Root [CDMA] Need Android SDK for EVO 3D, but not working

[thelonewizard]

After reading EarlyMon's post about installing Linux on the Evo 3D, I wanted to try it out. I clicked on the guide, and found out I need to have the Android SDK. I have tried in the past to install the Android SDK. But every time I download the .exe file from the official site, it tells me I don't have a JDK. That's a lie. I have gone to oracle several times and downloaded and installed two different versions of the Java's JDK. I go through the installation and it tells me it was successful. But when I go to the SDK to install, it says I still don't have it.

Before you ask, I know that I am downloading the correct JDK for my chipset (x64). I have no idea what's going wrong, but I would really like to know how to get the SDK working so I can begin developing on this app idea I have.

 

[lunatic59]

Are you able to verify that Java is installed and working?

Verify Java Version

I recall some difficulty installing it correctly for the SDK, but it was last year so I don't remember the exact problem.

 

[themuffinman75]

After reading EarlyMon's post about installing Linux on the Evo 3D, I wanted to try it out. I clicked on the guide, and found out I need to have the Android SDK. I have tried in the past to install the Android SDK. But every time I download the .exe file from the official site, it tells me I don't have a JDK. That's a lie. I have gone to oracle several times and downloaded and installed two different versions of the Java's JDK. I go through the installation and it tells me it was successful. But when I go to the SDK to install, it says I still don't have it.

Before you ask, I know that I am downloading the correct JDK for my chipset (x64). I have no idea what's going wrong, but I would really like to know how to get the SDK working so I can begin developing on this app idea I have.

Don't know if something as simple as this will work for you but it has worked for me on a couple of laptops I installed SDK on. Anyway I was in the same situation as you, I knew for a fact that JDK was installed but during the installation of SDK it absolutely refused to detect that JDK was already installed. Now I don't know if there was some kind of bug in the installation process but all I did was once it said that I have to install JDK I would hit the back button to go back one step in the SDK process then proceed again and it detected it and it then completed the installation. I have had this happen to me like 3 times this past weekend.

 

[thelonewizard]

Are you able to verify that Java is installed and working?

Verify Java Version

I recall some difficulty installing it correctly for the SDK, but it was last year so I don't remember the exact problem.

I ran that, and it only said I have Java 6, update 26. Said nothing about having JDK installed.

 

[EarlyMon]

EDIT - for crying out loud - this won't work either.

(Did a test run on Windows machine for you.)

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If you're not an actual Android developer, you don't need all of the SDK, just the basics.

IOW - to push out files, you really don't need all of the fol-de-rol, just a working adb.

Try installing the zip instead - Android SDK | Android Developers

Under the tools folder, read adb-has-moved.txt

Jump to Step 4 - Installing the SDK | Android Developers

Get the platform-tools by running the .exe included in the zip.

Follow your nose and the txt file - find adb - you're now good to go. Use from a DOS window.

BTW - double-click on the tools/ddms.bat will give you your screen-shot tool if I'm not mistaken (don't run Windows).

Once upon a time, guys would make little zip files of just the essentials for adb, good for Win/Mac/Linux, and post those on the web, but I couldn't find one quickly.

 

[EarlyMon]

Java SE Downloads

Select the JDK

See also -

http://laslow.net/2010/05/17/android-adb-on-windows-7-x64/

 

[thelonewizard]

Java SE Downloads

Select the JDK

See also -

Updated – Android: ADB on Windows 7 x64

Followed the link. Downloaded and installed both versions for Windows, then downloaded and installed the SDK and it worked. Thanks for the help!

 

[EarlyMon]

OK, I guess you need to check out my ignored part, above so you can be sure to snag adb.

Once upon a time, adb was included in a single SDK download, it's now a tortured process to get with more and more and more downloading.

FWIW - here's a guy just offering adb as part of a simple solution - use at risk, virus-scan first - but I started rooting with a mini-package and didn't get into the SDK until later.

It's just adb, not rocket surgery.

How to un-brick your Flyer/View 08/01/2011 - xda-developers

 

[lunatic59]

It's just adb, not rocket surgery.

Well, isn't that just the straw that broke your chickens before you came to it.

 

[EarlyMon]

What good are metaphors if they don't blend?

 

[lunatic59]

I've never been a big fan of blended metaphors. I much prefer the single malt variety