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How to start root shell with Android Studio?
WINDOWS: In the current version of Android Studio, ADB.exe is located in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\. Earlier versions of Android Studio have it in %LOCALDATA%\Android\sdk\...
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How to start root shell with Android Studio?
Android Studio does not contain ADB, you need Android SDK for it (it is installed on first run of Android Studio 0.9.x and newer). ADB is located in sdk\platform-tools.
It's possible to add to PATH ...
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What is this `adb` utility I keep getting advice to use?
About adb
To put it shortly, adb (Android Debug Bridge) is a utility made to be installed on a computer, in order to let it gain a shell on a phone that's either connected via USB cable, or on the ...
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How to find out currently running user name/ID from ADB
For Android 8, 9, 10, and possibly for Nougat too I suppose, run:
adb shell am get-current-user # returns USER_ID of the foreground user
adb shell cmd activity get-current-user # ...
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Activate USB tethering from the command line
Running the following command as root should enable USB tethering:
service call connectivity 32 i32 1 on Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)
service call connectivity 33 i32 1 on Jelly Bean (4.1 to 4.3)
service ...
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Enable location services via ADB or shell
On Android 6.0,
To enable:
GPS: adb shell settings put secure location_providers_allowed +gps
Network: adb shell settings put secure location_providers_allowed +network
To disable:
GPS: adb shell ...
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What's the best way to restart Android via command line (remotely)?
What is the device doing exactly when I'm pushing the (hardware) power button? I guess that's the most friendly way.
You get to see a dialog with an option to power off the device (stock Android ...
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Sending intents using ADB with additional action, data, and extra
The Android developer documentation explains how to specify an intent in the argument to the am command.
In your case you want -a to specify the action, -d to specify the data URI, and --ez to ...
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How to execute commands, after exiting ADB shell?
Write your script a little different:
#!/bin/bash
adb shell <<EOF
...
<open app menu>
<open app settings>
<save app backup>
...
EOF
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Backups/ ~/...
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What's the best way to restart Android via command line (remotely)?
killall zygote
This will kill the root zygote process and cause a Android system refresh.
This does not restart your phone's hardware, only the Android processes.
By default (in Linux), the kill/...
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adb shell -> su: not found
Your device is not rooted. To see what Rooting is and how to go about doing it:
http://www.androidcentral.com/root
What does "to root a phone" mean?
Once you have rooted your device, you ...
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how to turn on/off automatic date/time settings
turn on:
settings put global auto_time 1
turn off:
settings put global auto_time 0
source: Android sourcecode
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How to start root shell with Android Studio?
On a Mac Android Studio installs adb there:
/Users/<your username>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
To use it in your shell, you can add it to your .profile file:
export PATH=/Users/<...
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How to check if a package is enabled via shell?
pm list packages -d 2>/dev/null
will list up all disabled packages, one per line, preceded with the keyword package: – so output looks like
package:com.android.exchange
package:com.android.email
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How to kill dhcpcd?
A way to dynamically get the PID of the dhcp process, and kill it altogether, would be to run:
su
var=$(ps | grep dhcp)
kill $(echo -n $var | cut -d " " -f 0)
Specifically:
line 1 asks for root ...
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Toggling USB mass storage on (or off) via adb commands
I tried the "StorageManager.enableUsbMassStorage" and the "StorageManager.disableUsbMassStorage" to enable and disable the mass storage and its works.
Thanks.
That methods are private method. So, ...
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Enable location services via ADB or shell
Android location service comes with different options:
High accuracy: gps, network
Enable: adb shell settings put secure location_providers_allowed +gps,network
Disable: adb shell settings put ...
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How can I change pointer locations setting in developer options from adb shell?
To enable Pointer locations, the command is:
adb shell settings put system pointer_location 1
Change 1 to 0 to disable it.
Enter adb shell settings to understand its usage and what the aforesaid ...
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What does "svc power stayon wireless" do?
Executing svc power on the shell will bring the usage:
usage: svc power stayon [true|false|usb|ac|wireless]
Set the 'keep awake while plugged in' setting.
The command will set whether to ...
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How do I install missing command line tools onto an Android device?
For rooted Android devices
You can consider installing BusyBox app by Stephen. Per Play Store, the minimum Android version supported by app is Android 1.6 and it is a well-updated app. In essence, it ...
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Where can I run a .sh script on Android without root?
/storage/emulated/0 is usually mounted in a way that prevents execution of programs from this location.
Therefore even with a set executable bit for your script you won't be able to execute it ...
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List devices/computers that have been authorized for ADB USB Debugging
You can see which devices were authorized by you on your phone to interact with it through adb. You would need root access though.
Go into the directory /data/misc/adb/. There would be two files:
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Is it possible to set device's Latitude and Longitude using ADB SHELL?
Alternatively what might also be an option here is to use Appium's io.appium.setting's app.
Once that app's installed on the device you can give it permissions and mock location through adb like ...
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Activate USB tethering from the command line
If your Android version has svc inbuilt utility, run this command:
adb shell svc usb setFunctions rndis
This would enable USB tethering. To see what other USB functions are available, run:
adb shell ...
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Run downloaded shell command without root?
Yes, this is by design. You can't execute binaries from the SD card without system or superuser privileges (and remounting it without the noexec option) because otherwise apps could just download and ...
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Run downloaded shell command without root?
Android, just as Linux, prevents any user but root, to change the permission bits of any file not owned by such user. That said, chmod is ineffective, unless you have root privileges.
By the way, ...
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Is there a non-app tool for batch backup of APK files?
This script is outdated and no longer supported. For the newest version, which requires Android 5+ and Python 3.5+, and supports Arcus theme variants and Substratum overlays, see my GitHub repository.
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Using LineageOS native SSHD over ADB
AFAIK with LineageOS 14.1 (I have a rooted FairPhone 2), sshd is enabled by default and ready to use. Its config file is /system/etc/ssh/sshd_config which points to /data/ssh/ for keys storage. I ...
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How can I see all installed packages, including those that have been hidden?
If you run adb shell pm you would find many options and parameters for pm. One of the parameter is -u to show uninstalled packages. (Hidden packages are treated as uninstalled packages.)
On an ...
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How to set static IP on command line or adb shell?
You can try using ip command.
How it compares to ifconfig
Edit:
To set up an IP address you can use:
ip address add 192.168.0.77 dev eth0
or the long form
ip addr add 192.168.0.77/24 ...
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