Hello,
So I did something stupid. Not sure what, but I managed to get my phone into a state where NO shell commands work other than cd and su.
./adb shell
$ su
# ls
# top
# free
free: not found
# cat
# df
# more
more: not found
# less
less: not found
# busybox
busybox: not found
# sh
# ssh
ssh: not found
# vi
vi: not found
#
The phone is a Motorola MB502 (Charm), rooted using Universal Androot 1.63.
Currently running the stock Telus ROM (don't really have a choice there...)
Any way I can get this working ?
There is a market app that will attempt to install busybox, if you want to try that.
Do you mean
stericson.busybox ?
because I can't seem to find it on the market, and can't use MarketEnabler since my shell is broken.
With a bit of searching I noticed that all the files in /system/bin seem to be 0-byte files. Perhaps someone who has a Charm could post these files?
$adb pull /system/bin/top
$ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-01-18 17:25 top
$
I am trying to diagnose my alarm manager service high wakelocks, which i found out thanks to betterbatterystats. I only have my s3 and asus transformer for computers, no windows machine. I am on synergy 1.7 and imoseyon kexec kernel beta 0.1. I read dumping alarm to a text file yoy can diagnose this.
Here is what happens
[email protected]:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # dumpsys alarm > alarmdump.txt
sh: cannot create alarmdump.txt: Read-only file system
1|[email protected]:/ #
Is doing this possible with terminal emulator?
I got it, just got to change to sdcard with cd.. enter then cd sdcard enter
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
$ cd /sdcard
$ ls
...
...
...
$ su
# cd /sdcard
# ls
#
Does anyone have an explanation for this error?
I have android 4.4.2 and a blackview crown.
Thanks for help
@r4c0r,
Try it like this, instead:
Code:
$ su
# ls /sdcard
Trying to deodex my apks, they're deodexed but I can't push them into the /system/app folder
Code:
C:\Users\Terrence\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ su
su
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # exit
exit
[email protected]:/ $ exit
exit
C:\Users\Terrence\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push C:\U
sers\Terrence\deodexed_apps /system/app/
push: C:\Users\Terrence\deodexed_apps/YahoostockWidget.apk -> /system/app/Yahoos
tockWidget.apk
failed to copy 'C:\Users\Terrence\deodexed_apps/YahoostockWidget.apk' to '/syste
m/app/YahoostockWidget.apk': Permission denied
Phone is rooted according to RootChecker. No Knox or anything else like that. Android 4.1.