Android: adb: Permission Denied

Question

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

D:\\android-sdk-windows\\platform-tools>adb shell find /data -na         


        

Answer 1

Without rooting: If you can't root your phone, use the run-as <package> command to be able to access data of your application.

Example:

$ adb exec-out run-as com.yourcompany.app ls -R /data/data/com.yourcompany.app/

exec-out executes the command without starting a shell and mangling the output.

Answer 2

Do adb remount. And then try adb shell

Answer 3

Solution for me was (thx to David Ljung Madison post)

1. Root the phone & be sure it is rooted
2. Adb server (adbd) was not run as root so downloaded & installed the adbd insecure app
3. Restart adb adb kill-server
4. Run it & worked like a flower!