[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
In the past couple of weeks it's come to my attention that some of the basics of using ADB from the android software developers kit has escaped a few people. With new folks showing up from time to time and all this becoming more or less "ancient history" for most of us ....and an excercise in computer theory to the noobs it just seems like it could stand to be addressed one more time.

Hopefully we can reduce it to it's SIMPLEST concept this time and all in one place where they don't have to go thread hopping and try to piece it all together that way.

SO......let's start right here. OK? This is a link to the install.exe for "ADB for Dummies". https://www.cx.com/mycx/share/Vh6QrvFAEeGmMRICPRQ27A/ADB for Dummies.exe

Now when it pulls up you can save it somewhere in case you need to reinstall it, or just run it from right there. You'll have to accept the "Terms of Agreement" (of course) & then it will give you an option of choosing a folder to install it in on your computer. TAKE THE DEFAULT OF C:\ .

The .exe file will then start installing everything you need for a "bare bones" version of "ADB" into a folder named C:\android-sdk-windows

Now you are DONE with your installation! Easy Peezy....HUH??

NEXT you will want to put that folder in your windows path so you won't always be having to change directories back to that folder to run your commands. To DO that just click on the windows "Start" symbol and look for "Control Panel" over in the right hand column. Click on control panel and open up that folder.

NEXT you want to look for the"System" option and click on that. In the upper left hand corner you will see an option called "Remote Settings" and when you click on THAT you will open up a window named "System Properties". There will be 5 tabs across the top......one of them being named "ADVANCED". DON'T CRAP YOUR PANTS JUST CLICK ON IT! See...nothing blew up.

NOW....at the very bottom right hand corner there is a tab called "Enviroment Variables". Click on it baby....you're almost HOME now! "Enviroment Variables" is the very window it will open up too! (A shocker, I KNOW)!

In THAT window you will see an area at the bottom called "System Variables". That's where you're going to be finishing up and getting outta there.

NEXT I want you to click on the scroll bar until you see "Path" on the left & what's IN the path on the right. You're going to be adding your new folder to that path. OK?? NOW....highlite "Path" and then click on the middle button named "EDIT" and another little tiny window will come up named "Edit System Variable". The "Variable Value" IS YOUR EXISTING PATH!

NOW.....Click at the very end of this string and add this to the end with no spaces ;C:\android-sdk-windows

NOW VERY carefully click on "OK"....then on "OK"....then on "OK" again until you are right back to the Control Panel window you started in. Click on the little "X" in the upper right hand corner of the control panel window and close it out.

LAST but certainly not LEAST........close out everything you have open & REBOOT your computer so windows will be SURE and read it's new path addition.

From this point on, all you'll have to do to run ADB is pull up your command window and type CD\ To take you to a C prompt. And ANY file you are wanting to flash will be placed in your root directory C:\ on your computer....where there are usually no other individual files existing. Makes it EAAAASY to clean up behind yourself when you need to find that file & can it....if you ever even do.

TA freakin' DA!! You are now an ADB WIZARD!

(but don't tell anyone where you heard it....) ;)

P.S. My very best advice is that you consider this a 2 part thread that you don't consider yourself through with until you have read and completed Blue6IX's tutorial and user's guide below.