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I was wondering if anyone else was running into the problem I'm having, and if it has been covered before and I missed it in the search box earlier I apologize. I just recently tried to upgrade to JACHero2.6 and my market app (most important) along with several others are missing. The apps are automatically installed on all my other roms, it is only with hero that I end up missing alot of apps. I have a correctly formatted SD card and I did a wipe before I installed this and tried the whole process twice. If I am forgetting to do something special prior to installation or afterwards please let me know!!
darkphoenix2012 said:
I was wondering if anyone else was running into the problem I'm having, and if it has been covered before and I missed it in the search box earlier I apologize. I just recently tried to upgrade to JACHero2.6 and my market app (most important) along with several others are missing. The apps are automatically installed on all my other roms, it is only with hero that I end up missing alot of apps. I have a correctly formatted SD card and I did a wipe before I installed this and tried the whole process twice. If I am forgetting to do something special prior to installation or afterwards please let me know!!
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you may have gotten a bad download. try redownloading it again. do you have 3 partition (fat32 ext2/3 linux-swap) if not i suggest that for jac's 2.63 also make sure you check file extensions in recovery screen. hopefully this helps
Yes I have my card that exact format and I tried using the filesystem checker in the recovery screen it said filesystem check was complete!! I'll try doing the whole process over again but I'm not sure how that would help, and it is sad too this is the best damn hero rom i've tested to date, its fast as hell!! If it weren't for my apps not being here i wouldn't be planning on a future rom update in the near future or until some big release happens.
make sure you always check md5 sum of all your hero build download
you could of had a damaged downloaded rom and this could affect your rom.
Just tried to download a fresh copy of the rom, checked to make sure my sd card was working properly, wiped and re-flashed yet my market app and the same apps I was missing before is still missing. It should be included that apps on my ext2 were coming back like they should be just not all of them, and not a few apps that I thought should be included with the rom. Is there anything I should check that I may not have yet?
I would use Root Explorer to check if the apk files are still under system/sd/app if they aren't... well, there's no way you're going to see them again unless you re-install them. You can also look under system/sd/app_s if that's there. Other than that, if you can't find it, it's not there. (If you know the exact name of the file or at least part of the apk file name, under terminal type: find "file name" (w/o quotes ofc)
You can add wildcards (*) if you don't know the exact name of the file. If the apk file is still there... well... let's just see if its there first.
I checked using terminal, I typed "vending.apk" and tried to check the dir's you specified for the apks. If they are there I can't find them, although I am a bit limited as terminal is the only app that came loaded with which to check for files. If the apk files are indeed not there then why would the apps install on their own without a problem on any other build but hero??? I must be doing something wrong right? I am open to any suggestions at this point, even using a different rom to check for something, my goal is to have this rom flashed with my apps working soon!
heres the vending.apk from jachero 2.63 you can try and adb push it to /system/sd/app_s and see if it works.
Thanks, I'll try pushing that over but I'm still worried about the rest of the apps I'm missing. Would there be anything else I could try to make it possibly fix all the missing apps? What could be causing this problem in the first place? I did notice that my sd card has an ext2 rather than ext3 part, will that cause all of this to happen? I'm still pretty lost on this. I tried going back to another rom just to make sure my apps would still all pull up correctly, and they did so it has to be something related to this most recent build of jachero, or something
welcome to the club my friend (-;
i have the exact same problem and noone was able to help me yet.
It must have something to do with Jacs apps2sd method. i read some tweets between him and cyanogen that it might be a little 'rough'.
however - it's always the same apps that are missing, in my case it's (badly enough) launcher.apk AND rosie.apk which pretty much means that i can't solve it.
i also tried everything i could with ADB - without luck. I somehow have the feeling that theres something staying on the phone even when wiping and formatting.... I'll check this through ADB this evening.
