Weird adb ls output - Captivate General

After installing the JH2 ROM and using unleash the beast, I'm getting weird output from the ls command in the adb shell. Apparently, I can't post links or pictures, yet. So, here's a sort of link:
picasaweb. google. com/ lh/ photo/ VQKACQqA9i7u8ZWG3OmRGQ?feat=directlink
I'm getting listings of entries like [1;34mcache [0m
and [0;0mdefault.prop [0m
before each of the square brackets, there is a left-pointing arrow.
What's causing this? It seems to be an expanded version of the directory listing. How do I turn it off?

belyle said:
After installing the JH2 ROM and using unleash the beast, I'm getting weird output from the ls command in the adb shell. Apparently, I can't post links or pictures, yet. So, here's a sort of link:
picasaweb. google. com/ lh/ photo/ VQKACQqA9i7u8ZWG3OmRGQ?feat=directlink
I'm getting listings of entries like [1;34mcache [0m
and [0;0mdefault.prop [0m
before each of the square brackets, there is a left-pointing arrow.
What's causing this? It seems to be an expanded version of the directory listing. How do I turn it off?
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thats normal...

designgears said:
thats normal...
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When I was using the original kernel and the one-click root, my adb shell ls was only file names, not the extra stuff. When I use the ls command in terminal emulator on the phone, it's just the file names.
Also, when I grep the output of ls, the output of grep doesn't have the info in the square brackets, just the file name(s) that meet the criterion.

Thats the ls command sending color codes. It looks nice on a terminal that supports it but weird on windows.
To temporary solve it, after adb shell do this:
alias ls='ls --color=never'
It will fix the problem until you exit adb.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

LGSilva said:
Thats the ls command sending color codes. It looks nice on a terminal that supports it but weird on windows.
To temporary solve it, after adb shell do this:
alias ls='ls --color=never'
It will fix the problem until you exit adb.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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This was it. Thank you very much. I'm not sure why I didn't see the extra info on my other ROM, but there it is.
I don't suppose there's a different terminal/command prompt for windows that would show the colors?

ls -l
will just give you a standard list of files.

ok I have the supernoob question of the day. can you type adb commands via the terminal emulator on the phone, or do you have to be connected to a computer via usb? I downloaded adb wireless, but im thinking that i have to have the sdk set up on my comp first? Im just a little confused as you can tell

The terminal is the equivalent of doing 'adb shell'. You will have to download the android SDK to get the actual adb tool if you want to do push/pull etc. with it.

belyle said:
This was it. Thank you very much. I'm not sure why I didn't see the extra info on my other ROM, but there it is.
I don't suppose there's a different terminal/command prompt for windows that would show the colors?
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http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/ this does.

very old post that got bumped to the top. If you didn't try puttycyg and not interested in colors you can try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8036010&postcount=7
It works for me.

Related

Terminal commands

Is there a list somewhere for the commands because i tired to do the "dir" to get a list of files in the folder but it work. (on terminal or adb shell).
* Also what is the best file manager? Is there anything that has a password so that other people cant get into it?
'ls' is the unix command to list contents in a folder
Ok thanks. just been a long time since i messed with Linux shells i guess i should get my books out and start reading again
Android's Linux commands
although he got the wrong command for list files, he raises a good point, the android linux is far from having all commands other linux system have - does anyone have these documented somewhere? what it has and what it doesn't have?
eladkatz said:
although he got the wrong command for list files, he raises a good point, the android linux is far from having all commands other linux system have - does anyone have these documented somewhere? what it has and what it doesn't have?
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if you are running jf 1.31 then you have busybox installed.. google busybox and you will find out all the terminal commands you can run from your phone terminal or over adb shell.....
eladkatz said:
although he got the wrong command for list files, he raises a good point, the android linux is far from having all commands other linux system have - does anyone have these documented somewhere? what it has and what it doesn't have?
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ls /system/bin
ls /system/xbin
ls /system/xbin/bb
that should give you a fairly complete listing of the commands available.
korndub said:
if you are running jf 1.31 then you have busybox installed.. google busybox and you will find out all the terminal commands you can run from your phone terminal or over adb shell.....
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I just noticed this myself. I need to remove a symbolic link and recreate it by "unlink" and "rm" dont' seem to work. Is there a busybox command that will do it?
A quick google search brought up this annotated list for those new to these commands:
http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
JF Thanks for that, I was looking for that folder earlier and could not find it for the life of me. Blame it on drowsiness ...or just plain not wanting to be at work.
That list is only valid for modified Android. Stock Android runs toolbox, which has a much neutered list. Aside from JF's method, you can also look at the tpolbox links in update-script of an official update.zip
Hmmm.. does this mean overclocking is possible? Not that we "REALLY" need it right now but.....
adjtimex [-q] [-o offset] [-f frequency] [-p timeconstant] [-t tick] Read and optionally set system timebase parameters. See adjtimex(2).
Options:
-q Quiet
-o offset Time offset, microseconds
-f frequency Frequency adjust, integer kernel units (65536 is 1ppm)
(positive values make clock run faster)
-t tick Microseconds per tick, usually 10000
-p timeconstant
If you read any manpages on the command you would see that it's for correcting system clock drift.
If you type in "busybox" (without quotes) it will give you the list of commands. Enter "<enter command here> -d" for a description of the command you entered. Hope this helps...
"busybox --help" anybody? i thought the bb we had on our androids was not supposed to be the full busybox?
File manager
The Best file manager i found
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yaG1zb2Z0LmZtIl0.
ha root explorer as well...
ca use app lock to protect it!

