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How to get APPS back into system/apps/

I updated my rom and there are some omitted apps that I would like to get back into system/apps/ for example VoiceDialer.apk, but I cannot seem to get them back on. I am using Fresh Rom 0.4 and the phone is obviously rooted. maybe I am doing something wrong in adb shell but I keep getting one of 2 different erors. Either permission denied or adb not found. Thank you in advance for your help.

flaav8r said:
I updated my rom and there are some omitted apps that I would like to get back into system/apps/ for example VoiceDialer.apk, but I cannot seem to get them back on. I am using Fresh Rom 0.4 and the phone is obviously rooted. maybe I am doing something wrong in adb shell but I keep getting one of 2 different erors. Either permission denied or adb not found. Thank you in advance for your help.
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1) Permission denied - make sure that when you do an adb shell, you're root (have the # prompt) and make sure you've mounted /system as rw (adb remount)
2) adb not found - make sure there's only one adb.exe on your computer and that it's the one from the SDK and that the SDK's /tools directory is in your path (to be safe, you can always just run adb from that directory)

jmanley69 said:
1) Permission denied - make sure that when you do an adb shell, you're root (have the # prompt) and make sure you've mounted /system as rw (adb remount)
2) adb not found - make sure there's only one adb.exe on your computer and that it's the one from the SDK and that the SDK's /tools directory is in your path (to be safe, you can always just run adb from that directory)
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1. the procedure I used is this: from the cmd prompt in the androidsdk/tools/ directory:
adb shell
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd /system/app
# adb push VoiceDialer.apk system/app
but its a no go. Can't understand why.
BTW, I have the VoiceDialer.apk file in the androidsdk/tools folder just to make the push easier.

Ok, here is a screen shot from my command prompt window. I know someone knows what the hell I'm doing wrong. Just wanna get the damn voice dialer back on my phone. Please help, thank you.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>cd \
C:\>cd androidsdk\tools\
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
$ su
su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# adb push VoiceDialer.apk /system/app/
adb push VoiceDialer.apk /system/app/
adb: not found
#

you cant do adb push while in shell ($ or #). Exit out and just try tying the adb push

goku14238 said:
you cant do adb push while in shell ($ or #). Exit out and just try tying the adb push
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When I do that I get permission denied or something to that effect.

Yeah there's a post about this in the Fresh thread.
The most straightforward way is this:
Reboot to the recovery partition.
adb shell into the phone.
Issue the following command to mount the system partition:
mount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Type exit to exit the shell.
Then do:
adb push c:\directory-with-the-apks /system/app

jonnythan said:
Yeah there's a post about this in the Fresh thread.
The most straightforward way is this:
Reboot to the recovery partition.
adb shell into the phone.
Issue the following command to mount the system partition:
mount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Type exit to exit the shell.
Then do:
adb push c:\directory-with-the-apks /system/app
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Thank-you, I will give it a try.

[Q] Why am I getting following error on the shell prompt?

Without doing much talking I am just pasting the shell session:
Error is in red font
Code:
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>adb shell
# su
su
[COLOR="red"]# remount rw
remount rw
[: not found
[: not found
for mounting /system as read/write or read-only
usage: remount rw -or- remount ro[/COLOR]
# exit
exit
# exit
exit
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>

sunrocket said:
Without doing much talking I am just pasting the shell session:
Error is in red font
Code:
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>adb shell
# su
su
[COLOR="red"]# remount rw
remount rw
[: not found
[: not found
for mounting /system as read/write or read-only
usage: remount rw -or- remount ro[/COLOR]
# exit
exit
# exit
exit
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>
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I'm not sure why that is happening, I didn't use a one click to root but you can always use the command: mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
to mount /system as read,write.

sunrocket said:
Without doing much talking I am just pasting the shell session:
Error is in red font
Code:
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>adb shell
# su
su
[COLOR="red"]# remount rw
remount rw
[: not found
[: not found
for mounting /system as read/write or read-only
usage: remount rw -or- remount ro[/COLOR]
# exit
exit
# exit
exit
C:\Users\Downloads\one click root exploit>
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By the looks of that error I think busybox either isn't installed or not installed correctly.i am not positive but I think that its a busybox problem.