look @ my recent posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search_rop.php?searchid=25731882
for previous moaning from myself ( (-; ) and discussion with others in the JACthread. Basically the last 15 - 20 posts are about nothing else (-;
I will also do some logcating today - i've already seen the errors through install (rosie.apk couldn't be parsed etc) but i forgot to save it (and the command promt only saves 100 lines or something)
h.nocturna said:
I would use Root Explorer to check if the apk files are still under system/sd/app if they aren't... well, there's no way you're going to see them again unless you re-install them. You can also look under system/sd/app_s if that's there. Other than that, if you can't find it, it's not there. (If you know the exact name of the file or at least part of the apk file name, under terminal type: find "file name" (w/o quotes ofc)
You can add wildcards (*) if you don't know the exact name of the file. If the apk file is still there... well... let's just see if its there first.
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I have used AndExplorer and put the APK's in the sys/sd/apps and it all worked fine. Very easy to do if you don't know how to push, just reboot after.
Can someone please tell me how i can get myfaves app on any mod im burning up my minutes thanks.
jivany said:
Can someone please tell me how i can get myfaves app on any mod im burning up my minutes thanks.
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You don't need to have the myfaves app for you myfave minutes to work. You are still calling them for free regardless if you have the icon or myfave compatible phone or whatever. If you want to manage the people just log on to mytmobile.com and make the changes there.
Hmmmmmmmm . I never realized thanks for pointing that out TurboTsi.
darkphoenix2012 said:
Thanks, I'll try pushing that over but I'm still worried about the rest of the apps I'm missing. Would there be anything else I could try to make it possibly fix all the missing apps? What could be causing this problem in the first place? I did notice that my sd card has an ext2 rather than ext3 part, will that cause all of this to happen? I'm still pretty lost on this. I tried going back to another rom just to make sure my apps would still all pull up correctly, and they did so it has to be something related to this most recent build of jachero, or something
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open up your copy of the build and check in system/app_s to see if the .apks are even in the build. if pushing the vending.apk works i dont mind posting the other ones you are missing if you want to pm me or something
Just tried opening the update.zip file and verified that all the apks are there. Which makes me wonder what exactly is up. Im thinking it could be an apps2sd issue, like what was said above. I didnt have this problem with older hero roms that i can remember. TBH I could try pushing apps with adb but that wouldn't bring back my other 3rd party apps floating in ext2 limbo. So I'm out of ideas ;(
darkphoenix2012 said:
Just tried opening the update.zip file and verified that all the apks are there. Which makes me wonder what exactly is up. Im thinking it could be an apps2sd issue, like what was said above. I didnt have this problem with older hero roms that i can remember. TBH I could try pushing apps with adb but that wouldn't bring back my other 3rd party apps floating in ext2 limbo. So I'm out of ideas ;(
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try going to the recovery console and entering upgrade_fs and that will change your ext2 to ext3 and see if wiping and flashing change anything. also if you have root explorer you can check your /system/sd folder to see if all of your third party apps are there
Just tried upgrade_fs and it gave me a "unable to allocate block" I noticed there is little if any room left on the ext2 partition. Would that cause all of this? If not would it be worth a shot to resize the partition and give it more space from my fat32 then try to upgrade wipe reload again?
If you're out of ideas, then I would attempt to resize first (but backup your fat32 first) and then see if that solves it, if not, then I would format, wipe, and update...
but are you sure those 3rd party apps are not there? Try using Root Explorer to determine if the 3rd Party Apps are there, if they are, just pull them to your sdcard and try installing them again with ASTRO or something like that.
I just saw this!
http://twitter.com/unrevoked
They're currently working on one that will write to /system.
Stay tuned!
Thanks guys! Awesome work!
VoXHTC said:
I just saw this!
http://twitter.com/unrevoked
I downloaded an .apk file and I'm staring at it now..
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I'm not very happy with installing and running things on my phone without knowing quite what they do. you go first
Yeah, report back if it breaks anything. I wanna root mine and this way seems easy.
LOL no way.. u 1st.
It worked, but unfortunately it has to be applied on each reboot. not a sticky root. I know my low post count will make you sketchy of this point. all I can say is that it is true. dropped it on my SD, used astro to access it, installed, and it worked just like blackrain, one click. except not sticky.
works great. gotta do it every boot.
