Minimal adb and fastboot: What is how to install using commands
– Take a look at these tips, tricks, and solution you can use to make your life much easier with your devices whenever problems arrive and complications which you may find difficult to deal with.
ADB and Fastboot are two very useful tools for developers, that fortunately we can also take advantage of normal users to do interesting things on mobile, some that would be impossible without rooting. For example, disable apps forcibly, configure the SD as mixed storage, make a backup or factory restore from the PC, etc. For this, you should normally connect the device to the PC with the USB cable, although it can also be done via WiFi or even without a PC.
To install ADB and FastBoot on the PC, you usually had to install the SDK Tools or now Android Studio, something tedious and whose size is around 400 MB. Another option is to just download the lightweight and up-to-date official platform tools, although setup requires a few steps. The third, easiest and fastest way to use ADB and FastBoot is the program Minimal ADB y FastBoot, created in 2013 by shimp208, a “recognized contributor” on the XDA Developers forums, which was based on the then official ADB and FastBoot version. Although the software is discontinued, it works perfectly today.
It is a tool that can originally be accessed or used through a command interpreter (in Windows the command prompt, cmd or shell). It allows you to communicate and perform tasks on your Android device (when it is normally turned on) through text instructions.
For example, entering the command “adb reboot” (without quotes) followed by the Enter key will cause your device to reboot. With the command “adb install directory / del / apk /” you can install an APK saved on your PC. You can see all the available commands here.
The tool, or rather FastBoot protocol, also works in a similar way to ADB, only it is used to communicate with the bootloader or boot manager, a software independent of the operating system, in charge of preparing everything that Android needs to start.
Unfortunately and unlike ADB, FastBoot commands are not compatible with every device, but if it is not your case, it can save you on more than one occasion (it has helped me to repair a moto G). Once your device is turned on in bootloader mode, you can execute several powerful commands to unlock the bootloader, flash ZIP files or install a custom recovery. Here you have all of them.
Another alternative to Minimal ADB and FastBoot for Windows is this “15 seconds” installer (Direct link). Press the «Y» key of YES to install.
Before sending commands with this tool you must do the following:
Some commands you can use are the following:
Detect connected device:
adb devices
Restart in recovery mode:
adb reboot recovery
Backup data and applications from the PC:
adb backup -apk -shared -all -f ruta/del/backup.ab
This command * NOT * allows you backup device ROM. To achieve that you must necessarily install a custom recovery.
Restore the backup created with the previous command:
adb restore ruta/del/backup.ab
Detects connected device in fastboot or bootloader mode:
fastboot devices
Unlock the bootloader:
fastboot oem unlock
This last command only works on pure Android systems, such as Google Pixels and as long as the OEM Unlock option is previously activated in the developer options.
References: XDA-Developers, Android, Googlesource
How to download and configure ADB and FastBoot (official platform tools)
Universal ADB Helper: The easy foolproof version of ADB
How to use ADB over WiFi, without drivers or even without a PC
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