Hi all, incidentally I published two articles about enabling Developer mode, ADB and the details of adb shell/phablet-shell today:
http://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/touch/2015/05/08/hacking-ubuntu-touch-part-4-developer-mode-and-ADB/ http://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/touch/2015/05/08/hacking-ubuntu-touch-part-5-adb-shell-vs-phablet-shell/ This is a shameless self-plug, but it might be interesting for some. kind regards, Simon On 07.05.2015 22:06, Louis Holbrook (not read, for accounts) wrote: > I just got my first linux phone today - Aquaris E4.5 and wanted to hook > it up to my laptop and start messing around through terminal. But I > can't seem to be able to get in touch with it. From what I've read so > far, adb should be involved somehow, but the device doesn't show up > anywhere. I tried it from the Ubuntu SDK too, and it didn't list any > device either. > > I was pointed to Ubuntu touch - remote access to device > <http://askubuntu.com/questions/538129/ubuntu-touch-remote-access-to-device> > as a possible duplicate of this question, but it's not because: > > * The device never shows up in my SDK when I connect the USB > * When I try apt-get on my device, I get "not using locking for read > only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock (which means in turn it can't > write to dpkg soucres) > * My linux mint (17.1 rebecca) distro's phablet-tools package doesn't > even include phablet-shell > > Is it supposed to be as simple as just plugging the usb and then it gets > detected, or are there other woodoo tricks to it? > > > PS is there a way to search this mailing list archive by keywords in any > way? > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

