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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition
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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

by Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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ADB dumpsys

Dumpsys is a tool built into the Android OS, generally used for development purposes to show the status of services running on the device. However, it can also contain forensically interesting information. Dumpsys does not require root access, but, like all ADB commands, does require USB Debugging to be enabled on the device and Secure USB Debugging to be bypassed.

The exact services that can be viewed differ across devices and Android versions. To view a list of all possible services that can be dumped, run the following command:

adb shell service list

The output of the command will appear as a list, as shown here:

The service ...

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ISBN: 9781789131017