Yep me to tried it and worked so how would this work on installing toms though since a reboot get rid of the root?
Oh my god i wanna do it. Its gotta be legit.. Right?
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It worked, but unfortunately it has to be applied on each reboot. not a sticky root. I know my low post count will make you sketchy of this point. all I can say is that it is true. dropped it on my SD, used astro to access it, installed, and it worked just like blackrain, one click. except not sticky.
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Well it got rooted, going to reboot and see
Hmmm. So if its not sticky, its pretty much pointless to me. Gonna way for the real Root to come. I mean the phone just came out so it shouldnt be long.
I'm still showing sudo permissions on reboot, going to test a few things. like the overclock app, and terminal access.
EDIT: Confirmed, SetCPU for Root cannot request permission. not a sticky root, just as it says.
so what does this do for me, i did it but i can't get into where all the apps i've downloaded are and stuff, i'm confused. what can i do with this root?
can you write to system from within android? if so root explorer will let you easily remove stock apps
no you can't due to current limitations
There is no rw for /system currently. < this should be written in bold and stickied.
I find their lack of information disturbing. If it really needs to be run every boot, why don't they say that? Their site doesn't have a single bit of info on it.
Well there is the long shell way.
Can I use this to create a perfect backup of my phone so I can restore it at any time?
actually when you do it on the phone it tells you that it needs to be run every reboot. so we can't get rid of sprint applications through the phone because of a lack RW for the system, but can we do this pc side???
i'm in boot mode what do i do so i can get rid of sprint apps and what not, how do i do a nandroid, and how can i back up all of my aps.
Anyone know what this means?
Root protip: bind mounts are your friend: busybox touch /data/local/blank; mount -o bind /data/local/blank /system/app/Sprint_NFL.apk
Hi,
Im starting a new Thread *intentionally* because in the Issues thread the Problems seems to be igonored, also there are many other issues beeing discussed.
So i hope we can find a Solution quicker using an extra Thread.
Problem: After Root my X10 is not showing Copy-protected apps in the Market.
How to recreate: Search for "documents" on a untouched X10, it will give you ~99 results. Then root it (new method) it will only give you ~52 results.
I already tried it on an untouched R2BA023, and i got 99 results so its clear that the problem lies within root and not with the Firmare itself.
I dont know if this helps but it has worked for me!
I copied the default.prop from system folder(not root folder) of my original firmware,and replaced the one from root,and waited a while.Now I have all bought apps back!Only fancy widget isnt there !
anyone tryed market-enabler ?
We have a discussion on Market Enabler.
Forum Link
collider said:
I dont know if this helps but it has worked for me!
I copied the default.prop from system folder(not root folder) of my original firmware,and replaced the one from root,and waited a while.Now I have all bought apps back!Only fancy widget isnt there !
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Apparently fancy widget been stopped.. I think something to do with htc? correct me if im wrong.. cause I'm just saying what I think I read earlier.
Anyways I've made a backup of my own.. Hope it helps
http://db.tt/T6r8Hi
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collider said:
I dont know if this helps but it has worked for me!
I copied the default.prop from system folder(not root folder) of my original firmware,and replaced the one from root,and waited a while.Now I have all bought apps back!Only fancy widget isnt there !
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I will try this and report back, thanks
I have only the top 3 lines of the root default.prop not changed.the rest is from my original one.
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It is a little strange with market!
We havent touched the prop files (execpt on X10a version) but even if i flash clean R2ba023 market dont work correctly.
Then i rerooted and tried much and found nothing.
And tada it works. -> what i've done .... noting. it suddenly worked.
It could be that there is a major firmware problem like before on R1...016 @ SE
Regards
Bin4ry
Yes.its strange!!The greatest Problem is the Copy Protection and the Variables they used for that.
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I get a Permission denied (yes i mounted /system as RW)
Ok, managed it now (didnt do it as root)
Still, no copy protected apps -.-
BTW, overwriting build.prop ->Brick
I've got the same problem. Got some paid apps but not all (Sling Player I miss you).
