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- ddms] transfer error: open failed：Permission denied

I get a trouble when learning android Data-Persistence.
I changed the daenter image description hereta/data/com.flexible.filepersistencetest/files/data permission to 777. But I still can't pull it to my PC.
when I try to delete Nexus_5_API_24.avd 's permission of Read-Only, the Read-Only will be back.
It really exaust me.
Any advice is ok, thank you very much!

change file permissions.
C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools> adb shell
generic_x86:/ $ su
generic_x86_64:/ # chmod -R 777 /data
generic_x86_64:/ # exit
run the below commands under the terminal in Android studio integration.
C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools> adb shell
generic_x86:/ $
generic_x86:/ $ exit
$ adb root
restarting adbd as root
$ adb shell
generic_x86:/ # exit
open cmd windows.
C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools> adb pull /data/data/xxxx C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools
or use "pull" button

Android SQLite db pull error

i am trying to pull db from my app but i keep getting this error in eclipse->DDMS->FileExplorer
[2014-08-07 12:53:03 - ddms] transfer error: Permission denied
[2014-08-07 12:53:03] Failed to pull selection: Permission denied
i tried to do it from CMD with this command
C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools>adb -d shell
shell#android:/ $ run-as com.iqpandroid
run-as com.iqpandroid
run-as: Package 'com.iqpandroid' has corrupt installation
as u can see the message that installation has currupt installation.. can somebody help?

Execute this command from terminal:
adb root - restarts the adb daemon with root permissions

As far as I am aware you will need to have root access.
From terminal:
adb shell
su
chmod -R 777 /data/data/com.your.package

chmod android file system from script

I'm using an Android-x86 vm running in vmware fusion for some testing purposes. I am pushing files to it via adb push, however, every time I uninstall and reinstall the app, I have to execute the following:
adb shell
su
chmod 777 /my/path
exit
exit
I need to be able to script out this entire process but I'm not sure how I can manage the chmod process via some sort of script. I tried doing something like
adb shell am chmod 777 /my/path
But that doesn't work. I thought it would because I can do
adb shell am start ...
I also tried:
adb shell "su && chmod 777 /my/path && exit && exit"
which actually works, but doesn't exit the shell process. So any advice is much appreciated.

You can pass commands to adb shell, as you mentioned, though it works better if you surround the command in quotes.
Likewise, you can pass commands to the 'su' command using the -c argument. Add all of this together and it should do what you want in a nice one-liner!
adb shell "su -c 'chmod 777 /my/path'"

Attempting to gain r/w access to android /system

Working on a root script for the Nexus 4 with the latest stock rom .img for google (occam) and I have the following code snippet:
./adb wait-for-device
echo "remounting system"
./adb shell "mount -o remount,rw /system"
./adb push su /system/bin/
echo "pushing super user"
./adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/
echo "pushing busybox"
./adb push busybox /system/xbin/
./adb shell "chmod 06755 /system/bin/su"
./adb shell "chmod 0644 /system/app/Superuser.apk"
./adb shell "chmod 04755 /system/xbin/busybox"
./adb shell "cd /system/xbin"
./adb shell "busybox --install /system/xbin/"
I keep getting the error
mount: Operation not permitted
failed to copy 'su' to '/system/bin//su': Read-only file system
pushing super user
failed to copy 'Superuser.apk' to '/system/app//Superuser.apk': Read-only file system
pushing busybox
failed to copy 'busybox' to '/system/xbin//busybox': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/app/Superuser.apk: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
/system/bin/sh: busybox: not found
I've tried using multiple methods of obtaining r/w access, but nothing seems to be working. I have to automate this process due to the fact that other people will use the script so it needs to be automation friendly, but I just can't figure this out.
I've also tried the
#su
#mount
#mount | grep system
followed by inputting the partition with the system mount and changing it to r/w access, but that also hasn't worked.
Really frustrated at this point. Can anyone help?

It gives the error because you aren't root. The system partition is mounted read-only. You can try to push the binary to /data/local/tmp. Then you can make su executable and eventual run it. But it doesn't mean you can have root. To become root you need to push an exploit like psneuter to /data/local/tmp and run it. It crashes the shell and reopen a new one with root rights. Then you can remount the system-partition read-write and install su.

Try the commands below
adb shell "su -c mount -o remount,rw /system"
adb shell "su -c chmod 06755 /system/bin/su"
and so on.

Launch a script as root through ADB

I have created a script to mount partitions and do some stuff in my Android system. I saved the script as install.sh in the /bin folder of Android.
I want to call the script from ADB, which is itself called from a batch file on Windows, but it needs to be executed as root.
The first solution I tried was to call the script using
adb shell "su -c sh /bin/script.sh"
but it does not work as it gives me a shell access (with root permissions), but nothing is executed.
I also tried to call
adb root "sh /bin/script.sh"
but I got the following error
adbd cannot run as root in production builds
I then tried to write
su -c "command"
for all the commands which need a root access in my script, but I have the same problem.
When I run the script I only obtain a root shell and nothing is executed.
If I use the first solution by hand (e.g. I call adb shell su, then my script), it works. However the whole point is to automate the process, so that adb shell can be called from another script.
Do you have any idea of how I could achieve this ?
Thanks !

This works for me:
Create myscript.bat and put into it (note the single quotes around the commands to be executed in superuser mode):
adb shell "su -c 'command1; command2; command3'"
then run myscript.bat from a DOS shell.
Note: it doesn't appear that the the DOS line continuation character (^) works in this situation. In other words, the following doesn't work for me:
adb shell "su -c '^
command1; ^
command2; ^
command3'"
This results in "Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string"

This works :
adb shell echo command which needs root privileges \| su
If you need redirection:
adb shell echo 'echo anytext > /data/data/aforbiddenfolder/file' \| su
For "copying" a local file to an android path needing root privileges (but alocalfile must not contain '):
cat alocalfile | adb shell echo "echo '`cat`' > /data/data/aforbiddenfolder/file" \| su
If you have a better way (even for su versions which don't have -c), I am interested.

This works for me:
adb shell "su -c ./data/local/tcpdump-arm -s 0 -v -w /data/local/appxpress_dump.pcap"

I am not sure if I provided a solution or asked for a better one.
I wanted to run some 200 command in batch mode to be sent to adb
I followed this approach
adb shell "su -c command ; "
adb shell "su -c command ; "
adb shell "su -c command ; "
adb shell "su -c command ; "
and I saved them in a batch file
This command
adb shell "su -c 'command1; command2; command3'"
will not work beyond a certain max size . It did not work
error: service name too long

but it does not work as it gives me a shell access (with root permissions), but nothing is executed.
How do you know that you are given root permissions? I assume you are attempting to execute the script on a device? Has your device been rooted?
You may need to give execute permissions via chmod to the file.
chmod ugo=rwx /bin/script.sh

It appears that I was using a very simple version of su which did not accept the -c argument.
I copied another su which did work. AndyD is totally right though, so I am accepting his answer instead of mine :)