ADB workshop

[rammy]

Here is a beginners guide too ADB (android debugging bridge) a helpful tool for android devices.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879701

please feel free to read and learn

if this has been posted already then please delete.

if you know adb can you do these commands to get an idea of different firmware structure please.

cat proc/mtd ,it should give you this....

cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00a00000 00100000 "boot"
mtd1: 00500000 00100000 "kpanic"
mtd2: 09600000 00100000 "system"
mtd3: 00400000 00100000 "splash"
mtd4: 02800000 00100000 "cache"
mtd5: 12100000 00100000 "userdata"
mtd6: 00a00000 00100000 "recovery"
mtd7: 00200000 00100000 "misc"
mtd8: 00200000 00100000 "tcc"

then this command. mount ,it should then say simular too the following.

mount
rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
tmpfs /broadcasting tmpfs rw,size=1024k 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock2 /system yaffs2 rw 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock5 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock4 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/ndda1 /nand vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fma
sk=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname
=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=
1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,s
hortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

please post your results on here with firmware details...

[Charlie]

Nice post - Cheers, I am still learning ADB - Can do a few basic things already, but there is always more to learn.

[rammy]

Nice post - Cheers, I am still learning ADB - Can do a few basic things already, but there is always more to learn.

its more aimed at the new users tbh, i learnt a few things cos of my android phone, and then i got this android square thingy ma jig device.lmao

[RichardP]

I make the assumption that mtd0->mtdX is NOR flash and the ndda1 is used via the NAND driver. (NAND flash cant be used without a file-system driver of sorts)