Collider do you think you can post a little more detail about what you did to get it working again?
I have done nothing special,keep the top three lines from default.prop
The whole lower text was changed with the same content from the default.prop
of my first original firmware.
copy this new default.prop to sdcard and then write it with
adb shell
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
dd if=/sdcard/default.prop of=/system/default.prop
My new default.prop for my Country.
Dont know if the cut is needed,maybe you can change the whole default.prop
Hope this helps you with your own default.prop in your Country.
Many props i know
ro.semc.version.cust=1235-7379
ro.semc.version.cust_revision=R7A
ro.product.name=X10_1235-7379
*******cut here***********
ro.semc.country=Switzerland
ro.semc.product.brand=Orange
ro.product.brand=SEMC
ro.product.device=SonyEricssonX10i
ro.product.manufacturer=Sony Ericsson
ro.semc.content.number=PA23
ro.product.model=X10i
ro.semc.ms_type_id=AAD-3880056-BV
ro.email.domain.0=orangemail.ch
ro.email.incoming-protocol.0=pop3
ro.email.incoming-server.0=pop.orangemail.ch
ro.email.incoming-port.0=110
ro.email.outgoing-server.0=smtp.orangemail.ch
ro.email.outgoing-port.0=25
ro.semc.message_max_size=307200
ro.product.locale.language=en
ro.product.locale.region=US
ro.mmi.standby-ringtone-volume=6
ro.semc.install_non_market_apps=true
ro.ciphering-indication=false
ro.config.ringtone=sony_ericsson.ogg
ro.config.notification_sound=notification.ogg
ro.homepage.url=http://wap.sonyericsson.com/download/download.do?cmd=owp&appl=sehome
ro.browser.bookmark.title.0=Sony Ericsson
ro.browser.bookmark.title.1=Sony Ericsson Support
ro.browser.bookmark.title.2=Games
ro.browser.bookmark.title.3=News
ro.browser.bookmark.title.4=Orange World
ro.browser.bookmark.title.5=Pictures
ro.browser.bookmark.title.6=Ringtones
ro.browser.bookmark.title.7=Sport
ro.browser.bookmark.title.8=Video
ro.browser.bookmark.url.0=http://wap.sonyericsson.com/download/download.do?cmd=owp&appl=sehome
ro.browser.bookmark.url.1=http://wap.sonyericsson.com/download/download.do?cmd=owp&appl=contactus
ro.browser.bookmark.url.2=http://mobile.orange.ch/games
ro.browser.bookmark.url.3=http://mobile.orange.ch/news
ro.browser.bookmark.url.4=http://mobile.orange.ch
ro.browser.bookmark.url.5=http://mobile.orange.ch/logo
ro.browser.bookmark.url.6=http://mobile.orange.ch/ringtones
ro.browser.bookmark.url.7=http://mobile.orange.ch/sport
ro.browser.bookmark.url.8=http://mobile.orange.ch/video
ro.home-screen=com.android.launcher
ro.drm.whitelist.domain.0=musiwave.com
ro.drm.whitelist.domain.1=orange.ch
ro.drm.whitelist.domain.2=orange.com
ro.drm.whitelist.domain.3=purplecast.us
ro.drm.whitelist.domain.4=viaccess.fr
ro.facebook.enable=true
ro.twitter.enable=true
ro.picasa.enable=true
ro.flickr.enable=false
ro.youtube.enable=true
ro.semc.hidden_pull_interval=168
ro.com.google.clientidbase=android-sonyericsson
ro.com.google.clientidbase.yt=android-sonyericsson
ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=android-sonyericsson
ro.com.google.clientidbase.vs=android-sonyericsson
ro.com.google.clientidbase.gmm=android-sonyericsson
ro.semc.emanual.url_semc=http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/
ro.email.num=1
ro.semc.ecclist.num=0
ro.browser.bookmark.num=9
ro.drm.whitelist.num=5
ro.build.fingerprint=SEMC/X10_1234-4768/SonyEricssonX10i/es209ra:1.6/R1FA014/1267616029:user/rel-keys
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Hi @collider,
When, where, how you have got that file in the previous or first release? I need the file for Vodafone Spain. I should reinstall a shipped firmware like 014 or 016 and then copy the file? or There is another way?
