Against my strong objections, my better half purchased an Android TV box from China - and I could not be more dubious of it. I am wanting to connect to it via ADB to sniff around the filesystem before I even give it (highly restricted) Internet access, but I am failing at the first hurdle.
The specific box I am dealing with is an iMetbox M3 running BigDroidOS 2.0.1
(I've played around with ADB and regular cellphones, flashing quite a few, but never a TV Box)
[How] can I connect an Android TV box (which exposes only USB-A USB ports) to ADB?
(I do have an old USB Y Cable, but plugging this in does not produce any information in /var/log/syslog on my system, regardless of which USB port combination I use. I've enabled USB debugging in the TV Box - and I also can't seem to find a way to enable ADB over WIFI - or at least I can't do anything that allows me to connect to tcp port 5555 on the TV box from my computer)
It also appears I can boot the box up to Recovery mode, but still can't see any ADB devices. I do wonder if this might, however be able to provide me with some kind of shell which can help me further my endeavors?
Asked by davidgo
(385 rep)
Feb 8, 2024, 10:50 PM