On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 12:34:36 -0700 stan <upaitag@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Inspired by the responses here that allowed me to understand what I > was searching for, I eventually found a program called scrcpy. > > https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/ Here are the instructions that I used to get scrcpy working for me. I don't know how clear they will be to someone who hasn't already done this, since I can't re experience that, but I tried to make them simple. I really like using the phone this way, better than directly, actually. These are the instructions for how to connect a phone to the desktop using a USB cable. It is possible to do this via pairing over TCPIP if both your computer and your phone have access to the same wireless network. I don't have wireless on my desktop, so didn't investigate this as I had to use the USB cable technique. If you do use the TCPIP method, you might be able to use KDE-connect instead of scpcpy to access the phone. First, prepare the desktop. These are done as the root user, or with sudo. Install the android tools to get adb, the android debug tool dnf install android-tools Get an enhanced wrapper for the adb program, not necessary, but easier to use than the raw adb. dnf install adb-enhanced Install scrcpy from the fedora copr repository dnf copr enable zeno/scrcpy && dnf install scrcpy Add the adb group to /etc/group groupadd -U [your username] plugdev Create a udev rule that gives permission to access the usb device that is your phone. Run lsusb and then look for your phone as a device. Below is dummy sample, not a phone. Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub ^^^^ ^^^^ These are the numbers you want. Put them in a file called (51 is arbitrary) /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules using a line as follows: ATTR{idVendor}=="1d6b", ATTR{idProduct}=="0002", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev ^^^^ ^^^^ Replace the two numbers with the numbers for your phone when it is connected to the USB port. Once you have done this, you will have to log out and log in again as your user, or reboot the computer to pick up the changes to the group. You might be able to pick up the new udev rule by unplugging and plugging the USB cable into the phone. Or, I didn't try this, but systemctl restart systemd-udevd If, as your user, you run adb devices or adbe devices at this point it will give you a permissions error for the phone, though it will be able to find it. Now prepare the phone, so it can be recognized, all done as you on the phone. Find the build date in settings, and tap on it until it says you have developer privileges. Then enter the developer menu and turn on USB access. I'm not giving detailed instructions on where to find these because it varies by phone. Mine were in about phone or system from settings. Find the USB debug menu item and turn it on. FInd the USB mode menu item and set it to file transfer / mtp. The phone is now ready. If you type adb devices or adbe devices as your user, not root, it will now recognize the phone. You are ready to run scrcpy, as your user, not root. scrcpy will bring up a dialog on your phone asking you for permission to run the adb server on the phone. If you tap OK on the phone, it will bring up an image of your phone screen on your desktop. This is one of the benefits of running scrcpy; it will install a compatible server on your phone for the client that it is using. Avoids error messages saying the server and client version do not match. You can now use your phone with your mouse, clicking to tap, and swiping the mouse cursor to swipe the phone. Make and receive calls, and send and receive texts. I think it is possible to use your desktop keyboard to type messages, but I haven't tried that yet. You can probably surf the web from your phone as well, but why surf with your phone when you can surf with your desktop? I didn't try it, but it seems you can play games from your phone on your desktop, as well. In other words, you can use the functionality of your phone from your desktop. You can use man scrcpy to find the commands, and keyboard shortcuts, when using scrcpy on your phone. If you exit scrcpy, you can still use adb or adbe to perform a lot of tasks on your phone directly with adb. Like removing and installing apps, transferring files both ways, backing it up, cleaning up bloat. The technastic link below has a list of adb commands. If you run abde without any command, it will print a list of all the commands that are available in adbe. Some of the pages I used to glean the above information. If you want to go deeper, or use the TCPIP method, these might be of assistance. https://askubuntu.com/questions/602129/how-to-update-or-re-install-the-newest-version-of-adb https://techupedia.com/how-to-apply-update-from-adb/ https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/248766/how-do-i-upgrade-an-android-phones-version-from-my-pc https://technastic.com/adb-shell-commands-list/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53887322/adb-devices-no-permissions-user-in-plugdev-group-are-your-udev-rules-wrong https://www.howtogeek.com/125769/how-to-install-and-use-abd-the-android-debug-bridge-utility/ https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ https://developer.android.com/tools/adb https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
