help for mac please

[Guest h3dshot]

to summarise my situation, both my laptop and desktop pc are running windows xp and both refuse to accept the drivers for 2.1 ive tried everything to no avail

my friend has aloowed me to try and patch.amon ra to my pulse using his.pc which is i think a mac, he said its OSX snow leopard, i have.no idea what that is or hw to use it ;)

as far as im aware for macs everything is pretty much command based, like cmd but for mac, so i was hoping one of you mac users could give.me.a retards step by step guide on patching amon ra to my pulse on.osx

thanks alot

ps. sorry about the . between words, im typing on my pulse and cba going back through to change it :(

[Guest goce.nakov]

to summarise my situation, both my laptop and desktop pc are running windows xp and both refuse to accept the drivers for 2.1 ive tried everything to no avail

my friend has aloowed me to try and patch.amon ra to my pulse using his.pc which is i think a mac, he said its OSX snow leopard, i have.no idea what that is or hw to use it ;)

as far as im aware for macs everything is pretty much command based, like cmd but for mac, so i was hoping one of you mac users could give.me.a retards step by step guide on patching amon ra to my pulse on.osx

thanks alot

ps. sorry about the . between words, im typing on my pulse and cba going back through to change it :(

Go to the link where you have AmonRa for download

There you have the commands that you need to type in terminal

In the Mac go to applications/utilities and open Terminal

Connect your phone to Mac (you don't need any drivers)

Type in terminal the commands explained in that treat

That's it

[Guest h3dshot]

Go to the link where you have AmonRa for download

There you have the commands that you need to type in terminal

In the Mac go to applications/utilities and open Terminal

Connect your phone to Mac (you don't need any drivers)

Type in terminal the commands explained in that treat

That's it

wow that is much more straightforward than i expected! thanks a bunch, do i need to install pc suite on his computer?

[Guest goce.nakov]

wow that is much more straightforward than i expected! thanks a bunch, do i need to install pc suite on his computer?

No.....as I explained you don't need drivers if you are using Mac OSx

[Guest DanWilson]

If you've any other Mac questions, fire away! Although, I have to ask, I have my adb-mac in "/" but to use adb I type in "/adb-mac *command*"

Is there any way to just type "adb *command*" ?

Cheers and sorry for the thread-jack! (Just I need to know cos I think I could help people so much if I knew that!)

[Guest gusthy]

If you've any other Mac questions, fire away! Although, I have to ask, I have my adb-mac in "/" but to use adb I type in "/adb-mac *command*"

Is there any way to just type "adb *command*" ?

Cheers and sorry for the thread-jack! (Just I need to know cos I think I could help people so much if I knew that!)

Typically no.

In most Unix operating systems the actual directory is not in the PATH for securityyy reasons.

So you can type ./adb instead of adb ;)

or you can add . to path but I dont recommend.

edit: or you can add alias adb=/adb-mac to .bashrc

or you can create a symbolic link, like

ln -s /adb-mac /usr/bin/adb

Edited June 21, 2010 by gusthy

[Guest h3dshot]

If you've any other Mac questions, fire away! Although, I have to ask, I have my adb-mac in "/" but to use adb I type in "/adb-mac *command*"

Is there any way to just type "adb *command*" ?

Cheers and sorry for the thread-jack! (Just I need to know cos I think I could help people so much if I knew that!)

no.worries.bud, and yeah thanks

btw u guys have confused my feeble mind with ur mac jargon ;)

[Guest DanWilson]

no.worries.bud, and yeah thanks

btw u guys have confused my feeble mind with ur mac jargon ;)

Meh, I didn't get it till I just looked harder. I showed the hidden files/folders, went to /usr/bin and moved adb + fastboot , now I can type "adb" or "fastboot" and it'll work. Thanks guthsy! Even though I cheated...

[Guest gusthy]

Meh, I didn't get it till I just looked harder. I showed the hidden files/folders, went to /usr/bin and moved adb + fastboot , now I can type "adb" or "fastboot" and it'll work. Thanks guthsy! Even though I cheated...

;)

making a symlink (ln -s) is good for not meshing up /usr/bin, probably it is in different partition than user data partition. and in unix environments people like to put things where they belong - android sdk goes to lets say /opt/android-sdk/, then symlink, or the binaries go to /usr/local/bin, if you dont want the whole sdk.