How to restart adb from root to user mode?

Question

Basic question on ADB.

adb root restarts adb as root. But what i want is to restart it back to user after some time.

I tried the following :

adb kill-server adb start-server 

doesnt work..

ps -A -> noted the process number of adb and killed it.. even this did not work. Finally i am restarting my device. Is there any way i can come back from root adb to general adb?

Thank you.

Answer 1

adb kill-server and adb start-server only control the adb daemon on the PC side. You need to restart adbd daemon on the device itself after reverting the service.adb.root property change done by adb root:

~$ adb shell id uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell)  ~$ adb root restarting adbd as root  ~$ adb shell id uid=0(root) gid=0(root)  ~$ adb shell 'setprop service.adb.root 0; setprop ctl.restart adbd'  ~$ adb shell id uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) 

Answer 2

If you used adb root, you would have got the following message:

C:\>adb root * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * restarting adbd as root 

To get out of the root mode, you can use:

C:\>adb unroot restarting adbd as non root