June 13, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Last week, we showed you how to install ADB and fastboot on any OS. If you're not sure why you'd want to go to the ...

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Android updates take forever. While that’s okay most of the time, it can be a problem when a new, terrible security vulnerability is found. Whether you want to protect your phone, or just can’t wait ...

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, ...

Google has made ADB, fastboot, and other Android developer tools available as a standalone download. Previously, accessing these tools necessitated that users download Android Studio or the Android ...

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 ...

Android users are in for some great news, as the new Fastboot update ported into the preview release of Android M patches up the "missing system.img" error that ...

Not everyone is happy using Fastboot and recovery tools on their own and sometimes it is difficult to send your phone away to a repair place to get it fixed — especially when you are then left without ...