Database Info

Edit the hosts file?

Probably a stupid question, I just don't know enough yet.
I need to put some entries in my g1's hosts file. However, the OS seems to have it locked down on my 1.2 rc30. Terminal Emulator tells me chown is not found. I don't have access to the SDK where I am right now, however, but I'm hoping someone can point out what I'm missing.

adnans said:
Probably a stupid question, I just don't know enough yet.
I need to put some entries in my g1's hosts file. However, the OS seems to have it locked down on my 1.2 rc30. Terminal Emulator tells me chown is not found. I don't have access to the SDK where I am right now, however, but I'm hoping someone can point out what I'm missing.
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busybox has chown in it. RC1.2 has busybox. Also, you must use uids and gids, and can't use user names or group names with busybox on Android.

ah, there's chown, thanks! now i gotta play around and figure out what to chown it to. i tried 0 and 777 (i just recently got back into linux, i haven't done jack with it since slackware 3 came out), and it's still telling me that /etc/hosts: Read-only file system.

adnans said:
ah, there's chown, thanks! now i gotta play around and figure out what to chown it to. i tried 0 and 777 (i just recently got back into linux, i haven't done jack with it since slackware 3 came out), and it's still telling me that /etc/hosts: Read-only file system.
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you need to remount your /system as read write first.
mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Deleting system sounds

Was just wondering if anyone has deleted ringtones, notification or alarms successfully? `ould love to get rid of them if possible. Tried making a copy of jf rc30, deleting them and amazon apk then installing but didn't work gave me error message.

i removed unused ringtones w/o any issues

If you have JF's RC30 1.31 installed you should be able to just delete them. Astro should let you goto where they are saved and just delete em. You may need to use DroidSans Tweak tools to remount /system as read/write first.

Hmmm, changing to read/write and trying to use Astro gave me "error deleting file"
Any other ideas?

Dharkaron said:
If you have JF's RC30 1.31 installed you should be able to just delete them. Astro should let you goto where they are saved and just delete em. You may need to use DroidSans Tweak tools to remount /system as read/write first.
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No neither of those work but thanks for the effort to help. I tried those when i first got root. Im gonna try deleting the same way as i did amazon and see if it works.

stats555 said:
No neither of those work but thanks for the effort to help. I tried those when i first got root. Im gonna try deleting the same way as i did amazon and see if it works.
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Word let me know if this works. I asked in another thread how to do it but no one answered. All I got was the "yes you can delete them" response

I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.

BlueBoar said:
I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.
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Worked great thanks!

No problem, that was one of the first things I did was to change all of the ringtones. Couldn't stand the ones that came with it.

BlueBoar said:
No problem, that was one of the first things I did was to change all of the ringtones. Couldn't stand the ones that came with it.
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Yeah i hear you on that, just a bunch of crap taking up space. I use mp3's for ringtones so no need to waste system space on them! I just learned how to use adb thank god!
Update - deleted most of the ringtones and 4 notifications, freed up 2mb's

BlueBoar said:
I deleted all of my ringtones without any issues. Just use adb shell and remove them. You can also "pull" them first if want to have a backup. In adb shell type "cd /system/media/audio/ringtones". Now you are in the ringtones folder, now type "ls" and then a list of all the ringtones will display. Once you know the name of the one you want to delete just type "rm filename.ogg" and thats it.
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Sweet worked like a charm! Thanks a bunch

Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.

Cargo75 said:
Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.
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You can do it all right from the phone with Terminal.
Type
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
cd /system/media/sounds/(whichever directory you want)
ls
rm (whichever .ogg file you want)
The .ogg files are case sensitive, so beatplunker.ogg isn't the same as BeatPlunker.ogg
Also the .ogg extension has to be at the end of each file you rm.
If you want to save a backup on your sd card I just typed this before I started removing things. Good luck
Code:
cp /system/media/sounds /sdcard

Beast84 said:
You can do it all right from the phone with Terminal.
Type
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system
cd /system/media/sounds/(whichever directory you want)
ls
rm (whichever .ogg file you want)
The .ogg files are case sensitive, so beatplunker.ogg isn't the same as BeatPlunker.ogg
Also the .ogg extension has to be at the end of each file you rm.
If you want to save a backup on your sd card I just typed this before I started removing things. Good luck
Code:
cp /system/media/sounds /sdcard
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wow, thank you!

