Adb Fastboot Gui Tool For Mac

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Android Debugging Bridge, commonly known as the ADB tools among Android users, is a great way to interact with and manage Android phones, especially when it comes to advanced configuration. But like any other powerful tool, it is also based on command line arguments, so users needs to type in these commands to get the desired result on their device.

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A normal end user who just started playing with the Android ecosystem might not be comfortable enough with these commands to get the work done. But thanks to Labo, a recognized developer from XDA who developed a Windows-based GUI tool, users can easily take advantage of ADB commands and use them like never before.

What are you waiting for? Download the ABD GUI Tool to configure your computer and manage your Android phone using ADB commands.

Setting Up the Android and PC

If this is the first time ever you are trying out developer options on your phone, you must enable the permissions from the Android settings. Open the About page under Android settings and tap on the Build Number 5 times until you see a toast notification stating that the developer options have been turned on.

Go back and open the Developer options. Here, turn on USB debugging. You can now control your phone using the ADB commands from the computer. Just make sure that the appropriate drivers for the Android are installed on your computer. Having done that, you can now just plug in the device to the computer and get started with using the ADB GUI tool.

If you are one of my frequent readers, you must know my affinity for wireless connections and how I hate to have wires around my workstation. If you wish to connect wirelessly, there’s one simple app you need to install called Wi-Fi ADB. When you turn on the service, it will give you an IP address. Just put it in the tool where it says Wireless ADB and fire up the connection.

Note: Always keep an eye on the phone’s screen when you are connecting for the first time from a given computer. You will be asked to allow secure connections from the computer. Verify it as a trusted source and save the settings.

ADB GUI Tool

Now that we are connected, let’s see where the ADB GUI tool can be useful.

The Usual Stuff

After you launch the app, the home screen will display some standard commands like shutdown, reboot or reboot into bootloader and recovery. To check if the phone is connected using the ADB server, you can click on the Show Devices button to get the list of devices currently connected to your computer.

The real fun starts from the second tab – i.e. the Phone Information.

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Phone Information and Screenshot Tool

Here, you can get information on your phone like the IMEI, Wi-Fi, CPU, and other system components. You might not need these stats on a daily basis, but sometimes when you are cooking up a ROM or modifying Android system files, it will come in handy. The screenshot button is one thing you can use on a daily basis and if you are connected wirelessly, you can get a screenshot on your phone saved to the computer directly.

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Advanced users who would like to cross the safety lines can try to change the resolution and DPI of the device. But make sure you know what you are doing!

Push and Pull System Files

At times, when you are trying to get a device-specific feature ported onto your phone, developers ask you to pull some files, edit them, and push them back to the system. Using ADB GUI tools, this can be a walk in the park. In the Files tab, type in the path that you need to pull (copy) the files from, edit it, and push it back.

The option can be useful when you need to install an app as the system program.

Backup and Restore

This option allows you to take a complete backup of your phone along with all the data files associated with the apps. When you take the backup, you will get a prompt on the phone to allow the process and ask you if you would like to password protect the backup file and encrypt it. The choice is yours, but if you forgot the password, there’s no way you would be able to retrieve the file.

The restore option is also present just in case you lose all the data any day.

Conclusion

That was pretty much everything about the ADB GUI tool with the added bonus of using it over Wi-Fi. Try it out whenever you are in the mood to explore your Android phone. But just be careful! Modding system files can be fun but can also trap the phone in bootloops if things go haywire. If you are stuck anywhere, just drop a comment and we will come to your rescue as soon as we can.

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ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) and Fastboot are some of the important tools that you need in order to bridge communication with your Android phone along with your PC. You can reboot your phone to another mode or perform the bootloader unlock with the help of ADB and Fastboot tools. In this guide, we will guide you on how to install ADB and Fastboot tool on Mac and Linux. We have already covered a guide on install ADB and Fastboot on Windows.

You need to enable Developer Options and USB Debugging on your Phone in order to run and execute ADB and Fastboot commands. There are plenty of commands that you can execute on your phone with the help of ADB and Fastboot tools in order to perform a set of activities. In fact, the first step is while rooting your phone is to unlock the bootloader and for this, you need to execute certain ADB and Fastboot commands. So, that being said, let us take a look at the guide itself:

5How to install ADB and Fastboot on Mac and Linux

What are ADB and Fastboot?

The full form of ADB is Android Debugging Bridge which, as mentioned above, contains a set of binaries that lets you establish communication between your PC and Android phone. Credit goes to XDA Developer, shimp208 for developing this tool and sharing the download links which are mentioned in this post. You can use the ADB protocol when your Android phone is booted into the main operating system. Note that you need to enable USB Debugging under Developer Options in order to run and execute ADB commands.

Fastboot commands are used when you are in the Bootloader mode. All the smartphones support this ADB and Fastboot command tool which you can use to do various activities on your Phone. ADB and Fastboot commands let you contact with the core of your phone meaning it is the general language between your PC and Android phone. You can return to previous patches, unlock the bootloader or even root your smartphone using these commands.

Why we need ADB and Fastboot tools?

  • Easy to install
  • Low in size
  • Supports 32 bit and 64 bit
  • Minimized ADB and Fastboot tools perform the same tasks as normal ADB.
  • It is the equivalent of the Android SDK.

Download ADB for Mac and Linux

Setup ADB and Fastboot on macOS and Linux:

Setting up ADB and Fastboot seems quite easy. As ADB and Fastboot both are a part of the Android SDK package, only you to download the kit (which is over 500 MB) and then set up path variables, or the below-written methods can be used to install ADB and fastboot driver on macOS and Linux. But first, you need to remember that you have to put your device into USB debugging mode, but before that, you need to enable the developer option. If you just ignore this step, the possibility is your PC won’t recognize your device.

How to install ADB and Fastboot on Mac and Linux

Below are the steps to install the ADB and Fastboot tools on your Mac and Linux PCs

Instructions for macOS

  1. Firstly, download the ADB and Fastboot tools for macOS from the above section.
  2. Extract the contents of the zip on your desktop.
  3. Open a command prompt or in this case, a terminal.
  4. Now go to the folder where you have extracted the contents of ADB and enter the below command:
    cd /path/to/extracted/folder/
  5. Now you need to connect your phone to your Mac PC.
  6. Enter the below command to check the connection between your phone and mac PC
    adb devices
  7. You will see an ‘Allow USB Debugging’ prompt on your phone’s screen that you need to allow.
  8. That’s it!

Instructions for Linux

  1. Firstly, download the ADB and Fastboot tools for Linux from the above section.
  2. Extract the contents of the zip on your desktop.
  3. Open a command prompt or in this case, a terminal.
  4. Now go to the folder where you have extracted the contents of ADB and enter the below command:
    cd /path/to/extracted/folder/
  5. Now you need to connect your phone to your Linux PC.
  6. Enter the below command to check the connection between your phone and mac PC
    adb devices
  7. You will see an ‘Allow USB Debugging’ prompt on your phone’s screen that you need to allow.
  8. That’s it!

So, there you have it from my side in this post. I hope you guys liked this post and were able to gain some knowledge about ADB and Fastboot tool to debug your Android smartphone. Moreover, you can go ahead and flash any custom recovery like TWRP to root your device and open the world of customizations for your phone. Let us know in the comments if you successfully unlocked the bootloader using the above method or not. Until the next post…Cheers!