adb push ... Permission denied

Question

I am trying to push a file to a directory on a physical android device, but I am running into the following error.

>adb push data.db /data/data/com.me.app/databases
failed to copy 'data.db' to '/data/data/com.me.app/databases/data.db': Permission denied

I believe adb has sufficient privileges.

>adb root
adbd is already running as root

Here are the permission details for the path: /data/data/com.me.app/databases

drwxrwxrwx system   system            2014-01-14 10:31 data
drwxrwxrwx system   system            2015-05-23 16:06 data
drwxrwxrwx u0_a224  u0_a224           2015-05-23 15:26 com.me.app
drwxrwxrwx u0_a224  u0_a224           2015-05-23 15:30 databases

I am not sure what to do here. Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, but I just want to push the data.db file into the /data/data/com.me.app/databases directory on the device.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or what I should consider? Thanks.

alexandroid · Answer

I had a variation of this problem so going to leave it here in case someone else googles for it:

./adb push update.zip /sdcard
[  0%] C:/Users/Alex/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/sdcard
adb: error: failed to copy 'update.zip' to 'C:/Users/Alex/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/sdcard':
remote secure_mkdirs failed: No such file or directory
update.zip: 0 files pushed. 41.6 MB/s (131072 bytes in 0.003s)

However in my case the problem was running adb from Git bash Shell (MinGW64). Running it from regular Windows shell worked fine.

Alexey Romanov · Answer

The usual approach, which doesn't require any additional apps:

Push to /data/tmp/;

Copy on the device using adb shell, using cp if it's available on your device or cat if it isn't.
 > adb push data.db /data/tmp/data.db
 > adb shell
 # su # or run-as com.me.app
 # cp /data/tmp/data.db /data/data/com.me.app/databases/data.db

Remembering to change com.me.app to the correct package name for your app.

yohosuff · Answer

Edit: I found a work-around: AirDroid allows me to upload the file, but the permissions on the file are set to this:

-rw-------

Performing the following commands solves this problem (from Windows 7 command prompt).

>adb shell
# su
# chmod 777 /data/data/com.me.app/databases/data.db

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