Usually that’s caused by the WinNAT service, restarting which solves the issue. Just open the Command Prompt or PowerShell as Administrator, and type the following commands there: net stop winnat net start winnat And wait a bit for the Android Studio to reconnect to the ADB. P.S. If it doesn’t reconnect, just type the following … Read more
By design adb root command works in development builds only (i.e. eng and userdebug which have ro.debuggable=1 by default). So to enable the adb root command on your otherwise rooted device just add the ro.debuggable=1 line to one of the following files: /system/build.prop /system/default.prop /data/local.prop If you want adb shell to start as root by … Read more
I had a similar issue and solved with the following steps: Disconnect device, and ensure to turn off developer options on the android device (if was previously turned on). Connect the device via USB. Turn on developer options on the android device. Enable check box for stay awake. Enable check box for USB debugging. Open … Read more
Update 2023; accessing data is not even through USB (file transfer mode) possible anymore (since a few Android and/or Samsung-device updates ago). Root your device. Original answer; 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 … Read more
To save storage space Android like many other embedded systems uses multi-call binaries to implement its basic command line tools like date. Android device may include either toolbox or toybox (or both) binary depending on the version. You can check which implementation of the date tool available on your device by running toolbox date and … Read more
mksh (the standard Android shell since version 4.0) has a built-in EPOCHREALTIME environment variable: Time since the epoch, as returned by gettimeofday(2), formatted as decimal tv_sec followed by a dot . and tv_usec padded to exactly six decimal digits. So the command to get epoch time with microsecond accuracy in Windows would be: adb shell … Read more
It seems that logcat can not properly parse tag names with whitespaces. So instead I suggest using grep on the device: adb shell “logcat | grep ‘Web Console'”
Put all the commands you want to run at once in an external file, one per line, then run: adb shell < commands.txt
That’s completely correct this behavior: please refer to the official documentation here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html. That’s the relevant part: Declared <uses-feature> elements are informational only, meaning that the Android system itself does not check for matching feature support on the device before installing an application. However, other services (such as Google Play) or applications may check your … Read more
By specifying the android:testOnly=”true” attribute in the AndroidManifest.xml it will be possible to uninstall the app or remove admin with: adb shell dpm remove-active-admin package.name/MyDeviceAdminReceiver But on a production device, this attribute should not be included and the app will be a non-test admin. From that point, it will not be possible to remove it … Read more