I want to flash Android ROMs onto old Samsung tablets (Android 4.4) which Samsung hasn't allowed to be updated past Android 4.4.
The issue is that I have an M1 Mac.
I tried:
- https://flash.android.com/ - it won't detect anything connected.
- Developer Options -> Allow USB debugging
- Power+Vol Down+Home to get into "ADB download" and "odin" modes.
- Downloading "platform-tools" (ADB) which refuses to detect anything after ./adb devices
- Restarting, rebooting, turning on and off again.
Nothing worked.
You can now go here to download official universal binaries from Google.
After downloading and unzipping, you run these commants in Terminal (modify "
~/Downloads/platform-tools/
" to match the folder you unzip to if it's different.)After that you can run adb, as likely documented where you got the ROM you're trying to install.