Cargo75 said:
wow, thank you!
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No problem. Just figured I'd pass some of the knowledge these fine peeps here have passed on to me

Cargo75 said:
Ok I read how to delete the ringtones but what is ADB Shell? Lke where do i go to type in all those commands?
My phone is rooted JF1.41 with the latest RC33 modded update.
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In the future, you may what to do this through your PC to prevent carpel tunnel... You can download the Android SDK from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/index.html
Extract it to your drive. Navigate to that folder in a command prompt window then "tools". Once there you can run(make sure the G1 is plugged in the usb):
adb remount (remounts the system read/write)
adb shell (this drops you into the shell to interact with your phone)
cd /system/media/audio/
From there you should be able to follow the proceeding directions.

I went and did all this and even went the extra mile and pushed some of my custom mp3's to the file (about 3 meg worth). Is this going to cause problems with updating in the future?

You don't need to remount the system to read/write manually if it already has been done with DroidSans do you?

I usuall y do the mount through Terminal emulator.
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm -r /system/media/audio/ringtones
rm -r /system/media/audio/notifications
bam gone!

I tried to copy and after mounting I typed:
cd /system/media/audio/
ls
then got:
alarms
ringtons
notifications
ui
then I typed: cp /system/media/audio /sdcard
and got this message:
cp: omitting directory '/system/media/audio'
is it something small and dumb that I'm doing or are the files copied?

[Q] Droid 2 Global BootStrap Manual Install?

How would I go about pushing clockworkmod custom recovery via ADB/Terminal instead of using the D2Bootstrap.apk?

You don't and even if it did it wouldn't work because the D2, D2G, DX and Dpro have locked bootloaders stick with koush it has never done me wrong and I've been romming my D2 since we got root and roms back in september 2010.
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newk8600 said:
You don't and even if it did it wouldn't work because the D2, D2G, DX and Dpro have locked bootloaders stick with koush
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I'm just asking how the app can do something that a terminal can't? I don't know how to comprehend that, I would think that there would be a way.
I wonder if the apk will have any useful information. Thank you for the reply

fKngFtd said:
I'm just asking how the app can do something that a terminal can't? I don't know how to comprehend that, I would think that there would be a way.
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I'm sure there is a way but why figure it out when it's already been done?
The app pushes files (not sure what) to locations (not sure where) that hijack the booting process on startup before getting to moto's software. If it sees a specific file (I think logwrapper.bin but I'm not sure) is boots into clockworkmod. If it doesn't it just boots like normal.
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newk8600 said:
I'm sure there is a way but why figure it out when it's already been done?
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I would like to figure out how so "I" won't need an app, and to hopefully bring more info to our Community of D2G owners. Just my own opinion.

You need to get the hijack file from Koush's App. Download droid2bootsrapper either from his site or the market. View it with your favorite zip viewer, say 7zip or Winrar. Look in the assets folder for the hijack file.
Adb push hijack to /system/bin
Chmod 755 hijack
Rename logwrapper to logwrapper.bin (in the /system/bin folder)
Symlink hijack to a new file called logwrapper ("cd /system/bin", "ln -s hijack logwrapper")
Don't try it if you don't know how to SBF.
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Thank you bro, I will try and report back. The SBF is my friend, it has fixed my D2G multiple times. Hah
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buryboi said:
You need to get the hijack file from Koush's App. Download droid2bootsrapper either from his site or the market. View it with your favorite zip viewer, say 7zip or Winrar. Look in the assets folder for the hijack file.
Adb push hijack to /system/bin
Chmod 755 hijack
Rename logwrapper to logwrapper.bin (in the /system/bin folder)
Symlink hijack to a new file called logwrapper ("cd /system/bin", "ln -s hijack logwrapper")
Don't try it if you don't know how to SBF.
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I tried what you said and but I believe that there is another step?
# adb push hijack /system/bin
# mv /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/logwrapper.bin
# cd /system/bin
# ln -s hijack logwrapper
#
Do I need to flash the recovery still, I'm stuck.
(Edit)
I searched further into the apk, and found the recovery image along with *.sh scripts. All help is appreciated.

