Need help with my tablet

[Donni79]

Hello everyone.

After I rooted my tablet I uninstalled the stock file manager and stock keyboard. I then installed swiftkey and a new file manager.

Now here's my problem. I done a factory reset on my tablet and have no way to connect to the internet because my stock keyboard has gone.

I tried to send an APK of swiftkey to my tablet via my laptop but can't access the file because I have no file manager. What can I do?

How can I look at files if I have no file manager? I can't even type in my wep key because I have no keyboard. Can somebody please help!

I have tried sending a file via bluetooth from my laptop to my tablet but the tablet won't recognise it.

Is there a way I can send an APK file to the app drawer so I could open and install it?

 

[AMOCO]

Need a little more info on your device.

 

[lunatic59]

Hi Donni79,

I think you are going to need to use adb (Android Debug Bridge) commands to install it. It's a bit involved, but possible.

First you need to enable USB debugging. It would be under menu>settings>developer options. Then you need to get adb.exe which is part of the Android Developer toolkit.

You don't need to download the whole developer toolkit, you can get a much smaller, lightweight version here: Lightweight ADB and Fastboot Installer. Make a note of where it installs adb.exe

Copy your .apk files to that folder.

With USB Debugging enabled, plug in your phone to your PC. Hopefully you have or can get drivers to allow your device to connect to your PC.

Now you need to start a command shell in administrative mode. In windows 7 you click on the start menu, type "cmd" in the search bar and when it displays "cmd.exe" right-click on it and select run as administrator.

You should have a command shell with a prompt like C:\Windows\System32>. You will need to navigate to where adb.exe is located. If it was installed to a folder on your C: drive called "adb" (which I think is the default location for the lightweight install) you would type

cd \adb

Just to verify you are in the right folder, type "dir" (no quotes) to see files and make sure the .apk file and adb.exe is there.

Now type

adb devices

and you will see your device listed as a serial number. We'll assume it works for now. If it doesn't, then we'll deal with it.

You tablet is ready for the install. Let's say the keyboard file is called "swiftkey.apk". You will type

adb install swiftkey.apk

That should be it. When it's done, reboot your phone and the swiftkey keyboard should be working.

For reference: Android Debug Bridge | Android Developers