Thanks in advance
I think its because Google haven't yet authorised R2BA023
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acampada said:
Hi @collider,
When, where, how you have got that file in the previous or first release? I need the file for Vodafone Spain. I should reinstall a shipped firmware like 014 or 016 and then copy the file? or There is another way?
Thanks in advance
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i installed the original firmware(first release) i've saved before root and backuped default.prop with astro,then rooted again.
Lot of work but it helped.
Another way is you can get your own original firmware from davinci team i think.
I can not guarantee that it works for all.
I read somewhere on the Internet that ro.build.fingerprint is the Problem,no idea.
collider said:
i installed the original firmware(first release) i've saved before root and backuped default.prop with astro,then rooted again.
Lot of work but it helped.
Another way is you can get your own original firmware from davinci team i think.
I can not guarantee that it works for all.
I read somewhere on the Internet that ro.build.fingerprint is the Problem,no idea.
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Thanks. I'll try to get the file.
No Joy for me so far
Google indicates to me that the important information there is the fingerprint, and that we also need to be concerned about the fingerprint in the build.prop.
My build.prop did not have a a fingerprint.
Tried one that I was able to find from another phone on my carrier but no luck.
One of my friends has an unrooted unmodded xperia x10a on the same carrier as me, I'm going to try and hit him up so I can download his build.prop and his default.prop and see what happens.
I don't know if this will help... I am having a similar issue... but I am NOT ROOTED.
I tried to root - OH, how I tried! - but I got stuck on step 2, with "device not found, device not found, choose option 6, press any key" and nothing happening on the phone.
So I used SEUS on my PC.
Oddly, the one with the SE PC Companion said "You are on the latest version".
But, the standalone update software updated me to R2BA020 (I was on R1FA16 before, O2 UK version, and I assume from the working step 1 I had got R1FA16 generic UK).
So. Essentially, I went from R1FA16 O2 UK -> R2BA020 generic from my half-arsed attempts to root. But, battery life WAY more than doubled, so I was quite happy.
Until I noticed several of my apps weren't on the store anymore... they were just... missing. Two I know of are Death Star Clock (I LOVED that) and MyPlayer (not too bothered, I managed to install Beebplayer).
I contacted a dev of the Death Star clock to ask if he'd taken it off, but he checked and all was still there. He told me to search for his dev name on the market - diggidy.net - and even that came back with nothing for me.
This is on an UNROOTED R2BA020 phone. So... I am hoping the solution will not require rooting. Or else I am in trouble, because I have given up after getting stuck on step 2 time after bloody time!
All I wanted, all I ever wanted, was to improve my battery life and remove stupid bloody useless Moxier apps!
Good luck with finding a solution... I hope my info might narrow down the cause in some way. My phone never got to the rooting stage so surely it can't be that?
Ungruntled said:
I don't know if this will help... I am having a similar issue... but I am NOT ROOTED.
I tried to root - OH, how I tried! - but I got stuck on step 2, with "device not found, device not found, choose option 6, press any key" and nothing happening on the phone.
So I used SEUS on my PC.
Oddly, the one with the SE PC Companion said "You are on the latest version".
But, the standalone update software updated me to R2BA020 (I was on R1FA16 before, O2 UK version, and I assume from the working step 1 I had got R1FA16 generic UK).
So. Essentially, I went from R1FA16 O2 UK -> R2BA020 generic from my half-arsed attempts to root. But, battery life WAY more than doubled, so I was quite happy.
Until I noticed several of my apps weren't on the store anymore... they were just... missing. Two I know of are Death Star Clock (I LOVED that) and MyPlayer (not too bothered, I managed to install Beebplayer).
