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phone is rooted but 2.1 wont allow shell access to apps

If anyone can help me with this issue,its killing me. I love the DARCHDROID rom,couldnt wait anymore so i had to flash it. Flashed darchdroid,lwp kernel and everything else works, minus a few fc's. In adb i have #,and my device appears to be rooted, i have rerooted more then 35 times in the past 5 hours read numerous posts here,even some that would imply to address this issue,but does not solve my problem....seems that i dont have root access to my new 2.1 rom shell.....if this is possible. Ive tried many other roms and never come accross one that you had to re root for.But this rom looked worth it. Everything i have read seems to work for others but not me. Well the geniuses are here so here is where i ask for assistance....any thoughts or replies would be greatly appreciated, im not giving up on this rom yet......thanks in advance!

The newest darch rom is already rooted. Make sure you 'adb remount'. That allows read/write access to /system if you want to push files to it.

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BTW, forgot some important info,didnt want to list all of my links and flood the thread Im still at it...anyone that is capable of offering me help will understand this error....when i get to step 9 in the xda guide.forum.xda-developers. cdma hero root guide,.....site wouldnt allow me to use the link,error?strange i couldnt link because all my good links are from this site......after i enter "cat sh > su"
i get "cannot create su: directory nonexistent"......i know this is a red flag for my problem and im sure theres an easy fix......tried makdir and im denied access. ..I now have a headache and thanks for any help.....

reflash the rom. there was no need to asroot2 the shell.

[Q]Galaxy S5 Problem

First off, I want to apologize if I've put this in the wrong place or if something is not in accordance to the rules for posting. I am new to this website and have a bugger of a problem. I would like to edit something in my galaxy S5's SM-G900A settings.db file, but understand being rooted is required to do this. I decided I wanted to too late, and now lollipop and my phone model are the reason that there is not any sort of root for my phone at the moment. I am not willing to backup, downgrade, root, edit, then use a special thing to update to lollipop keep root access. I have read of ADB and JVM and was wondering if anyone could tell me of any way I could gain access to and edit my phones settings.db file on lollipop without rooting, I know JVM and ADB may be viable but I know nothing of how to. Any other methods or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading this!

SM-T116bu Kernel?

I just bought a Samsung tab 3v then I successfully rooted it using this: ( www 4shared com/get/4sFqkNODba/ ) but after I did that I could no longer use the camera (error then force close) so I'm asking if anyone could help me with that please? I did few research they said it's something about the kernel so anyone could provide me with one for my phone?

Someone please help me with this? At least provide me with an already rooted rom.

Stanwar said:
Someone please help me with this? At least provide me with an already rooted rom.
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have a look through these and see if you can find a kernel :
https://www.google.com/search?q=SM-...es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=SM-T116bu+return+to+stock
i didnt see any promising leads on google for a rom, so your only alternative may be to return to stock. have a look through these for a possible way to do that :
https://www.google.com/search?q=SM-...es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=SM-T116bu+return+to+stock
one small tip for future reference.
you should figure out how to fix your phone and have the tools and files on hand before making any modifications.
personally, i never do anything to my phone before thoroughly learning how to fix it, and if i cant find a way, then i dont mod it.
i see all the time on here, people frantic because they broke their phone and dont have a clue how to fix it.
in some cases there is no way to fix it because the files are not available, its really important to know that before you break it.

bweN diorD said:
one small tip for future reference.
you should figure out how to fix your phone and have the tools and files on hand before making any modifications.
personally, i never do anything to my phone before thoroughly learning how to fix it, and if i cant find a way, then i dont mod it.
i see all the time on here, people frantic because they broke their phone and dont have a clue how to fix it.
in some cases there is no way to fix it because the files are not available, its really important to know that before you break it.
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Didn't you actually 'think' that I already searched for that on Google? Please try to 'think' that if you don't do mistakes you will never learn so yeah not breaking your phone doesn't mean you're smart OR intelligent.

