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CT900User
CT900User

Reputation: 21

Howto root android emulator running Android 7.0

I am trying to get root access to the Android Emulator which comes with the Android SDK running Android 7.0. I tried these instructions: Obtain root access via su on the Android emulator

But I get:

E:\Develop\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
mount: '/system' not in /proc/mounts

I also followed the instructions at the end of this thread: How to get root access on Android emulator?

But I get:

E:\Develop\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>adb root
E:\Develop\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>adb remount
Not running as root. Try "adb root" first

obviously "adb root" does not give me root access.

Help is very much appreciated!

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1072

Answers (1)

tstaylor7
tstaylor7

Reputation: 166

I'm assuming you're on the Google Play system image (system-images;android-26;google_apis_playstore;x86). If so, adbd is set to secure in ramdisk.img. I was able to work around it by swapping out the ramdisk.img with the one from the non-Play image (system-images;android-26;google_apis;x86).

Upvotes: 3

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