How to use ADB Shell when Multiple Devices are connected Fails with error more than one device and emulator

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adb --help   -s SERIAL  use device with given serial  overrides  ANDROID SERIAL      adb devices List of devices attached  emulator-5554   device 7f1c864e    device     adb shell -s 7f1c864e error  more than one device and emulator

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To install an apk on one of your emulators  First get the list of devices  - gt  adb devices List of devices attached 25sdfsfb3801745eg        device emulator-0954   device  Then install the apk on your emulator with the -s flag  - gt  adb -s  quot 25sdfsfb3801745eg quot  install  quot C  Users joel joel Downloads release apk quot  Performing Streamed Install Success  Ps   the order here matters  so -s  lt id gt  has to come before install command  otherwise it won t work  Hope this helps someone

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This gist will do most of the work for you showing a menu when there are multiple devices connected     adb   android-select-device  shell 1  02783201431feeee device 3  emulator-5554 2  3832380FA5F30000 device 4  emulator-5556 Select the device to use   lt Q gt  to quit    To avoid typing you can just create an alias that included the device selection as explained here

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Here s a shell script I made for myself       bin sh  for device in  adb devices   awk   print  1     do   if       device          amp  amp        device     List      then     echo         echo  adb -s  device         echo  ------------------------------------------------------      adb -s  device      fi done

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I found this question after seeing the  more than one device  error  with 2 offline phones showing   C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk android-tools gt adb devices List of devices attached SH436WM01785    offline SH436WM01785    offline SH436WM01785    sideload   If you only have one device connected  run the following commands to get rid of the offline connections   adb kill-server adb devices

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Create a Bash  tools sh  to select a serial from devices  or emulator    clear  echo                                                                                                         echo   ADB DEVICES   echo                                                                                                         echo      adb devices     adb devices   grep -v devices   grep device   cut -f 1    adb devices   grep -v devices   grep device   cut -f 2      if         adb devices       -eq  1     amp  amp       adb devices 0             then     echo  No device found       echo          echo                                                                                                             device           Call Main Menu function fxMenu  else     read -p             f 0         for dev in    adb devices       do             nm    echo   dev    cut -f1 -d                 tp    echo   dev    cut -f2 -d                 echo        f      nm     tp             done          echo             echo   0  Quit          echo              echo                                                                                                                 echo             echo   Please select a device           selection      error  You think it s over just because I am dead  It s not over  The games have just begun           Call Validation Numbers fxValidationNumberMenu    adb devices       selection     error        case    selection   in         0                 Call Main Menu function fxMenu                           device    echo   adb devices    selection-1       cut -f1 -d                    Call Main Menu function fxMenu      esac fi   Then in another option can use adb -s  global option -s use device with given serial number that overrides  ANDROID SERIAL    adb -s   device   lt command gt    I tested this code on MacOS terminal  but I think it can be used on windows across Git Bash Terminal   Also remember configure environmental variables and Android SDK paths on  bash profile file   export ANDROID HOME   usr local opt android-sdk   export PATH   ANDROID HOME platform-tools  PATH  export PATH   ANDROID HOME tools  PATH

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Running adb commands on all connected devices  Create a bash  adb    adb devices   while read line do if       line          amp  amp     echo  line   awk   print  2       device    then     device  echo  line   awk   print  1        echo   device             adb -s  device    fi   done use it with  adb      command

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Use the -s option BEFORE the command to specify the device  for example   adb -s 7f1c864e shell   See also http   developer android com tools help adb html directingcommands

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User  janot has already mentioned this above  but this took me some time to filter the best solution   There are two Broad use cases  1  2 hardware are connected  first is emulator and other is a Device  Solution   adb -e shell    whatever-command for emulator and adb -d shell    whatever-command for device   2  n number of devices are connected  all emulators or Phones Tablets  via USB ADB-WiFi  Solution   Step1  run adb devices THis will give you list of devices currently connected  via USB or ADBoverWiFI  Step2  now run adb -s  lt device-id IP-address gt  shell    whatever-command no matter how many devices you have   Example to clear app data on a device connected on wifi ADB I would execute  adb -s 172 16 34 89 5555 shell pm clear com package-id  to clear app data connected on my usb connected device I would execute  adb -s 5210d21be2a5643d shell pm clear com package-id

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The best way to run shell on any particular device is to use  adb -s  lt  lt  emulator UDID  gt  gt  shell  For Example  adb -s emulator-5554 shell

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Another alternative would be to set environment variable ANDROID SERIAL to the relevant serial  here assuming you are using Windows  set ANDROID SERIAL 7f1c864e echo  ANDROID SERIAL   quot 7f1c864e quot   Then you can use adb exe shell without any issues

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For Windows  here s a quick 1 liner example of how to install a file  on multiple devices  FOR  F  skip 1    x IN   adb devices   DO start adb -s  x install -r myandroidapp apk   If you plan on including this in a batch file  replace  x with   x  as below  FOR  F  skip 1     x IN   adb devices   DO start adb -s   x install -r myandroidapp apk

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adb -d shell  or adb -e shell    This command will help you in most of the cases  if you are too lazy to type the full ID   From http   developer android com tools help adb html commandsummary      -d - Direct an adb command to the only attached USB device  Returns an error when more than one USB device is attached       -e - Direct an adb command to the only running emulator  Returns an error when more than one emulator is running

[android] How to use ADB Shell when Multiple Devices are connected? Fails with "error: more than one device and emulator"

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