Accessing the Data partition

[farfromuman]

I can access files in the system folder and all of its sub folders with ES File Explorer and Android Commander, but the data folder is empty. On my rooted Hero I was able to access all the folders with these programs.
Using adb shell I can access the data folder and list files but I cannot pull files form it. Pulling from system works fine.

I am on the stock ROM and rooted.

Thanks for any tips.

 

[beezy]

I can access files in the system folder and all of its sub folders with ES File Explorer and Android Commander, but the data folder is empty. On my rooted Hero I was able to access all the folders with these programs.
Using adb shell I can access the data folder and list files but I cannot pull files form it. Pulling from system works fine.

I am on the stock ROM and rooted.

Thanks for any tips.

On stock i don't think there is anything in data/app unless you downloaded a sprintid. In command prompt do
adb shell
ls /data/ <--does it list anything?

On stock rom you don't have remount. You could do
adb devices
adb pull /data/
That should pull all the non-protected files from data.

 

[hamagc]

on my mostly stock system, my /data is filled with all kinds of goodies, /data/app has all of my apps installed.

i use root explorer to access this section. weird that adb won't pull it for you. you are using su correct?

 

[farfromuman]

I can list files in data, it just will not pull any. All the apps are in the data/app directory. Pulling from System works fine.

e:\android\sdk\tools>adb pull /data/
pull: building file list...
0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.

# ls /data/
ls /data/
tombstones
anr
app
data
dalvik-cache
local
app-private
disk
misc
amit
dontpanic
dbcheck
radio
backup
inc_data_path
property
system
lost+found
#

 

[hamagc]

I can list files in data, it just will not pull any. All the apps are in the data/app directory. Pulling from System works fine.

e:\android\sdk\tools>adb pull /data/
pull: building file list...
0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.

# ls /data/
ls /data/
tombstones
anr
app
data
dalvik-cache
local
app-private
disk
misc
amit
dontpanic
dbcheck
radio
backup
inc_data_path
property
system
lost+found
#

ok try this:

e:\android\sdk\tools\adb pull /data/app e:\data

that looks identical to what i just did. only differences are i have adb in my windows folder so i can call it direct, and it's on my c drive.

adb pull /data/app c:\data\app\

 

[farfromuman]

Getting 0 files pulled with the exact command.

e:\android\sdk\tools\adb pull /data/app e:\data

 

[hamagc]

and your positive your rooted? thats the only thing i can think of that would not let you pull these files.

when i did it, i forgot the \data after c:\ so i ended up with a mess in my c-drive lol.

but everything pulled without issue. my setup should be the same. stock rom. i do have the oc kernel.

 

[beezy]

Getting 0 files pulled with the exact command.

e:\android\sdk\tools\adb pull /data/app e:\data

I'm just wondering what you need from data maybe i can pull it for you? I tried to use ES file manager and had the same problem you did. I know there's a way to get it to but i dont' remember how. I personally don't like ES i use root explorer and astro.lol

 

[mrinehart93]

just do an "adb pull / C:\pulledapps". That'll get you a dump of your whole phone, minus protected files.

 

[farfromuman]

It seems I can now pull the files out of data folder, the only thing that changed is that I installed the ThundeROM 1.6 on top of the stock ROM, quite nice BTW.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[hamagc]

Could this be kernel related?

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[beezy]

Could this be kernel related?

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Nope i just figured it out you have to enable root in ES file explorer then everything in /data/ shows.lol Just a tip i used "hiAPK" you'll know what i mean once you get to it.

 

[hamagc]

Lol thanks beezy but I meant not being able to adb pull on the data partition

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[beezy]

Lol thanks beezy but I meant not being able to adb pull on the data partition

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It finally hit me how i pulled all the files,sorry it's just been awhile since i had to do this but you have to use this command to mount the system "Rw" instead of 'Ro' (mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system) then you should be able to pull /data. Sometime this worn out brain just has to think for a long time.lol

Edited to reflect the right command

 

[hamagc]

huh? why would you need to mount read only to pull? i'm on a stock system with the oc kernel. i didn't have to do anything special to pull. just adb pull /data c:\data.

the only thing i can think that would be different bewteen me and the op is the kernel. once he flashed to thunderom, it flashed him the oc kernel and he had no problems.

just a thought. does the stock kernel need to be mounted ro to pull? also i think i pulled it in ubuntu, not windows.

 

[beezy]

huh? why would you need to mount read only to pull? i'm on a stock system with the oc kernel. i didn't have to do anything special to pull. just adb pull /data c:\data.

the only thing i can think that would be different bewteen me and the op is the kernel. once he flashed to thunderom, it flashed him the oc kernel and he had no problems.

just a thought. does the stock kernel need to be mounted ro to pull? also i think i pulled it in ubuntu, not windows.

First thing i messed up i went back and edited it.It should be rw not ro.lol. It will work on windows i used windows to pull all my data when i was still running stock non-root.I actually pulled it three different times twice on windows and once with linux.

 

[beezy]

We'll know for sure if you can pull with windows on a stock rom with no special commands or anything in about 5minutes, it's driving me nuts wondering so im flipping back to stock to see.lol

 

[hamagc]

Lol sorry beezy. Didn't mean to make you go through all this.

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[beezy]

Lol sorry beezy. Didn't mean to make you go through all this.

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Don't worry about it. Im just curious and it's been driving me nuts. Ive done it several times it's not hard at all to flip back to stock and reroot. Its like a personal challenge to myself.lol

 

[beezy]

Okay i was able to pull without anything extra.Here's exactly the commands i typed.
adb devices
adb remount
adb pull /data

I know the first two commands are not needed and remount errors on stock,but it's force of habit. So not sure why op had a problem,might have been he just needed to kill all adb process on the pc and then restart them,but hey we all have something give us problem sooner or later,i know i sure do.lol Glad thats figured out i can sleep good tonight now.

Edit just wanted to make sure i cleared up that i didn't do adb pull /data c:\data cause i already have sdk in my path so i just cd into a folder i had already made and then did the adb pull /data.