As seen earlier, adb is a command-line tool that helps you to communicate with a device to retrieve information. Using adb, you can extract data from all of the files on the device or just the relevant files in which you are interested. This is the most widely used technique as part of logical extraction.
To access an Android device through adb, the USB debugging option must be enabled. From Android 4.2.2, due to secure USB debugging, the host connecting to the device should also be authorized. If the device is locked and USB debugging is not enabled, try to bypass the screen lock using the techniques explained in Chapter 8, Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques.
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