outdated, not working on newer devices

Bug #1459165 reported by Katsiaris Simos
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This bug affects 5 people
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android-tools (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

the android tools provided by ubuntu are way outdated in result they are not working on new devices and devices that were updated to android 5, please update them to the newer ones, the minimum version for adb should be 1.0.32 or newer to even sideload.

In result i can'T use adb and fastboot to debug and push packages in bootloader and recovery mode.

$: lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

$: apt-cache policy android-tools*
android-tools-adbd:
  Installed: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Candidate: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41 0
        500 http://mirror.skylink-datacenter.de/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
android-tools-adb:
  Installed: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Candidate: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41 0
        500 http://mirror.skylink-datacenter.de/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
android-tools-fastboot:
  Installed: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Candidate: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41 0
        500 http://mirror.skylink-datacenter.de/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
android-tools-fsutils:
  Installed: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Candidate: 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu41 0
        500 http://mirror.skylink-datacenter.de/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in android-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeffery Wilkins (djcanadianjeff) wrote :
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