JF 1.42 rc33 and T.E.

I'm sure i'm not the only one that has noticed that you can't update terminal emulator with modded firmware, i did a mild look through the searches, and didn't find what i was looking for, is there a means to update this, i've tried takeing it out of white list and then updating, but no go... Not that its a big deal TE works, its just an annoying knawing thing in the back of my mind, knowing there is an update on the market, and i can't have it
Delete the terminal app in terminal by
su
cd /system/app
ls
them find the app that starts with com. something
type rm -> name of the app
update it in market
card13 said:
Delete the terminal app in terminal by
su
cd /system/app
ls
them find the app that starts with com. something
type rm -> name of the app
update it in market
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gives me a read only error, i have to chmod it first right? have no clue how to do that right now, have to look it up. Thanks for pointing me to the proper file though
It'd probably be best to use adb.exe (available in the android SDK) to remove terminal emulator rather than using terminal emulator.
Also, in order to change anything in the /system partition, you need to remount it as read/write.
With adb this is easy:
Make sure your android has debug mode enabled (which I think is by default in all JF releases)
Hook it up to your computer with the USB cable
Open up a command prompt in windows (or whatever other OS you're using that has the Android SDK) and go to the tools directory in the SDK
Type "adb devices" to make sure adb sees your phone, if it doesn't, well uh...it's not working right, and you'll have to figure out why
Type "adb remount" to remount the /system partition as read-write
Type "adb shell" this will give you shell access to your G1, from there you can delete stuff from the /system partition. I think you might also be able to use "adb uninstall" but I don't know if that works for the /system/app folder.
thanks for the info TM will play with the sdk tools and see what i can do, they have been giving me a headache on linux, but then i haven't played with linux in about 6 years.. its come along way. Thanks again for the info wait 2 secs to reload the image
I've noticed that, too. I don't see a reason why I need to update TE, the one I have works just fine.
here your answer in the link below
this will allow you to remove the terminal and install the new one from market
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3287558