Yeah skeeter is right about busy box, whatever set up busy box didn't do it right
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

What do you guys think I should do?
I tried one click root again. The rooting is successful but still get the above error.
Most of the stuff that requires root (wifi tether, setcpu etc.) is working fine.
How to install busybox manually?

sunrocket said:
What do you guys think I should do?
I tried one click root again. The rooting is successful but still get the above error.
Most of the stuff that requires root (wifi tether, setcpu etc.) is working fine.
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Sounds like you should just make sure busy box is installed properly. I would download the busybox installer from the market and install 1.17.1

You can't mount the filesystem tha way on the phone, you must use the other script (pita, I know). The remount command only works like that through adb (adb remount) and not from shell.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

rufflez2010 said:
You can't mount the filesystem tha way on the phone, you must use the other script (pita, I know). The remount command only works like that through adb (adb remount) and not from shell.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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Remount will work from a shell in connectbot if busybox is install correctly. My suggestion would be to flash a kernel with root and busy box in it. Just be sure to remove the joeykrim root exploit before you flash thr kernel.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Fix_permissions mistery

Ok, so here is what puzzles me:
I have a MT3G, SuperOneClick rooted, with RA 1.7.0, busybox 1.18.4, all apps requiring superuser permissions are working flawlessly (Titanium, SetCPU, Root Explorer, Droid Wall, etc). Fix_permissions works with RA (other/fix uid mismatches) and ROM Manager, but when I open the emulator and type $su #fix_permissions, it gives me
bash: fix_permissions: command not found
In adb shell fix_permissions, permission is denied. All useful ideas how to solve this are much appreciated, thanks...

Anyone?
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Ok, I don't want to open a new topic, but really need some advice here! I just used Root Check in advanced mode, before it ran it asked for and received superuser permissions, then the detailed results were:
Congratulations! You have root access!
Alternate su bin location:
/sbin/su: Permission denied
Root user id:
uid=0(root)
Root group id:
gid=0(root)
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Seriously, guys, please help, I dont have a clue whether I have a permanent root or not. I forgot to mention I'm using the T-Mobile OTA Froyo 2.2.1 FRG83D. I've rooted this same ROM once, 5-6 months ago, when it was pushed out, I had no problems, fix_permissions were working. Then I nandroid backed it up, so I can restore it if I don't like the other ROMs I used later (which were Ginger Yoshi RC7 -a great ROM, but the launcher was constantly restarting, and then back to Super D - most stable one, but lots of the good apps are not for 1.6 anymore). However, when I tried to restore Froyo, it didnt work, so I had to start over, using the following steps to get the OTA and root it. Please, let me know if I missed something or did it wrong:
1. I flashed sappimg.nbh with hboot to get to unrooted Cupcake
2. Flashed DRC92 and DMD64 Donut updates with stock recovery <3e>
3. Got the OTA Froyo from T-Mobile (*#*#checkin*#*#)
4. Used SuperOneClick to root, then restarted the phone
5. Using Droid Explorer, I installed a terminal emulator, then I uninstalled Superuser (have read in several threads people saying they had problems with it when it comes with SuperOneClick), using
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
# pm uninstall com.noshufou.android.su
# mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ exit
and reinstalled it from the market.
6. Installed the latest busybox with Busybox Installer.
7. Pasted flash_image and recovery.img (Amon RA 1.7.0) to the sdcard, then installed recovery:
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /system
# rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
# cd sdcard
# mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard
# ./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
# exit
$ exit
8. And finally I started removing the unnecessary system apps (Amazon, MyFaves, etc) with the emulator, using the same method I did to remove Superuser in step 5
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Now, as I mentioned before, I cannot run fix_permissions through the emulator, but it runs through ROM Manager and RA (fix package uid mismatches).
Why is that? Is it the ROM, which causes the problem?
I'm clueless, please help!

[Q] removing BT5 arm off xoom

Hey, I installed BT5 arm on the Motorola Xoom wifi and i would like to know how to completely remove it from my device. My device is rooted and i have tried to delete the whole BT5 file with astro file manager and absolute file manager but neither of them worked. I was wondering if anyone knows another way of doing it.

