Bugreport location

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If I have bug reports enabled in dev options and I take a bugreport from the power button menu, where are these reports saved?

I see there is an option to share it, but I want to pull it directly through adb for analysis.

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '20 at 01:04

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As of Android 10, at least for Pixel devices, bugreports taken from the device are available in /bugreports - even without root access! You can get the names of the available bug reports with

adb shell ls /bugreports/

then get the file you want with adb pull, e.g.

adb pull /bugreports/bugreport-foobar-lotsofnumbers-date.zip

answered May 10 '20 at 01:04

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It worked for me on my Galaxy Note 9 but my bugreports were in /bugreports/bugreport/ – Gazumbo Aug 27 '21 at 17:55
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Officially documented at Capture and read bug reports - Save an older bug report – Weekend Jul 06 '22 at 07:15
If you don't have adb set up, it is available in the Android Studio Device File Explorer. Just open the top level shortcut to the directory bugreports – Carson Holzheimer Aug 29 '22 at 00:10

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 12 '15 at 16:52

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Bugreports are stored in /data/data/com.android.shell/files/bugreports.

You can't access the file directly without root access.

edited Oct 12 '15 at 16:52

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answered Oct 12 '15 at 14:35

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On Android 6 (at least on Samsung Galaxy J5) is /data/data/com.android.shell/files/bugreports accessible also for shell user. – pevik Nov 15 '17 at 20:27

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '18 at 10:24

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In my case, they are in /data/user_de/0/com.android.shell/files/bugreports/

answered Aug 27 '18 at 10:24

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and linked as /bugreports – Alec Istomin Sep 22 '19 at 05:44

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 28 '16 at 03:43

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You can connect your device to your PC, and use android SDK tools adb, then go to the directory and in your command line use adb shell bugreport > bugreport.txt Your bugreport will output.

answered Mar 28 '16 at 03:43

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That will work for taking a new bugreport but not for retrieving one that already exists (i.e. taken while using the phone unattached to adb) – arcyqwerty Mar 28 '16 at 14:52

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 16 '17 at 00:16

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If you want to view the bug reports on your PC, run adb from a directory where you want to save the bugreports with

adb pull /data/data/com.android.shell/files/bugreports

But this may require root permission.

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answered Oct 24 '17 at 14:59

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That has already been mentioned in this answer – apart from the adb pull part. When using adb, on the device's end it's usually running as shell user – which IMHO is the owner of that location, so no root should be needed to pull the files. – Izzy Oct 25 '17 at 14:02

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