Stanwar said:
Didn't you actually 'think' that I already searched for that on Google? Please try to 'think' that if you don't do mistakes you will never learn so yeah not breaking your phone doesn't mean you're smart OR intelligent.
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There's no need to be rude... He was trying to help you

Stanwar said:
Didn't you actually 'think' that I already searched for that on Google? Please try to 'think' that if you don't do mistakes you will never learn so yeah not breaking your phone doesn't mean you're smart OR intelligent.
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i never implied that you or anyone else wasnt "smart or intelligent"
i have broken my phones many times. the difference between me and a lot of users i see posting here is, i think about what would happen if i do something and it breaks the phone, before i actually do it. then i go and find out how to restore stock, and gather the files and tools first. then i actually restore stock, just so im sure i know how to do it first.
i see and help countless users here on xda, and frequently see people run to flash things they think they have to have right away. frequently that is followed by post pleading for help, because they failed to understand the journey, and chose to jump right to the finish line.
so yes, i agree, not breaking your phone doesnt make you smart or intelligent. knowing how to fix it, and helping others to fix theirs for many years, at minimum should gain those of us who help others a little respect, because we dont get paid to, nor have any obligation to, help anyone.

sdeepb said:
There's no need to be rude... He was trying to help you
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How come? Posting a Google link is actually helping? Then next time someone asks who's that guy, you tell him Google it. I did come here for a reason, which is finding a developer who can make a prerooted rom for me since it doesn't exist anywhere in the Web.
Anyway I found a solution I will post it here in case someone needed it:
1- Flash the tablet with stock rom (the one of your SM-T116bu) skip to 2 if you already have the stock rom and you only want to root the tablet.
2- Get a file explorer (ES explorer or root explorer).
3- Browse to system/lib and copy the whole lib folder and put it somewhere you can access it later.
4- Flash your tablet using the prerooted SM-T116nu rom (link is above).
5- Using the root explorer replace all files in the system/lib which has a 'camera' word in their name with the same files name from the lib folder of the stock rom, do the same with the files in system/lib/hw6- Reboot your device and the camera should work again.

Stanwar said:
How come? Posting a Google link is actually helping? because believe it or not, some people dont know the best key words to get the results that would actually be helpful, and a lot of times, they dont try at all. so occasionally i try to point them in the right direction, in the hope that they will actually try to help themself, because i cant be of further assistance. Then next time someone asks who's that guy, you tell him Google it. I did come here for a reason, which is finding a developer who can make a prerooted rom for me i can tell you right away, thats not going to happen. this site isnt a place where devs sit waiting for people to make request, so they can make stuff for them. xda is a place where you come to learn how to make it yourself, if you dont already know how, and support the community with it. since it doesn't exist anywhere in the Web.
Anyway I found a solution I will post it here in case someone needed it:
1- Flash the tablet with stock rom (the one of your SM-T116bu) skip to 2 if you already have the stock rom and you only want to root the tablet.
2- Get a file explorer (ES explorer or root explorer).
3- Browse to system/lib and copy the whole lib folder and put it somewhere you can access it later.
4- Flash your tablet using the prerooted SM-T116nu rom (link is above).
5- Using the root explorer replace all files in the system/lib which has a 'camera' word in their name with the same files name from the lib folder of the stock rom, do the same with the files in system/lib/hw6- Reboot your device and the camera should work again.
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^^^^^

Stanwar said:
How come? Posting a Google link is actually helping? Then next time someone asks who's that guy, you tell him Google it. I did come here for a reason, which is finding a developer who can make a prerooted rom for me since it doesn't exist anywhere in the Web.
Anyway I found a solution I will post it here in case someone needed it:
1- Flash the tablet with stock rom (the one of your SM-T116bu) skip to 2 if you already have the stock rom and you only want to root the tablet.
2- Get a file explorer (ES explorer or root explorer).
3- Browse to system/lib and copy the whole lib folder and put it somewhere you can access it later.
4- Flash your tablet using the prerooted SM-T116nu rom (link is above).
5- Using the root explorer replace all files in the system/lib which has a 'camera' word in their name with the same files name from the lib folder of the stock rom, do the same with the files in system/lib/hw6- Reboot your device and the camera should work again.
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1. First respect others, no one gets paid or forced to do anything here
2. What kinda help you want ? if you want the most perfect thing all the times than I'm sorry as we only have humans here, not super computers with everything stored on them !