I tried deleting it with commands in terminal emulator but its a read only file. Wouldn't chmod help with that? If so how would i use it?

jimmothycharles said:
I tried deleting it with commands in terminal emulator but its a read only file. Wouldn't chmod help with that? If so how would i use it?
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Go read the backtrack 5 thread. There is a link on how to remove it. That really should be the first thing you check before asking

ok thanks, ill do that the next time i have a problem

I couldn't find it. I think it might be a tiamat BT5 img and i have the remover tool but im not quite sure how to use it. I just flashed it like i would do with a rom but it says installation failed. what would i do to fix that?

jimmothycharles said:
I couldn't find it. I think it might be a tiamat BT5 img and i have the remover tool but im not quite sure how to use it. I just flashed it like i would do with a rom but it says installation failed. what would i do to fix that?
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Common knowledge - system must be set to RW
Here is an alternate route- manually
How To:
ADB Shell Folder Removal - (we will use BT5 as an example)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Connect Xoom to pc
2. Boot into recovery
3. Toggle to internal storage as /sdcard
4. mount /data
Enter adb shell via pc
(cd to file location) in this case BT5, is in the sdcard directory
Code:
Code:
cd /sdcard #
(once typed, you will be at.... /data/media prompt)
if after the above command and you are not at the /data/media prompt start over)
Code:
Code:
rm -r BT5
(BT5 is the stubborn Folder)
*Side note ... This works for any other stubborn folder that you want to delete as well...
USE AT YOU OWN RISK - MAKE SURE YOU DO A BACKUP FIRST
If this was helpful Hit The Thanks!

it didnt work it said that rm failed for BT5, permission denied

jimmothycharles said:
it didnt work it said that rm failed for BT5, permission denied
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Come on now, lol Your device must be set to rw. Google can guide you.

Mjamocha said:
Come on now, lol Your device must be set to rw. Google can guide you.
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ok well this is what i got when i tried to do that.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\System32>cd C:\Users\josh\Desktop\xoom files\BT5
C:\Users\josh\Desktop\xoom files\BT5>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
[email protected]:/ # cd storage/sdcard0/0/0/0
cd storage/sdcard0/0/0/0
[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # ls
ls
Android
BT5
Box
DCIM
Download
Evernote
Pictures
SELog.txt
Video
airdroid
goodies
goomanager
tmp
[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # rm -r BT5
rm -r BT5
rm failed for BT5, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # rm BT5
rm BT5
rm failed for BT5, Is a directory
255|[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # cd
cd
[email protected]:/data # exit
exit
C:\Users\josh\Desktop\xoom files\BT5>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
[email protected]:/ # cd storage/sdcard0/0/0/0
cd storage/sdcard0/0/0/0
[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # ls
ls
Android
BT5
Box
DCIM
Download
Evernote
Pictures
SELog.txt
Video
airdroid
goodies
goomanager
tmp
[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # rm -r BT5
rm -r BT5
rm failed for BT5, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # rm -rBT5
rm -rBT5
rm failed for -rBT5, No such file or directory
255|[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # chmod 777 BT5
chmod 777 BT5
[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 # rm -r BT5
rm -r BT5
rm failed for BT5, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/storage/sdcard0/0/0/0 #
I looked up on google how to mount system rw and thats where [email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system came from. then i tried rm -r BT5 after that and it was still denied. so i tried to
do chmod 777 BT5 to give all permissions and then when i tried to remove it again it was still denied.
I looked up the permissions of the file and its set to rwxrwxr-x. so chmod apparently didn't work

[Q] Disable proximity sensor via terminal emulator

Hi @ all,
I have that following problem: My phones display turns off automatically while im receiving or doing a call. My proximity sensor is broken and i would like disable it and i found a good solution here in this formus:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925814&page=5
# cd /data/local
# touch userinit.sh
# echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > userinit.sh
# echo "#" >> userinit.sh
# echo "chmod 0000 /dev/cm3602" >> userinit.sh
# echo "chmod 000 /dev/cm3602" >> userinit.sh
# chmod 777 userinit.sh
But there's a little problem. I'm not well in programming - now my question is: can someone cange the code that it fit's to my phone. It's a Desire S with CyanogenMod 10 Beta.
Would be very thankful!

our phone has a /dev/cm3602 as well, so it probably uses the same chip.
note: the following is untested
Code:
cat>/etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor<<EOF
#`which sh`
chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
EOF
run that through adb shell and if your kernel has init.d support it will automatically disable your proximity sensor every boot. disable the sensor for your current session by running a simple 'chmod 000 /dev/cm3602' through adb shell.

