helium shell script with normal system locations for 'adb'

helium-desktop.sh

#!/bin/sh
# start helium server on android device - see http://www.clockworkmod.com/carbon for more details

# set -x
# try normal system locations before the local binary
unset adb
for i in /usr/bin /usr/local/bin "$(/usr/bin/dirname $0)"
do
    i="$i/adb"
    if [ -f "$i" -a -x "$i" ]
    then
        adb=$i
        break
    fi
done

if [ -e "$adb" ]
then
    echo "using adb: $adb" 1>&2
else
    echo "could not resolve a path to adb ... check your installation" 1>&2
    exit 1
fi

# "pm path" returns somthing like the following
#     "package:/data/app/com.koushikdutta.backup-1.apk\r"
# but with a trailing carriage return that screws up the class name in dalvikvm invocation
#
echo "retrieving the class name ..." 1>&2
pkg=$($adb shell pm path com.koushikdutta.backup | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^.*://' -e 's/\r//')

echo "starting up helium package '$pkg'" 1>&2

$adb shell << EOF
CLASSPATH=$pkg app_process /system/bin com.koushikdutta.shellproxy.ShellRunner2 $@ &
exit
EOF

# end-of-file

On Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04LTS) sed is in /bin and not /usr/bin so as-is this script fails at line 30.

Hi there , for me i must add my device ( DG-310 / Doogee Voyager 2 ) , to my udev rules , i use this code for make that quick

sudo groupadd plugdev
sudo gpasswd -a $USER plugdev
AVID=$(lsusb | grep HTC | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/[:].*//')
APID=$(lsusb | grep HTC | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/.*[:]//')
sudo echo 'SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="$AVID",  ATTR{idProduct}=="$APID", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugindev"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
ADBN=$(lsusb | grep HTC | awk '{print $2}')
ADDN=$(lsusb | grep HTC | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/[:].*//')
sudo chmod 666 /dev/bus/usb/$ADBN/$ADDN
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo service udev restart
sudo udevadm trigger
sudo ./adb kill-server
sudo ./adb usb
sudo ./adb devices
List of devices attached 
0123456789ABCDEF    device
sudo ./adb kill-server

sudo ./run.sh 
linker
CLASSPATH= linker app_process /system/bin com.koushikdutta.shellproxy.ShellRunner2  &
exit
s /system/bin com.koushikdutta.shellproxy.ShellRunner2  &                     <
[1] 3187
shell@J608_PUBLIC:/ $ exit
You have stopped jobs
[1] + Stopped (signal)     CLASSPATH= linker app_process /system/bin c
shell@J608_PUBLIC:/ $ 

well the "Hellium" app from Android , still waiting for "Hellium Desktop" , and now what i must do , to start my sync backups ???

Same issue as Scooby on Lubuntu 15.04, but I was able to symlink sed from /bin to /use/bin and the script worked. This was done on a live CD session so symlink at your own risk.

Thanks for this, now I run this on cron over TCP/IP to keep helium working on my devices on my lan!

worked like a charm, thanks!

Hello @jotebe

Could you please modify the script with this amazing solution?

Iam slightly a beginner and need this please 🙏