My captivate is already rooted, i use the Astro app to edit files and now im trying to edit the /system/etc/gps.conf, but when i try to save...does not save...i notice this file is read only rights. How can i edit that and save it???
to mount /system as read write, you need to be rooted (obviously) and open up an adb shell.
mount -o rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
depending on what kernel you're running and what filesystem /system is mounted as you *may* need to specify the filesystem ("-t vfat" for rfs, "-t ext4" for voodoo) but I've never had to before.
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need a little help here please...
I want for my /system to be mounted as read/write automaticly upon startup of the phone using this command "mount -o,remount rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system"
How can i make this command to be executed as ROOT when my phone starts up.
THanks
vtecpower said:
need a little help here please...
I want for my /system to be mounted as read/write automaticly upon startup of the phone using this command "mount -o,remount rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system"
How can i make this command to be executed as ROOT when my phone starts up.
THanks
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Why do you need this?? Just download droidsans andwhen you need read write just use that.
I need it bc im trying to move my apps to my sd card.....if i have the /system in read only mode then the phone crashed when i try to install a new app but it works fine when my /system is read and write
I doubt you need to mount /system rw. Do ls -l in /system and make sure sd has the same owner/permissions as the other dirs and it should work.
vtecpower said:
I need it bc im trying to move my apps to my sd card.....if i have the /system in read only mode then the phone crashed when i try to install a new app but it works fine when my /system is read and write
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i have followed the instructions in the post titled apps on sdcard and it works fine without mounting the system RW. look at that post and follow those directions.
See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3386761&postcount=2
Just add the line to The File insted of the Path Part.
The is called after system is mounted so it should work fine
So I have been using Terminal emulator to load new boot loaders on my phone and I use this code:
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp /file location/bootanimation.zip /system/media
My question for you guys is, what does the second line mean? I mean sure I can memorize the code and use it but I'm trying to figure out how to read it and it doesn't really make sense to me.
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /system
We use the mount command, with the option remount (meaning unmount and then mount again), and the desired access rights ( rw = read and write) on the folder /system.
This mean we have a folder /system which is probably mounted as READ ONLY.
To change access rights you have to unmount first and then mount with the new access rights.
We want to change the access rights of system and we don't want to change its mount point. So we use mount command with the option remount and our desired rights.
Does this clarify it for you?
Dark3n said:
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /system
We use the mount command, with the option remount (meaning unmount and then mount again), and the desired access rights ( rw = read and write) on the folder /system.
This mean we have a folder /system which is probably mounted as READ ONLY.
To change access rights you have to unmount first and then mount with the new access rights.
We want to change the access rights of system and we don't want to change its mount point. So we use mount command with the option remount and our desired rights.
Does this clarify it for you?
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Yes this helped a lot! so the -o was the "option" part?
yes -(o)ption and then the option you want
Dark3n said:
yes -(o)ption and then the option you want
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Thank you so much!
hmm, i logged in as su but did not perform the remout code, ive found a tool to calibrate my xperia x10 mini pro accelerometer but when i executed it and did the required operation, it said the configuration was complete and yet the accelerometer was left unchanged, could this mean that because i did not use the mount remount command before using the tool that is why the program did no changes at all?
Hello,
I have P6800 with 4.0.4 XXLQ2, rooted with supersu 0.96, CWM is 6.0.1.1, everything done via odin.
The question is: im unable to remount /system with rw permissions. I've even tried to kill processes which are working with /system to remount it in other place (like /mnt/s) but no luck. Tried to change init.rc also. Got new adb, etc, etc... but Im still unable to do mount -o rw,remount /system cuz its readonly.
Please help guys, how to mount it with rw perms? Maybe i've got some bug?
thecoba said:
Hello,
I have P6800 with 4.0.4 XXLQ2, rooted with supersu 0.96, CWM is 6.0.1.1, everything done via odin.
The question is: im unable to remount /system with rw permissions. I've even tried to kill processes which are working with /system to remount it in other place (like /mnt/s) but no luck. Tried to change init.rc also. Got new adb, etc, etc... but Im still unable to do mount -o rw,remount /system cuz its readonly.
Please help guys, how to mount it with rw perms? Maybe i've got some bug?
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CWM 6.0.1.9 + recovery with adb finally helped me..
I have used the adb shell to mount my system partition as RW (mount -o remount,rw /system) but it appears to revert to RO. I can't tell exactly why.
I wish to move app updates to /system.
I have used CF Auto Root to root the device.
I installed Titanium Backup Pro.
I have set the app mode to AUTO/indirect as recommended for Samsung devices.
I select Integrate updates to system ROM (or similar, I don't have the screen in front of me). As soon as I do this, the /system partition is remounted as read only (cat /proc/mounts | grep system)
TB just seems to hang. The Gmail base.apk has been copied to /system/apps and the com.google.android.gm-1 folder has been removed from /data/app.
If I don't mount /system as RW the same thing happens.
If I manually copy the app data from /data/app to /system/app and set the permissions the app still fails to function.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
EDIT:
I cannot load apks via adb - I am told I have a RO file system, even though I can clearly see the /system partition is mounted.
I had tried "mount -t ext4 /dev/block/*** /storage/sdcardext",but only apps run by root user can access "/storage/sdcardext" and see files in the folder, normal apps just found an empty folder,and can not see any files..
What can I do to solve this problem?android 6 phone.