I contacted a dev of the Death Star clock to ask if he'd taken it off, but he checked and all was still there. He told me to search for his dev name on the market - diggidy.net - and even that came back with nothing for me.
This is on an UNROOTED R2BA020 phone. So... I am hoping the solution will not require rooting. Or else I am in trouble, because I have given up after getting stuck on step 2 time after bloody time!
All I wanted, all I ever wanted, was to improve my battery life and remove stupid bloody useless Moxier apps!
Good luck with finding a solution... I hope my info might narrow down the cause in some way. My phone never got to the rooting stage so surely it can't be that?
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i searched for 'deathstar' and 'death star' from my generic r2ba020 uk generic and got no results either so if i searched correctly its not an issue related to your phone specifically
I know that this would be better served in his thread, but I'm a newby to posting althought I got one of the first Transformers, but I have just installed Clemsyn's new Ultimate and "My Cloud" seems to be missing. Just wondeing if anyone else has had this issue.
I have formatted everyting and of course formatted my external SD card in the process which of course had my titanium backup.. but I digress..
Anybody else have this issue.
FYI I'm sure this is just me and Clemsyn's Roms are the best in my opinion.. They make this thing fly.
I just did a factory reset and then re-installed a fresh download of his ROM so I'm now thinking it's just not me but that it's supposed to be gone? I really liked that Asus was including that..
Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Open the stock zip up and look for the apk in /system. Pull the APK and put it on the TF and install it
Thank you very much for the quick response..
I downloaded the firmware and of course it hasn't been broken down so that you can edit it so I was unable to get to a /system folder.
Downloaded prime 1.9.1 and saw the .apk located there.
I enabled side loading to install it and when I try I get the blurb screen that says it's going to modify stuff and then I get
X Application not installed.
Any ideas? I PM'ed Clemsyn and haven't heard back yet, but I can only think this was excluded by accident as I wasn't able for find a reference for it.
Any ideas on how I can get it installed?
Thanks again.
Ha.. Saying that you have to install that APK made this seem WAY more complicated than it is. You simply have to drop it into the App folder and reboot the device... So easy to do that I'm actually ashamed I had an issue with it. ;-)
FYI a You Tube video showed the very simple steps.
Thanks ;-)
[Hopefully I didn't miss this being covered somewhere else, as I am much the same as many of you and get beyond irritated with endless repeat questions. I searched using the best keywords I could think of for the issue, but to no avail. Apologies in advance if this has been covered!]
Alrighty. I've got a TF101, rooted it myself (thank you XDA), running 8.6.5.1.9 i believe, stock rom just with root. Used nvflash and Razorclaw. Worked like a charm.
It's been fine for the last 6 months, no issues. However, I decided to update busybox using its internal updater as I have before with no problems. I noticed I accidentally told it to install to /system/bin instead of /system/xbin, and the only reason I even knew about that was due to having to configure an app to find busybox in /xbin instead of /bin.
Now there's a problem. I can still access the internal virtual sd card, but that's about it. The device can't seem to read or write to the main directory (although it can deal with going DIRECTLY to /mnt/sdcard). Ghost commander can't view the main directory, but ESFile explorer _can_, although root browsing in ESFile Explorer is UNchecked. It shouldn't be able to do what it's doing, and it's only doing it in one of two apps.
As a result, I've got no access to any root apps obviousy, but the wifi is having issues as well, it tries connecting but it can't complete the connection.
I'm toying with just wiping and flashing a new rom entirely, but figured I'd ask before I jump in the deep end of things. I keep backups of stuff, but it's still such a pain in the ass reinstalling things.
Any suggestions? I have a feeling it's something "simple", a link file or ... something which linux gurus would know about and I would not, not being a guru or disciple myself.
Thanks in advance!
If only you have working CWM installed. You could just flash this Superuser3.0.7.
Ah, but the plot thickens. I had superuser on there. I even uninstalled and reinstalled it. No dice.
