Probably a stupid question, I just don't know enough yet.
I need to put some entries in my g1's hosts file. However, the OS seems to have it locked down on my 1.2 rc30. Terminal Emulator tells me chown is not found. I don't have access to the SDK where I am right now, however, but I'm hoping someone can point out what I'm missing.
adnans said:
Probably a stupid question, I just don't know enough yet.
I need to put some entries in my g1's hosts file. However, the OS seems to have it locked down on my 1.2 rc30. Terminal Emulator tells me chown is not found. I don't have access to the SDK where I am right now, however, but I'm hoping someone can point out what I'm missing.
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busybox has chown in it. RC1.2 has busybox. Also, you must use uids and gids, and can't use user names or group names with busybox on Android.
ah, there's chown, thanks! now i gotta play around and figure out what to chown it to. i tried 0 and 777 (i just recently got back into linux, i haven't done jack with it since slackware 3 came out), and it's still telling me that /etc/hosts: Read-only file system.
adnans said:
ah, there's chown, thanks! now i gotta play around and figure out what to chown it to. i tried 0 and 777 (i just recently got back into linux, i haven't done jack with it since slackware 3 came out), and it's still telling me that /etc/hosts: Read-only file system.
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you need to remount your /system as read write first.
mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Related
Was just wondering if anyone has deleted ringtones, notification or alarms successfully? `ould love to get rid of them if possible. Tried making a copy of jf rc30, deleting them and amazon apk then installing but didn't work gave me error message.
i removed unused ringtones w/o any issues
If you have JF's RC30 1.31 installed you should be able to just delete them. Astro should let you goto where they are saved and just delete em. You may need to use DroidSans Tweak tools to remount /system as read/write first.
Hmmm, changing to read/write and trying to use Astro gave me "error deleting file"
Any other ideas?
Dharkaron said:
If you have JF's RC30 1.31 installed you should be able to just delete them. Astro should let you goto where they are saved and just delete em. You may need to use DroidSans Tweak tools to remount /system as read/write first.
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No neither of those work but thanks for the effort to help. I tried those when i first got root. Im gonna try deleting the same way as i did amazon and see if it works.
stats555 said:
No neither of those work but thanks for the effort to help. I tried those when i first got root. Im gonna try deleting the same way as i did amazon and see if it works.
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Word let me know if this works. I asked in another thread how to do it but no one answered. All I got was the "yes you can delete them" response
I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.
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I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.
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Worked great thanks!
No problem, that was one of the first things I did was to change all of the ringtones. Couldn't stand the ones that came with it.
BlueBoar said:
No problem, that was one of the first things I did was to change all of the ringtones. Couldn't stand the ones that came with it.
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Yeah i hear you on that, just a bunch of crap taking up space. I use mp3's for ringtones so no need to waste system space on them! I just learned how to use adb thank god!
Update - deleted most of the ringtones and 4 notifications, freed up 2mb's
BlueBoar said:
I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.
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Sweet worked like a charm! Thanks a bunch
Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.
Cargo75 said:
Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.
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You can do it all right from the phone with Terminal.
Type
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
cd /system/media/sounds/(whichever directory you want)
ls
rm (whichever .ogg file you want)
The .ogg files are case sensitive, so beatplunker.ogg isn't the same as BeatPlunker.ogg
Also the .ogg extension has to be at the end of each file you rm.
If you want to save a backup on your sd card I just typed this before I started removing things. Good luck
Code:
cp /system/media/sounds /sdcard
Beast84 said:
You can do it all right from the phone with Terminal.
Type
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
cd /system/media/sounds/(whichever directory you want)
ls
rm (whichever .ogg file you want)
The .ogg files are case sensitive, so beatplunker.ogg isn't the same as BeatPlunker.ogg
Also the .ogg extension has to be at the end of each file you rm.
If you want to save a backup on your sd card I just typed this before I started removing things. Good luck
Code:
cp /system/media/sounds /sdcard
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wow, thank you!
Cargo75 said:
wow, thank you!
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No problem. Just figured I'd pass some of the knowledge these fine peeps here have passed on to me
Cargo75 said:
Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.
