Fastboot & ADB (platform-tools) for Windows

Install platform-tools system-wide (for Windows)

DarkPlayerMarch 05, 2022

Why?

• The Minimal ADB & Fastboot tool hasn't been updated since 2018, and the 15 second ADB Installer is even older. The platform tools binarys built into those tools are ancient because of that and will cause some issues that you could avoid.
• By installing it yourself you have a guarantee of using the latest versions of platform-tools.

Preparation:

1. Uninstall Minimal ADB & Fastboot from your system if you haven't already.
2. Grab the latest SDK platform-tools binary and the Google USB driver from the Google developer page.
3. Extract the platform-tools and put it in some directory (like C:platform-tools). Unzip the Google USB driver as well.

SDK platform-tools link: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

Google USB driver link: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/usb_driver_r13-windows.zip

platform tools extracted in C:platform-tools

USB driver installation:

1. Open the USB driver folder you've previously extracted.
2. Right click on the "android_winusb.inf" file, click on "Install" and run the file.
3. Done!

System-wide platform-tools installation:

1. Search "Advanced system settings" in the Start menu.
2. In System Properties > Advanced click on "Environment Variables".
3. In Environment Variables select "New" under the System variables section.
4. Set the variable name as "Path" and since we extracted platform-tools earlier in "C:platform-tools", set the variable value to that. Click "OK" after that.
5. Apply the changes and close all windows.
6. Enjoy!

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