If you’ve ever tried to root your Android phone or flash a ROM, you may have heard about ADB and/or fastboot. These two tools are surprisingly powerful, but can be a bit overly complex to ...

After or during the Wear OS 5 update process, they’re met with a black screen that has a small crossed out Bluetooth logo at the bottom. The issue is resolved with a reset from Fastboot.

The ADB and fastboot tool bundle is a comparatively tiny 3.5MB, versus the 1.6GB it takes to download the Android SDK. We’ve had a guide for a long time that shows the easiest way to get ADB and ...

As users report, every attempt to get out of fastboot mode fails. Google support does not seem to be able to help either. The only solution currently available to get a working Pixel 9a is to send ...

Thanks to the work of two Googlers, there are now direct links to the approximately 3.5MB platform-tools folder that includes adb, fastboot, and several other utilities. Advertisement - scroll for ...