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In the future, you may what to do this through your PC to prevent carpel tunnel... You can download the Android SDK from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/index.html
Extract it to your drive. Navigate to that folder in a command prompt window then "tools". Once there you can run(make sure the G1 is plugged in the usb):
adb remount (remounts the system read/write)
adb shell (this drops you into the shell to interact with your phone)
cd /system/media/audio/
From there you should be able to follow the proceeding directions.
I went and did all this and even went the extra mile and pushed some of my custom mp3's to the file (about 3 meg worth). Is this going to cause problems with updating in the future?
You don't need to remount the system to read/write manually if it already has been done with DroidSans do you?
I usuall y do the mount through Terminal emulator.
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm -r /system/media/audio/ringtones
rm -r /system/media/audio/notifications
bam gone!
I tried to copy and after mounting I typed:
cd /system/media/audio/
ls
then got:
alarms
ringtons
notifications
ui
then I typed: cp /system/media/audio /sdcard
and got this message:
cp: omitting directory '/system/media/audio'
is it something small and dumb that I'm doing or are the files copied?
Please emal me at if you have a problem.
Thank you alritewhadeva with chmod
Cp the files to /system/bin.
Then chmod 755 (filenames)
Cleartmp
Clears all files in a chosen directory in a certain amount of days. You can chose the directory and the amount days.
Rename
You can rename all files or selected files.
Rmemptydir
Remove empty directories
Search
Search for files and folders
Grepcat
Is like a combination of egrep and cat.
My version of appstosd
There will be a folder in your sdcard called apps(MK47) and it has all your app from the market(free and also paid). This is good for when you wipe your Dream.
here is the scripts.
Might want to update your OP with the attachment and bold the commands so its easier to read Nice work
mohsinkhan47 said:
Please emal me at [email protected] if you have a problem.
Thank you alritewhadeva with chmod
Cp the files to /system/bin.
Then chmod 755 (filenames)
Cleartmp
Clears all files in a chosen directory in a certain amount of days. You can chose the directory and the amount days.
Rename
You can rename all files or selected files.
Rmemptydir
Remove empty directories
Search
Search for files and folders
Grepcat
Is like a combination of egrep and cat.
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this can come in handy for the hero roms if u use the facebook feature quite often under the people app. i know i tend to show people certain pics of me or friends and it just eats up internal memory. all i do is clear the cache but if i can use this script to do so it'd save me that lil bit of hassle i have to go thru myself, appreciate the script, just curious tho... anyone know where to find where the albums cache is stored? i kno how to brose thru folders but i much rather have somebody that KNOWS rather than me THINKING i know... lol thanks in advance.
Thanks for the scripts. Can you repost the appstosd? The one you posted was empty.
cx92001 said:
Thanks for the scripts. Can you repost the appstosd? The one you posted was empty.
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I won't be on a computer until Saturday so gtalk to me at
[email protected] invte me and I will give u the app2sd
I can't reach the clutch..
Hi,
I've been looking for a shell search tool for my SE Xperia X10 Android 1.6 phone to search the file system, and this has been the only resource I have found thus far. I have managed to download and copy the scripts to my Android device, but I am unsure on how to execute the .asc scripts on the Android shell.
I was unable to adb push the file to \system\bin. I pushed the file to \data but even mounting the system volume as RW I am unable to mv the scripts to the \system\bin folder.
adb shell
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock3 /system
# mv /data/searh.asc /system/bin
mv /data/searh.asc /system/bin
failed on '/data/searh.asc' - Cross-device link
I tried running the chmod 755 search.asc command anyway, and execute it using ./search.asc, but receive the message:
basename: not found
getopt: not found
[: not found
shift: can't shift that many
Edit: I have now tried this in recovery mode and mounting the /system folder with RW permissions, still no joy.
Could someone please clarify what is required to get these scripts to operate?
I have only dabbled in linux so I am most likely missing something fundamentally obvious here.
Temp-n00b-usr
I managed to find a work around.
I was attempting to locate the Creatouch.apk which was not in /system/app or /data/app. It was infact in /data/app-private. I have manged to pull the .apk for a backup and removed this from the phone now.
I just used the file explorer in Droid Screencast to locate the file by browsing the system.
It would still be handy to be able to search the file system from a PC environment however.
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http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SCH-I510RAAVZW
DRIVERS- Once you go to the download link you should see
"MANUALS l SOFTWARE" click on software and download those drivers! If your phone is plugged in while you are doing the download this is ideal because they will automatically sync.