[GUIDE] Full bash shell with nano, tab completion, and color over ssh and adb

Posting this here because I think it will be of more interest to the tinkerers/devs than general users, if not, feel free to move it. I cobbled all of this together from various places on the web, but I think the credit for the binaries goes to Paul @ MoDaCo.
Nandroid before going any further!
Files you'll need:
For WiFi and CDMA SSH access - QuickSSHD (Download this from the Market. $1.50). I'm just going to assume if you're still reading, you know what this is for and how to use it. It's braindead simple. I think dropbear can be installed and configured manually, but for the $1.50...meh.
adb for tethered access.
The rest are zipped up here: terminfo, nano, bash, profile**
Unzip bashnano.zip onto your SDCard.
adb remount
From adb shell:
Install Terminfo:
cp -r /sdcard/terminfo /system/etc
Setup Bash:
cp /sdcard/bash /system/bin/bash_new
mv /system/bin/sh /system/bin/sh.old
ln -s /system/bin/bash_new /system/bin/sh
mv /sdcard/profile /sdcard/bash_profile (Thanks to jjvcuyler for finding adb bash profile location.)
Setup Nano:
cp /sdcard/nano /system/bin
I'm not sure if this setup will have any impact on sh scripts being used in the various ROMs, so use this at your own risk. I think it would kick ass to see this type of bash functionality baked into the custom ROMs.
If anybody would like to make this a flashable.zip, please do. I don't know how to do that yet.
Anyway, hope y'all find it useful.
**profile reflects a few personal choices for aliases and colors, but you can edit to your personal taste.
So I just did this. Is there any way to get this functionality into a local terminal?
Also I was able to do everything from a local terminal without adb. Just do the following first:
su
remount rw
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adb shell fires off bash, but it doesn't read profile from /etc. It's going to be a simple matter of figuring out where bash is looking for it. I just haven't found that out yet.
How do you like having full bash capabilities on EVO? Arrows/tab completion/color prompts, etc...
J
jmxp69 said:
adb shell fires off bash, but it doesn't read profile from /etc. It's going to be a simple matter of figuring out where bash is looking for it. I just haven't found that out yet.
How do you like having full bash capabilities on EVO? Arrows/tab completion/color prompts, etc...
J
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Copy profile to /sdcard/bash_profile
jjvcuyler said:
Copy profile to /sdcard/bash_profile
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WooT! There it is. I'll update the OP. Thanks jjvcuyler.
Edit: /sdcard/bash_profile works for ssh and adb. OP updated to reflect the change.
jmxp69 said:
Posting this here because I think it will be of more interest to the tinkerers/devs than general users, if not, feel free to move it. I cobbled all of this together from various places on the web, but I think the credit for the binaries goes to Paul @ MoDaCo.
Nandroid before going any further!
Files you'll need:
For WiFi and CDMA SSH access - QuickSSHD (Download this from the Market. $1.50). I'm just going to assume if you're still reading, you know what this is for and how to use it. It's braindead simple. I think dropbear can be installed and configured manually, but for the $1.50...meh.
adb for tethered access.
The rest are zipped up here[/URL]: terminfo.zip, nano, bash, profile**
Unzip bashnano.zip onto your SDCard.
Unzip terminfo.zip (from inside bashnano.zip) onto your SDCard.
adb remount
From adb shell:
Install Terminfo:
cp -r /sdcard/terminfo /system/etc
Setup Bash:
cp /sdcard/bash /system/bin/bash_new
mv /system/bin/sh /system/bin/sh.old
ln -s /system/bin/bash_new /system/bin/sh
mv /sdcard/profile /sdcard/bash_profile (Thanks to jjvcuyler for finding adb bash profile location.)
Setup Nano:
cp /sdcard/nano /system/bin
I'm not sure if this setup will have any impact on sh scripts being used in the various ROMs, so use this at your own risk. I think it would kick ass to see this type of bash functionality baked into the custom ROMs.
If anybody would like to make this a flashable.zip, please do. I don't know how to do that yet.
Anyway, hope y'all find it useful.
**profile reflects a few personal choices for aliases and colors, but you can edit to your personal taste.
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there is no terminfo.zip and there is nothing in terminfo directory from within the original zip... help?
Sorry, I missed the recurse flag zipping the terminfo directory. It's fixed now. Go ahead and re-download.
Here's a link for just terminfo.zip
J
I modified the bash_profile to get rid of the colors since the window's cmd.exe doesnt support ansi colors. probably a better way to do this but it works for me.
also found this useful for setting PS1 to my liking http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html
