rootの取得など、アンドロイドの高度な利用で出てくる用語に「Bootloader」、「リカバリー(Recovery)」、「fastboot」というものがあります。また、「adb」という単語もあります。多くのサイトでは、何の説明もなしにつかわれていてなれないと面食らうことも ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s ADB and fastboot are incredibly powerful command line tools for customizing your Android phone. Up until now, these tiny tools have been bundled in the gigantic Android SDK ...

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 install.

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

XDA Developersで「Xperia Toolkit v1.0」というXperiaスマートフォン用のWindowsツールが公開されました。これは、ADBやFastbootコマンドの中で端末の操作時によく使うものをGUI化し、マウスでのクリック操作で実行できるようにしたものです。「Reboot」の項目では、本体 ...

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 ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

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, ...