You don't have permissions for pulling out those files from a retail device.
So, you just can't. Try setting up emulator with some contacts, calls etc.
You can pull out the files from an emulator though.

Kumar Bibek
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Jon Shemitz <shem...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a need to examine the contacts and call log databases. My
> development phone has no contacts; it also has no SIM card, and hence
> no calls. I need realistic data, so I can't just add some random
> garbage. The obvious answer is to copy the database from my personal
> (2.1u1 retail build) phone to my development (2.2 debug build) phone.
>
> How?
>
> I can `adb pull` the databases from my development phone but (while I
> can `adb shell` to my retail phone, once I turn on USB debugging) I
> can't  `adb pull` the databases from my retail phone.
>
> Is there a better way than writing an "export" utility that will dump
> the retail databases to text files, and an "import" utility that will
> append that data to the debug databases?
>
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