sorry, was kinda stupid to ask without any information :/

I have the HTC Sensation and I use Windows 7. I have installed every driver and it is also listed in the device manager.
HTC Sync and everything else works well on my pc.

HTC sync is troubling you. Go to task manager and kill htc sync. Then run adb.

 

[Statixx91]

I killed HTC Sync but it's still not working.
I also tried the whole guide on my laptop (win Vista 32bit) but it's the same problem. If I get the chance I'll try it out on another computer (win xp 32bit) tomorrow.

Thanks so far musarraf172 =)

 

[xdaco]

I killed HTC Sync but it's still not working.
I also tried the whole guide on my laptop (win Vista 32bit) but it's the same problem. If I get the chance I'll try it out on another computer (win xp 32bit) tomorrow.

Thanks so far musarraf172 =)

kill HTC sync

Then RUN

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

If it fails , then may be the HTC new driver causing the issue. I had no pain to setup adb on win7 32bit /64 bit and Ubuntu 10.10 / 11.04 /11.10 32bit .
Some guys got problem with new HTC driver. Try to use the old driver available on XDA.

 

[fandroid93]

Nice tutorial but OP check out this tutorial, really just step 3. Adding the path makes it so you can enter adb commands from any directory which is nice for obvious reasons.

Also I needed JDK and not just standard Java.

 

[francis_cai]

realllly works ?

 

[pipz]

Thank you for your quick response.

I already paste this file PG58IMG.zip on the sd sard root folder. the android-info.txt inside that zip is modified with a value I get from CID getter. below is the CID and MID of my sensation xe phone

modelid: PG5813001
cidnum: HTC_044

can you help me to create the correct android-info.txt? it seems that some syntax is missing or with spaces.

Thank you very much in advance.....

 

[Statixx91]

kill HTC sync

Then RUN

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

If it fails , then may be the HTC new driver causing the issue. I had no pain to setup adb on win7 32bit /64 bit and Ubuntu 10.10 / 11.04 /11.10 32bit .
Some guys got problem with new HTC driver. Try to use the old driver available on XDA.

This didn't work either but I managed to get a connection when I changed the connection type from charge only to htc sync and back =)

But now I've tried installing about 5 different ICS roms but I always end up in a bootloop. I already did a data and cache wipe but it didn't change anything :/


EDIT: Nevermind, it seems that there was a Problem with the Firmware version. After installing it again, everything went fine and I got my Sensation with Android 4.0 Sensless =)
Thx Musarraf172

 

[xdaco]

This didn't work either but I managed to get a connection when I changed the connection type from charge only to htc sync and back =)

But now I've tried installing about 5 different ICS roms but I always end up in a bootloop. I already did a data and cache wipe but it didn't change anything :/


EDIT: Nevermind, it seems that there was a Problem with the Firmware version. After installing it again, everything went fine and I got my Sensation with Android 4.0 Sensless =)
Thx Musarraf172

Glad to see that you figured it out. !!

 

[go7hic]

Works like a charm. Thx

 

[JBC877]

Awesome post to the noobs! Cool job!

 

[bigchunks_atb]

I did everything as written by OP, but there is no fastboot in \tools\ folder. Am I doing something wrong? Got "Android SDK Tools Rev. 15" and "Android SDK Platform-tools Rev. 9" installed. No fastboot, anywhere

As far as I recall, the fastboot executable has been moved from /tools to /platform-tools

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First off, really nice Guide.
I did everything and it worked fine so far but now I'm encountering a problem.

When I enter adb devices, daemon starts but my device is not shown. I've aleady searched for a solution but couldn't find anything helpful.

Would be great if someone could help me. Thanks in advance.

Try enabling USB debugging on your phone at Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging. There should be a checkmark beside USB debugging. See if "adb devices" now works.

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What exactly is all this for?

The guide is for setting up the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) on one's computer. It is most useful to those who develop Android apps. It is also useful to non-developers of apps, especially the tools called adb and fastboot.

Before getting ICS on my Sensation XE, I've always wondered how ICS looked and felt like. I installed the SDK and ran an Android Virtual Device through the emulator. T'was uber cool. But, now I have ICS on my Sensation XE.

 

[LordMcMilian]

superb, thx!

 

[nkojic]

Sdk menager wont load????

canot load files from sdk (??

 

[ravi_mytouch]

When should you flash the Kernel?

When you are changing ROMs, should you always flash the kernel separately. If I have understood correctly, CWM does not flash the kernel.. right?

 

[MLIGN]

People still use this? If it is still any bit helpful let me know I will try to update it the best I can!

Cheers!