› articolo › permission-denied-in-android-terminal. What I'm doing wrong? When i go into terminal emulator and enter 'su' it says PERMISSION DENIED. The this is: I need privileges to scripts and when I'm hitting su at terminal it returns me permission denied. › Products Support › HiKey I run as superuser in terminal emulator? When I type su, it gives me a message says “su: can't execute: Permission denied” I have tr. The android on board 'toolbox' shell has a limited vocabulary of errors, and likes to go give the permission denied one for all sorts of causes. Terminal emulator in Android is giving me 'Permission Denied' when I am trying to reach a specific directory.