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, ...

Modifying your Android device usually requires you to have ADB tools installed. Without it, you wouldn’t have access to developer commands which are included in ...

One of the first things I do when I set up a new PC is install the Android platform tools so that I can use ADB, Fastboot and other platform tools from anywhere ...

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) provides a terminal/command line based interface that helps users to interact between their PC and Linux-based Android gadget. ADB is required if a user wants to make any ...

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 ...