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Trying to remount Archos 5 /system

hello, I have an Archos5 unit with the firmware version 1.7.99 android 1.6 on it. i have managed to root the device but I cant figure out how to remount /system read write on the device.
I checked my root ID and its 0.
i have tried mounting with this command : mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
I get an invalid argument if i try mounting from block.
its the same if i try mounting mtdblock5 where cat /proc/mtd5 shows system being located/
i also tried mounting mtd directly but it spits out an error saying block device required.
i would try through android ADB if i could get it working on linux. the windows archos version wont let me remount (vista).

ignoore this thread. i have succeded in doing what i wanted and now have debian apt working in my archos5. since its quite hard to do I will post a how to in another thread.

Hi;
I'm looking for a safe way to root my new A5, firmware 2.0.38, Android 1.6
I want to use Wifi Helper but it requires rooting. I've yet to find how to do this on this machine. Can you help me?

[Q] LG Revolution Root Problems

Hello,
I have rooted many HTC phones but this is my first LG. I am having problems with superoneclick and also going through the command prompt and doing it that way. After downloaded all files and running through the commands when i type adb shell i am getting the "$" and then typing "su" permission denied. Then when trying to mount it using "mount -o remount,rw -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p12 /system" Im getting operation not permitted. Also getting the same error on superoneclick. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

I am having the same issue. It seems that for now we are out of luck. Ever since the update that Verizon and LG pushed out in the middle of August, both the Superoneclick and ADB will not work. I just want to root the device to be able to use a bluetooth mouse!

[Q] cat /sdcard/update.zip "invalid length"

I recently purchased a Xoom WiFi and wanted to upgrade to 3.2 but due to the fact that I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan I can not get the OTA update in which case I then unlocked, rooted and attempted to install it on my own. I successfully unlocked and rooted my xoom yet I am stuck on the update portion. I'm getting stuck at the "cat /sdcard/update.zip" command in ADB in which it returns with "invalid length" and I can not for the love of me get it to work. The commands I complete until that part are;
adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
adb shell
su
cd /cache
mkdir recovery
then,
cd recovery
echo ‘-update_package=CACHE:/recovery/update.zip’ > command
cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip
reboot recovery
which is where I get the "invalid length" after typing the cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip command. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks

Mr.Buckley said:
I recently purchased a Xoom WiFi and wanted to upgrade to 3.2 but due to the fact that I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan I can not get the OTA update in which case I then unlocked, rooted and attempted to install it on my own. I successfully unlocked and rooted my xoom yet I am stuck on the update portion. I'm getting stuck at the "cat /sdcard/update.zip" command in ADB in which it returns with "invalid length" and I can not for the love of me get it to work. The commands I complete until that part are;
adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
adb shell
su
cd /cache
mkdir recovery
then,
cd recovery
echo ‘-update_package=CACHE:/recovery/update.zip’ > command
cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip
reboot recovery
which is where I get the "invalid length" after typing the cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip command. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks
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Nevermind.

Help plz!!!
Hey, I have a similar issue. I'm using adb to install cmw on my p690 but get an error of invalid length for the cat command for /sdcard/flash_image....... can u giv me a soln?

[Q] Thinkpad 1838 25U Bricked

I have a Thinkpad 1838 25U tablet that is stuck at the boot screen after attempting to flash it with closckworkmod. I cannot access the internal storage files to restore the operating system and when I contacted Lenovo they suggested that I reinstall the operating system. When I try to do that in recovery mode all I get is an error that states "file_getprop: failed to stat "/system/build.prop" No such directory E:Error in /tmp/sideload/pack.zip (status 7) Installation aborted. Is there a way to access the internal storage files or a way to re-install the system when the tablet is soft bricked?
What happen was I rooted my tablet with RootDebugfs.bat and then I followed the directions to How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet on the UnLocker site. Where I messed up was changing the command that was given in the directions. I opened the command prompt and entered each command:
adb push A2109_CWMrecovery-6.0.1.9c.img /mnt/sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/A2109_CWMrecovery-6.0.1.9c.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
After trying that several time with no luck I changed the last command and file or directory to mmcblk0p5 instead of mmcblk0p1
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5
After doing that my screen went blank and when I restarted it, it will not go past the boot screen.
I did back up my system as a backup.ab file. My OS is ICS 4.03 but when I try to re-install the updates on the Lenovo site I get the error message "file_getprop: failed to stat "/system/build.prop" No such directory E:Error in /tmp/sideload/pack.zip (status 7) Installation aborted."
Can anything be done to fix it. I am presently getting ready to start my 2nd semester of college in computer programming and I let my inexperience of commands get the best of me. And caused a big mess.
Is my tablet ruined. Lenovo service dept. said that since my warranty has expired I will have to pay $575 up front to have it repaired.
Any suggestions will be of great help.

[Q] Have I bricked the thing?

So I went to replace libaudioflinger.so in /system/lib with one I'd built myself, but unfortunately something obviously went wrong and when I rebooted the device, it just hangs on the loading screen.
The good thing is that the original file is in /sdcard named '_libaudioflinger.so_', and I can connect via adb there. If i run 'su' which gives me some sort of root access, but when I try 'mount -o remount rw /system', it shows up as "Operation not permitted". If I'm able to get that filesystem mounted, I just need to run "mv /sdcard/_libaudioflinger.so_ /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so", anybody any ideas how I might be able to recover this?

seaders said:
So I went to replace libaudioflinger.so in /system/lib with one I'd built myself, but unfortunately something obviously went wrong and when I rebooted the device, it just hangs on the loading screen.
The good thing is that the original file is in /sdcard named '_libaudioflinger.so_', and I can connect via adb there. If i run 'su' which gives me some sort of root access, but when I try 'mount -o remount rw /system', it shows up as "Operation not permitted". If I'm able to get that filesystem mounted, I just need to run "mv /sdcard/_libaudioflinger.so_ /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so", anybody any ideas how I might be able to recover this?
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Hopped on #android-root and they got me all sorted. Basically just had some sort of a bad root/su which wasn't giving me the correct access. All back up and running 100% now, though.

If it boots into the bootloader you can always flash the factory image
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You can't brick a device by swapping system files.
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