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Question about ADB

I am currently running CM 4.2.2. on MT3G and I have been reading/hearing a lot about adb. Is it required to do something you can't do otherwise? Also, I downloaded the adbwin.zip wrapper and when i do "adb devices" my phone shows up as connected and I can browse through the file system and stuff. Does that mean that adb is working fine?
I tried installing an apk named test.apk that was in the main folder of the sd card by doing "install /sdcard/test.apk" but it didn't work.
Any help?

ADB isn't required, but it sure does make doing some stuff easier.
Refer to that guide if you want to setup ADB, it'll show you some commands for ADB also. Hope that helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719

Uninstall Bluetooth.apk using adb...cant figure it out!!!

So I'm not new to rooting and flashing and all, but I just installed android sdk today basically only to uninstall the bluetooth apk on my sense roms to make the phone ring quicker. I've tried to follow every single guide I could find and the closest i got was following cyanogens barebones wiki, and it said "permission denied" when i put in the uninstall command
someone plz help me

Don't know what to say. Are you sure that your adb is correctly set up? That you installed the correct driver? Do you get a "#" sign after typing "adb shell" in command line/terminal on your computer?

Issues With Even Running Root? :(

Running with instructions here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/HTC_Glacier:_Full_Update_Guide#Rooting_the_HTC_Glacier
but after going into adb shell and running:
adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/
I'm getting a "permission denied" error for any adb for that or any adb command I throw at it.
I do notice that my adb shell starts with $ instead of # but not sure what step I'm missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Trying to breath new life in this thing and don't have any account/market setup on it - so if I can do the rooting through this it'll be easier for me otherwise I'll go ahead and setup another G-account to do it that way if I have to :\

Try executing "adb shell mkdir /data/local/tmp" and try again.
If doesn't work - try changing all /data/local/tmp references to /data/local

thanks for the feedback Jack_R1
Unfortunately that's a no go... same error even with that

Then you're doing something wrong. Follow the guides EXACTLY. Don't do stuff that's not written, do the stuff that's written EXACTLY as it's written, verify that you're starting where the guides expect you to and have all the prerequisites, and it'll work. Your phone isn't different from any other phone, and if something that works for million others doesn't work for you - then you're doing something wrong.
For example, nobody asked you to get into ADB shell to run these commands you're running. You can't run "adb" while being inside ADB shell. Read the guide PROPERLY.

Jack_R1 said:
Then you're doing something wrong. Follow the guides EXACTLY. Don't do stuff that's not written, do the stuff that's written EXACTLY as it's written, verify that you're starting where the guides expect you to and have all the prerequisites, and it'll work. Your phone isn't different from any other phone, and if something that works for million others doesn't work for you - then you're doing something wrong.
For example, nobody asked you to get into ADB shell to run these commands you're running. You can't run "adb" while being inside ADB shell. Read the guide PROPERLY.
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Thanks,
I did try to follow things to the T but diverted away from doing things -exactly- since starting with "adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/" command I keep getting a "cannot stat 'busybox': No such file or directory"
So in reality.. .THAT was my main issue which is leading to me trying other stuff such as the "adb shell" and not getting # (since I'm pushing files to gain root)
Turns out I'm now able to get "adb push" working on my files since.. I hate myself for it being this simple... I just had to "CD" into my /platform-tools folder since command prompt started in my documents folder by default thus it was looking there for my files
Welp, thanks for the help anyway. Seen this question lingering around in Google Search and hope this helps out someone else :good:

ADB Pull Error

I am getting the following error when I try to pull a TWRP backup from my Nexus 4. Can anyone please help?
Code:
remote object '/sdcard/TWRP' does not exist

It doesn't exist there. /sdcard/ is really a symlink. The actual location is /data/media/0/TWRP, but try /storage/emulated/0/TWRP as well.
Next time type "adb shell" to go into the phone, then type:
find / -type d -iname twrp
this will search the entire phone for folders with the name TWRP and list their path.
/ is the root folder of the phone to search in
-type d means search for folders only, leave it out if you want to search for file names
-iname means to search for terms case insensitive
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Thanks for the help eksasol. I've tried to pull many different paths and they all return the same remote object does not exist error. I've even tried sudo adb pull, with the same result. I've tried this, find / -type d -iname twrp but, all I get is Permission denied. If anyone else has got some ideas I'd be happy to hear them. Thanks. :good:

If you are using Ubuntu or linux, typing 'find' only search what is in your PC. You get permission denied because you want to search in a root directly that required root permission.
To search for files in your phone, you need to log into your phone by typing "adb shell". TWRP give you root by default, then you can use the find command.
Since you have root by default in TWRP, you don't need to use sudo, also Android do not have "sudo" installed. The correct way to gain root privilege in linux (Android) is by typing: su -
To tell if you have are root, you should see # where your user name is in the command window.
Once you are done finding the path, you need to exit the adb shell in order to make contact with your PC, so just type exit. Only then you can start using "adb pull".
by the way, its "adb pull /data/media/0/TWRP/ \home\username\backup\"
Rememer in linux (Android), it's case sensitive.

OK, I see my mistakes now. I was not exiting adb shell when typing adb pull. Anyway, thanks to your help, everything is working correctly now. Thank you again, I really appreciate it. Now I can flash the 4.4 update safely.

eksasol said:
If you are using Ubuntu or linux, typing 'find' only search what is in your PC. You get permission denied because you want to search in a root directly that required root permission.
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by the way, its "adb pull /data/media/0/TWRP/ \home\username\backup"
Rememer in linux (Android), it's case sensitive.
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Thanks for helping me re-learn that linux (Android) is case sensitive

ADB From Device?

A while back ago on older Firmware i use to be able to use Terminal Emulator and run ADB Commands from my phone.
But now when trying to use ADB is says ADB not found.
does anyone know how to install ADB Support on Nougut
let em know