Can someone please take the time to explain how to install apps in the system/app folder? I'm trying to install the superuser.apk app but I just dont want to install it where it can be deleted easily from the menu/settings/applications/manage applications. I want to install it the same way sprint installs their programs where root is required to remove. Thanks/
rose1 said:
Can someone please take the time to explain how to install apps in the system/app folder? I'm trying to install the superuser.apk app but I just dont want to install it where it can be deleted easily from the menu/settings/applications/manage applications. I want to install it the same way sprint installs their programs where root is required to remove. Thanks/
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Place the superuser.apk in the tools folder of your sdk
Open up command prompt
Cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Abd push superuser.apk /system/app/
That's it, you're done. If you get a write permissions error, then you'll have to mount the /system folder. If you have remount installed, add adb remount before pushing the file. If not, then you'll have to add
adb shell
Yaffs2....mtdblock don't remember the entire phrase... or most of it. I just copy and past it from some of the write-ups... its in the manual root thread
Then:
Exit
Adb push...
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Okay, I tried it and getting the following error. "failed to copy 'superuser.apk' : read-only file system. Then I did adb shell and it showed a $ then I typed in su and it showed a # then I did:
mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system/app
Then that line repeated itself. So I tried Adb push superuser.apk /system/app/ again and now it says:
failed to copy 'superuser.apk' to '/system/app//superuser.apk' : Permission denied.
What am I missing?
I also tried adb remount /system/app/ and it says remount failed. No such file or directory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780759
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Aridon said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780759
Last post of mine
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Cool. Thanks. I haven't rooted my epic yet, so I haven't done any pushing. Pushing it to the hero as I described always works fine, then again, it may have to do with remount being on all the roms I used.
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Aridon said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780759
Last post of mine
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Thanks Aridon but I tried that and now I get the error when trying mv /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk The error says Failed on '/sdcard/Superuser.apk' -Cross-Device link
Change mv to cp
You need busy box installed
Aridon said:
Change mv to cp
You need busy box installed
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Thanks. I'll try that
rose1 said:
Thanks. I'll try that
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Also once you get busy box installed you can do:
busybox cp /sdcard/File.apk /system/app/File.apk
and that will work fine.
okay I am a little lost, I need to re-install sprint tv and sprint zone in order to preform new update. I am really new to this process, I have the .apk's I need to put back on phone but not sure what your talking about. I have sdk and adb on computer but not sure what to do with them. Please help a tard.
okay so I have tried installing clockwork too many times to count and it flat out will not install. i have gotten a series of errors, but have just today been able to keep a consistent error. I downloaded one click clockworkmod 2.5.1.0. plugged in my device, extracted to my desktop and ran both bat files. This is a copy of the cmd prompt window:
remove stock recovery patcher
mount: operation not permitted
rm failed for /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system-recovery-from-boot.p, Read-only file system
copy kernel and flasher
2043 KB/s <313888 bytes in 0.150s>
failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied
flashing kernel
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1
and then it goes on through there... bottom line, it looks like i don't have permissions for the install. and i have already tried remounting rw through adb shell, it comes back and say remounting and then thats it. and ideas? i can give the reset of the scripting in cmd prompt if needed. Thanks in advance.
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dude theres like 10 other threads on this page about the same exact thing... and this doesn't go in this forum!
Download rom manager from the market and. ...that would do it for u automatically....... and yes pls next time try to search all the forums before posting
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Please bare with me because i am a complete noob at this... but not stupid.
i have been trying to adb push .apk files to the phone, and the adb devices command shows that it is connected correctly, i get this error when i attempt to push: Permission denied
does anyone know what to do? ive tried seaching google and these forums and couldnt find anything. but that might be just because im a noob.
self-bump....
does anyone know what to do???
thefunkbot said:
self-bump....
does anyone know what to do???
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Try not pushing it to read only memory and see if that works for you.
adb push FILE.apk /sdcard/
If that works
adb shell
su
mv /sdcard/FILE.apk /system/app/
I don't think my Vibrant will let me push to /system & that's what I did to work around (or just put the file on the sd card in mass storage mode & root explorer it over to where I want it to go).
tjhart85 said:
adb push FILE.apk /sdcard/
If that works
adb shell
su
mv /sdcard/FILE.apk /system/app/
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i tried to push to the sd card and still got the same error.... : Permission denied
Mounted and added the apk to the sd card normally and then tried to move it with adb shell, and gives this error:
Failed on /sdcard/FILE.apk - cross-device link
I tried using the rm and mv command to remove the coresponding app from the system/app/ folder and I get an error that the file/directory does not exist.
