ADB access denied to data folder?
adb, android
Solution
If you want to browse everything on your device, you need to do two things:
- You need to have a phone with root access in order to browse the data folder on an Android phone. That means either you have a developer device (ADP1 or an ION from Google I/O) or you've found a way to 'root' your phone some other way.
- You need to be running ADB in root mode, do this by executing: `adb root`
Note that if step-1 is done correctly, step-2 just works (no need to re-build anything from source-codes).
Problem
I connected to my live device using the adb and the following commands: ``` C:\>adb -s HT829GZ52000 shell $ ls ls sqlite_stmt_journals cache sdcard etc system sys sbin proc logo.rle init.trout.rc init.rc init.goldfish.rc init default.prop data root dev $ cd data cd data $ ls ls opendir failed, Permission denied ``` I was surprised to see that I have access denied. How come I can't browse around the directories using the commandline like this? How do I get root access on my phone?