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
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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.
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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?
Please emal me at if you have a problem.
Thank you alritewhadeva with chmod
Cp the files to /system/bin.
Then chmod 755 (filenames)
Cleartmp
Clears all files in a chosen directory in a certain amount of days. You can chose the directory and the amount days.
Rename
You can rename all files or selected files.
Rmemptydir
Remove empty directories
Search
Search for files and folders
Grepcat
Is like a combination of egrep and cat.
My version of appstosd
There will be a folder in your sdcard called apps(MK47) and it has all your app from the market(free and also paid). This is good for when you wipe your Dream.
here is the scripts.
Might want to update your OP with the attachment and bold the commands so its easier to read Nice work
mohsinkhan47 said:
Please emal me at [email protected] if you have a problem.
Thank you alritewhadeva with chmod
Cp the files to /system/bin.
Then chmod 755 (filenames)
Cleartmp
Clears all files in a chosen directory in a certain amount of days. You can chose the directory and the amount days.
Rename
You can rename all files or selected files.
Rmemptydir
Remove empty directories
Search
Search for files and folders
Grepcat
Is like a combination of egrep and cat.
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this can come in handy for the hero roms if u use the facebook feature quite often under the people app. i know i tend to show people certain pics of me or friends and it just eats up internal memory. all i do is clear the cache but if i can use this script to do so it'd save me that lil bit of hassle i have to go thru myself, appreciate the script, just curious tho... anyone know where to find where the albums cache is stored? i kno how to brose thru folders but i much rather have somebody that KNOWS rather than me THINKING i know... lol thanks in advance.
Thanks for the scripts. Can you repost the appstosd? The one you posted was empty.
cx92001 said:
Thanks for the scripts. Can you repost the appstosd? The one you posted was empty.
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I won't be on a computer until Saturday so gtalk to me at
[email protected] invte me and I will give u the app2sd
I can't reach the clutch..
Hi,
I've been looking for a shell search tool for my SE Xperia X10 Android 1.6 phone to search the file system, and this has been the only resource I have found thus far. I have managed to download and copy the scripts to my Android device, but I am unsure on how to execute the .asc scripts on the Android shell.
I was unable to adb push the file to \system\bin. I pushed the file to \data but even mounting the system volume as RW I am unable to mv the scripts to the \system\bin folder.
adb shell
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock3 /system
# mv /data/searh.asc /system/bin
mv /data/searh.asc /system/bin
failed on '/data/searh.asc' - Cross-device link
I tried running the chmod 755 search.asc command anyway, and execute it using ./search.asc, but receive the message:
basename: not found
getopt: not found
[: not found
shift: can't shift that many
Edit: I have now tried this in recovery mode and mounting the /system folder with RW permissions, still no joy.
Could someone please clarify what is required to get these scripts to operate?
I have only dabbled in linux so I am most likely missing something fundamentally obvious here.
Temp-n00b-usr
I managed to find a work around.
I was attempting to locate the Creatouch.apk which was not in /system/app or /data/app. It was infact in /data/app-private. I have manged to pull the .apk for a backup and removed this from the phone now.
I just used the file explorer in Droid Screencast to locate the file by browsing the system.
It would still be handy to be able to search the file system from a PC environment however.
Ive temporarily rooted my device to push a file to system/app and ive followed the instruction from the widgetpicker app from xda and it keeps telling me 'permisson denied' from typing "c:\android-windows\tools> adb remount
can someone please help me get this file into the system app folder
Symondo said:
Ive temporarily rooted my device to push a file to system/app and ive followed the instruction from the widgetpicker app from xda and it keeps telling me 'permisson denied' from typing "c:\android-windows\tools> adb remount
can someone please help me get this file into the system app folder
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1.Put the app in the root of your internal sd.
2.Open root explorer and scroll to sdcard and click to open.
3.Scroll to the app and long press,which gives you the options and click copy or move.
4.Click your back button,which will take you back to "Mounted as r/w.
5.Scroll to and click on system and click app and then paste.
