Root [HOWTO] Linux ADB, fastboot, mass storage

[sado1]

Thanks to screaminbug for clue about udev rules.
On Android 2.x modified adb file may be no longer needed, 1.x probably does still need it though - try without changing adb file first.

1. Download and unpack somewhere Linux SDK: Android SDK | Android Developers and install Platform Tools with SDK Manager that you can run in terminal with

tools/android

(there should be some way to install them in console with that tool, can't check it out now since I'm not on Linux at the moment... try 'tools/android help')

2.Download fastboot for Linux: HTC - Developer Center and adb: http://floe.butterbrot.org/external/adb.gz. Copy adb&fastboot to the sdk/platform-tools folder; cd to that folder in terminal and add necessary permissions:

chmod +x adb
chmod +x fastboot

3. In folder /etc/udev/rules.d/ create files(don't forget to replace user with your username!):
50-android.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", OWNER="user"

90-android.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666", OWNER="user"

4. Refresh udev rules:

reload udev

5. In file /home/user/.bashrc (replace user with your username) add line:

export PATH=${PATH}:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools

Replace /home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86 with your sdk directory path.
6. Log out&in to the terminal/start new terminal window if in X. Everything should work now.

sado@sado-pc ~/ $ adb devices
List of devices attached 
I7500T9UxvXGy9F    device

sado@asdf-pc:~$ fastboot devices
????????????    fastboot

 

[Rastaman-FB]

cool, ill link this in the stickies
nice work

 

[turkievicz]

Congratulation....Very good, finaly I WIN....hehehehe

 

[Mr.DNA]

Does this mean it is possible to update the firmware via Linux?

 

[Andronix]

Does this mean it is possible to update the firmware via Linux?

It's possible, someone somewhere posted exact commands to untar the odin files directly.

 

[o2cool]

I keep getting command not found and when i go to the tools dir and run ./adb i get bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

Not sure whats going on thanks for any ideas

 

[turkievicz]

I keep getting command not found and when i go to the tools dir and run ./adb i get bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

Not sure whats going on thanks for any ideas

The adb are in the sdk/tools dir ?
Did you make: chmod +x adb ?

 

[o2cool]

The adb are in the sdk/tools dir ?
Did you make: chmod +x adb ?

Yes as per directions above even tried 666 all permissions

 

[turkievicz]

Yes as per directions above even tried 666 all permissions

Take a look:

[root@p185191 tools]# chmod 666 adb
[root@p185191 tools]# ./adb
bash: ./adb: Permiss

 

[o2cool]

In my attempt to figure it out i did change a few things in the rules files such as: usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0bb4, idProduct=0c01

so i changed the idVendor and idProduct to match what was connected

 

[o2cool]

:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ chmod 755 adb
:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ chmod 755 fastboot
:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ ./adb
bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

 

[turkievicz]

:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ chmod 755 adb
:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ chmod 755 fastboot
:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ ./adb
bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

Did you try as root ?

 

[o2cool]

Did you try as root ?

root:~/android-sdk-linux_86# cd tools/
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# chmod 755 adb
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# chmod 755 fastboot
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# ./adb
bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

 

[o2cool]

root@Elite:~/android-sdk-linux_86# cd tools/
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# chmod 755 adb
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# chmod 755 fastboot
root:~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# ./adb
bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

this might be a dumb question but i am running a 64bit OS. i have multilib support so it shouldn't matter

 

[turkievicz]

I'm using too, a Fedora fc12.x86_64.

 

[sado1]

Something is wrong. Can you post 'ls' output from tools folder just to clarify?

 

[o2cool]

And fixed, sorry for freaking out guys, works great. Thank you everyone for the help!

 

[Rastaman-FB]

added to Guides

thanks

 

[screaminbug]

It's possible, someone somewhere posted exact commands to untar the odin files directly.

Where? When? How?
OK. Ignore second and third one. Was it on this forum? Can you remember? Maybe you have it in your browser history somewhere? I was searching the web, but couldn't find it anywhere. I've searched entire Internet.

If this is possible it would be great to know how.

 

[Mr.DNA]

Agreed. I spent a good chunk of time today looking as well, and could not find anything.

Ended up finally taking a flash drive in to a windows machine at work to upgrade to IK5, but it would really be nice to be able to do this from home.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

could it be this
HOWTO: Unpack, Edit, and Re-Pack Boot Images - Android Wiki

 

[screaminbug]

could it be this
HOWTO: Unpack, Edit, and Re-Pack Boot Images - Android Wiki

It's a good read, but I don't think that's it. But I suppose the information of an alternate way of flashing recovery could be useful.

 

[screaminbug]

If this doesn't work for you for fastboot (wasn't working for me), try putting this in 50-android.rules:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="d00d", MODE="0666", OWNER="owner"

Where owner is your username.

And reload your udev rules:

reload udev

 

[Mr.DNA]

I finally got around to playing with this. I have adb working (I think), but I can't get the recovery.img to flash.

./adb devices

identifies my phone, however

./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

hangs on < waiting for device >, although my phone boots into fastboot mode without problem.

I have successfully gotten this to work on xp machines before. Currently using Ubuntu 9.10. Any ideas?


edit: I can successfully push/pull files as well.

 

[Mr.DNA]

doh! this worked:

sudo ./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

I am new at this.