You can get the platform tools for Windows, Linux, or Mac direct from Google's servers. You get a ZIP file containing the platform tools folder with ADB, fastboot, and a few other tools.

A Nexus device along with a USB cable to connect it to your computer. The Android SDK installed on your machine with ADB and Fastboot command successfully working. Here’s a tutorial on how to do ...

Ron Amadeo Next you'll need to put your device in "Fastboot" mode, which will allow you to wipe out the current Android install and send over a new version from a desktop computer.

Now you want to click on extract to extract all the contents to C:\program files (x86)\android\android-sdk\platform-tools (if you installed the full SDK) or whatever directory ADB and Fastboot are ...

We will show you how to do that later. Follow the instructions below for either installing the Android SDK tools or Minimal ADB and Fastboot. Download and install the Android SDK tools ...

Last week, we showed you how to install ADB and fastboot on any OS. If you're not sure why you'd want to go to the (relatively minor) trouble, here are just some of the useful things you can do ...