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http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
DOWNLOAD SDK- (Get the zip and paste it in your C:\ Drive for less headache)
After you have downloaded and pasted in your C:\ run "SDK Manager.exe" If your on Vista I run everything as Admin so just run it as Admin so there's no mix ups.. Whenever you run a program while following this tut USE ADMIN!!
When you run the program a little black box similar to cmd pops up.. just move it out of the way because its not important.
That being said you should now see a loading box and if your computer runs pretty quick it should be about done by the time you get done reading this.
Check the very first box and uncheck the rest.. all you need is the "platform-tools option. The other stuff is irrelavent to what were trying to accomplish.
Once you have the folder "platform-tools which is going to be inside your Android folder.. (the one we pasted to our C:\ not too long ago) look inside the folder to confirm that "adb.exe" is inside.. if it is then close out of sdk if not.. figure out what you did wrong and fix it! by default the adb.exe is in your tools folder so if all else fails follow my instructions using your tools folder meaning everything I use the word "platform-tools" you would just use "tools" or wherever adb.exe is located.
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This tutorial is WORD FOR WORD meaning this is exactly what you type into your command prompt
The "$"s and the "#"s are what you SHOULD see after you have typed in adb shell once you've navigated to your sdk folder.(If you have no clue what im talking about, you will just continue reading)
BEFORE WE BEGIN download GingerBreak, busybox, Superuser.apk, su
EVERYTHING IS CASE SENSETIVE so make sure your watching that.. if something doesn't work.. you prolly misspelled or
didn't put a space or didn't have the right case..
DroidChargeADB_rootKIT.rar
http://www.multiupload.com/1Z5DDP79QI
After you have downloaded the DroidChargeADB_rootKIT extract them into your /Android/platform-tools/ folder wherever it is..
Default location for platform-tools is usually this
win32- C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools (wherever your adb.exe is, is where you should set your path)
win64- C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools
Click start go to command line (go to "run" and type in "cmd")
after the "~~~~~~~~" is when it begins and thats when you type word for word what ive typed out
unless i have said something then I will make it obvious that you dont type that also I will put (Dont type this)
at the beginning of my text and at the end.
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cd C:\Android\platform-tools
adb devices
adb push GingerBreak /data/local/
adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/
adb push su /data/local
adb push busybox /data/local/
adb shell
$cd /data/local/
$chmod 700 /data/local/GingerBreak
$chmod 755 /data/local/busybox
$./GingerBreak (<~~~~Dont forget the period (Dont type this))
(DONT TYPE THIS)
THIS
BIG
LONG
LIST
OF
USLESS
INFORMATION
(DONT TYPE THIS/)
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#chmod 777 /system/bin
#./busybox cp busybox /system/bin (<~~~~Dont forget the period(NO TYPE))
#chown root /system/bin/busybox
#chmod 777 /system/app
#chmod 755 /system/app
#chmod 4755 /system/app
#busybox cp Superuser.apk /system/app
#busybox cp su /system/bin
#chown root /system/bin/su
#chmod 755 /system/bin
#chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
#mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#restart
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YOUR ROOTED THE PROPER WAY!! And its a very clean root.. Hope I helped.. Dont tell me I helped! CLICK THE BUTTON! =] ty for reading all that hahahahaha..
ONE other thing. DONT BE "THAT" GUY.. haha shutup. you know exactly what I mean.
ALSO if you want stock EE1 versions of this software with cool fonts,backgrounds,de-bloated,cool ringtons, already rooted(or non-rooted) and odin ready, just let me know and Ill upload them!
That Guy u Kno said:
=] ty for reading all that hahahahaha..
ONE other thing. DONT BE "THAT" GUY.. haha shutup. you know exactly what I mean.
ALSO if you want stock EE1 versions of this software with cool fonts,backgrounds,de-bloated,cool ringtons, already rooted(or non-rooted) and odin ready, just let me know and Ill upload them!
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I....don't......know.....how......to......respond!?
There is some useful info here but everyone just flashes stuff here. We use kernels that root the phone for us, thereby not needing to manually root it.
kernels never work for me.. i gotta do it the hard way =(
That Guy u Kno said:
kernels never work for me.. i gotta do it the hard way =(
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You're going the very hard way if you're on anything but ED1 as none of the root exploits work on ED2/EE4 or the GB leaks.
