Open command window or terminal on the computer and type «
adb shell» after you've connected the phone to the computer.
The ADB shell is a useful little command - line tool that you can use to communicate with or run commands on a connected Android device (virtual or physical).
So yes, if you send the command:
adb shell am start - n https://t.co/yYfeX14Ioj.engineeringmode/.qualcomm.DiagEnabled — es «code» «password» with the correct code you can become root!
Hackers over at xda - developers have managed to root the Nexus Q, and users willing to play around with
an ADB shell can push apps over to the player, as well as enable the Android launcher to get full Ice Cream Sandwich on a HDTV.
The Reddit user found the fix by running the «
adb shell top» command which listed the running processes on their Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch, as shown in the screenshot below.
Users can easily check whether their Android device supports seamless updates by running the following command in
ADB shell or a Terminal Emulator app.
To do that, type the following command into
the ADB shell window:
The Andromeda desktop client uses a script and ADB access in order to elevate the privileges of the Andromeda app on your phone to match that of
the ADB shell.
To do that, I dug into the source code of Android 8.0 once the final release dropped, and discovered the existence of
ADB shell commands that could enable or disable overlays, which XDA Writer Adam Conway covered yesterday.
A handful of clever developers, such as the Helium and Brevent developers, over the years figured out how to essentially elevate the privileges of an application running on the phone to match that of
ADB shell.
Using a few commands through the rooted
ADB shell, it's now possible to push the su binary onto your device.
prop exit adb reboot
adb shell mount - o remount, rw / system adb push su / system / xbin / su
adb shell chown 0.0 / system / xbin / su chmod 06755 / system / xbin / su rm / data / local.
If you're still using
the adb shell you can skip the first one, but if you've exited the shell, make sure to open it again:
adb shell rm / data / local / tmp ln - s / data / / data / local / tmp exit adb reboot
adb shell echo «ro.kernel.qemu = 1» > / data / local.
Then enter the following commands: «
adb shell», «su», «rm / data / data / com.
Type:
adb shell ln — s / system / bin / su / system / xbin / su 12.
Type:
adb shell chmod 4755 / system / bin / su 13.
Not exact matches
Next, type the following commands in order to open a
shell on the device via
adb and run the commands on your Android device itself.
Android Debug Bridge (or
ADB for short) serves as a remote terminal interface for executing
shell commands on any Android device.
When I installed fastboot and
adb using apt - get in the bash
shell, neither are able to see my connected Android device.