I am running Mac OSX and I´m up to get a A500 to develop and test applications on the device.
Acer doesn´t provide any drivers for OSX, so the question is if i need them for adb to recognize the device.
No, you don't need Acer's drivers to develop on OSX.
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Hi all,
I was wondering wy do We need to use a Windows box (virtual or emulated it doesn't meter) to install Our firmware updates (roms) in a linux based system, its kind of a frustration for Me, I use linux for about 7 years and I had to install a virtualbox with WinXP just to update My phone, or am I missing something??
is there an app that runs natively thought linux?
thanks in advance
I have no more windows computer for hacking my phone, leaving me only with ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I did a search on here, and saw someone mentioned heimdall frontend. my problem is, even though it's written for debian (the base of ubuntu), it doesn't want to install on ubuntu. does anyone know of a program that works for ubuntu? or why it won't install?
Sorry guys I am pretty new into this.
I download JDK, Android SDK...
I have the driver from Acer (piece of stupid 89Mb...?)
When I try to use ADB I get a message saying that can connect.
I suspect USB Driver.
Somebody could explain me the ABC of USB driver on Acer... ?
thanks
You really should add some more information. Which OS are you using? 32 or 64 bit? Did u enable ADB in your device's settings?
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It should be a fairly quick and easy affair.
Connect the tab using the supplied mini-usb->usb cable. Run the SDK and you can either run adb.exe or go right into the command prompt and navigate to your SDK install directory and into the folder where ADB is and run it from there.
Check to see if the device is connected: adb devices
If its not finding it then you'll have to trouble shoot from the SDK site. For me, I didn't have to configure anything, it just worked.
Windows 7 x64
did you unzip the driver file you downloaded from acer and then install it. dont mean to insult your intelligence in anyway. but i have seen people download the driver and never install it.
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I had this problem too. Win7 64 bit. I had to do the following:
Download the USB drive from Acer's site
Restart (may not be necessary)
Connect my A500
Windows reported a failed driver installation so I went into the Device Manager and manually selected a drive from the ADB drivers within Windows.
Thanks for answers. It did not solve the problem yet.
I have the Acer driver. No problem (and unzipped). Installed, ok looking in control panel
I have a microsoft driver ??? 6.1.7600.16385, signed by windows.
In description it is MTP driver
In fact I can not install the ACER driver.
I have win7 64 pro, french, original license.
It seems during the installation of acer drive, the exe starts another program; and the new one says that there is no installed version of acer iconia tab driver... then everything closes.
Has anybody a light version of the driver (can not understand this stupid 90mb) ?
thanks
After searching a bit it seems most if not all rooting methods require the use of a Windows machine. Are there any resources for us mac users in terms of rooting the TF?
I'm not sure if there is an nvflash version for Mac. The nvidia developer's website show flashing features for Win and linux. I assume this means nvflash.
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eep2378 said:
After searching a bit it seems most if not all rooting methods require the use of a Windows machine. Are there any resources for us mac users in terms of rooting the TF?
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I've done it with Windows Seven on Parallels 6.
Be carefull to assign at the first time the asus usb to virtual machine in static way, otherwise you can loose the connection during the procedure and the software re-ask you where do you want to connect the usb...
DLuke77 said:
I've done it with Windows Seven on Parallels 6.
Be carefull to assign at the first time the asus usb to virtual machine in static way, otherwise you can loose the connection during the procedure and the software re-ask you where do you want to connect the usb...
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I do have vmware on my Mac running win 7. Assign asus to virtual machine in static way? How would I go about that?
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I never used VMWare...
But in parallels, with vm running, when i insert something in the usb, it prompt where the device will be seen, on the mac or on the vm.
There, there is a check box to "remind this selection" and it never ask you again pairing always taht device with vm.
Sorry, but i don't know where and if there is something like in VMWare
I think this will get you rooted on a Mac. You will need adb.
http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/
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After searching a bit it seems most if not all rooting methods require the use of a Windows machine. Are there any resources for us mac users in terms of rooting the TF?
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When I rooted mine at the very beginning of June I just used this guide as a template.
Didn't need to install any extra drivers like Windows users do, I got adb from the link provided at the beginning of the guide and the followed each of the steps including downloading the rooting tools. The commands are the same but are entered slightly differently in OSX.
Example
In OSX you would type:
Code:
./adb devices
instead of Windows:
Code:
adb devices
If you've used OSX terminal before you should be fine.
I am using my laptop for ADB currently, but I want to know if it is possible to run ADB through windows in a Virtual Machine? I have gotten to where I have ADB running and the VM reconizeds the phone but as soon as I type,
Code:
adb devices
There is no response. Side note: I am using VMware and am running Tvall's CM7 on my phone.
Edit: solved was a driver issue
adb works when drivers for adb were installed
did you install drivers from Android SDK Tools?
at second you need turn usb debugging on (settings/applications/development)
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adb works when drivers for adb were installed
did you install drivers from Android SDK Tools?
at second you need turn usb debugging on (settings/applications/development)
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Yes I know this. The virtual machine knows the device is there(ADB drivers are installed) but in cmd it doesn't work. USB debugging is on, another option is the wireless ADB from CM7, but I have no idea how that works. Thanks for the help.
