sqlite3: not found

Some manufacturers deliver the devices without sqlite being installed on them. You can copy the sqlite program though from a emulator to your device if the device has an arm processor.

  1. Start the emulator and use the adb command from the platform-tools in android-sdk

    adb pull /system/xbin/sqlite3

  2. Mount the system partition of your device read/write after this tutorial:

    http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/mount-filesystem-read-write.html

  3. Use the adb command to copy the sqlite3 file to your device

    adb push sqlite3 /system/xbin/

After you reboot your device the sqlite3 command should work.

Edit (copy from linked page - in the case link becomes invalid). The instructions for step 2 are:

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

"Replace /dev/block/mtdblock3 & /system with appropriate device path and mount point, as obtained from cat /proc/mounts"


  1. Go to Play store --> search for Titanium Backup & install it
  2. adb shell
  3. su
  4. cp /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files/sqlite3 /system/xbin/
  5. cd /system/xbin/
  6. chmod 755 sqlite3
  7. adbd reboot (just in case)
  8. Enjoy the result