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NAME

       adb - Android Debug Bridge

SYNOPSIS

       adb [-d|-e|-s serialNumber] command

DESCRIPTION

       WARNING: This manual might be outdated, please refer to the official documentation.

       Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with
       an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device.  It is a  client-server  program
       that includes three components:

       • A  client,  which sends commands.  The client runs on your development machine.  You can
         invoke a client from a shell by issuing an adb command.  Other  Android  tools  such  as
         DDMS also create adb clients.

       • A  daemon,  which runs commands on a device.  The daemon runs as a background process on
         each emulator or device instance.

       • A server, which manages communication between the client and  the  daemon.   The  server
         runs as a background process on your development machine.

       If there’s only one emulator running or only one device connected, the adb command is sent
       to that device by default.  If multiple emulators are running and/or multiple devices  are
       attached,  you  need to use the -d, -e, or -s option to specify the target device to which
       the command should be directed.

OPTIONS

       -a     Directs adb to listen on all interfaces for a connection.

       -d     Directs command to the only connected USB device.  Returns an error  if  more  than
              one USB device is present.

       -e     Directs  command  to  the only running emulator.  Returns an error if more than one
              emulator is running.

       -s specific device
              Directs command to  the  device  or  emulator  with  the  given  serial  number  or
              qualifier.  Overrides ANDROID_SERIAL environment variable.

       -p product name or path
              Simple  product  name  like  sooner,  or  a relative/absolute path to a product out
              directory  like  out/target/product/sooner.   If   -p   is   not   specified,   the
              ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT environment variable is used, which must be an absolute path.

       -H     Name of adb server host (default: localhost)

       -P     Port of adb server (default: 5037)

COMMANDS

       adb devices [-l]
              List all connected devices.  -l will also list device qualifiers.

       adb connect host[:port]
              Connect  to a device via TCP/IP.  Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is
              specified.

       adb disconnect [host[:port]]
              Disconnect from a TCP/IP device.  Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is
              specified.   Using  this  command with no additional arguments will disconnect from
              all connected TCP/IP devices.

   Device commands
       adb push local... remote
              Copy file/dir to device.

       adb pull [-a] remote [local]
              Copy file/dir from device.  -a means copy timestamp and mode.

       adb sync [-l] [directory]
              Copy host->device only if changed.  -l means list but don’t copy.

       If directory is not specified, /system, /vendor (if present), /oem (if present) and  /data
       partitions will be updated.

       If it is system, vendor, oem or data, only the corresponding partition is updated.

       adb shell [-e escape] [-n] [-T|-t] [-x] [command]
              Run remote shell command (interactive shell if no command given)

       • -e: Choose escape character, or none; default ~

       • -n: Don’t read from stdin

       • -T: Disable PTY allocation

       • -t: Force PTY allocation

       • -x: Disable remote exit codes and stdout/stderr separation

       adb emu command
         Run emulator console command

       adb logcat [filter-spec]
         View device log.

       adb forward –list
         List  all  forward socket connections.  The format is a list of lines with the following
         format: serial " " local " " remote “”

       adb forward local remote
         Forward socket connections.

       Forward specs are one of:

       • tcp:port

       • localabstract:unix domain socket name

       • localreserved:unix domain socket name

       • localfilesystem:unix domain socket name

       • dev:character device name

       • jdwp:process pid (remote only)

       adb forward –no-rebind local remote
         Same as “adb forward local remote” but fails if local is already forwarded

       adb forward –remove local
         Remove a specific forward socket connection.

       adb forward –remove-all
         Remove all forward socket connections.

       adb reverse –list
         List all reverse socket connections from device.

       adb reverse remote local
         Reverse socket connections.

       Reverse specs are one of:

       • tcp:port

       • localabstract:unix domain socket name

       • localreserved:unix domain socket name

       • localfilesystem:unix domain socket name

       adb reverse –no-rebind remote local
         Same as `adb reverse remote local' but fails if remote is already reversed.

       adb reverse –remove remote
         Remove a specific reversed socket connection.

       adb reverse –remove-all
         Remove all reversed socket connections from device.

       adb jdwp
         List PIDs of processes hosting a JDWP transport.

       adb install [-lrtsdg] file
         Push this package file to the device and install it.

       • -l: Forward lock application.

