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CHANGE ANDROID MAC USING TERMINAL EMULATOR INSTALL
CHANGE ANDROID MAC USING TERMINAL EMULATOR MANUAL

** It is not DOS so don't try any DOS commands.** They allow you to interact with your phone through typed commands and a lot of folks use one or both on their Linux or Mac computers even if they didn't know it. I'll warn you that unless you're familiar with an ash or bash shell, you need to be careful here because things can turn south quickly if you're not. Once inside, you can interact with the actual running operating system on your phone. Getting there is easy enough, just type adb shell and enter. In the image above, I'm inside the device shell. There are two ways to use it, one where you send a command to the device to run in its own command-line shell, and one where you actually enter the device's command shell from your terminal. The adb shell command confuses a lot of folks.

CHANGE ANDROID MAC USING TERMINAL EMULATOR MANUAL

Now that we're all on the same page, enable USB debugging on your device (see your devices manual if you need help finding it) and plug your phone into your computer. If you hit a snag (Windows can be fickle) visit the forums and somebody is bound to be able to help you through it. You'll need this so that your computer can talk to your Android device.

CHANGE ANDROID MAC USING TERMINAL EMULATOR INSTALL

Visit the manufacturer's page for your device and install the adb and fastboot drivers for Windows. If you're using Windows, there's one more step.

Installing the command line tools without the full SDK.

Unless you're developing or debugging something on or for your phone, you'll want just the command line tools. You can either install the full Android Studio package if you want extra debugging tools or you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and download just the command line tools. Head on over to the Android developer's site. You'll need some tools and getting them is easy. Granted, this won't be the end-all-be-all discussion of adb commands, but there are 10 basic commands everyone should know if they plan to get down and dirty with the command line. That's what we're going to talk about today. To do that, you need to have a few tools and know a few commands. Besides the times when we've broken something and need to fix it, there are plenty of reasons why an advanced Android user would want to talk to their device. For a lot of us, the fact that we can plug our Android phone into a computer and interact with it is a big plus.