Root Access

Genymotion Desktop offers several unrooted Android images which can be rooted dynamically:

Our most recent Android images are not rooted by default, but they can be rooted dynamically:

Some of our images are un-rooted images and can be dynamically rooted:

Rooting and unrooting the device is controlled via the device property persist.sys.root_access which can be changed from the Advanced Developer Tools, when creating or editing a device from the launchpad:

Once the device is rooted, root access is available and can be granted to applications or obtained via the command line interfaces, as explained in the sections below.

Root toggling is controlled via the device property persist.sys.root_access which can be changed only by command line, with adb, for the moment.

To toggle root:

1. Follow the instructions from Connect to ADB to connect your device to adb.
2. Run the following ADB command:

adb shell setprop persist.sys.root_access 3

Once the device is rooted, root access is available and can be granted to applications or obtained via the command line interfaces, as explained in the sections below.

To disable root, run the ADB command:

adb shell setprop persist.sys.root_access 0

Root toggling is controlled via the device property persist.sys.root_access which can be changed either from the user interface, by command line or with the HTTP API.

adb shell setprop persist.sys.root_access 3

setprop persist.sys.root_access 3

adb shell setprop persist.sys.root_access 0

setprop persist.sys.root_access 0

adb shell getprop persist.sys.root_access

getprop persist.sys.root_access

curl -u <username>:<password> -X 'POST' \
'https://34.247.73.220/api/v1/configuration/properties/persist.sys.root_access' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"value": "3"
}'

curl -u <username>:<password> -X 'POST' \
'https://34.247.73.220/api/v1/configuration/properties/persist.sys.root_access' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"value": "0"
}'

curl -u <username>:<password> -X 'GET' \
'https://34.247.73.220/api/v1/configuration/properties/persist.sys.root_access' \
-H 'accept: application/json'

{
    "key": "persist.sys.root_access",
    "value": "0"
}