When the Nexus 7 is plugged in there is a persistent notification that indicates “CONNECT AS / Media Device (MTP)“. In this state adb devices will not show the Nexus, or undoubtedly any other device. Not exactly obvious, but if you select the second option “Camera (PTP)” the device is available for debugging (the lesson … Read more
I just had this problem myself under Debian Wheezy. I restarted the adb daemon with sudo: sudo ./adb kill-server sudo ./adb start-server sudo ./adb devices Everything is working 🙂
Important Update : As @equiman points out, there are some USB cables that are for charging only and do not transmit data. Sometimes just swapping cables will help. Update for some versions of adb, ~/.android/adb_usb.ini has to be removed. Executive summary: Add the Vendor ID to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini and restart adb Full Details: Most of the … Read more
Starting from API level 8 (Android 2.2), for the debuggable application (the one built by Android Studio all the times unless the release build was requested), you can use the shell run-as command to run a command or executable as a specific user/application or just switch to the UID of your application so you can … Read more
Make sure your device is not connected as a media device.
The clean way of stopping the app is: adb shell am force-stop com.my.app.id This way you don’t have to figure out the process ID.
It is located in the AppData hidden folder C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools From l33t’s comment below you may use the following shortcut: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\sdk\platform-tools To use it in PowerShell you can do: $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Android\sdk\platform-tools
In my case with Android Studio 1.1.0 path was this /Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools Add the following to ~/.bash_profile export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/tools:$PATH export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
Windows 8 wouldn’t recognize my Nexus 10 device. Fixed by Setting the transfer mode to Camera (PTP) through the settings dialogue on the device. Settings > Storage > Menu > USB Computer connection to “Camera (PTP)”
By adb shell input keyevent, either an event_code or a string will be sent to the device. usage: input [text|keyevent] input text <string> input keyevent <event_code> Some possible values for event_code are: 0 –> “KEYCODE_UNKNOWN” 1 –> “KEYCODE_MENU” 2 –> “KEYCODE_SOFT_RIGHT” 3 –> “KEYCODE_HOME” 4 –> “KEYCODE_BACK” 5 –> “KEYCODE_CALL” 6 –> “KEYCODE_ENDCALL” 7 –> … Read more