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Terminal Emulator Update

There is an update for Terminal Emulator in the market I am wondering how you can uninstall it from JF 1.41 RC33 in order to get the update

you can use in terminal
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
rm /system/app/com.android.term.apk
or navigate to system/app
rm com.android.term.apk
It will close the terminal right away for obvious reasons and then you can load the one from the market.
Just tested it and it works and doesn't seem to have any adverse affects. Mine is still working
I dont see any difference in the app to me looks the same no changes that I can tell.

savethechicken said:
you can use in terminal
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
and the navigate to system/app or you can you use
rm system/app/com.android.term.apk
It will close the terminal right away for obvious reasons and then you can load the one from the market.
Just tested it and it works and doesn't seem to have any adverse affects. Mine is still working
I dont see any difference in the app to me looks the same no changes that I can tell.
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I keep getting permission denied

are you type su first before mounting the image to get full superuser access.
The only difference we have if your signature is right is that im running the 1.41 RC33 but i was able to remove any apks i wanted this same way when i was on RC30

Yeah I typed su and got the superuser going... Maybe I am just oo much of a noob at this I am running the new JF RC33 update too

make sure that you are not typing anything in quotes "quotes just to show spaces" this is where i had the most problems when i started using this code
su
mount "space" -o "space" rw,remount "space" -t "space" yaffs2 "space" /dev/block/mtdblock03 "space" /system
then the long way
cd system
cd app
rm com.android.term.apk
that might help

Sweet I got it working thanks a million

Is there any reason why the new version is better than the one we have already?

not a problem.
I personally dont see any difference in it but everything still seems to be working

Pushing without adb?

Sorry if this has been covered,but how would I go about pushing a file by using the phone only?Is that possible to do in a terminal?And if so what commands would be used.Thanks

casperlt1 said:
Sorry if this has been covered,but how would I go about pushing a file by using the phone only?Is that possible to do in a terminal?And if so what commands would be used.Thanks
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all you'd need to do is go into a terminal, then su, mount with rw permissions, then cp file /path/to/destination

and how do I mount with permissions?that's what I was missing,thanks

casperlt1 said:
and how do I mount with permissions?that's what I was missing,thanks
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Code:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Go to Market and search for SU file manager or check out http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-protocol-su-fbs-jmwq.aspx
It's not free, but it's cheap, and has pretty much replaced all the file explorer/editor/utility-type apps I used to screw around with. For all intents and purposes, you can use it to do just about anything you'd otherwise need adb to do.

**How-To** View Hebrew and Other Languages on the Epic 4G

I got this information from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480964 for the G1
Just edited it so it would work for the Epic 4G.
This only works if you have root enabled (get it here) and it would be best to have the superuser app on as well.
1: download the DeJaVu fonts from here using one-click, they are freely licensed.
2: unzip and copy 'DejaVuSans.ttf' to your sdcard and rename it exactly 'DroidSansFallback.ttf' (without the quotes)
using ADB: (this makes it easier to copy and paste)
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
chmod 4755 /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
dd if=/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf of=/sdcard/DroidSansFallback.ttf.bak
dd if=/sdcard/DroidSansFallback.ttf of=/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
reboot
on-phone:
start terminal emulator and type exactly the following commands, followed by enter:
Code:
su
mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
chmod 4755 /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
dd if=/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf of=/sdcard/DroidSansFallback.ttf.bak
dd if=/sdcard/DroidSansFallback.ttf of=/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
reboot
after reboot you will be able to see all languages supported by dejavu
note: if dejavu doesn't support your language, just find a font that does, and follow the exact same procedure.

random
random bump for new users

Just take a pic of the text and view it. Works for virtually anything!

NoSoMo said:
Just take a pic of the text and view it. Works for virtually anything!
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How does that help you views an email or text or website on your phone that is in hebrew?
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smeyerhuky said:
How does that help you views an email or text or website on your phone that is in hebrew?
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unsure this is neccessary for users who upgraded to froyo.
All my friends who stick hebrew in their facebook status messages, it now comes through perfectly (as upgraded to froyo).
However, there are still many RTL issues that I see from time to time.

How to re-install the launcher.apk ??