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Yes I know this. The virtual machine knows the device is there(ADB drivers are installed) but in cmd it doesn't work. USB debugging is on, another option is the wireless ADB from CM7, but I have no idea how that works. Thanks for the help.
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When connecting phone through usb debugging there is 'Android USB Devices' section in Device Manager (My Computer / Manage / System Tools / Device Manager). Do you have this section while connecting?
Wireless adb application establishes connection via custom port and adb can use this port to communicate with phone.
5[Strogino] said:
When connecting phone through usb debugging there is 'Android USB Devices' section in Device Manager (My Computer / Manage / System Tools / Device Manager). Do you have this section while connecting?
Wireless adb application establishes connection via custom port and adb can use this port to communicate with phone.
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In device Manager it has "Android Composite ADB Interface" and a "HTC Android Device" My VM connects to HTC Android device, not letting me connect to it in ADB. Before I connect my device and before it installed the drivers I installed the Google driver package from AndroidSDK. Thanks for your help.
How did you fix it?
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In device Manager it has "Android Composite ADB Interface" and a "HTC Android Device" My VM connects to HTC Android device, not letting me connect to it in ADB. Before I connect my device and before it installed the drivers I installed the Google driver package from AndroidSDK. Thanks for your help.
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So how did you end up fixing this? I want to connect my phone to the VM.
This is happening to me right now. I have a VM Windows 7, it can detect a "HTC Android Device" but the platform-tool command line cant detect my phone. Even with ADB USB drivers, platform-tools, as well as HTC-sync installed.
How did you fix it? Please tell me
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So how did you end up fixing this? I want to connect my phone to the VM.
This is happening to me right now. I have a VM Windows 7, it can detect a "HTC Android Device" but the platform-tool command line cant detect my phone. Even with ADB USB drivers, platform-tools, as well as HTC-sync installed.
How did you fix it? Please tell me
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I uninstalled all the drivers (with USBdeview) and instead of installing with the Google Driver I used the HTC one for MyTouch 3G. I think I installed the drivers before I plugged in the phone. And also what software are you using to run your VM?
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I uninstalled all the drivers (with USBdeview) and instead of installing with the Google Driver I used the HTC one for MyTouch 3G. I think I installed the drivers before I plugged in the phone. And also what software are you using to run your VM?
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I am using Oracle VM Virtualbox. Doing VM Windows 7 under Ubuntu 11.10.
I have been trying a few times in the VM Windows 7. I tried the lastest HTC Sync 3.0.0.0 as well as the older version 2.0.3.3 that worked when I was using full Windows 7.
But in VM, nothing works
The VM win 7 can detect a USB Composite Device, but it cant find the correct driver.
edit:
Oh my god!! hopefully you still havent read this post yet because I just got it working!
In the settings of the VM, theres an option to enable USB 2.0
But to enable that, we must install the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
It works!
edit2:
but somehow the transfer speed is really slow...
i guess i will just install windows again dual boot it
Yay! Congrats if I helped at all please hit the thanks button.
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Yay! Congrats if I helped at all please hit the thanks button.
Sent from my Dream/Sapphire using XDA
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Not until you tell me about your VM
I want to know that because at the moment the transfering and intallation of APK files in Oracle VM VirtualBox is utterly slow (comparing with my old Win7 days), I am interested in other alternative VM which might be faster.
I see you mentioned VMware in you first post, I went to their website (link) but I see a lot different products... can you tell me which one you used, can you please tell me more about your VM?
Thanks in adcance.
edit:
Hey there again, I fainlly got VMware working.
I went for VMware Player 4.0.2. But for Ubuntu 12.04, we need a custom patch the VMware before it can run gracefully.
Not I have got it running now, VMware is so much faster than Oracle VM.
Thanks for the suggestsion!
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Not until you tell me about your VM
I want to know that because at the moment the transfering and intallation of APK files in Oracle VM VirtualBox is utterly slow (comparing with my old Win7 days), I am interested in other alternative VM which might be faster.
I see you mentioned VMware in you first post, I went to their website (link) but I see a lot different products... can you tell me which one you used, can you please tell me more about your VM?
Thanks in advance.
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Hey there again, I fainlly got VMware working.
I went for VMware Player 4.0.2. But for Ubuntu 12.04, we need a custom patch the VMware before it can run gracefully.
Not I have got it running now, VMware is so much faster than Oracle VM.
Thanks for the suggestsion!
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I personally use Workstation. But for me VMware is alot faster than Oracle VM VirtualBox. Glad I could help
adb driver won't connect
I'm running windows parrallel on my mac. On the windows side I have the samsung drivers downloaded but when I go to root my phone the command line says doesn't recognize. Anyone know away I can get drivers to recognize phone when running virtual on a mac?