New to Android.

[qgenesist]

Arrgh. New to Andoriod, 63 years old, but a computer programmer in the old days iSeries and RPG (and assembly believe it or not on that computer) limited unix type experience.


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Here is a snip out of my command lines in adb shell


C:\Android\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
ZY223D4WGD device


C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\Users\"Pawn and Loan LLC"\Desktop
adb: error: failed to access 'LLC\Desktop': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\pack.txt
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\pack.txt': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\Temp
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml %userprofile%\desktop
adb: error: failed to access 'LLC\desktop': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:/Users/"Pawn and
Loan LLC"/desktop
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:/Users/"Pawn and
Loan LLC"/desktop
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

I have sloshed around in here and cant find the answer I am looking for, no doubt it is in here, but my looking skills are not up to it.

What I BELIEVE I am trying to do is get the list of installed packages from the phone and put it in a text file in my desktop, or some folder on C. I dont know how to say forget the path of the object on the phone, put it here in my desktop and create the file packages.xml if it doesnt exist without the data/system stuff.

I can reprise the same errors ad nauseam, but nothing seems to work any faster. I am sure even novices can see where I am going wrong and can edify me in correcting these commands.

Thank you

 

[svim]

If you've rooted your G4 and you use a file manager app on your phone like Root Explorer, you can access files like packages.xml and packages.txt in that /data/system directory.

And this might also not be relevant to your query but if you start up the the Play Store app on your G4, in the upper left hamburger menu if you tap on the 'My apps & games' option there will be three categories -- Updates (for any any apps to be or recently updated), Installed (apps you've installed), and Library (all apps, installed and previously uninstalled). This is all just GUI related so if you're indeed looking for text solutions, please ignore all of the above.

 

[qgenesist]

Thanks, I have not rooted it yet, but to simply list them I can pm list packages but I want to save that list to my windows computer in a text file. I could copy select all and copy the command box as I did for the list of my failures into notepad, but I want to do it via a command from adb, it should be doable cuz it is telling me that I am stupid, so I am trying to figure out how its wrong.

 

[svim]

I have no experience with adb but there are others here with quite a bit so hopefully they'll chime in.
But just offhand I'll just add that I don't know if that packages.xml file is what you're looking for. If you're looking for just a listing of your phone's packages/apps, there's a quite a bit of editing and clean up to do. I copied both my packages.xml and packages.txt to my computer and using a text editor doing a search for 'netalyzr' (an app I have on my phone) this is the result of just three items -- the entry before, the netalyzer entry itself, and the entry after:

From the packages.xml file:

