Is there a terminal app that works on the nexus? Terminal Emulator force closes when i try and open it and Su File Manager and Terminal Emulator doesnt have an on screen keyboard
SUFBS
if you are willing to purchase the rooted file browser, SUFBS, it has a built in terminal (with other goodies) that allows you to use the virtual keyboard. works pretty well too.
other than that, ADB I guess would be some sort of alternative.
Ssantos6981 said:
if you are willing to purchase the rooted file browser, SUFBS, it has a built in terminal (with other goodies) that allows you to use the virtual keyboard. works pretty well too.
other than that, ADB I guess would be some sort of alternative.
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Hmm, guess the keyboard didnt pop up the first time i used the app, but got it working in it now. Thanks
I use better terminal emulator. Works fine.
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This was already mentioned by alansj here, but I though it was important enough to have it's own thread
Saurik has created a Debian image you can install onto your sd card. Once installed, you have the full power of debian on your phone. No more puny little busybox
Instructions and such are here.
Thanks Saurik!
I was actually looking into this earlier... let me know how it runs
cant download a few things
can not open ext2.ko......when i type insmod $kit/ext2.ko ...i get "insmod: can't open ' /sdcard/kit/ext2.ko'...some one please help me out
What graphical interface does this install, or is there one?
cbrunner said:
What graphical interface does this install, or is there one?
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That was my question when I heard about this... I just went for it though because when I read through the instructions, I realized that everything is stored in the MicroSD card and in RAM (which is reset when the phone is rebooted)
It turns out that there is no GUI - just a good old text-based Debian install! I'm sure that someone will get one working... or maybe just port the entire BSD Subsystem along with apt so we can just forget the Market...
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That was my question when I heard about this... I just went for it though because when I read through the instructions, I realized that everything is stored in the MicroSD card and in RAM (which is reset when the phone is rebooted)
It turns out that there is no GUI - just a good old text-based Debian install! I'm sure that someone will get one working... or maybe just port the entire BSD Subsystem along with apt so we can just forget the Market...
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This awesome article has answered tons of my questions and also seems to imply otherwise:
"This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."
In addition, this IRC channel is where the author of that article idles.
cbrunner said:
This awesome article has answered tons of my questions and also seems to imply otherwise:
"This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."
In addition, this IRC channel is where the author of that article idles.
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Right. No gui, but you have a full working linux distro on your phone. You can apt-get just about any of the normal stuff.. You could probably even get a x-windows installation to working, although you would have to connect to it remotely - it would probably be "difficult" to get it to display a gui on the phone itself (although that would be sweet).
I've installed Saurik's image on my phone, it works great. Although if you do the "unionfs.sh" step, the wifi settings don't quite work right anymore. It won't let you enable or disable wifi.
But I was able to get an ssh server (with real user and password management) and even a samba server running on my phone quite easily with this . I've also got gcc installed, and will start playing around with developing directly on the phone (instead of having to cross compile).
Sorry for not being hip to the game, but what the heck is Debian?
donutman said:
Sorry for not being hip to the game, but what the heck is Debian?
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Arguably the most influential distribution of Linux ever. Its package management system, apt, is awesome, and it is what Ubuntu and tons of other distros were started from.
Why would you not use Google before asking here?
can anyone help with my above mentioned problem
i want this baby to run
Is your phone connected to your computer? You lose access to the storage card when it is, I think (you can't cd to it when it's plugged in) and unplugging my phone allowed me to install the module.
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Installing Debian errors?
Here is what I get:
insmod $kit/ext2.ko
insmod: init_module '/sdcard/kit/ext2.ko' failed (Operation not permitted)
i've been through this, i'm not gonna explain what happens and why, but imo, the only way to get a real root is the following:
-Install telnet client to your device (from android market).
-Reboot your phone to be sure no telnet-daemons/shells are running.
-When you are on the desktop, just type "enter", "telnetd", "enter". (If you do it from the terminal app it will run under the uid of the terminal app which is not root).
-Then run the telnet client app, and connect to local host. (Or skip this step + the first one if you wanna connect from another pc)
I know it's weird, but when you run something from the terminal app it runs under the terminal app's uid, even if you run a new shell, you still are eg. "app_33", not root. and btw you will have to set the environment variables all from the same shell, that means you can't have a script cause it will run under another shell, with another uid. I'm so confused... maybe I'm wrong but android is not the most friendly environment.
