Turning airplane mode on via ADB

Question

I\'ve looked all over and I haven\'t found a concrete answer to this question. I\'m hoping to find a way to toggle airplane mode from ADB that doesn\'t involve the GUI in an

Answer 1

If you have root access, and the method in the answer from David Ferenczy Rogožan left you with a security exception:

Permission Denial: not allowed to send broadcast android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE

you can try to run the commands as superuser as follows.

Enable Airplane Mode

adb shell "su -c 'settings put global airplane_mode_on 1'"
adb shell "su -c 'am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE'"

Disable Airplane Mode

adb shell "su -c 'settings put global airplane_mode_on 0'"
adb shell "su -c 'am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE'"

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In my experience with Android 9 the explicit invoke of su was only necessary for the broadcasting command while for the former I could keep:

adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on [0|1]

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Credits to Arya who left this trick into the comment section of the answer mentioned above.