Android – How to poke around the sqlite3databases

Find and connect to a database

You can find busyBox on Benno’s site . If you can find the location of the .db file,you don’t really need busyBox. Though i highly recommend it since it has many useful utilities.

C:/android>adb shell

# export PATH=/data/busyBox:$PATH

export PATH=/data/busyBox:$PATH

# find data -name "*.db" -print

find data -name "*.db" -print

data/data/com.google.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.googleapps/databases/accounts.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.im/databases/im.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.media/databases/media.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.telephony/databases/mms.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.telephony/databases/sms.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db

data/data/com.google.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

data/data/com.google.android.maps/databases/maps.db

# sqlite3 data/data/com.google.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

sqlite3 data/data/com.google.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

sqlite version 3.5.0

Enter ".help" for instructions

sqlite>

Find the list of tables and their structure

sqlite> .tables

.tables

_deleted_people  contact_methods  peopleLookup

calls            people           phones

sqlite> .schema people

.schema people

CREATE TABLE people (_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,_sync_account TEXT,_sync_id TEXT,_sync_time TEXT,_sync_version TEXT,_sync_local_id INTEGER,_sync_dirty INTEGER,_sync_mark INTEGER,name TEXT NOT NULL,notes TEXT,photo TEXT,company TEXT,title TEXT,preferred_phone INTEGER,preferred_email INTEGER);

CREATE INDEX peopleSyncIdIndex ON people (_sync_id);

CREATE TRIGGER contact_cleanup DELETE ON people BEGIN DELETE FROM peopleLookup WHERE source = old._id;DELETE FROM phones WHERE person = old._id;DELETE FROM contact_methods WHERE person = old._id;UPDATE calls SET person = NULL WHERE person = old._id;END;

CREATE TRIGGER contact_to_deleted DELETE ON people WHEN old._sync_id is not null BEGIN INSERT INTO _deleted_people (_sync_id,_sync_account,_sync_version) VALUES (old._sync_id,old._sync_account,old._sync_version);END;

CREATE TRIGGER peopleLookup_insert AFTER INSERT ON people BEGIN SELECT _TOKENIZE('peopleLookup',new._id,new.name,' ');END;

CREATE TRIGGER peopleLookup_update UPDATE OF name ON people BEGIN DELETE FROM peopleLookup WHERE source = new._id;SELECT _TOKENIZE('peopleLookup',' ');END;

sqlite> .schema phones

.schema phones

CREATE TABLE phones (_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,person INTEGER,type INTEGER,number TEXT,number_key TEXT,label TEXT);

CREATE INDEX phonesIndex1 ON phones (person);

CREATE INDEX phonesIndex2 ON phones (number_key);

CREATE TRIGGER phones_delete DELETE ON phones BEGIN UPDATE people SET _sync_dirty=1 WHERE people._id=old.person;END;

CREATE TRIGGER phones_insert INSERT ON phones BEGIN UPDATE people SET _sync_dirty=1 WHERE people._id=new.person;END;

CREATE TRIGGER phones_update UPDATE ON phones BEGIN UPDATE people SET _sync_dirty=1 WHERE people._id=old.person;END;

CREATE TRIGGER preferred_phone_cleanup DELETE ON phones BEGIN UPDATE people SET preferred_phone = NULL WHERE preferred_phone = old._id; END;

Print some of the information from the tables

sqlite> .header on

.header on

sqlite> .mode column

.mode column

sqlite> select * from phones;

select * from phones;

_id         person      type        number        number_key    label

----------  ----------  ----------  ------------  ------------  ----------

1           1           1           +15085551212  21215558051+

2           1           0           +17815551212  21215551871+

3           1           2           +16175551212  21215557161+

sqlite> select * from people;

select * from people;

_id         _sync_account  _sync_id    _sync_time  _sync_version  _sync_local_id  _sync_dirty  _sync_mark  name              notes       photo       company     title       preferred_phone  preferred_email

----------  -------------  ----------  ----------  -------------  --------------  -----------  ----------  ----------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ---------------  ---------------

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Other commands

sqlite> .help
.help
.bail ON|OFF           Stop after hitting an error.  Default OFF
.databases             List names and files of attached databases
.dump ?TABLE? ...      Dump the database in an sql text format
.echo ON|OFF           Turn command echo on or off
.exit                  Exit this program
.explain ON|OFF        Turn output mode suitable for EXPLAIN on or off.
.header(s) ON|OFF      Turn display of headers on or off
.help                  Show this message
.import FILE TABLE     Import data from FILE into TABLE
.indices TABLE         Show names of all indices on TABLE
.load FILE ?ENTRY?     Load an extension library
.mode MODE ?TABLE?     Set output mode where MODE is one of:
                         csv      Comma-separated values
                         column   Left-aligned columns.  (See .width)
                         html     HTML
code
                         insert   sql insert statements for TABLE
                         line     One value per line
                         list     Values delimited by .separator string
                         tabs     Tab-separated values
                         tcl      TCL list elements
.nullvalue STRING      Print STRING in place of NULL values
.output FILENAME       Send output to FILENAME
.output stdout         Send output to the screen
.prompt MAIN CONTINUE  Replace the standard prompts
.quit                  Exit this program
.read FILENAME         Execute sql in FILENAME
.schema ?TABLE?        Show the CREATE statements
.separator STRING      Change separator used by output mode and .import
.show                  Show the current values for varIoUs settings
.tables ?PATTERN?      List names of tables matching a LIKE pattern
.timeout MS            Try opening locked tables for MS milliseconds
.width NUM NUM ...     Set column widths for "column" mode

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