I really don't understand why you need this...
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
Thanks for putting this out there. Its nice to know there's another way to do this.
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putney1477 said:
Thanks for putting this out there. Its nice to know there's another way to do this.
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Agreed, I personally won't use this but hey, options are always nice.
kvswim said:
I really don't understand why you need this...
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
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I find it useful as i have had trouble with the "easy" methods as well. This could come in quite handy.
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mr.terry said:
I find it useful as i have had trouble with the "easy" methods as well. This could come in quite handy.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk
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This won't come in handy at all. As of ED2, which was released the day that the Charge launched, no known exploit methods work to gain temp-root access. So, unless you're keeping your phone on ED1 for the entire life of the phone, this method is useless.
imnuts said:
This won't come in handy at all. As of ED2, which was released the day that the Charge launched, no known exploit methods work to gain temp-root access. So, unless you're keeping your phone on ED1 for the entire life of the phone, this method is useless.
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Exactly, if you root this and then boot the phone, it will unroot itself unless you are running ED1, and that's just..... pointless.
imnuts said:
This won't come in handy at all. As of ED2, which was released the day that the Charge launched, no known exploit methods work to gain temp-root access. So, unless you're keeping your phone on ED1 for the entire life of the phone, this method is useless.
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Ahhh i see. Good to know. I come from a couple of years of playing with a rooted og droid and the charge is new territory for me. Thanks for the heads up.
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One click root is the same exact concept... Its clean regardless. But thanks for the effort of typing all that up, lol.
Although the "purpose" of this tut may be worthless quite a few of the commands you learn from this are essential in all builds.. such as chmod, chown, mount... I still use these commands frequently although this is beginner level (still good )
Alright I want to move my location spoofer app to /system/app so I can watch my hometown team on MLB.tv. This worked fine on my LG Nitro running CM10, but when I tried on my stock infinity (rooted, not updated), it won't let me. It just says "paste failed" when I try to move it. Anyone have any advice as to how to fix this?
Have y o u tried mounting the directory as rw so you can paste in there?
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Sinker1345 said:
Have y o u tried mounting the directory as rw so you can paste in there?
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No I haven't, but just to clarify the app is currently installed on the internal memory, not sd card. I am just trying to move it from one folder to a different folder. Is this still necessary?
It may be, if the directory is mounted as read only you won't be able to copy into it
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mgoblueno1 said:
No I haven't, but just to clarify the app is currently installed on the internal memory, not sd card. I am just trying to move it from one folder to a different folder. Is this still necessary?
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In normal operation, /system is mounted read-only, so you need to remount it as writable first. Root-enabled file managers usually have an option for that.
Thanks guys, will try this out tonight
Alright I tried editing permissions on the system folder, the app, and the root manager app, but they were already all checked (read, write, execute). I also tried just cut/pasting a picture i took to /system/app and I didn't work either...
EDIT: I just tried the remount app, and rewrote the /system folder as rw and it still didn't work
If anyone else has any suggestions on how to fix this let me know!
mgoblueno1 said:
If anyone else has any suggestions on how to fix this let me know!
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mgoblueno1 said:
Alright I tried editing permissions on the system folder, the app, and the root manager app, but they were already all checked (read, write, execute). I also tried just cut/pasting a picture i took to /system/app and I didn't work either...
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That's not how you do it. Those are chmod permissions for files and directories. That controls which user groups have rwx permissions for access; nothing to do with mounts. To allow for rw access to /system you need to either do it from within a root browser (ES file explorer, tools), the remount app, or type this into the terminal:
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
Copy your file or directory, then remount the system back as ro (so you don't accidentally delete something - that's why its mounted ro by default)
Code:
su
mount -o remount,ro /system
mgoblueno1 said:
EDIT: I just tried the remount app, and rewrote the /system folder as rw and it still didn't work
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I just tried this and it works fine. After you made your selections for /system and rw, did you click the top "Remount" button and get a small pop-up "Success!..." notification that it completed its operation? I also verified that I could copy a test file into /system/app after toggling these settings. You are doing something wrong. Read this all again.
