He has been covering tech news and reviewing devices since joining Android Police as a news writer in 2019. Manuel Vonau is Android Police's Google Editor, with expertise in Android, Chrome, and other Google products - the very core of Android Police’s content. Open a new command prompt or PowerShell and see if ADB devices works without navigating to your platform-tools folder.Exit all windows and save the changes you made by selecting OK.In our example, that's C:/platform-tools.

Select the New button in the Edit environment variable window and add the path with the platform tools.In the lower section of the next window, under System variables, look for the Path row.Click Environment Variables toward the bottom of the window that opened.Search for system environment in the Windows Start search and select Edit the system environment variables from the results.If you only want to open a command window and use ADB without navigating to your platform-tools folder first, add the folder to your Windows path (Nexus Tools takes care of that automatically for you): Alternatively, there's an open source universal driver if you don't want to go through the hassle of finding the correct one for your device. If your computer doesn't recognize your phone, you may need to install its respective Windows USB driver.Open a command window in the folder by holding Shift, right-clicking an empty spot in the folder, and selecting Open command prompt/PowerShell here.Extract the ZIP file into a folder you can easily remember (like C:/platform-tools).Download the SDK platform tools for Windows from the Android Developers website.If you prefer to set up ADB and the platform tools on Windows manually, we've got you covered: To confirm that it works on Windows, open a new PowerShell window, connect your phone, and enter the ADB devices command. You'll open the Windows PowerShell (search for it using the Start menu) and paste the following command into it: iex ((New- Object ).DownloadString( '')) On Windows, you'll need to go a slightly different path.

The script also works for the latest Macs with custom M chips and Linux on Chromebooks (here's how to enable Linux on Chrome OS).

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