Basic ADB commands

In this article , we are going to see basic ADB commands. These are some command I use with ADB when connecting android mobile to PC.

Installations

You should have installed Android SDK and Android driver for your android phone

Turn on ADB in the mobile . To do that, Go to Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

update : Android 4+ , you need to enable developer options and then enable USB debugging.

Run ADB. From PC, run command prompt(better run as admin) and go to SDK directory in PC.(\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools)

Sends files to your phone

  adb push c:\example.apk /sdcard/example.apk

Receives files from your phone

  adb pull /system/app/example.apk c:\example.apk

installs application
```
  adb install c:\example.apk
```
Begins shell connection with phone
```
  adb shell
```
reboots phone
```
  adb reboot
```
reboots phone into recovery
```
  adb reboot recovery
```
reboots the phone into bootloader/the white screen
```
  adb reboot bootloader
```
remounts the system
```
  adb remount
```
to see active devices
```
  adb devices
```
to direct communicate with specific device, this is the syntax
```
  adb -s _serialNumber _command
```
Forwarding Ports tcp-6100 to tcp-7100
```
  adb forward tcp:6100 tcp:7100
```

Enabling logcat Logging

  adb logcat [<option>] ... [<filter-spec>]

UI/Application Exerciser Monkey

  adb shell monkey -v -p <your.package.name> 500

thanks :)