Android: adb: Permission Denied

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Caner picture Caner · Sep 13, 2011 · Viewed 314.5k times · Source

Whatever I type after adb shell it fails with Permission denied:

D:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell find /data -name *.db
find: permission denied

D:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell test
test: permission denied

D:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb remount
remount failed: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

Answer

Roman picture Roman · Jun 5, 2012

According to adb help:

adb root                     - restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions

Which indeed resolved the issue for me.

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