       • -r: Replace existing application.

       • -t: Allow test packages.

       • -s: Install application on sdcard.

       • -d: Allow version code downgrade (debuggable packages only).

       • -g: Grant all runtime permissions.

       adb install-multiple [-lrtsdpg] file...
         Push this package file to the device and install it.

       • -l: Forward lock application.

       • -r: Replace existing application.

       • -t: Allow test packages.

       • -s: Install application on sdcard.

       • -d: Allow version code downgrade (debuggable packages only).

       • -p: Partial application install.

       • -g: Grant all runtime permissions.

       adb uninstall [-k] package
         Remove this app package from the device.  -k means keep the data and cache directories.

       adb bugreport [zipfile]
         Return all information from the device that should be included in a bug report.

       adb   backup   [-f   file]   [-apk|-noapk]   [-obb|-noobb]   [-shared|-noshared]    [-all]
       [-system|-nosystem] [packages...]
         Write  an  archive  of  the device’s data to file.  If no -f option is supplied then the
         data is written to backup.ab in the current directory.

       -apk | -noapk enable/disable backup of the .apks themselves in the archive; the default is
       noapk.

       -obb  |  -noobb  enable/disable  backup  of  any  installed apk expansion (aka .obb) files
       associated with each application; the default is noobb.

       -shared | -noshared enable/disable backup  of  the  device’s  shared  storage  /  SD  card
       contents; the default is noshared.

       -all means to back up all installed applications.

       -system  |  -nosystem toggles whether -all automatically includes system applications; the
       default is to include system apps.

       packages... is the list of applications to be backed up.  If the -all or -shared flags are
       passed,  then  the package list is optional.  Applications explicitly given on the command
       line will be included even if -nosystem would ordinarily cause them to be omitted.

       adb restore file
              Restore device contents from the file backup archive.

       adb disable-verity
              Disable dm-verity checking on USERDEBUG builds.

       adb enable-verity
              Re-enable dm-verity checking on USERDEBUG builds.

       adb keygen file
              Generate adb public/private key.  The private key is stored in file, and the public
              key is stored in file.pub.  Any existing files are overwritten.

       adb help
              Show help message.

       adb version
              Show version number.

   Scripting
       adb wait-for-[-transport]-state
              Wait  for  device  to  be  in  the  given  state:  device,  recovery,  sideload, or
              bootloader.  transport is: usb, local or any (default = any)

       adb start-server
              Ensure that there is a server running.

       adb kill-server
              Kill the server if it is running.

       adb get-state
              Prints: offline | bootloader | device

       adb get-serialno
              Prints: serial-number.

       adb get-devpath
              Prints: device-path.

       adb remount
              Remounts the /system, /vendor (if present) and /oem (if present) partitions on  the
              device read-write.

       adb reboot [bootloader|recovery]
              Reboots the device, optionally into the bootloader or recovery program.

       adb reboot sideload
              Reboots the device into the sideload mode in recovery program (adb root required).

       adb reboot sideload-auto-reboot
              Reboots  into  the  sideload  mode,  then  reboots automatically after the sideload
              regardless of the result.

       adb sideload file
              Sideloads the given package.

       adb root
              Restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions.

       adb unroot
              Restarts the adbd daemon without root permissions.

       adb usb
              Restarts the adbd daemon listening on USB.

       adb tcpip port
              Restarts the adbd daemon listening on TCP on the specified port.

   Networking
       adb ppp tty [parameters]
              Run PPP over USB.

       parameters: E.g.  defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns

       Note: you should not automatically start a PPP connection.  tty refers to the tty for  PPP
       stream.  E.g.  dev:/dev/omap_csmi_tty1

Internal Debugging

       adb reconnect
              Kick current connection from host side and make it reconnect.

       adb reconnect device
              Kick current connection from device side and make it reconnect.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       ADB_TRACE
              Print  debug information.  A comma separated list of the following values 1 or all,
              adb, sockets, packets, rwx, usb, sync, sysdeps, transport, jdwp

       ANDROID_SERIAL
              The serial number to connect to.  -s takes priority over this if given.

       ANDROID_LOG_TAGS
              When used with the logcat option, only these debug tags are printed.

SEE ALSO

       https://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html

AUTHORS

       The Android Open Source Project.