Modifying your Android device usually requires you to have ADB tools installed. Without it, you wouldn’t have access to developer commands which are included in ...

This guide will show you how to install the brand new Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update so that you can try out Google’s latest version of Android right now on your Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 tablet. Google ...

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 ...

Google states this is the first big maintenance release (MR) for Oreo, loaded with new features, bug fixes and other changes. Coming from Android 8.0 to 8.1 you’ll notice changes like the Pixel Visual ...

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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 ...

While rooting the OnePlus 3 is an easy process, before you do it you need to do perform a few other important steps: install ADB and fastboot, creating a backup, flash custom recovery, and unlock the ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) no longer works when users are working on the bootloader. As such Android users that find themselves not booted in to their devices with the debugging tools not active ...