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i've been through this, i'm not gonna explain what happens and why, but imo, the only way to get a real root is the following:
-Install telnet client to your device (from android market).
-Reboot your phone to be sure no telnet-daemons/shells are running.
-When you are on the desktop, just type "enter", "telnetd", "enter". (If you do it from the terminal app it will run under the uid of the terminal app which is not root).
-Then run the telnet client app, and connect to local host. (Or skip this step + the first one if you wanna connect from another pc)
I know it's weird, but when you run something from the terminal app it runs under the terminal app's uid, even if you run a new shell, you still are eg. "app_33", not root. and btw you will have to set the environment variables all from the same shell, that means you can't have a script cause it will run under another shell, with another uid. I'm so confused... maybe I'm wrong but android is not the most friendly environment.
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Haha I feel you. Now the thing is when I am at the home screen on my G1 i push "Enter" on the keyboard and then type "telnetd" and then push enter again it doesnt do anything. When I open up telnet client on my PC it wont connect with wifi on.
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
And when I "netstat" from inside Terminal Emulator there is no address with port "23"
ballaholyk84 said:
Haha I feel you. Now the thing is when I am at the home screen on my G1 i push "Enter" on the keyboard and then type "telnetd" and then push enter again it doesnt do anything. When I open up telnet client on my PC it wont connect with wifi on.
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
And when I "netstat" from inside Terminal Emulator there is no address with port "23"
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Are you already running RC30?
SplasPood said:
Are you already running RC30?
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Yes, I am running the Modified RC30 posted by JesusFreke
cbrunner said:
Why would you not use Google before asking here?
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Because I wanted you to tell me baby. That is what a wife is suppose to do.
JesusFreke said:
Right. No gui, but you have a full working linux distro on your phone. You can apt-get just about any of the normal stuff.. You could probably even get a x-windows installation to working, although you would have to connect to it remotely - it would probably be "difficult" to get it to display a gui on the phone itself (although that would be sweet).
I've installed Saurik's image on my phone, it works great. Although if you do the "unionfs.sh" step, the wifi settings don't quite work right anymore. It won't let you enable or disable wifi.
But I was able to get an ssh server (with real user and password management) and even a samba server running on my phone quite easily with this . I've also got gcc installed, and will start playing around with developing directly on the phone (instead of having to cross compile).
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What command did you use to get the SSH to install? Every time I do the one in the tut by saurik it errors and wont install all the way. I get an error after x11-common and it wont finish.
ballaholyk84 said:
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
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localhost usually refers to the loopback interface which on most devices will be 127.0.0.1.
I'm getting the same thing here... I think there's something wrong with apt-get having to write to /tmp which does not exist (and is mounted read-only).
I've had the little targus keypad (bluetooth HID; not SPP) and and Apple bluetooth keyboard (salvaged from an Apple loving friend after he let the battries leak). Now that I finally plucked up the courage to root my Nexus and install the hidd binary I can (with a little bit of effort) finally type effectively if I need to (mostly for connectbot when I need to ssh into remote servers)
I need to issue hidd --connect [BLUETOOTH ADDRESS] each time I want to connect, but I'm happy to do that until it gets a little more elegantly plumbed in.
In fact I'm using it right now
wanna d/l genesisoid or whatever its called and see if you can use that bluetooth keyboard to play some sega roms?
One of the upcoming Motorola devices lists HID as a supported profile. I am all hot and sweaty with anticipation hoping it will be part of Android and not something Motorola added. I am writing a SPP IME (there is KeyPro in the market but the IME is just a side benefit of the actual project) but would be so much happier with official HID support.
SilentMobius said:
Now that I finally plucked up the courage to root my Nexus and install the hidd binary I can (with a little bit of effort) finally type effectively if I need to (mostly for connectbot when I need to ssh into remote servers)
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I'm trying the same. Where did you get the hidd binary? Or do you mind describing how you built it? Thanks in advance!
I go my info from here:
http://i-miss-erin.blogspot.com/2009/09/connect-bluetooth-keyboard-in-android.html
I already had hcitool from the extras package when I rooted, just needed the hidd binary.
Got mine working too! thanks for the help
Script / app for connecting this?