No, you cant "flash" recovery as the D2G has a locked bootloader.
I'm not positive, but when the App is installed there are additional files in /data (like an update.zip)
I dont know if the hijack loads that update.zip or not...I'm inclined to think it doesn't since most of the custom roms just include the hijack and the symlink and nothing else...
the .sh file is the script that runs when you press "reboot recovery" in the app.
There is another .sh script that runs adbd is su mode when your phone first boots.
To get into recovery type the following in terminal
$su
#touch /data/.recovery_mode
#reboot
When the phone boots, init.rc calls logwrapper, which symlinks to hijack, which checks for the file /data/.recovery_mode. If it finds that file, it unmount system and loads bootstrap/Clockwork Recovery. If it doesn't find it /data/.recovery_mode it creates it, just in case you're phone doesn't boot. When your phone successfully boots, Droid2Bootstraper.apk starts and deletes /data/.recovery_mode so that next time you boot you wont automatically go into Boostrap recovery.
If you dont have the Boostrapper app, then you will probably boot into recovery every time you restart your phone.

[Q] Blur Camera won't install

Alright so here's my problem: After rooting my phone, I started to play around with a couple of camera apps from different ROMs such as MIUI. Me being an idiot though, deleted the stock Blur camera Apk. Using a system dump of the Atrix, 2 I tried to reinstall it, by placing it in system/app. For some reason. It wouldn't install (show up on my app directory). Anybody have any idea as to why this is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I really need a camera app.that's supports 1080p video. Thanks in advance!!!

farshad525hou said:
Alright so here's my problem: After rooting my phone, I started to play around with a couple of camera apps from different ROMs such as MIUI. Me being an idiot though, deleted the stock Blur camera Apk. Using a system dump of the Atrix, 2 I tried to reinstall it, by placing it in system/app. For some reason. It wouldn't install (show up on my app directory). Anybody have any idea as to why this is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I really need a camera app.that's supports 1080p video. Thanks in advance!!!
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Push the sick app via adb. I read somewhere that with apps such as root explorer it doesn't work for some reason. Hope this helps.
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Yes, always use adb to push system apps. Root Explorer will not work.
Sent from my mAtrix2!!

For some reason i get permission denied whenever i try to push through adb. How do i get around this?

farshad525hou said:
For some reason i get permission denied whenever i try to push through adb. How do i get around this?
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To copy anything to /system/app, you need root access.
This will be a 2 step process.
1) push the file from your computer to your phone in a directory that the shell has access to, i.e. /data/local for instance.
2) adb shell into the phone and su, remount /system as rw, then cp the file from /data/local/ to /system/bin
That should elimiate the issue with permission denied, with adb push.

jimbridgman said:
To copy anything to /system/app, you need root access, have you rooted the phone?
If you have rooted the phone, this will be a 2 step process.
1) push the file from your computer to your phone in a directory that the shell has access to, i.e. /data/local for instance.
2) adb shell into the phone and su, remount /system as rw, then cp the file from /data/local/ to /system/bin
That should elimiate the issue with permission denied, with adb push.
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Yes my phone is rooted. How do I remount /system as rw? Then how do i cp the file? Thanks for your help!

I figured out how to push the file with adb, but the app still does not show up. Any other ideas?

farshad525hou said:
Yes my phone is rooted. How do I remount /system as rw? Then how do i cp the file? Thanks for your help!
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Ok, run EVERYTHING between Code:, and End code from the command line. Just make sure you are in the directory you saved your backup camera.apk to, from your windows command prompt, before you run the commands below.
Code:
adb push BlurCamera.apk /data/local
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
cd /data/local
cp BlurCamera.apk /system/app
chown root /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
chgrp root /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
mount -o remount, ro /system
exit
exit
End code
That should hopefully fix it.

jimbridgman said:
Ok, run EVERYTHING between Code:, and End code from the command line. Just make sure you are in the directory you saved your backup camera.apk to, from your windows command prompt, before you run the commands below.
Code:
adb push BlurCamera.apk /data/local
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
cd /data/local
cp BlurCamera.apk /system/app
chown root /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
chgrp root /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/BlurCamera.apk
mount -o remount, ro /system
exit
exit
End code
That should hopefully fix it.
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Sadly this didn't work either. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Btw, thanks for your help so far!

Quick question....is the blurcamera.odex file still in the system/app. If you have deleted it also you will have to replace it as well.