Update: I said fuggit and did a factory reset. However, my wifi is still not fully connecting to my network although it has no problem finding it. I don't have a recovery image on the external SD and unless i get the network working, will have to wait until tomorrow to get a working microsd->usb adapter to put it on there.
I CAN still get into CWM, thank god.
Current rom is stock 8.6.6.19
Razorclaw gives an error when trying to root.
Also, when trying to moust USB from the recovery menu. it fails, saying "E:unable to upen ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
I am hoping this will magically get fixed after re-installing stock from the SD card ... and that my device isn't somehow crippled.
Sorry for the massive details, but more data = better.
It will magically get fixed
I recommend you flash any Totally stock ota. Then upgrade to the latest OTA, then use my tool PERI (or another) to install recovery and root. Then you should be all fixed up.
Well, it looks like I did get things back on track, but oddly enough, neither of the standard OR modified for root stock ROMs would work. One just wouldn't install, another failed halfway through. MD5s checked out and everything. I had put Revolver 4 beta on there sort of as a "just in case", and that one installed fine (and I was pleased when it displayed "installing Busybox symlinks").
Phew. CLose close call. Now to deal with the bull**** of setting stuff back up again.
However, the question remains: I'm assuming this whole thing happened because of the busybox update and me accidentally installing it to /bin instead of /xbin, and I think it "cleaned up" its own symlinks or something.
I'm not saying don't update your busybox, although I'm sticking with what works and **** upgrading anymore, just be careful...
Thanks for the help!
Recently I used the busybox installer to update my busybox version and it went through great... but after reboot it reverted back to the old version.. And I never touch it since.. don't want to take the hassle further..
There are certain 'plague' versions of busybox that simply don't work. I'd find that list of working BBs and STICK with one that's good. I'm still on 1.63 or someat like that.
Mangraa said:
[Hopefully I didn't miss this being covered somewhere else, as I am much the same as many of you and get beyond irritated with endless repeat questions. I searched using the best keywords I could think of for the issue, but to no avail. Apologies in advance if this has been covered!]
Alrighty. I've got a TF101, rooted it myself (thank you XDA), running 8.6.5.1.9 i believe, stock rom just with root. Used nvflash and Razorclaw. Worked like a charm.
It's been fine for the last 6 months, no issues. However, I decided to update busybox using its internal updater as I have before with no problems. I noticed I accidentally told it to install to /system/bin instead of /system/xbin, and the only reason I even knew about that was due to having to configure an app to find busybox in /xbin instead of /bin.
Now there's a problem. I can still access the internal virtual sd card, but that's about it. The device can't seem to read or write to the main directory (although it can deal with going DIRECTLY to /mnt/sdcard). Ghost commander can't view the main directory, but ESFile explorer _can_, although root browsing in ESFile Explorer is UNchecked. It shouldn't be able to do what it's doing, and it's only doing it in one of two apps.
As a result, I've got no access to any root apps obviousy, but the wifi is having issues as well, it tries connecting but it can't complete the connection.
I'm toying with just wiping and flashing a new rom entirely, but figured I'd ask before I jump in the deep end of things. I keep backups of stuff, but it's still such a pain in the ass reinstalling things.
Any suggestions? I have a feeling it's something "simple", a link file or ... something which linux gurus would know about and I would not, not being a guru or disciple myself.
Thanks in advance!
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You may have been hit with a bug I introduced.
There was a bug with version 8.0 of my application.
There is not an issue with Busybox V1.20.1.
I apologize for this bug, the application symlinked all applets to Busybox and on some devices there are applets which are unique to the device and should not be replaced by those offered by Busybox.
A simple way to fix this is to simply reflash your rom. You do not need to wipe or clear any data. This will fix the issue and you can update Busybox normally with my application as long as it is version 8.1 or higher.
I apologize for the frustration I have caused, please let me know if I can do anything to help you further. I am trying to find people who were affected to see if I can help rectify the situation.
yeah me too
I guess I should have done a more recent backup. I tell you, there is a reason i have 38 updates waiting, everytime I start going through them, boom blows up in my face