T116BU Tab E Rooted Without Camera or Unrooted? I want neither... Can anybody help?
Stanwar said:
How come? Posting a Google link is actually helping? Then next time someone asks who's that guy, you tell him Google it. I did come here for a reason, which is finding a developer who can make a prerooted rom for me since it doesn't exist anywhere in the Web.
Anyway I found a solution I will post it here in case someone needed it:
1- Flash the tablet with stock rom (the one of your SM-T116bu) skip to 2 if you already have the stock rom and you only want to root the tablet.
2- Get a file explorer (ES explorer or root explorer).
3- Browse to system/lib and copy the whole lib folder and put it somewhere you can access it later.
4- Flash your tablet using the prerooted SM-T116nu rom (link is above).
5- Using the root explorer replace all files in the system/lib which has a 'camera' word in their name with the same files name from the lib folder of the stock rom, do the same with the files in system/lib/hw6- Reboot your device and the camera should work again.
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Thanks, but your method soft bricks (black screen, can't operate the phone at all after booting) the phone until I flash the rooted or the official ROM again. There's no hw6 folder either, just hw and even changing only the lib files with camera in their names will also soft brick the phone.
I found a solution!!!
Restored my phone to the latest official ROM, then flashed the tiny file from the topic below using ODIN.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=10223#downloads
Worked like a charm!

Fdamaral said:
Thanks, but your method soft bricks (black screen, can't operate the phone at all after booting) the phone until I flash the rooted or the official ROM again. There's no hw6 folder either, just hw and even changing only the lib files with camera in their names will also soft brick the phone.
I found a solution!!!
Restored my phone to the latest official ROM, then flashed the tiny file from the topic below using ODIN.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=10223#downloads
Worked like a charm!
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The solution was so nice that I even made a short video explaining what I did with my Samsung Galaxy Tab E SM-T116BU from Brazil!!

Help with editing my build.prop

Hi every one
just need to confirm from professional people here , i need to edit build.prop on my A9 device without rooting so that i could make some connection with my car screen (stupid screen accept only Samsung and LG) , Is that possible?

amro ibrahim said:
Hi every one
just need to confirm from professional people here , i need to edit build.prop on my A9 device without rooting so that i could make some connection with my car screen (stupid screen accept only Samsung and LG) , Is that possible?
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First, this question gets asked A LOT so a simple search here or google will show numerous others asking this and their findings. It doesn't matter if its not specifically referring to HTC A9 or in this specific forum either.
That being said....to answer your question.....NO! ^_^ You will most likely need root to even access the system root folder where your build prop. You may find it using some app possibly that doesn't require root, open it and change values, HOWEVER, you will never be able to save these changes without root, sorry.
If you are knowledgeable on unpacking system images or have firmware.zip/tar etc that you can dig through and find the build prop, edit it on windows/linux/mac repack or rezip and flash it successfully....thats one way.
Another way would be to use ADB to pull what you want and push it back to system afterwards.....but not to sure as my phone(s) usually are rooted and never tried to use ADB unrooted. Somethings tells me that this too won't work but go for it.

mcbright80 said:
First, this question gets asked A LOT so a simple search here or google will show numerous others asking this and their findings. It doesn't matter if its not specifically referring to HTC A9 or in this specific forum either.
That being said....to answer your question.....NO! ^_^ You will most likely need root to even access the system root folder where your build prop. You may find it using some app possibly that doesn't require root, open it and change values, HOWEVER, you will never be able to save these changes without root, sorry.
If you are knowledgeable on unpacking system images or have firmware.zip/tar etc that you can dig through and find the build prop, edit it on windows/linux/mac repack or rezip and flash it successfully....thats one way.
Another way would be to use ADB to pull what you want and push it back to system afterwards.....but not to sure as my phone(s) usually are rooted and never tried to use ADB unrooted. Somethings tells me that this too won't work but go for it.
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Actually i searched a LOT but i have found the TWO answers "Yes you can" AND "No you can not" , also people says yes you can giving steps i have no idea about it like this one
1. Make a process which executes "getprop" from the "/system/bin/getprop" directory and initialize the String which we want to get (ro.board.platform in example).
2. Make a BufferedReader which gets the value (String) by retrieving the data from a inputStreamReader().
3.Convert the BufferedReader to String.
. That is why i asked here again to get clear answer which i get it and many thanks for you

