T-Mobile G1 Tips and Tricks: How to Install Apk File
Saturday, November 8, 2008 8:35::Sponsored Links::
Wow… I got an interesting article over at the internet about the Android T-Mobile G1 Tips and Tricks. This time our folks at Android-Unleashed have given us a way to install the apk file to the Android T-Mobile G1 device. I haven’t tried the tips, though (it is obvious since I don’t have the T-Mobile G1or any other Android based device :p ). So, here are the tips:
Steps:
1. Download and install the Google Android SDK. The tool you need is adb.exe. Just typing adb in a command shell will display all the options. I’m not going to cover adb in detail, it’s the SDK tool you use to install applications and interface with the device.
http://code.google.com/android/intro/installing.html
2. Download the USB driver for Windows. You need it for adb to inteface with an actual device using the included USB cable. Install it later after connecting the G1 to your computer using the USB cable.
http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip
3. Go to Settings/SD card & phone storage and disable Use for USB storage. You can enable it again later after you installed your third-party application.
4. Go to Settings/Application settings and enable Unknown sources.
5. Connect the G1 to your computer using the USB cable and install the driver you downloaded in step 2. After installing the driver you should see ADB Inteface in Windows Device Manager.
6. If you made it this far, download the APK file to a local folder on your computer, something like C:\MyAPKs will work fine and install it using ADB. The command would be adb install c:\myapks\ and that’s about it.
Anyway, the apk files refers to the Android Package files; and there are numbers of freeware you can try. One of them is the Opera Mini
Enjoy Android!!
GadgetWidgets - Cell Phone Info and News » Download Android G1 Freeware: Opera Mini 4.0 says:
November 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
[...] NB: It’s an apk file; you can learn how to install it here [...]
Raymond says:
November 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am
You also need to turn on USB debugging in Settings - Application settings - Development.
Ray.
Andres says:
November 13th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
i need help with this part. ADB Inteface in Windows Device Manager. i dont see it after i installed
Luthien says:
December 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am
when I install apk, it was fail and show “Fail to start daemon waiting for device” Does anyone neet the same problem?