Last Updated on September 19, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

15 Second ADB installer rebornFastboot was developed for the Android operating system. Fastboot is found in the full Android SDK package. It was later shared as “minimal ADB and fastboot” which allowed those who customize Android to get it without having to download the entire Android SDK. The 15 second ADB installer is another concise version of fastboot yet again.

The original developer of fastboot is Google (who owns Android, aka Android developers). I believe the first post of the minimal ADB and fastboot was published to GitHub. The internet suggests it was published by Sam Rodberg, though I am not sure if he was the first to create it or just publish it to GitHub. A developer who goes by “Snoop05” created the original 15 second ADB installer. There has also been a “15 second ADB installer reborn” program which is an updated version of the same tool. I will publish both versions in this post.

By 2018, two versions of the reborn version had been published on XDA Developers, though again, I can’t tell if that is the original source, so I won’t link to it and claim it is.

Ok, so here is where things get complicated. I can see sources online claiming that they have the “2023” version of the original 15 second ADB installer. Is it still being developed in 2023? If you have new software/a new smartphone, I would try the reborn version just in case.

Update: There is some evidence that the “2023” version is the “reborn” version. The original poster of the 2023 version is a developer called ” Funky,” and his work is based on the work by Snoop05. So Funkt is either the developer of the reborn version or he has updated the original version and not given it a name and it is different from the reborn version. I have included “Funky’s links at the bottom of the post just in case their files are different. The original source for the Funk links seems to be SourceForge.

15 Second ADB Installer

15 Second ADB Installer REBORN

XDA thread related to this.

Funky’s links (Possiblynewer than the REBORN version

Update: There is only one Funky link; the rest were mirrors of the same link:

I hope my detective work is viewed as useful.