Getting a shell on Galaxy SII

First enable the USB debugging in (under Gingerbread, ICS or later may differ)

> Settings > Application > Development >

Then create this if using OpenSuSE (not required for Ubuntu 12.04)


# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/53-android.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666"

note the vendor id is the one from Samsung (see http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html#VendorIds).

Now under OpenSuSE 11.x restart udev

# /etc/init.d/boot.udev restart

then plug the usb cable in the phone and as regular user you should see the device now

~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools> adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached 
304D19AFD0235C8E device

and start the sehll

~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools> adb -d shell

$ pwd

/