Hi forum.
A quick question...
How do i re-install the defailt launcher ??
I have tried this way:
@adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
@adb push content/Launcher.apk /sdcard/Launcher.apk
@adb shell dd if=/sdcard/Launcher.apk of=/system/app/Launcher.apk
And even thoug the launcher is on the sd card after (as i not clean after install), and also it all looked like it was installed ok, it don´t work.
When i try to install it from my sdcard with astro, i get a error saying:
"Start could not be installed on this phone"
Pleace, do you know why ??

pshdo said:
Hi forum.
and also it all looked like it was installed ok, it don´t work.
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What did it say, it should say if it was pushed or failed?
pshdo said:
"Start could not be installed on this phone"
Pleace, do you know why ??
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Because some system apks have to be pushed and wont install in the usual fashion.

hi
you must set the permissions, sytem apps need it
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
chmod 644 /system/app/Launcher.apk
reboot
or you navigate with rootexplorer to system, mount it rw, navigate to sytem/app/Launcher.apk set the permissions to 644 (User-rw,Group-r,Others-r)
then reboot
sry for bad english, hope it worked

Zocker Tko said:
hi
you must set the permissions, sytem apps need it
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
chmod 644 /system/app/Launcher.apk
reboot
or you navigate with rootexplorer to system, mount it rw, navigate to sytem/app/Launcher.apk set the permissions to 644 (User-rw,Group-r,Others-r)
then reboot
sry for bad english, hope it worked
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Hi there...
I can´t figure this out...
I can see with "OI file explorer" that have the Launcher.apk inside /system/app.
It looks like it all goes well with mount and chmod above, but i can´t use the launcher?
And inside Titanium Backup it looks like the launcher "start" is not even installed on the phone...
What am i missing here ??

pshdo said:
Hi there...
I can´t figure this out...
I can see with "OI file explorer" that have the Launcher.apk inside /system/app.
It looks like it all goes well with mount and chmod above, but i can´t use the launcher?
And inside Titanium Backup it looks like the launcher "start" is not even installed on the phone...
What am i missing here ??
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It makes me think that you have also removed Launcher.odex from /system/app . Do you have Launcher.odex in system/app ?

Post a screen shot of the cmd window, it should hint at what your doing, or not doing correctly.
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Hmm have you set the permission, have you install homeswitcher, with this you can switch the launcher you have installed and set as default.
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[Q] Please help translate some adb instructions into terminal emulator commands

Hi
I have Huawei u8150, Android 2.2, Rooted with z4root.
I want to give widgetsoid access to toggle data using the android apn toggle.
The instructions are:
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Just put the Widgetsoid apk on /system/app folder
Work only with ADB connected to the phone (doesn't work if you use root explorer or other apps like this) :
* Remount /system as read/write
* adb push Widgetsoid.apk /system/app/Widgetsoid.apk
* Remount /system as read-only
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Can someone tell me what I can type in terminal emulator window to achieve this. I can't use adb as it won't recognise my u8150 (It worked fine with my i9000)
Thanks
Kiwi
Widgetsoid website - http://jaumard.android.free.fr/widgetsoid/help_widgetsoid.php?lang=en_EN
PS: Apologies if the wrong forum, but there were only 4 specific android forums, so i thought the general forum would be the best to post this type of question in.

http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/mount-filesystem-read-write.html
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/files.shtml

Thanks
I had tried
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# CHMOD 777 /SYSTEM
the above works but if i try to push i get
# push
push: not found
I also tried the above then switched over to es-file explorer and was able to copy + pasted the widgetsoid.apk file from my sdcard into the /system/app directory. It correctly pasted the file, but when I clicked on widgetsoid.apk to install the apk i got an error.
"Parse Error: There is a problem parsing the package."

I wouldn't chmod /system ... just leave the permissions the same.
cp /sdcard/downloads/widgetsoid.apk /system/app/
Chmod 644 /system/app/widgetsoid.apk
No need to click install or anything like that... just reboot after copying it to /system/app.
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push is an adb command. You'll want to put the apk on the sdcard then use:
cp /sdcard/Widgetsoid.apk /system/app/
That will copy it to the directory.
Nevermind, do what jeffv2 said.

THANKS! it's working now.
I had placed it in /system/app and did a reboot and it still hadn't installed
then i renamed the file from Widgetsoid2.x.apk to Widgetsoid.apk and also did chmod 644, after a reboot it has successfully installed.
I think it was the chmod 644 to the apk file that allowed it to be installed
Many thanks!