[Edit] The only reason I can think of that it might be failing is you are really not rooted or have a corrupt root. If all else fails, run the Root Checker app to see if you really have valid root. Open up your su app and see if it prompts you to update its binaries and let it if it does (superSU).
elfaure said:
That's not how you do it. Those are chmod permissions for files and directories. That controls which user groups have rwx permissions for access; nothing to do with mounts. To allow for rw access to /system you need to either do it from within a root browser (ES file explorer, tools), the remount app, or type this into the terminal:
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
Copy your file or directory, then remount the system back as ro (so you don't accidentally delete something - that's why its mounted ro by default)
Code:
su
mount -o remount,ro /system
I just tried this and it works fine. After you made your selections for /system and rw, did you click the top "Remount" button and get a small pop-up "Success!..." notification that it completed its operation? I also verified that I could copy a test file into /system/app after toggling these settings. You are doing something wrong. Read this all again.
[Edit] The only reason I can think of that it might be failing is you are really not rooted or have a corrupt root. If all else fails, run the Root Checker app to see if you really have valid root. Open up your su app and see if it prompts you to update its binaries and let it if it does (superSU).
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Thanks this worked!
mgoblueno1 said:
Thanks this worked!
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Glad you got it worked out. Which way worked for you?
I think I'm starting to go slightly insane here.
Can't for the life of me mount /system as rw, it's only ro.
Ways I've tried:
- using mount command in terminal emulator
- using rw remount button in total commander
- using adb shell to do the same thhing as terminal emulator
i have supersu and all of the above were granted superuser but still no luck
here's relevant part of console output, but it doesn't do anything.
Code:
D:\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ su
su
[email protected]:/ # mount
mount
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
[email protected]:/ # mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system
the directory stays read-only.
the whole reason i'm trying to do this is so i can stick in a boot animation (link) into system/media ...is there an easier way? i've tried 3 different file explorers with super but they all fail because it's not rw.....
and adb cant push to it either because it's rw.......
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
Or put it in /data/local
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rootSU said:
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
Or put it in /data/local
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well after trying some more (the terminal command still didnt want to do anything) i managed to get antek explorer to mount it as rw and was able to copy in the new bootanimation.zip
except that now it's unreadable file-
as in, if i try to open the zip in /system/media it just says cannot read file, if i copy it back out to a different folder it opens fine again.
and the boot animation itself, well, it just plays a tiny one with the word 'android' across it, which i guess is the default if it cant find one.
putting the file into /data/local doesn't change anything (doesnt overwrite the nexus one, doesnt overwrite the little word android)
since i'm new to all this stuff i can think probably i missing something simple, but do i have to somehow initialise new bootanimation or something? its the right file in the right place, dont know why it dont work.......
edit: here's an imgur album showing this stuff, maybe you can spot something there? http://imgur.com/a/l9sXa
edit2: just to test, i installed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klpu.android.bootanimation and it did indeed change the animation. so it's just a problem with doing it manually. unfortunately that app doesn't let you load in a custom one, only the preinstalled ones, so it's not much use to me overall...
DryEagle said:
well after trying some more (the terminal command still didnt want to do anything) i managed to get antek explorer to mount it as rw and was able to copy in the new bootanimation.zip
except that now it's unreadable file-
as in, if i try to open the zip in /system/media it just says cannot read file, if i copy it back out to a different folder it opens fine again.
and the boot animation itself, well, it just plays a tiny one with the word 'android' across it, which i guess is the default if it cant find one.
putting the file into /data/local doesn't change anything (doesnt overwrite the nexus one, doesnt overwrite the little word android)
since i'm new to all this stuff i can think probably i missing something simple, but do i have to somehow initialise new bootanimation or something? its the right file in the right place, dont know why it dont work.......
edit: here's an imgur album showing this stuff, maybe you can spot something there? http://imgur.com/a/l9sXa
edit2: just to test, i installed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klpu.android.bootanimation and it did indeed change the animation. so it's just a problem with doing it manually. unfortunately that app doesn't let you load in a custom one, only the preinstalled ones, so it's not much use to me overall...
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hint, look at the bootanimation.zip file permissions once you moved it to /system/media
rootSU said:
hint, look at the bootanimation.zip file permissions once you moved it to /system/media
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thank you!! this solved it!
No worries
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