I just got mine working too!
Wish someone could write an app for this so I wouldn't have to use the console every time I want to connect..
If you have the think outside / igo bluetooth keyboard, word of warning! Be very very careful opening and closing this baby all the time. Don't let it get smashed in your bag. I'm on my 2nd one.. and this one is showing signs of failure. I have to bend the casing a bit to get my return / windows key to work. The inside cables have a tendency to slip out if things get mashed, and trust me, this is one keyboard you don't want to be opening up with a screwdriver..
I did.. got mine working again.. but only after bending the case after it was all put back together again. :-/
Great little keyboard though! Use it with my tablet pc too.
C
FYI the ASE allows you to execute shell scripts from home screen icons.
If you chmod the binary to suid it will run as root
chmod 4777 hidd
Then stick a script in /sdcard/ase/scripts
hidd --connect <BTADDR>
And long press on the home screen->shortcut->ase->your script
Cool. Any idea if it will work with portable bluetooth keyboards? Like the iGo Stowaway?
SilentMobius said:
FYI the ASE allows you to execute shell scripts from home screen icons.
If you chmod the binary to suid it will run as root
chmod 4777 hidd
Then stick a script in /sdcard/ase/scripts
hidd --connect <BTADDR>
And long press on the home screen->shortcut->ase->your script
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I used gscript didn't have to do the chmod 4755 (has a run as root checkbox)
but still the same, thanks for the tip!
I would love to see a tutorial for the nexus one bluetooth keyboard pairing. I tried to follow the website but got nowhere. Whenever i run:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
on my mobile i get the error :no such file or directory. I even created the danm directory and still get nowhere.
Anyone give me a hint? i want to figure this one out!
ok i got past that problem dumb me and my spacebar.
Anyhow now im trying to adb push hidd but im getting an
error: device not found
i have a cyangenmod nexusone with a ubnuntu 9.10 machine.
Thanks!
Alright i just copied and pasted the three files to the folder that was specified. Now everything works other than hidd specificaly hidd -connect gives me a
hidd: not found
Im now stuck here
Draaktatsu said:
Alright i just copied and pasted the three files to the folder that was specified. Now everything works other than hidd specificaly hidd -connect gives me a
hidd: not found
Im now stuck here
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did you change the permissions for hidd?
chmod 4755 hidd
Tried it just now, says:No such file or directory.
Maybe i have a bad file? Im stumped
LOL, I just paired and connected a Bluetooth mouse. LOL Not very useable though, moving the mouse is equivalent to rolling the trackball.
On cyanogenmod 5.0.4.1 I just had to push over the hidd program as the others were already there.
For everyone that's having problems, the methods described here work like a charm, make sure you turn off Internet Tethering (if you have it) and turn on development debugging mode.
Can't somebody write a simple keyboard pairing program for us? Seems like it would be fairly simple to write a root app that would do this but I'm no programmer, especially in Java.
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LOL, I just paired and connected a Bluetooth mouse. LOL Not very useable though, moving the mouse is equivalent to rolling the trackball.
On cyanogenmod 5.0.4.1 I just had to push over the hidd program as the others were already there.
For everyone that's having problems, the methods described here work like a charm, make sure you turn off Internet Tethering (if you have it) and turn on development debugging mode.
Can't somebody write a simple keyboard pairing program for us? Seems like it would be fairly simple to write a root app that would do this but I'm no programmer, especially in Java.
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Better yet would be to edit the source of the Settings app to put seamless support for HID in there. I'm going to look at writing a KB pairing program next week, I think.
The normal pairing in Android setting works for pairing keyboards just fine, its the android native hidd equivalent we need.
OK... finally got hidd recognised by deleting the .bin extension.
Now the problem is I get this error:
Can't open HIDP control socket: Operation not permitted
Anyone?
what is ase? i cant find it in market. i created the script and put it in the folder but i just need whatever ase is to create the shortcut
I want to edit with busybox vi running from the phone within an adb shell.
I am running a DOS box cmd window or a cygwin rxvt shell window, both don't work, where I connect to the phone with an adb shell. Then I run busybox vi. The vi runs but the default termcap or terminfo or whatever it is doesn't seem to be right because busybox vi comes up but I can't seem to get the ESC key to take so I can switch between command and insert modes of operation. On the phone it works correctly.
