I am facing an issue in Android Studio, when I connect my physical device to Android Studio and try to access the file explorer window in Android Studio, it is giving error as "ls: data/data/: permission denied "

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Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I am facing an issue in Android Studio, when I connect my physical device to Android Studio and try to access the file explorer window in Android Studio, it is giving error as "ls: data/data/: permission denied "

screenshot attached for reference,

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

• android-studio
• android-device-explorer

Share Improve this question Follow asked Mar 11 at 14:27 ShreeShree 79588 silver badges2323 bronze badges 3

• Which Android Studio version do you use? Via adb you neve have read access to /data/data thus the error may be misleading. The list of installed apps (thus subdirectories of /data/data) is AFAIK generated using Android package manager nut using ls. – Robert Commented Mar 12 at 14:04
• I am using Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2 Patch 1 I also tried the Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 (January 2025) I am facing the same issue with both versions. – Shree Commented Mar 12 at 14:13
• You can try to manually execute the adb commands used by Android Studio internally and see what you get. medium/@liwp.stephen/… Especially the section List packages -> physical device should be of interest. – Robert Commented Mar 12 at 14:20

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Run your project

Click on Turn On Package filters

Go Files Tabs, find and open your project

Back Preocesses Tab

That worked for me