Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Root access - ADB shell

A normal Android phone does not allow you to access certain directories and files on the device. For example, try to access the /data/data folder on an Android device that is not rooted. You will see the following message:

Permission denial without root access

On a rooted phone, you can run the adb shell as root by issuing the following command:

C:\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb.exe root

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

Successful execution of shell command on a rooted device

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