jmxp69 said:
adb shell fires off bash, but it doesn't read profile from /etc. It's going to be a simple matter of figuring out where bash is looking for it. I just haven't found that out yet.
How do you like having full bash capabilities on EVO? Arrows/tab completion/color prompts, etc...
J
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is there a way to get tab completion through adb shell?
Yes. This works with adb shell. Just follow the directions in the OP.
jmxp69 said:
Yes. This works with adb shell. Just follow the directions in the OP.
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i have and i do have everything done as stated in the OP, when i try tab completion via adb shell (phone tethered with usb) from my pc, it just puts in a tab, it doesn't complete.
Hmm....could be a dos thing with cmd.exe. I haven't tried on a PC, I'm on a Mac. adb shell via OSX works fine with tab completion. Try ssh'ing in instead with something like putty? Once you get ssh going, you don't need a cable.
Edit: Confirmed...tab completion doesn't work over Win cmd.exe and adb shell.
jmxp69 said:
Hmm....could be a dos thing with cmd.exe. I haven't tried on a PC, I'm on a Mac. adb shell via OSX works fine with tab completion. Try ssh'ing in instead with something like putty? Once you get ssh going, you don't need a cable.
Edit: Confirmed...tab completion doesn't work over Win cmd.exe and adb shell.
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Thanks for looking into it... I'll try getting it to work via linux instead. I guess ssh would be a solution, but i never turn wifi on.
Is anyone able to do a NAND backup/restore after doing this? With Amon Ra's recovery I was unable to NAND backup.
EDIT:
I think this is a big negatory. I was just able to do a NAND backup, so maybe the error I got was a coincidence after applying these changes.
Anyone else noticing that the time is always displayed as GMT in the prompt? The date command gives the correct time for my timezone but the bash prompt always shows GMT
Vinny75 said:
Anyone else noticing that the time is always displayed as GMT in the prompt? The date command gives the correct time for my timezone but the bash prompt always shows GMT
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Change PS1 line: \A to `date +%H:%M`
jmxp69 said:
Posting this here because I think it will be of more interest to the tinkerers/devs than general users, if not, feel free to move it. I cobbled all of this together from various places on the web, but I think the credit for the binaries goes to Paul @ MoDaCo.
Nandroid before going any further!
Files you'll need:
For WiFi and CDMA SSH access - QuickSSHD (Download this from the Market. $1.50). I'm just going to assume if you're still reading, you know what this is for and how to use it. It's braindead simple. I think dropbear can be installed and configured manually, but for the $1.50...meh.
adb for tethered access.
The rest are zipped up here: terminfo, nano, bash, profile**
Unzip bashnano.zip onto your SDCard.
adb remount
From adb shell:
Install Terminfo:
cp -r /sdcard/terminfo /system/etc
Setup Bash:
cp /sdcard/bash /system/bin/bash_new
mv /system/bin/sh /system/bin/sh.old
ln -s /system/bin/bash_new /system/bin/sh
mv /sdcard/profile /sdcard/bash_profile (Thanks to jjvcuyler for finding adb bash profile location.)
Setup Nano:
cp /sdcard/nano /system/bin
I'm not sure if this setup will have any impact on sh scripts being used in the various ROMs, so use this at your own risk. I think it would kick ass to see this type of bash functionality baked into the custom ROMs.
If anybody would like to make this a flashable.zip, please do. I don't know how to do that yet.
Anyway, hope y'all find it useful.
**profile reflects a few personal choices for aliases and colors, but you can edit to your personal taste.
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I followed the steps exactly, but end up with "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13) -" while typing "adb shell" in a windows or linux terminal. I cannot recover the original sh because the root is lost, and I cant root my phone anymore probably because something wrong with the new sh. Any idea how to fix this?
EDIT: Acutally nevermind. adb shell works in recovery mode. but still, not sure why the modified sh doest work for me
The Downloadlink is dead!
So the thread is useless.
francwalter said:
The Downloadlink is dead!
So the thread is useless.
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Yeah.....no.
A simple google search would have shown you that the files are here: http://66.197.42.222/bashnano.zip
or here http://androidforums.com/attachment...ide-installing-bash-nano-android-bashnano.zip.
EDIT: I've also attached it in case the links above ever die, there will still be one which does not.
ya this is great and all but any decent busybox installer will setup bash for you.

