> There’s good documentation elsewhere on how to do these things so I’m not going to waste time by rewriting it poorly. Instead, have some links:

> First, enable USB debugging on your phone
- Install ADB on your computer
- Run adb shell, which will give you a shell prompt on the phone.
- I'm in

> Congratulations, you can now run commands on your phone. Type exit and press enter when you’re ready to exit the ADB shell.

This bit alone makes reading the whole article worth reading. Putting the shell on an Android phone is **very** useful, if you know how to use bash or c-shell or another popular shell. Now, you are in command of the phone not it in command of you!

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