I just received POS tablet, precisely Sunmi V2s. I bought it for fraction of its prize due to alleged vendor lock. Due to that I was prepared for long fight for its freedom 😀 When starting the play it turned out that it has 14-day trial period, inside which it is possible to do almost anything in the system, just like with the ordinary Android device. Obviously one of the first things to do (especially due to this trial counting down from 14 days), was to enable adb. Developer options was enabled the usual way, but then after enabling adb and trying to connect from PC, instead of well known confirmation window with computer fingerprint, such a thing popped up on the screen:
Of course, as is usual for Chinese vendors, translation is a literal translation of Chinese glyphs into English words, so I had to click both buttons to see the difference 🙂 Anyway when Debugging is clicked, login page appears for Sunmi partner. While registration is open, the name suggest, it might not be successful for me. So I need another way. And it seems another way exists. In my case rooting the device was required at first, but for now I will ignore that part. What I want to show is how in general start digging in service calls from command line (I think I have another interesting use case on other device 🙂 ). So, without boring you all, even more, let’s get started. Continue reading “Authorizing adb connections from Android command line (and making other service calls from cli)”