I hate editing on the phone. I would much rather work on the workstation.
I've read on a wiki busybox vi page that busybox vi only supports vt102. Any ideas if this should work or what I could try?
Thanks in advance.
Same here. I spend half the morning playing with TERMs, trying to get a dos or cygwin terminal to run vi. vi runs fine in Terminal emulator, but like you, I don't wan to edit on the phone.
I found JOE (Joe's Own Editor) ported to Android. I installed it because it supposedly uses TERM=unknown. That didn't work from DOS either. But it did work from a cygwin bash shell, with TERM=linux in the adb shell. Now there is the learning curve to use JOE...
I too would be happy to hear which TERM setting will work with a DOS adb shell.
Face same situation here. Is it resolved?
If not, how you gurus work around on this basic issue?
I don't know much about VNC yet. Could it be a viable direction that worth spending effort?
Adb shell and Vi - info
I too just spent a lot of time trying to get vi to work under "adb shell". ESC was especially a problem. Ultimately, I wasn't able to get it to work correctly, but SSH seems to work fine.
There are a lot of details about what I learned on Stackoverflow (I'm a new member here, so I can't post the link, but you can search for it -- the title is "adb shell: can't use the ESCAPE KEY").
Has anyone gotten this to work correctly? Or is it simply an incomplete/buggy implementation of adb's shell?
Thanks,
Barry
What is you're favorite terminal for this tablet?
BTEP
10char
I've only used two: Terminal Emulator and Better Terminal Emulator Pro (BTEP). BTEP is the only thing that supports enough to let me bind extra keys effectively enough to use my dock. For example, in BTEP I can bind BACK to behave like ESC, and thus retain my vi muscle memory . Ditto is useful for emacs, bash, etc.
My routine is BTEP + tmux in a chroot and opening another BTEP window whenever I need to leave the chroot for a few.
I use Hacker's Keyboard when undocked, which makes it less of an issue but I use my system docked for at least 8 hours a day!
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
Just got my nexus player today. I gave a snes emulator a try and it worked pretty well. I have the controller and did button mappings within the app. It was clunky, though this shows at least what is to come for the nexus player. Sorry for the shotty video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unij0rcbBrg&list=UULfnIgAd27Z_kupDy4tLofw
Stuff I used to get it all setup, basic stuff, but I'll provide these links for those that need them:
USB Driver support:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/general/usb-driver-nexus-player-t2935873
Enable Developer mode:
Goto About, then click on the build number a bunch of times.
Then go back and you will have a developer options icon.
Click that and enable debug and allow unknown apps.
Once you have ADB working, this is the command to side load.
adb install filename.apk
You will also want to push a SNES rom over to the nexus player. Use this command:
adb push c:\path to snes rom\ /sdcard/Download/
To launch the app since it doesn't show up in the normal app list.
Side Load Launcher from Play Store or side load the APK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-sideload-launcher-android-tv-t2914962
maamdroid said:
Just got my nexus player today. I gave a snes emulator a try and it worked pretty well. I have the controller and did button mappings within the app. It was clunky, though this shows at least what is to come for the nexus player. Sorry for the shotty video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unij0rcbBrg&list=UULfnIgAd27Z_kupDy4tLofw
Stuff I used to get it all setup, basic stuff, but I'll provide these links for those that need them:
USB Driver support:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/general/usb-driver-nexus-player-t2935873
Enable Developer mode:
Goto About, then click on the build number a bunch of times.
Then go back and you will have a developer options icon.
Click that and enable debug and allow unknown apps.
Once you have ADB working, this is the command to side load.
adb install filename.apk
You will also want to push a SNES rom over to the nexus player. Use this command:
adb push c:\path to snes rom\ /sdcard/Download/
To launch the app since it doesn't show up in the normal app list.
Side Load Launcher from Play Store or side load the APK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-sideload-launcher-android-tv-t2914962
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Nice... But I think the easier way would be to download the the Snes9x EX+ Emulator from the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.Snes9xPlus
And use Chainfire's Sideload Launcher to launch https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.tv.sideloadlauncher
Then put some Roms on and USB card (using a OTG Cable) or just downoad ES File Explorer File Manager https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop
And browse for the Roms from your network drive...