6.Press and hold the installed app and change permission to rw-r-r
Hit home and your done.
i dont have root explorer at the moment and would like to try n do this without paying for an additonal app just now.
i dont understand how its so difficult to move a file into a folder
cd /sdcard/somewhere
su
cp file.apk /system/app
exit
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K900 said:
cd /sdcard/somewhere
su
cp file.apk /system/app
exit
Sent from a piece of ginger bread
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tried this it states "sd card not found" in terminal emulator.
Ive got it granted super user access and a temporary root. do i need to do with without the temp root?
The other code ive tried which i cant get to work is:
c:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb remount
c:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push AppWidgetPicker.apk /system/app
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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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
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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.
Alright I want to move my location spoofer app to /system/app so I can watch my hometown team on MLB.tv. This worked fine on my LG Nitro running CM10, but when I tried on my stock infinity (rooted, not updated), it won't let me. It just says "paste failed" when I try to move it. Anyone have any advice as to how to fix this?
Have y o u tried mounting the directory as rw so you can paste in there?
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Sinker1345 said:
Have y o u tried mounting the directory as rw so you can paste in there?
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No I haven't, but just to clarify the app is currently installed on the internal memory, not sd card. I am just trying to move it from one folder to a different folder. Is this still necessary?
It may be, if the directory is mounted as read only you won't be able to copy into it
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mgoblueno1 said:
No I haven't, but just to clarify the app is currently installed on the internal memory, not sd card. I am just trying to move it from one folder to a different folder. Is this still necessary?
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In normal operation, /system is mounted read-only, so you need to remount it as writable first. Root-enabled file managers usually have an option for that.
Thanks guys, will try this out tonight
Alright I tried editing permissions on the system folder, the app, and the root manager app, but they were already all checked (read, write, execute). I also tried just cut/pasting a picture i took to /system/app and I didn't work either...
EDIT: I just tried the remount app, and rewrote the /system folder as rw and it still didn't work
If anyone else has any suggestions on how to fix this let me know!
mgoblueno1 said:
If anyone else has any suggestions on how to fix this let me know!
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mgoblueno1 said:
Alright I tried editing permissions on the system folder, the app, and the root manager app, but they were already all checked (read, write, execute). I also tried just cut/pasting a picture i took to /system/app and I didn't work either...
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That's not how you do it. Those are chmod permissions for files and directories. That controls which user groups have rwx permissions for access; nothing to do with mounts. To allow for rw access to /system you need to either do it from within a root browser (ES file explorer, tools), the remount app, or type this into the terminal:
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
Copy your file or directory, then remount the system back as ro (so you don't accidentally delete something - that's why its mounted ro by default)
Code:
su
mount -o remount,ro /system
mgoblueno1 said:
EDIT: I just tried the remount app, and rewrote the /system folder as rw and it still didn't work
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I just tried this and it works fine. After you made your selections for /system and rw, did you click the top "Remount" button and get a small pop-up "Success!..." notification that it completed its operation? I also verified that I could copy a test file into /system/app after toggling these settings. You are doing something wrong. Read this all again.
[Edit] The only reason I can think of that it might be failing is you are really not rooted or have a corrupt root. If all else fails, run the Root Checker app to see if you really have valid root. Open up your su app and see if it prompts you to update its binaries and let it if it does (superSU).
elfaure said:
That's not how you do it. Those are chmod permissions for files and directories. That controls which user groups have rwx permissions for access; nothing to do with mounts. To allow for rw access to /system you need to either do it from within a root browser (ES file explorer, tools), the remount app, or type this into the terminal:
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
Copy your file or directory, then remount the system back as ro (so you don't accidentally delete something - that's why its mounted ro by default)
Code:
su
mount -o remount,ro /system
I just tried this and it works fine. After you made your selections for /system and rw, did you click the top "Remount" button and get a small pop-up "Success!..." notification that it completed its operation? I also verified that I could copy a test file into /system/app after toggling these settings. You are doing something wrong. Read this all again.
[Edit] The only reason I can think of that it might be failing is you are really not rooted or have a corrupt root. If all else fails, run the Root Checker app to see if you really have valid root. Open up your su app and see if it prompts you to update its binaries and let it if it does (superSU).
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Thanks this worked!
mgoblueno1 said:
Thanks this worked!
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Glad you got it worked out. Which way worked for you?