Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s ADB and fastboot are incredibly powerful command line tools for customizing your Android phone. Up until now, these tiny tools have been bundled in the gigantic Android SDK ...

Answering the pleas of many Android users, Google has finally made ADB and Fastboot available as separate downloads. Previously only available as part of the large and intimidating Android SDK or ...

I run Linux exclusively and I was not happy when my Android device stopped enumerating as a mass storage device. The OS version I have right now doesn't automount MTP, so how am I supposed to get ...

For quite some time now, the only way to officially get Google’s Android Debug Bridge (ADB) or fastboot tools has been to download either the entire Android Software Development Kit (SDK) or Android ...

Two command line tools that practically all rooted Android users have to use at some point are ADB (Android Debug Bridge) and Fastboot. These are tools found in the Android SDK, and allow users to ...

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The pre-requisite step in any guide to sideloading an OTA or flashing a factory image is installing the Android Device Bridge. Previously, the official way to get adb or fastboot was by downloading ...

HTC users can easily unlock the bootloader as well as flash partitions using a new tool, FastADB, thanks to sandix, an XDA senior member on xda-developers forum. According to a post on the forum, ...