THX! I will try it out soon.
Sent from my Desire S using xda app-developers app

I've just figured out that those commands won't work as is -- I stupidly forgot you need to remount system r/w and make the file executable for it to run. This should work (still didn't test it) -- run it all in an adb shell:
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /system
cat>/etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor<<EOF
#!`which sh`
chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor
mount -o remount,ro /system

i just tried it out and it says
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # cat>/etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor<<EOF
cat>/etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor<<EOF
> #!'which sh'
#!'which sh'
> chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
> EOF
EOF
sh: can't create temporary file /sqlite_stmt_journals/mksh.vXIer13043: No such file or directory
but simply 'chmod 000 /dev/cm3602' works fine for one session! thanks!

Ooh, joy, it's that bug in the android shell that I'd forgotten about.
Try this instead:
In an adb shell, run 'which sh'. Note the path it returns.
On your computer, copy the following to a text file named '98-disable-sensor'. Be sure to use an editor (e.g. Notepad++) that can save with LF newline bytes and make sure you tell it to do that! (Under Windows, a newline is marked by the bytes \r\n, which is wrong for Linux - it should be just \n. Save the file as 'Unix text file' or something like that when asked.)
Code:
#!/path/to/sh/you/wrote/down/earlier
chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
Push it to your device: 'adb remount' + 'adb push 98-disable-sensor /etc/init.d/'
Make it executable: 'adb shell chmod 755 /etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor'
Remount system r/o again: 'adb shell mount -o remount,ro /system'

Aquous said:
Ooh, joy, it's that bug in the android shell that I'd forgotten about.
Try this instead:
In an adb shell, run 'which sh'. Note the path it returns.
On your computer, copy the following to a text file named '98-disable-sensor'. Be sure to use an editor (e.g. Notepad++) that can save with LF newline bytes and make sure you tell it to do that! (Under Windows, a newline is marked by the bytes \r\n, which is wrong for Linux - it should be just \n. Save the file as 'Unix text file' or something like that when asked.)
Code:
#!/path/to/sh/you/wrote/down/earlier
chmod 000 /dev/cm3602
Push it to your device: 'adb remount' + 'adb push 98-disable-sensor /etc/init.d/'
Make it executable: 'adb shell chmod 755 /etc/init.d/98-disable-sensor'
Remount system r/o again: 'adb shell mount -o remount,ro /system'
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Hi
Do you know what is the command to turn off all sensors ?
i want to execute the command when screen is off (by xposed edge)
and turn on again when screen is on

loopypalm said:
Hi
Do you know what is the command to turn off all sensors ?
i want to execute the command when screen is off (by xposed edge)
and turn on again when screen is on
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I use the below command on low battery trigger via Tasker
Code:
cmd statusbar click-tile com.android.settings/.development.qstile.DevelopmentTiles\$SensorsOff

varunpilankar said:
I use the below command on low battery trigger via Tasker
Code:
cmd statusbar click-tile com.android.settings/.development.qstile.DevelopmentTiles\$SensorsOff
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Thx but i don't want to use tasker or any extra app

loopypalm said:
Thx but i don't want to use tasker or any extra app
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Us can use the via adb or shell script event trigger.

varunpilankar said:
Us can use the via adb or shell script event trigger.
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what is the adb comand ?

loopypalm said:
what is the adb comand ?
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Code:
adb shell cmd statusbar click-tile com.android.settings/.development.qstile.DevelopmentTiles\$SensorsOff

varunpilankar said:
Code:
adb shell cmd statusbar click-tile com.android.settings/.development.qstile.DevelopmentTiles\$SensorsOff
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it work on PC but no luck in terminal/xposed edge
Edit : i found a way !
replace "adb shell" with "#!/bin/sh" work

If you have root then you can use Su directly

varunpilankar said:
If you have root then you can use Su directly
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and the comand is ?

terminal - type
su
cmd statusbar click-tile com.android.settings/.development.qstile.DevelopmentTiles\$SensorsOff