But, when the phone connected to Windows 7 machine, it said “USB Device Not Recognized”. After battling with restarting the machine, install and uninstall HTC Sync Manager Software, or HTC Phone driver.. It still not working as expected. I decided to leave it aside and do what I should do in OSX environment.

After fixing some issue on the phone, I still cannot accept the problem happened in Windows 7 machine (Being an engineer with the never give up hat), I decided to give another try and find out the problem; and the problem solved.

I never thought it could be the cable problem, because it worked well in Mac OSX. Until I couldn’t figure any solution, I tried change the USB cable… Boom! Problem solved.

How pathetic it’s? Spending so much time tangling with the software, but in the end is the cable problem. At least, it’s working now.

Uh… Why am I still using USB to connect? I was trying to unroot the phone. Will share the post on How to unroot HTC One M7 and make it looks like a “stock” phone.

Bloody Cable! or Maybe Windows problem

Before flashing your Android phone with custom ROM, you need custom Recovery ROM such as

• ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM)
• Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP)

The default “Recovery ROM’ comes with your phone does not allow to flash/install custom ROM. Hence, before flashing your phone with custom ROM, custom “Recovery” is needed. Before flashing custom “recovery ROM”, you need tools to do that.

adb & fastboot are the tools which will use to flash Android’s “recovery” ROM. Let’s see how to install ADB & FASTBOOT in Mac OSX.

1. Download Android SDK

Android SDK can be downloaded at Android Developer website. Click the link here to visit the website. Choose “Download the SDK. ADT bundle for Mac”

2. Install and Configure

After ADT bundle has been downloaded, extract the file into download folder.

I have Android SDK store in my “Work” directory and renamed it from adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030 to AndroidDevel “~/Document/Work/AndroidDevel”

adb and fastboot command tool can be found at “sdk/platform-tools” folder. You will need to run this 2 command tools in order to flash your phone.

3. Configure with Terminal

Open up your “Terminal” and open .profile shell profile.

# vi .profile 

Look for the “export PATH” and expand further by adding in platform-tools folder

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:~/Document/Work/AndroidDevel/sdk/platform-tools 

Depend on where do you store the tools. It may not me same with my configuration. Please do not miss the “:” semicolon, it means to expand and include other folder. Save your file and refresh your bash environment with command below

# source ~/.profile 

4. Complete and Look For Your Device

Plugin your device with USB cable and prompt for your device with command below

# adb devices 

You should be able to see the list of device as below

Congrats, adb & fastboot are installed on your Mac OSX Next post I will show how to flash recovery ROM on a HTC ONE M7 device.

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, this has made my life easier, and also made it as the best Twitter Apps for Android.

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, a Big Thanks

I believe people who do a lot of social network stuff has more than 1 twitter account. I have at least 2 Twitter Apps running on my Android one, one is Twitter Apps another is Twidroyd Apps to support my multiple twitter profile accounts.

Now I can just run one Twitter Apps in Android phone, which I believe will contribute to better battery life

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, Benefits

New Twitter for Android also supports push notification for tweets, mentions and direct message, which can help to save more on your battery life on Android. Try the new Twitter for Android and share your battery life experience with us.