JRW 28 said:
Quick question....is the blurcamera.odex file still in the system/app. If you have deleted it also you will have to replace it as well.
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I could only find a deodexed system dump

Here ya go, zip has both camera.apk and odex. Try using file explorer again and make sure it is r/w . Hope it helps
http://db.tt/v0FQKpKr

JRW 28 said:
Here ya go, zip has both camera.apk and odex. Try using file explorer again and make sure it is r/w . Hope it helps
http://db.tt/v0FQKpKr
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Thanks for the files! But once again sadly the file doesn't appear under my app drawer. I tried using adb and root explorer, with no luck. Is there anything I'm missing? Btw, JRW are those files from the atrix 2?

There both straight off of my phone...that's weird cause I have removed both of them trying out various cameras and never had a problem reinstalling them?
Are you rebooting afterwards?

JRW 28 said:
There both straight off of my phone...that's weird cause I have removed both of them trying out various cameras and never had a problem reinstalling them?
Are you rebooting afterwards?
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Yeah I am. Can you walk me through what you do when you re install the apps? I am really confused. Is there anything that might be interfering?

Go into file explorer and make sure your system folder is r/w along with both the blurcamera.apk and blurcamera.odex.... then drop both of them into system/app and reboot. Wouldn't think anything else would be interfering?

JRW 28 said:
Go into file explorer and make sure your system folder is r/w along with both the blurcamera.apk and blurcamera.odex.... then drop both of them into system/app and reboot. Wouldn't think anything else would be interfering?
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How do I make sure that BlurCamera.apk and BlurCamera.odex are both r/w?

Im not sure if it really matters on them but long pressing on either of them in file explorer should bring up the permissions and you can change from there. Do the same on your system folder just to double check that the permissions are correct

JRW 28 said:
Im not sure if it really matters on them but long pressing on either of them in file explorer should bring up the permissions and you can change from there. Do the same on your system folder just to double check that the permissions are correct
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Yeah still no luck... no idea whats wrong

Try pushing them with ADB .....usually that will take care of it

[Q] Unlock APN

Hi There,
I bought an atrix 2 that is supposedly unlocked and rooted. I download a root checker and it says it is rooted. I was reading that if it is unlocked that u can use a different carrier which I have been. The phone was set up at the beginning to use T Mobile with a APN set up for this carrier and it worked fine. To save some money I switched to simple mobile which is also working fine. This might seem petty but the T Moblie APN is locked and i would like to delete it but dont know how. Can anyone help? My phone is running the currant ICS 4.0 update.
Thank you

chrisroch40 said:
Hi There,
I bought an atrix 2 that is supposedly unlocked and rooted. I download a root checker and it says it is rooted. I was reading that if it is unlocked that u can use a different carrier which I have been. The phone was set up at the beginning to use T Mobile with a APN set up for this carrier and it worked fine. To save some money I switched to simple mobile which is also working fine. This might seem petty but the T Moblie APN is locked and i would like to delete it but dont know how. Can anyone help? My phone is running the currant ICS 4.0 update.
Thank you
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You'll need SQLite editor for this.
Using that goto settings storage (com.motorola.android.providers.settings)
Open settings.db
Search for and change dun_apn_changeble,dun_enable to 1.
Reboot.
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I Tried
deveshmanish said:
You'll need SQLite editor for this.
Using that goto settings storage (com.motorola.android.providers.settings)
Open settings.db
Search for and change dun_apn_changeble,dun_enable to 1.
Reboot.
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I Installed SQLite and couldnt find the file u were referring to. I found something ending with providers settings but it was empty

Update
chrisroch40 said:
I Installed SQLite and couldnt find the file u were referring to. I found something ending with providers settings but it was empty
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Ok I found the database and changed the dun_apn_changable and the dun_enable value from 0 to 1 and rebooted and the t-mobile apn is still locked?????????
Help!!!!

Hey just to be clear before anything else what exactly do you mean the apn is locked???Have you tried adding the apn for your new carrier manually by going into settings/more/mobile Network/acces point name/new apn???
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Locked APN
deveshmanish said:
Hey just to be clear before anything else what exactly do you mean the apn is locked???Have you tried adding the apn for your new carrier manually by going into settings/more/mobile Network/acces point name/new apn???
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When I got the atrix 2 it was set up for T-Mobile with a tmobile apn. This apn has a locked symbol next to it. All i can do is open it and look at it. Cant edit or delete it. I added a simple mobile apn and the phone works fine with everything I am just wondering if there is any way to unlock the t-mobile apn so I can delete it????