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I've been trying for a couple of days now to try and modify the /system folder because I want to edit the host file and delete standard .apk's. However I just can't get it to work and I don't understand why.
I got a rooted 2.2 legend with modaco stock htc sense rom.
Things I tried:
Root explorer: For some reason I can't write files to the folder. It always says there is not enough free space while there is something like 6mb available. Also, deleting files doesn't actually seem to work. Root exploreres says the files are deleted but after a reboot they are there again!
Also root explorer makes my phone reboot.
ADB: Basically the same thing. Also I don't get adb to work when i'm in recovery mode (red traingle screen, I used to have clockwork but even after trying to reflash the clockwork recovery that just doesn't show up anymore and gone fubar out of the blue....) and want to enter the /system folder.
Terminal app: Same thing as above.
All 3 make my phone reboot.
What am I doing wrong?
I don't use the same phone as you, but I think that /system is usually mounted as read only (ro). Some file managers can mount /system as read/write (rw). Or I think you can chmod /system to 777 in your terminal as su with the command chmod 777 /system. Also I think CWM has an option to mount /system as rw, but I may be wrong. If you chmod, remember to set it back. You'll need to know shell commands and how to read permissions from an ls -a -l command and reset them. Hope this helps.
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Anyone know how I can restore to stock recovery? I rooted and flashed CWM recovery, but I need to restore to stock because I am having so many problems with random reboots that I see lots of people are also having problems with. I have downloaded the dump. If someone could tell what I need to do on would be extremely grateful.
Even on stock this thing has issues... Im gonna try and return it for a mytouch 4g instead....
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Even on stock this thing has issues... Im gonna try and return it for a mytouch 4g instead....
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That's my problem too, but I can't send it back until I get the stock recovery back. I installed CWM after I rooted.
see my next post for the 1 click
ehall2k7 said:
That's my problem too, but I can't send it back until I get the stock recovery back. I installed CWM after I rooted.
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Me too, which is why I regret it now....I want a phone hat I less buggy, this thing crashes all the time which sucks. Also the phone won't get much faster since it doesn't have enough space for the galaxy s lagfix, which applies to this since it has rfs and not ext4 like it needs..
@person above, if we brick it then they would replace it, right? You would just need to do some "acting" in the store and play dumb with the rep, if you know what a mean.
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I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know
updated to Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
that is the link to SuperOneClick its a Root app that you can also use to unroot the device.. i Haven't Received my other SK4G yet to test but it should work its universal and works on multiple phones.
hopefully those that have root can use this method to unroot
blu9987 said:
I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know and i'll post a thread in the dev forum
edit: updated the zip due to a silly error
edit2: in the off chance that you get "mount: operation not premitted" that means it failed to mount /system as rw and wont remove superuser. If you let it continue it will still flash over bml8 though. You can manually remove superuser another way. My phone was only permitting me to mount by
Code:
adb shell
su
(look on phone press allow for superuser popup)
remount rw
then removing all the files using these commands
Code:
adb shell rm /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh (most likely not there this is old)
adb shell rm /system/bin/jk-su (same as above)
adb shell rm /etc/passwd (pretty sure this isnt here either)
adb shell rm /etc/group (same)
adb shell rm /system/bin/su
adb shell rm /system/xbin/su
adb shell rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
adb push playlogo /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell rm /etc/resolv.conf
adb shell rm /system/bin/remount
adb shell rm /system/bin/busybox
Not saying that you'll have to do that could just be my phone since im on ext4 and such.
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I'll try it out in the next few hours and let you know. I'm not worried if it bricks cuz I'm still in the 14 days to return it and have had nothing but problems with it random rebooting. I'll let you know. Thanks again.
ehall2k7 said:
I'll try it out in the next few hours and let you know. I'm not worried if it bricks cuz I'm still in the 14 days to return it and have had nothing but problems with it random rebooting. I'll let you know. Thanks again.
