How to use adb command to push a file on device without sd card

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How to push a file from computer to an Android device having no SD Card in it  I tried  C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data local 3399 KB s  111387 bytes in 0 032s   C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data opt 3199 KB s  111387 bytes in 0 034s   C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data tmp 3884 KB s  111387 bytes in 0 028s   Above commands to move a file anand jpg to a device but I didn t get this jpg file in the device  I didn t get any success result on cmd prompt  I only got  3399 KB s  111387 bytes in 0 032s

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I did it using this command   syntax  adb push filename extension  sdcard 0   example  adb push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2 01 zip  sdcard 0

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You are trying to write to system folders  With ADB you have root  admin  access so you see the system folders of which sdcard is one of them so to send a picture you could use   D  Program Files Android sdk platform-tools adb push am files android sdk adb exe push C  Downloads anand jpg  sdcard pictures   NB  C  Downloads anand jpg replace with path and name to picture

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I ve got a Nexus 4  that is without external storage  However Android thinks to have one because it mount a separated partition called  storage   mounted in   storage emulated legacy   so try pushing there  adb push anand jpg  storage emulated legacy

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In Mac  To push files via adb adb push  Users Downloads  amazon sdktester json   mnt sdcard amazon sdktester json

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run below command firstly  adb root adb remount   Then execute what you input previously  C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data local C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data opt C  anand gt adb push anand jpg  data tmp

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My solution  example with a random mp4 video file     Set a file to device   adb push  home myuser myVideoFile mp4  storage emulated legacy   Get a file from device   adb pull  storage emulated legacy myVideoFile mp4     For retrieve the path in the code   String myFilePath   Environment getExternalStorageDirectory   getAbsolutePath       myVideoFile mp4     This is all  This solution doesn t give permission problems and it works fine   Last point  I wanted to change the video metadata information  If you want to write into your device you should change the permission in the AndroidManifest xml  Add this line    lt uses-permission android name  android permission WRITE EXTERNAL STORAGE    gt

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As there are different paths for different versions  Here is a generic solution   Find the path       Enter adb shell in command line  Then ls and Enter     Now you ll see the files and directories of Android device  Now with combination of ls and cd dirName find the path to the Internal or External storage    In the root directory  the directories names will be like mnt  sdcard  emulator0  etc  Example  adb push file txt  mnt sdcard myDir Projects

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In my case  I had an already removed SDCard still registered in Android  So I longpressed the entry for my old SDCard under   Settings   Storage  amp  USB  and selected  Forget    Afterwards a normal   adb push myfile zip  sdcard   worked fine

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This might be the best answer you ll may read  Setup Android Studio Then just go to view  amp  Open Device Explorer  Right-click on the folder  amp  just upload a file

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Certain versions of android do not fire proper tasks for updating the state of file system  You could trigger an explicit intent for updating the status of the file system   I just tested after being in the same OP s situation   adb shell am broadcast -a android intent action MEDIA MOUNTED -d file        You could pass a specific filepath instead of  file     like file    sdcard

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Follow these steps    go to Android Sdk then  platform-tools  path on your Terminal or Console   on mac  default path is    Users USERNAME Library Android sdk platform-tools   To check the SDCards External and Internal  installed on your device fire these commands     1    adb shell  hit return enter  2  cd - hit return enter    now you will see the list of Directories and files from your android device there you may find  sdcard as well as  storage   3  cd  storage  hit return enter  4  ls  hit return enter    you may see sdcard0  generally sdcard0 is internal storage  and sdcard1  if External SDCard is present    5  exit  hit return enter    to come out of adb shell   6    adb push   Users SML Documents filename zip   storage sdcard0 path to store   hit return enter    to copy file

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Sometimes you need the extension      adb push file zip  sdcard file zip

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From Ubuntu Terminal  below works for me     adb push   home hardik trivedi Downloads one jpg    data local

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Try this to push in Internal storage   adb push my-file apk   storage emulated 0   Works in One plus device  without SD card

[android] How to use adb command to push a file on device without sd card

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