How-To: Install non-Market apps on your Motorola Backflip

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So you got your new Motorola Backflip then found out that AT&T locked it down so you can’t install apps from the SD card? Or maybe you knew that and went ahead and got it in hopes of rooting very soon. Well, rooting hasn’t happened yet for the Backflip, but we still have the solution for you.

  1. First you will need to install the Android SDK, which you can download here.
  2. Then download and install the Motorola USB drivers for 32-bit or 64-bit, depending on your OS.
  3. Once everything is installed, on your phone go to Settings > Applications > Development > Enable USB Debugging.
  4. Back on your PC, with the phone plugged into USB, copy the .apk files to the /tools folder where you extracted the SDK.
  5. Then from a command prompt, navigate to the /tools folder and type adb install application.apk where application.apk is the file you want to install.
  6. Congrats, the application should now be installed.

For more information on Android Debug Bridge and other cool stuff you can do, check out this guide at xda-developers.

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  • S

    You sir are a genius. Works perfectly. tyvm.

  • kyle

    in the command prompt for me it says

    C>adb install picsay.apk
    * daemon not running. starting it now *
    ADB server didn’t ACK
    * failed to start daemon *
    error: cannot connect to daemon

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    my command prompt keeps say adb is not recognized as internal or external command please help

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  • Josh

    andre loeu :
    my command prompt keeps say adb is not recognized as internal or external command please help

    Mine is saying the same thing man did you find out what we are doing wrong lol

  • GTbrewer

    Thanks! I should point out, this also works on the Motorola Bravo (MB520) from AT&T.

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