amro ibrahim said:
Actually i searched a LOT but i have found the TWO answers "Yes you can" AND "No you can not" , also people says yes you can giving steps i have no idea about it like this one
1. Make a process which executes "getprop" from the "/system/bin/getprop" directory and initialize the String which we want to get (ro.board.platform in example).
2. Make a BufferedReader which gets the value (String) by retrieving the data from a inputStreamReader().
3.Convert the BufferedReader to String.
. That is why i asked here again to get clear answer which i get it and many thanks for you
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LOL i understand the frustration. I also spend a ridiculous amount of time scouring forums and any other place online for the many questions i need help with only to get fractured/incomplete answers or conflicting ones like you stated where it seems like the answer is both yes and no or whatever....its a real pain. Truthfully, I said you wouldn't be able to do this without root due to the level of difficulty of the other options trying without root. Creating bufferedreader etc is all Java Programming. You will need a decent working knowledge of java programming to be able to do what that guide was talking about.....i figured you might not have that so I said that NO to your question here. I know some of what that guide was explaining enough to create some of that they described but still not enough to feel comfy attempting. Your best option, i think, will be to extract the build prop from a stock.img and repack the system.img after editing the build.prop. Use 7zip to unzip/rezip the system.img and notepad++ to open/edit the build.prop and flash image in your recovery. You could also use Android Kitchen if you can. Plenty of tutorials on this. I linked two below for ya though. '
What were you looking to edit in the Build.prop anyhow? I assume you are disinclined to root/unlock bootloader for warranty issues correct?
BTW, sorry for such a late response...I am not always here for days at a time usually so.....
dsixda's Android Kitchen - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
Super-Rs - http://forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android/kitchen-superrs-kitchen-t3202296

mcbright80 said:
LOL i understand the frustration. I also spend a ridiculous amount of time scouring forums and any other place online for the many questions i need help with only to get fractured/incomplete answers or conflicting ones like you stated where it seems like the answer is both yes and no or whatever....its a real pain. Truthfully, I said you wouldn't be able to do this without root due to the level of difficulty of the other options trying without root. Creating bufferedreader etc is all Java Programming. You will need a decent working knowledge of java programming to be able to do what that guide was talking about.....i figured you might not have that so I said that NO to your question here. I know some of what that guide was explaining enough to create some of that they described but still not enough to feel comfy attempting. Your best option, i think, will be to extract the build prop from a stock.img and repack the system.img after editing the build.prop. Use 7zip to unzip/rezip the system.img and notepad++ to open/edit the build.prop and flash image in your recovery. You could also use Android Kitchen if you can. Plenty of tutorials on this. I linked two below for ya though. '
What were you looking to edit in the Build.prop anyhow? I assume you are disinclined to root/unlock bootloader for warranty issues correct?
BTW, sorry for such a late response...I am not always here for days at a time usually so.....
dsixda's Android Kitchen - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
Super-Rs - http://forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android/kitchen-superrs-kitchen-t3202296
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Thanks again for your replay , actually i still trying to proceed your way .. i think i am too close to do it , but you know after one or two hour of Trying&searching i say to my self let us unlock this phone and finish this matter .. any way i am using the Android Kitchen and i hope i could do it

[Completed] is this right place to post new thread?i m really not getting idea where to post.help

hi guys,
first, i m all time thankful to these developer guys, you make mobile world so genius, yeah it was never genius,
second, something i learn and something i want to learn more is about android always, but here is my question below that is really important. i don't know if it really make sense or not but i would like to know your opinion.
question :- i see there is a way to push files into device without rooting it. is it secure? it is safe? i guess yes. than how can i push titanium backup(data only) of particular app into my device?
example : - i myself after learning lot about apk tool and all that, modded "whatsapp" successfully and which is out of this world according to me, lately i cam to know there is already one called whatsapp GB, but mine is mine. (right now i don't have rooted device so couldn't send screenshot), but what i am trying to figure out is, i can install my modded apk on my non-rooted device and can run it either, problem comes when it is about registering number, what i really thought that if i can push titanium backup of my modded whatsapp.apk (data only - taken perviously when i had rooted device) to this non rooted device via ADB, than i didn't need to root my device ever, and so for any other app that is modded by me or any developers can be executed on non rooted device.
pros - if this is possible than i guess People won't need to root device, will not loose warranties, will not loose device by bricking it, will get out of a procedure of root methods, no one will ask more about root method, soft brick, hard brick, boot loader issues and many more questions like that i guess.
there will left only one tutorial than if this is possible and it will be like this - how to use adb?(step by step : beginner to black hat).
if this is possible than what we need? proper method of how to use adb, most of people easily can learn how to use adb but most of tutorial misses some points like how to push file by changing r/w permission, and where to put new data backup or files in device like some tutorial i have seen gives only command line but people actually don't know where to put the file like /data/data and than what?
Developers and Rooted device owner will become God in fact in this case because they can lead the rest in right path.
is this possible? or am i ridiculously making no sense?

This is not the right place.
You were already advised to post in the Ask any Query Newbie Friendly thread last month.
Please post there with all relevant details.
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