From my experience this is because the AVD can’t detect your ADB binary. When you launch the AVD if you go into settings, it’s the ‘…’ symbol on the toolbar of the virtual machine, then go to the ‘Settings’ section there should be an option called ‘Use detected ADB location’ switch this off then select … Read more
Generally, I think your USB connection should be set to use MTP (Media Transfer), however, I couldn’t get my computer to recognize my device (Nexus 4). Oddly, setting the USB connection to Camera got it working for me.
Try the following: Close Eclipse. Restart your phone. End adb.exe process in Task Manager (Windows). In Mac, force close in Activity Monitor. Issue kill and start command in \platform-tools\ C:\sdk\platform-tools>adb kill-server C:\sdk\platform-tools>adb start-server If it says something like ‘started successfully’, you are good.
Well, if your phone is rooted you can run commands with the su -c command. Here is an example of a cat command on the build.prop file to get a phone’s product information. This invokes root permission and runs the command inside the ‘ ‘. Notice the 5 end quotes, that is required that you close ALL your end quotes or you … Read more
Make sure adb is in your user’s $PATH variable. or You can try to locate it with whereis and run it with ./adb
Found the solution thanks to @user3109468, Android Studio had the directory for the Android SDK wrong. In File>Project Structure make sure the directory for the SDK is correct; mine was C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Android\sdk (Google had given sdk a capital “S” for some reason…)
I’m trying to get a screenshot of the phone screen as fast as possible. Currently, I am doing: However it is too slow and takes up to 3 seconds. Is there any better way to do this? I intend to use this function with an unrooted phone. Also what are the different arguments I can … Read more
This only work in KitKat and via ADB only. This does not work below Kitkat. To start recording your device’s screen, run the following command: adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/example.mp4, This command will start recording your device’s screen using the default settings and save the resulting video to a file at /sdcard/example.mp4 file on your device. When you’re … Read more
If you have the situation where this keeps happening and killing and restarting still doesn’t work it may be a problem with your adb installation. I had to reinstall adb to resolve this problem: Reboot to ensure no instances of adb is running Launch SDK Manager in Android Studio: Tools->Android->SDK Manager Select the SDK Tools … Read more
On my system Avast Antivirus kept quarantining ‘adb.exe’, so the file would effectively disappear. Once I suspected that, it was simply (in Avast): Protection > Virus Chest > [three dot menu by the file] > Restore and add exception If I would change a folder name, or re-install, I would have to do it again, … Read more