[Q] ADB doesn't work on Mac

When I CD to the platform-tools folder and type
Code:
adb devices
it says "adb: command not found" If anyone could help me that would be wonderful. I am on the Inspire/DesireHD running AOSP Gingerbread. Thanks!
You have two choices. You can either run the command prefixed with ./ (dot slash), which allows for executing an executable in the current directory:
Code:
./adb devices
Or, the other choice (which will be better if you intend to use adb a lot) is to add the platform-tools folder to your path by editing or creating the file .bashrc in your home folder (~/.bashrc).
Let's suppose your platform tools folder is: ~/.android-sdk/platform-tools
Then, you would want to add something along the lines of the following to your bashrc:
Code:
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.android-sdk/platform-tools"
Save the file, the run this or log out/in:
Code:
source ~/.bashrc
Et voila, you should now be able to run adb from any folder without issue.
Explanation: adding the new path (folder) to your PATH environment variable tells BASH to include that folder in its search for an executable. The reason $PATH is added at the beginning of the new string is so that your default path does not get overwritten. $HOME will simply expand to /home/your_user_name when BASH interprets it.
GENIUS! IT WORKED! Thank you! Now, one more question- how do I get superuser privileges using ADB? (device is rooted, of course)
No problem.
On my G1 you were root as soon as you adb'd in. Just tested on my Defy and '$' - shocking. So once you have run adb shell, just run 'su' (without quotes of course) and accept the permission on your phone screen as usual for root programs and you should be good to go.
Sorry to keep asking questions, but when I typed
Code:
su
into adb, it asked for a password. No popup on device screen. I do have superuser installed on the device.
That is odd. I'm not sure why that would be. I'll see if I can think of something though. Hopefully someone else can make a suggestion.
Thanks! You have been very helpful.
Don't think I can hit the thanks button from the app, sorry
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