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Just to give a heads up a bricked device will stay at the splash screen or may not even turn on, so it will be hard for them to know.I wish this phone was better, since I wanted I ever since I heard it was being remade by sammy.
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blu9987 said:
I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know and i'll post a thread in the dev forum
edit: updated the zip due to a silly error
edit2: in the off chance that you get "mount: operation not premitted" that means it failed to mount /system as rw and wont remove superuser. If you let it continue it will still flash over bml8 though. You can manually remove superuser another way. My phone was only permitting me to mount by
Code:
adb shell
su
(look on phone press allow for superuser popup)
remount rw
then removing all the files using these commands
Code:
adb shell rm /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh (most likely not there this is old)
adb shell rm /system/bin/jk-su (same as above)
adb shell rm /etc/passwd (pretty sure this isnt here either)
adb shell rm /etc/group (same)
adb shell rm /system/bin/su
adb shell rm /system/xbin/su
adb shell rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
adb push playlogo /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell rm /etc/resolv.conf
adb shell rm /system/bin/remount
adb shell rm /system/bin/busybox
Not saying that you'll have to do that could just be my phone since im on ext4 and such.
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I tried it and still no luck. Here is what I am seeing:
one click uninstaller based off of noobnl's
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copy and run the exploit (may take 2 minutes)
84 KB/s (0 bytes in 5392.000s)
2 KB/s (0 bytes in 88.000s)
[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C
[*] checking NPROC limit ...
[+] RLIMIT_NPROC={2650, 2650}
[*] Searching for adb ...
[+] Found adb as PID 2390
[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset!
[*]
[*] If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to
[*] [email protected] so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.
[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our work,
[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD!
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[*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.
remove joeykrim root method
mount: Operation not permitted
rm failed for /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/jk-su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/passwd, Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/group, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/xbin/su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/app/Superuser.apk, Read-only file system
failed to copy 'playlogo' to '/system/bin/playlogo': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/bin/playlogo: Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/resolv.conf, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/remount, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/busybox, Read-only file system
copy recovery and flasher
384 KB/s (0 bytes in 313888.000s)
495 KB/s (0 bytes in 7864320.015s)
flashing recovery
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1
FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(498): start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
open device file: Permission denied
bmldevice_get_size: bmldevice_open failed!src: /sdcard/bml8.bin
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x0
part_size: 0x0
reboot: Operation not permitted
wait 60 second
cleanup
done
Press any key to continue . . .
Do you think it would be possible to flash the bml8.bin with ODIN? I haven't tried to go into download mode but it should be possible seeing how its almost identical to the vibrant and it's made by samsung.
I wonder if this has a bootloader like htc devices where you can flash system images which have the stock recovery, or if the system dump has it, then we can do.. flash recovery /sdcard/xxx.img from term or adb or fastboot, which ever one.
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you can try making your filesystem r/w before running it.. I dunno why its not mounting properly with adb...
you all have usb debugging enabled right?
Open up command prompt,
cd C:\path\to\uninstaller
adb shell
su
(check prompt on screen superuser)
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
then just click the run.bat while the first window is still open
Also before trying this try clearing data on superuser.apk on your phone
You can also try remounting to RW on your phone with like root explorer or terminal emulator... I honestly have no idea why adb keeps getting permission denied
blu9987 said:
you can try making your filesystem r/w before running it.. I dunno why its not mounting properly with adb...
you all have usb debugging enabled right?
Open up command prompt,
cd C:\path\to\uninstaller
adb shell
su
(check prompt on screen superuser)
remount rw
then just click the run.bat while the first window is still open
Also before trying this try clearing data on superuser.apk on your phone
You can also try remounting to RW on your phone with like root explorer or terminal emulator... I honestly have no idea why adb keeps getting permission denied
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Okay so the original recovery is located on a different part, which CWM doesnt write to, allowing the old one to be used again using this method, correct?Just want to better understand how it works.
Ace42 said:
Okay so the original recovery is located on a different part, which CWM doesnt write to, allowing the old one to be used again using this method, correct?Just want to better understand how it works.
