Android eclipse DDMS - Can t access data data on phone to pull files

Question

While testing my apps  I use emulators and my own phone to see if everything is working ok   My apps are also writing data to shared preferences and a text file   I can pull the data from my emulators through the DDMS in eclipse so I can read the data files on my computer  but when I try to open those folders through the DDMS on my phone  nothing happens   I click the data folder and nothing happens   My phone is rooted   Is there any way I could pull the files from my phone   I know that Android keeps these folders private  but there must be a way   The emulator is just way too slow

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No one seems to understand that a retail Nexus One even after being rooted still will not let you browse the file system using DDMS File Explorer. We are talking about real phones here and not the emulator. If you happen to have a Nexus One Developer Phone you can browse the file system using DDMS Filer Explorer, but a retail Nexus One that has been rooted you can't. Got it?

So I hope that answers the question of not being able to use the DDMS File Explorer to browse the file system of a rooted retail Nexus One. After rooting a retail Nexus One there is still something that remains to be done to use DDMS to use the File Explorer to browse the phones File System. I don't know what it is. Maybe someone else knowns.

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On rooted device you can do this    Open cmd Type adb shell su Press  Allow  on device chmod 777  data  data data  data data com application package data data com application package   Go to the DDMS view in Eclipse   After this you should be able to browse the files on the device   To get the databases    chmod 777  data data com application package databases  data data com application package databases       If it returns permission denied on su   Go to Settings   Developer Options   Root access   Apps and ADB

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You must edit permission of data folder   I use  Root Explorer   see market  app on root mode   On top select  Monunted as r w   then press over data folder  long click  and find Permission option  Have a somenthing like that          read    write  execute   User            Group  Others  Make sure that  Others  have a check for read  Then go Eclpse and try again   Sorry about my english I hope can help you

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To set permission on the data folder and all it s subfolders and files   Open command prompt from the ADB folder    gt  gt  adb shell  gt  gt  su  gt  gt  find  data -type d -exec chmod 777

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If gives  permission denied  on adb shell -  su     Some ROMs are running adbd daemon in secure mode  adbd has no root access and su command does not even show permission ask dialog on the device   In this case you will get  permission denied  when you try cmd -  adb shell -  su  The solution I ve found is one app from the famous modder Chainfire called Adbd Insecure

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Much simpler than messing around with permissions in the android FS  which always feels like  a hack for me - because i believe there must be a kind of integrated way  is just to     Allow ADB root access and Restart the deamon with root permissions    First be sure that ADB can have root access on your device  or emulator    Settings -  Developer Options -  Root-Access for ADB or Apps  amp  ADB  Restart the ADB-Service with root-permissions  Open a command prompt and type  adb exe root Restart ADM  Android Device Manager   Enjoy browsing all files To negate this process  Type adb exe unroot in your command prompt

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When I say file system I meant the whole file system  But you can only browse part of the file system on a retail phone  perhaps even most of file system but not   data  Sorry for any confusion this may have caused   This is alarming to me because I have a rooted my retail Nexus One and a developer unlocked Nexus One  Since I rooted my retail Nexus One I can t figure out why I can t browse the whole file system like I can on my developer Nexus One

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If you NEED to do it on your phone  I use a terminal emulator and standard linux commands   Example    su cd data cd com yourappp ls or cd into cache shared prefs   http   www appbrain com app android-terminal-emulator jackpal androidterm

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If it retures  permission denied  on adb shell -  su     Go to  Developer Options  -  Root access -   Apps and ADB

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Event though it s a bit too late to try to answer this I ll leave what worked for me   Peceps s solution didn t work because the SuperUser app didn t allow  shell  to have root access  So my solution is to directly use another app like RootExplorer and browse the folders from it

[android] Android eclipse DDMS - Can't access data/data/ on phone to pull files

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