How to access data/data folder in Android device?

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Accessing the files directly on your phone is difficult, but you may be able to copy them to your computer where you can do anything you want with it.
Without rooting you have 2 options:

  1. If the application is debuggable you can use the run-as command in adb shell

    adb shell
run-as com.your.packagename 
cp /data/data/com.your.packagename/

  2. Alternatively you can use Android’s backup function.

    adb backup -noapk com.your.packagename

    You will now be prompted to ‘unlock your device and confirm the backup operation’. It’s best NOT to provide a password, otherwise it becomes more difficult to read the data. Just click on ‘backup my data’. The resulting ‘backup.ab’ file on your computer contains all application data in android backup format. Basically it’s a compressed tar file. This page explains how you can use OpenSSL’s zlib command to uncompress it.
    You can use the adb restore backup.db command to restore the backup.

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