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

To turn-on APN mode

adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 1

To turn-off APN mode

adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 0 

verified on Android-L

Answer 2

A working method which I am using in my Mobile Automation Framework:

Worked with OS 5.x 6.x 7.x and 8.x need to test it against 9.x

/**
 * Method to set Android device Airplane mode.
 * 
 * @param status
 * 
 *               true - turn on airplane mode false - turn off airplane mode
 */
public static void setAndroidDeviceAirplaneMode(boolean status) {
    try {

        String airplaneModeStatus = "";
        if (status) {
            airplaneModeStatus = "0";
        } else {
            airplaneModeStatus = "0";
        }
        String sdkPath = System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME") + "/platform-tools/";
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(sdkPath + "adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on " + airplaneModeStatus);
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        Process process = Runtime.getRuntime()
                .exec(sdkPath + "adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE");
        process.waitFor();
        Thread.sleep(4000);
        if (status) {
            logger.info("Android device Airplane mode status is set to ON");
        } else {
            logger.info("Android device Airplane mode status is set to OFF");
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        logger.error("Unable to set android device Airplane mode.");
    }
}

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

william's answer was the closest one that worked for me -> Android 5.0 Lollipop. However, sometimes it wouldn't toggle because it was trying to toggle before the Settings activity was fully loaded.

So I made the terminal sleep for 0.1 seconds. and I added hitting the back to exit out of Settings

adb shell am start -a android.settings.AIRPLANE_MODE_SETTINGS
adb shell input keyevent 19 ; sleep 0.1; adb shell input keyevent 23; sleep 0.3; adb shell input keyevent 4;
echo "Toggled airplane mode";

Answer 5

adb shell am start -a android.settings.AIRPLANE_MODE_SETTINGS & adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_ENTER & adb shell input keyevent 4

Will toggle airplane mode. However does anyone know if there's a way to explicitly uncheck or check the box? The problem is I can't find a way to check the state before toggling. adb shell settings get global airplane_mode_on does not work for me, settings is not found.

Answer 6

Since the broadcast commands stopped working after Nougat, I would recommend using something like this:

adb shell "input keyevent KEYCODE_WAKEUP;input keyevent KEYCODE_MOVE_HOME;am start -a android.settings.AIRPLANE_MODE_SETTINGS;sleep 0.5;input keyevent KEYCODE_ENTER;pm clear com.android.settings;input keyevent KEYCODE_HOME"

This works on Samsung S7