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My system are MIUI 12.5, Android 11 and Rooted with magisk. I chmod 711 /data_mirror and /data_mirror/data_ce After reboot, they changed back to 0700 Is there a way to edit policy or some.rc ? I would ...
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My script is located in the Download folder of the device and it's path is /storage/emulated/0/Download/ My shell script contains: testSharath.sh #!/bin/sh #!/system/bib/sh echo "Hello from ...
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I want to make a code compiler/executor for Android but I don't know how to link libraries in command line, I saw that they use /system/bin/linker64 in some places but I don't know how to use this ...
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I'm using a Samsung phone with Android 10 I found this adb command online adb shell service call isms 7 i32 0 s16 "com.android.mms.service" s16 "${phone}" s16 "null" s16 &...
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Is there an Android shell command that can get the current status of Immersive Mode (i.e. immersive.full, immersive.status, immersive.navigation, or immersive.off)? Immersive mode can be set via the ...
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As the title suggests I want to execute a binary from my android application. I created a binary with the NDK and can run it with the adb shell. I then tried to run it with Runtime exec, but the ...
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I have 2 variants of the same app installed on my Android device which have the same package id but different application id. I am not able to launch the application using the shell command whose ...
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I need a bump in the right direction here. I want to write a script that will scroll up or down, maybe unlock the screen ( no lockscreen security set ) every 30 minutes or so. Also if possible I'd ...
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I'm trying to run a shell command in my Android app in order to check if a give tcp port is opened or not: Runtime.getRuntime().exec(arrayOf("/system/bin/sh", "-c", "netstat -...
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I want to open Download folder in my android phone using adb. I have example: start . /path/to/that/folder command for command-prompt and nautilus /path/to/that/folder for ubuntu terminal.
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Question Is there a generalized man page or documentation for the Android adb shell dumpsys [service] command? I do not mean this as this does not seem to give specifics about the output of specific ...
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I tried run ssserver on Nexus4 with Android 4.2.2 but can't. The result is "Permission denied". File permissions appear to be normal: shell@mako:/data/local/tmp $ ls -al ssserver ...
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I am developing for a specific device, and I have the system certificate installed on this device. my task is to download another app and install it without user interaction I've tried to sign my ...
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I am using adb shell to delete contacts from phone. For example if I have 50 contacts, how to delete first 10? I use this to delete one by one, is there a way to delete more contacts at once, by one ...
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As systemless root is avaible for few years it became "harder" to detect if a device is rooted or not. I started looking for a possible solution to detect if a device is rooted systemlessly or not and ...
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I am looking for Automating the below activities using ADB. Bluetooth settings -> TunrnOn BT -> Pairing (To a BT mac address which i can set) -> Connect to the BT Device on certain profiles like ...
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Im trying to build an executable which depends on a shared library in C for android. I want to run the executable on android shell. I first built the executable using android ndk (I'm using android-...
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I have Android 7 device with root (it works) I want to execute root commands via OutputStream and get messages about results via InputStream. private void getSu() { if (mProcess != null) ...
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I am trying to find a way by which I can get a list of the remembered networks' SSID on an Android device. I have seen a few threads asking similar questions. However, the few questions that I have ...
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I'm using appium for interaction between my Android device and java code. And I faced with problem that on some kind of devices(including emulators) after pressing on Home button, appium return ...
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I'm having some trouble with changing owner in the shell on my android. I'm trying to change the owner and group of a file to match another file in the directory. When I ls -l the other files have an ...
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I am new to Shell Scripts and not aware of the syntax. I have a shell script that I am pushing to my android device, and then converting it with 'busybox dos2unix' : adb shell busybox dos2unix /data/...
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On a rooted Android 6.0.1 device, I would like to have a tmpfs writable by the user. I do: mkdir /sdcard/test su mount -t tmpfs -o size=512m tmpfs /sdcard/test #Note that the permissions of /sdcard/...
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This construction failing adb shell "for i in `seq 10`; do command; done" But if run it separately it just fine adb shell root@vbox86p:/ # for i in `seq 10`; do command; done Am I missing something? ...
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I'm trying to broadcast an adb-command to a broadcast-receiver. This would be a very simple task, but the braodcast-receiver has: android:exported="false" On the offical android.developer website, ...
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Is it possible to view the upload progress of your apk to the device in Android Studio? Uploading file to: /data/local/tmp/com.mycompany.myapp I know it is possible using the command line adb push -...
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I have the following receiver which works perfectly well when the server initiates a push notification. I would like to be able to test it locally using the ADB. This is the command I'm using: adb ...
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I want to list files and directories under "/proc" in Android. When running as my application process, many files are not readable. If I list the directory as the shell user I get the ...
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How to clear focused Edit text using shell command. I tried adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_CLEAR // Not worked adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_DEL // Delete only one char adb shell input ...
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I'm curious about to know that how to add other flags to activity and broadcast receiver by editing manifest file of application. Change application's launcher icon & short-cut icon. And generate ...
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When running the following command from termial: adb shell dumpsys | grep GLES The output is: GLES: Qualcomm, Adreno (TM) 330, OpenGL ES 3.0 [email protected] AU@ (CL@) However I am unable to get the ...
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I connect all our android devices through adb with WiFi. I am trying to get the uptime in hour. what i got now is in seconds. adb connect 172.16.100.2 adb shell cat /proc/uptime > "C:\TimeLog.txt" ...
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I am trying to know, what does this command do when I write it in the terminal for android? and here is an example am start -n com.whatsapp/com.whatsapp.HomeActivity Thanks
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There is a command to start an activity based on intent: am start. Also to send a broadcast: am broadcast. I think probably there should be a shell command to query a content provider, probably ...
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I tried following way but its not working for me : public void RunAsRoot(String cmnd){ Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su"); DataOutputStream os = new DataOutputStream(p....
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this question has been raised in different places but none seem to give a simple detailed explanation of what is required. So far I have built a native binary ffmpeg to be used in android, the build ...
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I tried to find in Android source code on github, but I didn't find the implementation of the find command any where. Can some one tell me where it is. Thanks. EDIT: An out-of-box Android provides ...
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