yann2
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** Obligatory disclaimer follows.
Beware that ADB is a powerful tool, and you CAN do damage to your phone/tablet/device if you use it mindlessly.
As someone said in our irc channel, with careless use and a nice front end, you might brick your device, and be a Noob forever.
Just be careful and you will be fine. Respect is good. /disclaimer off. **
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Been learning how powerful the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tool is; it allows recovery from even nasty situations that would have you pulling your hair out.
It's basically a command line tool, you need to be versed in it's options, and type carefully (there is a good guide for it HERE at AndroidTablets.net. Another, longer, in-depth guide at XDA Devs forum post here).
I had seen a GUI front end for ADB a couple of days ago, and am adding this thread as a reference, so anyone interested can try it out.
- A really good review of the program, screenshots and all, can be read here : QtADB Is ADB (Android Debug Bridge) For Beginners With A GUI.
A very small snippet of their page sums up QtADB well :
QtADB is a cross-platform application that offers a graphical user interface for handling most common ADB functions. This tool, developed in Qt, uses the ADB for communicating with the device and lets a user perform common tasks with easy to understand menus and simplistic graphical windows. It offers a file manager, application handler, backups/restores, screenshots, ADB shell interface and more.
- The program itself, QtADB, has it's homepage HERE.
A video showing it running (under Linux) :
Hope this is helpful, i want to install and try out some of the features. The screenshots function, specially, seems very useful for Gingerbread Beta users at this time, since we can't save native screenshots to SD card atm.
Any comments, suggestions? Chime right in.
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