Difference between revisions of "Rock/windows adb"

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The radxa rock stock android firmware has adb(Android Debugging Bridge) enabled by default. This page describes how to enable android adb debugging under windows.

Requirement

• a radxa rock board(full version or lite version)
• a desktop/laptop running Windows(XP 32/64bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit)
• a micro usb cable, one side plugged in to the OTG port of radxa rock, the other side plugged in to the usb port on desktop/laptop

Install the adb usb driver

Download the adb usb driver for radxa rock from here and unzip it. Connect the running android radxa rock board to desktop/laptop via usb cable. The windows will inform found new hardware, install the driver by the prompt. Point the driver folder to where you unzip the driver.

Install the android SDK

To get adb under Windows, the official way is to install the android SDK provided by Google. The android sdk manager needs JDK to run. Download jdk from here. Install the jdk. Download the android windows sdk from Google here. Unzip it to somewhere in your hard drive such as C:\, now we have android sdk under C:\android-sdk-windows.

Double click the SDK Manager.exe, choose "Android SDK Tools" and "Android SDK Platform" and click "Install packages" button. SDK Manager will download the adb and other tools for you. The adb tool is under C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

Set the environment

Right click on My Computer -> Property -> Advanced -> Environment, click user environment, New. Add an System variables named ANDROID_SDK_HOME and it's value is where you put your android sdk. Here we set it to "C:\android-sdk-windows".

Set the USB ID

Open the Windows CMD utility, type the following command.

   cd C:\android-sdk-windows            ; or where you put the android sdk
   mkdir .android                       ; create the "special" android folder

The open the C:\android-sdk-windows\.android folder in file explorer, and create a new empty file called adb_usb.ini, open adb_usb.ini and edit with notepad add the following content:

   0x2207

Save the file and exit.

Test adb working

In CMD, type

   cd C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
   adb kill-server
   adb devices

You should see the device like below:

   List of devices attached
   16EM8P26M8      device