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willmer
willmer

Reputation: 233

Android adb won't let me enter commands

I'm trying to deal with some SQLiteDB issues and wanted to use the ABD tool to access my emulators database. When I click on the adb file in the platform-tool file, it opens up but very quickly throws a bunch of text on the window and then closes. Its so fast I can't even tell what it is doing. I tried running as administrator and it didn't change. I'm using Vista if that has anything to do with it.

Any suggestions for how I can even get it to stop from closing so I can enter a command?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 24601

Answers (3)

redevill
redevill

Reputation: 21

In the answer, it was not clear that you have to run a windows cmd.exe terminal program first. Make sure you are in the correct directory, Then start ADB from within this cmd program.

To ensure that windows can find adb.exe ("being in the correct directory), you can either navigate to the location of the adb.exe (usually Platform tools) manually using "cd" command, or update your path statement so that windows can find it regardless of where your cmd.exe prompt is pointing.

Upvotes: 0

zapl
zapl

Reputation: 63945

You start the command shell (WindowsKey + R, enter cmd in the window that appears and hit Enter.), then use it from there. adb shell is probably the command you need.

C:\> cd \Path\to\platform-tools
C:\Path\to\platform-tools\> adb shell

if you add the path to your environment PATH you don't need to cd there. [This] should be a good example how to do that.

Upvotes: 12

Tech Agent
Tech Agent

Reputation: 657

As mentioned by zapl, you need to launch command prompt, add adb directory to path and then running adb commands. You may also be able to pull the trick with DDMS.

Upvotes: 0

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