January 11, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you’ve ever tried to root your Android phone or flash a ROM, you may have heard about ADB and/or fastboot.

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 ...

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 (relatively minor) trouble, here are just some of the useful things you can do with ...

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 ...

This guide covers step-by-step instructions to download & install Fastboot drivers on Windows 11. A device bootloader is among the most essential tool, especially if you are more into Android ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In this post, we will see what you can do if Fastboot is not working on Windows 11/10. The Fastboot binary is rather complex to use. It is a protocol that is used for sending commands to your Android ...