
In fastboot, system we can modify the file system images from a computer over a USB connection.

Fastboot is a tool that can helps to reflash partition and image files on our device. we can use ADB to send terminal commands to an Android device to make system level changes.

With ADB, we can control our device from the computer through USB, transfer files and run powerful shell commands. ADB is a command line tool that’s communicate our Android device with a computer. ADB (Android Debug Bridge)ĪDB is a small debug tool that found in Android Software Development Kit (SDK). These work in the same folder where adb is installed:įor my future reference- (Concisely: If it's not on your PATH then you have to enter the full path for it to work.Every Android user modify their device, who wants to try different firmware’s, root their phone, install a custom ROM and kernel’s, first they need to unlock their bootloader and install custom recovery and for that, they need to install ADB and fastboot drivers.

Please note that adb devices works just fine in cmd, universally.Ī conclusion I drew from the answer below: Why is the behavior so even when I added the adb folder to the path variable? And how can I run the command successfully universally?ĭuring my search, I found an application which provides PowerShell ADB & Fastboot GUI - PoshADB (just wanted to share). Now, when I open PowerShell in the same folder where I've installed platform-tools and run the adb command, I get this and it's successful.\adb devicesīut when I open PowerShell elsewhere and run the command, it's not successful.

I've read some articles and am familiar with registry hacks to add "Open Command Prompt Here" and remove "Open PowerShell window here", but that's not something I would want to do, considering PowerShell is a lot more advanced than CMD. So even the menu shows an option to "Open PowerShell window here". I did some research, and found that Windows is slowly shifting to PowerShell (which is good) and (I guess) will omit the legacy CMD eventually. I installed adb and fastboot files (platform-tools) for Windows, and added the folder in the path variable so that I can access adb universally.