<package name="com.sec.tcpdumpservice" codePath="/system/app/TcpdumpService.apk" nativeLibraryPath="/data/app-lib/TcpdumpService" flags="572997" ft="3eefb1818" it="3eefb1818" ut="3eefb1818" version="18" sharedUserId="1000">
<sigs count="1">
<cert index="1" />
</sigs>
<signing-keyset identifier="1" />
</package>
<package name="edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android" codePath="/data/app/edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android-5.apk" nativeLibraryPath="/data/app-lib/edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android-5" flags="1621572" ft="1508d383310" it="147a3cdb995" ut="1508d3839e2" version="25" userId="1069" installer="com.android.vending">
<sigs count="1">
<cert index="73" key="3082033830820220a00302010202045255cce0300d06092a864886f70d0101050500305e310b3009060355040613025553310b30090603550408130243413111300f060355040713086265726b656c6579310d300b060355040a130469637369310d300b060355040b1304696373693111300f060355040313086e6574616c797a72301e170d3133313030393231333834305a170d34313032323rocinante34305a305e310b3009060355040613025553310b30090603550408130243413111300f060355040713086265726b656c6579310d300b060355040a130469637369310d300b060355040b1304696373694222300f060355040313086e6574616c797a7230820122300d06092a864886f70d01010105000382010f003082010a0282010100c05c4fc959d4ea365a16e8e4524bfb0679f2ad34c55f7d0b20ecda48bee085fecfcd390195f258cc6897c6b6fb404a06fb30d2ed5f5905ace457ea00dfd0065292b1403feemiller4be1f3agua2519dde62abcab5a42ef23318cc39polanski4c7374ef99bdb0f463bc3abedad36a40d999409dc1a41c4ee3f004fa5089c8aec29936455a8bc2df329db897f3c7d4bb037b651015812a53d2a3f4f301e29e81d32f7ce710ff42dbae15afa537bbb6e94ed370c94bca6bd160980513128e8559e207390ba92bbf6196c6b60caff6e62b906fef5e7ae32923c6d7f86289donkeyballs43632d1db3d98392d41ec91f4d01c12af7d28b19f32d7ec3f202b9ddfaeb710203010001300d06092a864886f70d010105050003820101007693d27082780e36237a51a168518c3b240c09b41cde68fc9c933b1229ecc650fa212aa3874ce1647282a07df258847327a2995ddc5e9acfb27c5184966c3f143b53faf2b87e1b4b51c59edeeb529dfa946feced03905d2b0524714b4d542667a5acdd6438534404891f99b8256b4743d2cdaf627a9a16ffb08ac9e0b61ec9a3263dc95963f16c29c4583e6cd2f3bb6257341cf9e649dcd47da8f5ba62fe04260fbc23702a2beb59343cddbe808b3e821f58" />
</sigs>
<perms>
<item name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<item name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<item name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
<item name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<item name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
<item name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<item name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<item name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<item name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<item name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<item name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES" />
</perms>
<signing-keyset identifier="2" />
<signing-keyset identifier="5" />
<signing-keyset identifier="3" />
<signing-keyset identifier="1" />
</package>
<package name="com.android.proxyhandler" codePath="/system/priv-app/ProxyHandler.apk" nativeLibraryPath="/data/app-lib/ProxyHandler" flags="1074314821" ft="138ec6218" it="11b7e237e00" ut="138ec6218" version="19" userId="10220">
<sigs count="1">
<cert index="1" />
</sigs>
<signing-keyset identifier="1" />
</package>

From the packages.list file:

com.sec.tcpdumpservice 1000 0 /data/data/com.sec.tcpdumpservice platform
3001,3002,1023,1007,3003,1028,1015,3004,3005,1001,2001,1024
edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android 10069 0 /data/data/edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android default 3003,1028,1015,1023
com.android.proxyhandler 10220 0 /data/data/com.android.proxyhandler platform 3003

As you can see, this is just three out of dozens and dozens so you'll need to be doing quite a bit of filtering and clean up to get to a stripped down list no matter if you're working with the .list or .xml file.

 

[Deleted User]

Arrgh. New to Andoriod, 63 years old, but a computer programmer in the old days iSeries and RPG (and assembly believe it or not on that computer) limited unix type experience.


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Here is a snip out of my command lines in adb shell


C:\Android\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
ZY223D4WGD device


C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\Users\"Pawn and Loan LLC"\Desktop
adb: error: failed to access 'LLC\Desktop': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\pack.txt
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\pack.txt': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\Temp
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml %userprofile%\desktop
adb: error: failed to access 'LLC\desktop': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:\
adb: error: cannot create file/directory 'C:\': No such file or directory

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:/Users/"Pawn and
Loan LLC"/desktop
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

C:\Android\platform-tools>adb pull /data/system/packages.xml C:/Users/"Pawn and
Loan LLC"/desktop
adb: error: remote object '/data/system/packages.xml' does not exist

I have sloshed around in here and cant find the answer I am looking for, no doubt it is in here, but my looking skills are not up to it.

What I BELIEVE I am trying to do is get the list of installed packages from the phone and put it in a text file in my desktop, or some folder on C. I dont know how to say forget the path of the object on the phone, put it here in my desktop and create the file packages.xml if it doesnt exist without the data/system stuff.

I can reprise the same errors ad nauseam, but nothing seems to work any faster. I am sure even novices can see where I am going wrong and can edify me in correcting these commands.

Thank you

You don't need to specify a destination folder when using adb pull. The correct command would just be

adb pull /data/system/packages.xml

Which would transfer the packages.xml file into your current folder on Windows.

Actually it looks like the destination folder can be specified, but it's optional. So your version of the command line should work, don't really see what the problem is there.
But try the above command anyway and see if you have better luck with it.