You can still use your new apn even if the t-mobile apn is still there
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I know that
rdhoggattjr said:
You can still use your new apn even if the t-mobile apn is still there
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I know it works I have stated that already I just want to clean up my phone and get rid of the t mobile apn. Man I didn't think it would be this hard anybody got any suggestions. Somebody put it in the phone and locked it there has to be a way to reverse this.
Thank You

chrisroch40 said:
I know it works I have stated that already I just want to clean up my phone and get rid of the t mobile apn. Man I didn't think it would be this hard anybody got any suggestions. Somebody put it in the phone and locked it there has to be a way to reverse this.
Thank You
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If you really must remove it, there is only one way.... I will tell you that it is a little dangerous if you mess up you will bootloop and have to fxz.
You will need the android SDK.
Your phone needs to be rooted.
You need to use adb to pull the /system/etc/apns-conf.xml file to your computer.
Code:
adb pull /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
Now you can edit it with any text editor you want, and you will need to remove the whole block that has the tmo APN.
You will need to mount /system read write:
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
exit
exit
Then using adb put it back in place with this:
Code:
adb push apns-conf.xml /data/local
adb shell
su
cp /data/local/apns-conf.xml /system/etc
exit
exit
And do this to set the perms and owner correctly:
Code:
adb shell
su
chmod 644 /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
chown root /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
chgrp root /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
mount -o remount, ro /system
exit
exit
Now you can also just leave it there and it will hurt nothing.
Yes some things on this phone are harder to hack, but to me that makes it a little more fun and challenging.

Editing File
jimbridgman said:
If you really must remove it, there is only one way.... I will tell you that it is a little dangerous if you mess up you will bootloop and have to fxz.
You will need the android SDK.
Your phone needs to be rooted.
You need to use adb to pull the /system/etc/apns-conf.xml file to your computer.
Code:
adb pull /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
Now you can edit it with any text editor you want, and you will need to remove the whole block that has the tmo APN.
You will need to mount /system read write:
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
exit
exit
Then using adb put it back in place with this:
Code:
adb push apns-conf.xml /data/local
adb shell
su
cp /data/local/apns-conf.xml /system/etc
exit
exit
And do this to set the perms and owner correctly:
Code:
adb shell
su
chmod 644 /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
chown root /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
chgrp root /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
mount -o remount, ro /system
exit
exit
Now you can also just leave it there and it will hurt nothing.
Yes some things on this phone are harder to hack, but to me that makes it a little more fun and challenging.
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Ok i pulled the file with no problems and opened it with notepad. Do i delete everything in the file? I see the words T-mobile through out the whole file.

Permission denied
chrisroch40 said:
Ok i pulled the file with no problems and opened it with notepad. Do i delete everything in the file? I see the words T-mobile through out the whole file.
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OK i deleted the block and did like u said to push back to phone but keep getting permission denied..Help!!!!

chrisroch40 said:
OK i deleted the block and did like u said to push back to phone but keep getting permission denied..Help!!!!
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You did not follow my directions then. I gave you every step. Take another look, as you can not copy files directly to /system/etc with out root perms.

permission denied
chrisroch40 said:
Ok i pulled the file with no problems and opened it with notepad. Do i delete everything in the file? I see the words T-mobile through out the whole file.[/QU
Ok i did like u said and deleted the block but when i try pushing back to phone i get permission denied. Please Help.
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Ok i pulled the file and deleted the T-mobile block i figure that out but when I tried to push back to phone i get permission denied. I followed the instructions.

jimbridgman said:
You will need to mount /system read write:
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
exit
exit
Then using adb put it back in place with this:
Code:
adb push apns-conf.xml /data/local
adb shell
su
cp /data/local/apns-conf.xml /system/etc
exit
exit
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So Again, you can not just push the file to /system/etc.... follow that above and it will work, I do this all the time.

I do it exactly as u posted.
jimbridgman said:
So Again, you can not just push the file to /system/etc.... follow that above and it will work, I do this all the time.
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I do it exactly as u say changing it to read write and that part goes fine. When i try pushing the file after that I get permission denied.