How To Root An AT&T HTC One X [No Longer Working]

This root was rendered unusable at this time due to AT&T disabling the Ready2Go app installation feature. Working on a work around now.
Original content:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...the-att-htc-one-x-on-version-1-85-or-earlier/
Hope you get your One X soon dude!
Confirmation number: 8PH11891CA483914J
In! Thanks Justin!
Billy
Damn, thanks a lot!
jcase said:
Now comes the timing critical part, you have to use ATT Ready2Go to Download "AT&T Mark the Spot", and interrupt the install process right after the download has finished. Easiest way is to reboot the device, but we have found other ways to do it.
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OK, so when exactly do we reboot? There is no download status bar or whatnot, and I have rebooted right when it says install started to no avail. Do we have to do it before that point?
<---Not a noob, just crappy at timing.
id10terrordfw said:
OK, so when exactly do we reboot? There is no download status bar or whatnot, and I have rebooted right when it says install started to no avail. Do we have to do it before that point?
<---Not a noob, just crappy at timing.
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You need to reboot right after the download is done. I haven't had a chance to do this in person, I just found it in the firmware and asked others to test for confirmation. Hopefully someone can chime in and tell us what visual indicators show when to do the reboot.
Some testers got it first try, some took 3-4 tries.
id10terrordfw said:
OK, so when exactly do we reboot? There is no download status bar or whatnot, and I have rebooted right when it says install started to no avail. Do we have to do it before that point?
<---Not a noob, just crappy at timing.
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I'm with you on this one. I've been trying this for last hour but to no avail. The minute it says in status bar that it's installing, I tried command. I tried when I press finish on phone and LTE signals go up and down and even tried as soon as I was done with att site but can't get it to work. I've restarted 20 times and this startup sounds I think is now annoying other people in the office
jcase said:
You need to reboot right after the download is done. I haven't had a chance to do this in person, I just found it in the firmware and asked others to test for confirmation. Hopefully someone can chime in and tell us what visual indicators show when to do the reboot.
Some testers got it first try, some took 3-4 tries.
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Hah, well now I just feel dumb as I am on try 10 or so. I must not be able to hit the timing right at all. I'll keep at it, as I am constant as the northern star.
Don't feel dumb, it is very timing critical, with few real indicators of when to pull it off.
Maybe xfinrodx or designgears can chime in on this one
noobsquared said:
I'm with you on this one. I've been trying this for last hour but to no avail. The minute it says in status bar that it's installing, I tried command. I tried when I press finish on phone and LTE signals go up and down and even tried as soon as I was done with att site but can't get it to work. I've restarted 20 times and this startup sounds I think is now annoying other people in the office
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Turn your ringer off, it will silence the startup sound. At least I can help with that!
id10terrordfw said:
Turn your ringer off, it will silence the startup sound. At least I can help with that!
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Thanks, but everytime I do factory reset...it comes back on?
I might be doing something dumb.
After I get permission denied error, I try to start at the process of tryping:
Code:
adb shell ln -s /data/local.prop /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk
but when I do that after uninstalling AT&T Mark the spot, it gives me erorr:
link failed File exists
So I do a factory reset and then try again from scratch.
Is there an easier way to repeat the process?
Edit: I figured it out, just delete the file like this:
Code:
adb shell rm -r /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk
Hope that's the right way of doing it.
Thank you.
I have been deleting the file from data/install
adb shell
cd data/install
rm com.att.android.markthespot.apk
exit
then repeat the process...i'm in double digits on attempts...going to have to walk away from it for a bit.
going on 10x for me and still nothing. Any suggestions?
id10terrordfw said:
OK, so when exactly do we reboot? There is no download status bar or whatnot, and I have rebooted right when it says install started to no avail. Do we have to do it before that point?
<---Not a noob, just crappy at timing.
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No worries. Here's the way I did it back when I did it:
Open 2 cmd windows
adb devices on both (to make sure daemon is running)
In first shell type adb reboot but do not execute (obviously!)
In second window, cd /data/install
Enter ls -l
Now tell Ready2Go to install.
In that second window SPAM "up arrow - enter" to repeatedly execute ls -l. Observe the .apk file growing in size. When it stops growing it's probably done downloading (It is 3801413 bytes as of today). Go back to that first window IMMEDIATELY and hit enter on that adb reboot you typed in. It's a small apk so you need to be fast.
This was my method. Hopefully it works for you!
noobsquared said:
Thanks, but everytime I do factory reset...it comes back on?
I might be doing something dumb.
After I get permission denied error, I try to start at the process of tryping:
Code:
adb shell ln -s /data/local.prop /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk
but when I do that after uninstalling AT&T Mark the spot, it gives me erorr:
link failed File exists
So I do a factory reset and then try again from scratch.
Is there an easier way to repeat the process?
Edit: I figured it out, just delete the file like this:
Code:
adb shell rm -r /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk
Hope that's the right way of doing it.
Thank you.
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Um, why are you doing a factory reset?
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xfinrodx said:
No worries. Here's the way I did it back when I did it:
Open 2 cmd windows
adb devices on both (to make sure daemon is running)
In first shell type adb reboot but do not execute (obviously!)
In second window, cd /data/install
Enter ls -l
Now tell Ready2Go to install.
In that second window SPAM "up arrow - enter" to repeatedly execute ls -l. Observe the .apk file growing in size. When it stops growing it's probably done downloading (I think it was around 5MB but it's been a while). Go back to that first window IMMEDIATELY and hit enter on that adb reboot you typed in. It's a small apk so you need to be fast.
This was my method. Hopefully it works for you!
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I will give that a shot, and I should have thought of that. Thanks!
xfinrodx said:
No worries. Here's the way I did it back when I did it:
Open 2 cmd windows
adb devices on both (to make sure daemon is running)
In first shell type adb reboot but do not execute (obviously!)
In second window, cd /data/install
Enter ls -l
Now tell Ready2Go to install.
In that second window SPAM "up arrow - enter" to repeatedly execute ls -l. Observe the .apk file growing in size. When it stops growing it's probably done downloading (It is 3801413 bytes as of today). Go back to that first window IMMEDIATELY and hit enter on that adb reboot you typed in. It's a small apk so you need to be fast.
This was my method. Hopefully it works for you!
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Good advice, was the first person to test it for me. I confirmed it with 4 users before posting, and all got it eventually.
id10terrordfw said:
I will give that a shot, and I should have thought of that. Thanks!
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I was the first one I'm aware of who used this exploit a couple weeks ago. I won't claim that the process is clean, but it should work for you if you do it the way I intended the instructions to read... Good luck!
Thanks for all the help but I think this red bull is not working today.
Here is what I did:
First CMD:
Code:
adb shell
cd /data/install
ls -l <- it only gives me the file name..it doesn't tell me the size.
Also, I delete the file and run the first command in second CMD and right after that I see this in ls -l:
[email protected]:/data/install $ ls -l
ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx shell shell 2012-05-25 12:16 com.att.android.markthesp
ot.apk -> /data/local.prop
Second CMD:
Execute:
Code:
adb shell ln -s /data/local.prop /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk
Wait to execute:
Code:
adb reboot
xfinrodx said:
No worries. Here's the way I did it back when I did it:
Open 2 cmd windows
adb devices on both (to make sure daemon is running)
In first shell type adb reboot but do not execute (obviously!)
In second window, cd /data/install
Enter ls -l
Now tell Ready2Go to install.
In that second window SPAM "up arrow - enter" to repeatedly execute ls -l. Observe the .apk file growing in size. When it stops growing it's probably done downloading (I think it was around 5MB but it's been a while). Go back to that first window IMMEDIATELY and hit enter on that adb reboot you typed in. It's a small apk so you need to be fast.
This was my method. Hopefully it works for you!
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Great Idea !!!.... If you could post the exact size of the file , we can probably try to script it...( I have an idea in mind as mentioned below , but not sure if it works the way I intended in android )
for Ex:
szie=`ls -l /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk | awk '{print $4}'`
while [ "$szie" -lt <size-of-apk> ];do
echo "waiting......"
done
adb reboot
dharani1234 said:
Great Idea !!!.... If you could post the exact size of the file , we can probably try to script it...( I have an idea in mind as mentioned below , but not sure if it works the way I intended in android )
for Ex:
szie=`ls -l /data/install/com.att.android.markthespot.apk | awk '{print $5}'`
while [ "$szie" -lt <size-of-apk> ];do
echo "waiting......"
done
adb reboot
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If you can get a working script, that was reliable I would love to post it in the OP. To get an idea of the size, you could install the app, and do adb shell ls -l /data/app/<filename>

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