Showing posts with label fix adb is not recognized. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fix adb is not recognized. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

ADB is Not Recognized as an internal or external command Fix


ADB is Not Recognized as an internal or external command Fix


Some of you are facing problems with Path, because of that you will see the error as below. Even though it is basic lot of people asking this same question. Hence posting this tutorial to fix this error.

In Windows --> Click Start --> Run --> cmd

When you run adb in the command prompt you will see an error as below

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\MOHAMMED>adb
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


To fix this error you need the Android SDK if you don't have it please follow the steps below,


Open the browser and navigate to http://developer.android.com/index.html


Click the Get the SDK as shown in the above image


Click Download the SDK as shown in the above image


Check the checkbox for the license agreement, Select 32 or 64 bit based on your operating systtem.
Click the download SDK link.

Wait patiently until the download is complete.

My machine is a 64 bit Windows, hence the file downloaded is adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219.zip

The zip file contains the following folders eclipse & sdk.

I have extracted to the following location in my machine

Hence i have the following in the path 

C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\platform-tools


C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools


You can see that adb.exe is in the location C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\platform-tools



Execute the following commands in the command prompt and run adb it will be recognized now.

set ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\platform-tools"

set ANDROID_TOOLS="C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools"

set path=%path%;%ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS%;%ANDROID_TOOLS%



To Fix it permanently set in the environment variable 


Right Click My Computer --> Click Properties 


Click Advanced System Settings 

Click Environment Variables


Click New  as below, 


Variable name: ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS

Variable Value: C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\platform-tools


Variable name: ANDROID_TOOLS

Variable Value: C:\Users\MOHAMMED\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools



Edit the Path variable if it exist, else create a new variable Path 

Variable name: Path

Variable Value: %Path%;%ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS%;%ANDROID_TOOLS%



adb should be working on command prompt and 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file is resolved now.