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I'm pretty sure clockworkmod one click you guys used flashed CWM recovery to /dev/block/bml8 so this restores the original bml8 image
and heres a copy paste from the dump thread
Code:
bml4 1280 KB contains Sbl.bin (1310720 bytes) Secondary Boot Loader (loads the Linux kernel and passes the necessary arguments)
bml5 1280 KB contains Secondary Boot Loader (for recovery, ect)
bml8 7680 KB empty - on Epic 4G and Fascinate, contains recovery.bin
And since you all used the epic recovery flasher, i concluded that it probably flashed bml8 and that you just replace it with the stock bml8 ya?
Also the epic recovery flasher pushes recovery files into /system/bin which need to be removed and I realised that I didnt include that in the one click uninstaller *facepalm*
blu9987 said:
I'm pretty sure clockworkmod one click you guys used flashed CWM recovery to /dev/block/bml8 so this restores the original bml8 image
and heres a copy paste from the dump thread
Code:
bml4 1280 KB contains Sbl.bin (1310720 bytes) Secondary Boot Loader (loads the Linux kernel and passes the necessary arguments)
bml5 1280 KB contains Secondary Boot Loader (for recovery, ect)
bml8 7680 KB empty - on Epic 4G and Fascinate, contains recovery.bin
And since you all used the epic recovery flasher, i concluded that it probably flashed bml8 and that you just replace it with the stock bml8 ya?
Also the epic recovery flasher pushes recovery files into /system/bin which need to be removed and I realised that I didnt include that in the one click uninstaller *facepalm*
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Oh I see, well I'll let you know how it turns out then.
Edit: In system /bin I have
-recovery(ukn file type)
-recoveryfiles(folder)
-recoveryres(folder)
Also these "bml" files are in /SYS/BLOCK <--according to root explorer
While /DEV/Block only shows "vold" folder, nvm term shows that bml is there
Ace42 said:
Oh I see, well I'll let you know how it turns out then.
Edit: In system /bin I have
-recovery(ukn file type)
-recoveryfiles(folder)
-recoveryres(folder)
Also these "bml" files are in /SYS/BLOCK <--according to root explorer
While /DEV/Block only shows "vold" folder, nvm term shows that bml is there
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-recovery(ukn file type) comes with the stock system but the one click installer pushed over a modified one. Youd need to replace with the original...I'll add that into the uninstaller
-recoveryfiles(folder) is from the one click installer
-recoveryres(folder) is also from the one click installer
There is also
/system/xbin/remount
and
/system/xbin/busybox
and /system/bin/playlogo (which I already have in the uninstaller..the playlogo they use is what gives permanent root if i remember correctly)
It would be so much easier if somebody on 100% stock would gain temporary root using rageagainstthecage and root.sh and pull the images for a tar then we can put together a stock flash with factoryfs.rfs cache.fs intram.lfs recovery.bin boot.bin sbl.bin and modem.bin
If anyone is interested pm me and i'll give you the info you need on how to do it
blu9987 said:
-recovery(ukn file type) comes with the stock system but the one click installer pushed over a modified one. Youd need to replace with the original...I'll add that into the uninstaller
-recoveryfiles(folder) is from the one click installer
-recoveryres(folder) is also from the one click installer
There is also
/system/xbin/remount
and
/system/xbin/busybox
and /system/bin/playlogo (which I already have in the uninstaller..the playlogo they use is what gives permanent root if i remember correctly)
It would be so much easier if somebody on 100% stock would gain temporary root using rageagainstthecage and root.sh and pull the images for a tar then we can put together a stock flash with factoryfs.rfs cache.fs intram.lfs recovery.bin boot.bin sbl.bin and modem.bin
If anyone is interested pm me and i'll give you the info you need on how to do it
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Thr thing is..I'm exchanging mines today so I will try what you said and then do a factory erase afterwards. If it leaves some files there's not much I can do, can you fix he uninstaller to add the other files today, ill really appreciate it.
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Disregard this post i'll make something and put it up after portfolio is done in a few hours
I have attached a one click uninstaller for root, revised and will work. Just extract and run the run.bat
It should remove all root and reflash stock over clockworkmod!
If this works let me know and i'll post it in its own thread
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Anyone end up testing this? It would be highly beneficial if somebody could remove CWM and root, restore to stock, and follow some instructions to pull the necessary images to make an odin tar. I would do this myself but I don't have a sidekick. Or maybe once we get a working CWM make a pre-rooted odin flash