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i bought this cause i figured it was like cmd in my hand but i have not the slighest clue how to do adb commands in it. i was wondering if any one wanted to lend a helping hand and teach me how to insert commands like flashing a boot img for instance. i will pay the helper five dollars through paypal if they teach me how to flash a boot.img!
thanks in advance
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$Su
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/*image name*
Edit: ah you said boot.img

tried doesn't seem like it worked. I am not suppose to use the stars correct? and the name is newBoot.ing and its in the front of my sdcard...
$Su
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/*image name*
Edit: ah you said boot.img
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command to install apk

Is there a command that can be used in a terminal emulator on the hero to install an apk from the sdcard? If not can it be done using adb commands? I am trying one of the froyo roms and before I start installing anything through the market, I would like to install a file manager. I have AndExplorer in an apk on the sdcard but I can only access it through adb or a terminal emulator.

Just adb push it to systen/app or you could install appinstaller from the market.
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Open terminal.apk and issue these commands hitting enter after each line.
su
cd /sdcard
cp "app.apk" /data/app
This should do the trick. I don't think it will work with a2sd but I could be wrong. I tested it out just a few minutes ago and it worked great.
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mbobino said:
Open terminal.apk and issue these commands hitting enter after each line.
su
cd /sdcard
cp "app.apk" /data/app
This should do the trick. I don't think it will work with a2sd but I could be wrong. I tested it out just a few minutes ago and it worked great.
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Worked great, thank you for the tip

[Q] Is there any way to reinstall a system app?

Hi,
I was having trouble with my app YouTubeTablet.apk, it stopped working while I was using it. thinking I was starting to get the hang of this OS, I found the apk in system/app/ and, thinking I could just reinstall it, I deleted it. It wont let me reinstall it. it trys to install, then just gives an error saying "app did not install"
I have been reading and searching all night, I have tried the chmod 644 and a few other things but nothing I have done has seemed to work to get this reinstalled.
Does anyone know a way to get this app back?
thanks,
John

Hello I'm not 100% certain as I'm also pretty new to this scene, but couldn't you just copy the apk back to /system/app ?
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Use a root explorer and copy the new app to /system/app. Restart and it should work.

I use ES File Explorer, but you have to check mount as read/write in the settings before you copy to system/

Install in /system/app and make sure your permissions are correct. Read: User, Group and Others checked and Write: User checked. Reboot
BTW Youtube crashed last night for everyone. Was a thread about it.

Thanks for the reply's,
I have tried most of this stuff, I tried the rest (changing the permissions) and it still doesn't show up in apps or install
not sure what else to try??
John

Try pushing it via adb then fixing permissions.
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Xerravon said:
Thanks for the reply's,
I have tried most of this stuff, I tried the rest (changing the permissions) and it still doesn't show up in apps or install
not sure what else to try??
John
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What ROM are you running? Just flash that ROM again without wiping.

infazzdar said:
Try pushing it via adb then fixing permissions.
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Hi,
I have been trying to do this, I cant seem to do it
after installing sdk I am
1. booting into apx vol up + power while plugged into the pc (plus I tried pluging nto the pc after going into apx mode)
2. adb devices (none show) If I boot normally the devices do show
3. in apx mode, apx shows under devices and printers in my pc
so I tried to do adb remount with the TF booted normally it says not permitted, if I try in apx mode it says no device
I dont know, I am lost, I hope this is all my fault, it has to be, I am reading and reading, nothing I find, or stuff people tell me to try works. I am really starting to wonder about this OS
John

Xerravon said:
Hi,
I have been trying to do this, I cant seem to do it
after installing sdk I am
1. booting into apx vol up + power while plugged into the pc (plus I tried pluging nto the pc after going into apx mode)
2. adb devices (none show) If I boot normally the devices do show
3. in apx mode, apx shows under devices and printers in my pc
so I tried to do adb remount with the TF booted normally it says not permitted, if I try in apx mode it says no device
I dont know, I am lost, I hope this is all my fault, it has to be, I am reading and reading, nothing I find, or stuff people tell me to try works. I am really starting to wonder about this OS
John
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It's ADB, you do NOT put it in APX mode. Just turn USB Debugging on.
Open the command window and type in ADB devices to see if your device come up.
This thread help with driver's and such for ADB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071584

baseballfanz said:
What ROM are you running? Just flash that ROM again without wiping.
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I think I am running the stock rom, rooted. I dont have anyidea how to flash
Is there a way for me to reflash the same stock rom? If you can point me to same directions or info where I can try to learn this?
thanks

baseballfanz said:
It's ADB, you do NOT put it in APX mode. Just turn USB Debugging on.
Open the command window and type in ADB devices to see if your device come up.
This thread help with driver's and such for ADB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071584
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thank you, I just read somewhere it had to be in apx for adb
Ok the devices do show in the list
I read to type
adb remount
adb push youtubetablet.apk /system/app/
adb push youtubetablet.odex /system/app/
to push these into system/app
when I type adb remount I get the error
"remount failed operation not permitted"
any idea what I am doing wrong
thanks
John

try
Code:
adb shell remount rw

baseballfanz said:
try
Code:
adb shell remount rw
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It gives me
remount: permission denied
I just read I will quote below
"If it shows a $ sign when u type adb shell then u got no root son"
Ok, when I type adb shell I do get the $ does this mean I am not rooted? I do have su and can get su permissions in root explorer. heck that is what got me in this trouble, I was able to delete the youtubetablet apk from system/app/
adb

Xerravon said:
It gives me
remount: permission denied
I just read I will quote below
"If it shows a $ sign when u type adb shell then u got no root son"
Ok, when I type adb shell I do get the $ does this mean I am not rooted? I do have su and can get su permissions in root explorer. heck that is what got me in this trouble, I was able to delete the youtubetablet apk from system/app/
adb
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What method did you use to root?

baseballfanz said:
What method did you use to root?
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I used this one to root back on (8.6.5.9)
ASUS Transformer Root ToolKit V7.1 Universal (Windows) | 2011-09-22 (brk's)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185104
and I updated with these
[UPDATE] CWM - Stock + Root - 8.6.5.21 US 8.6.5.21-WW 8.6.6.23-WW Updated 12/29/2011 (daoist )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334673
I was able to do this in terminal emulator
mount -o rw,remount /system
cp sdcard/download/youtubetablet.apk /system/app/
cp sdcard/download/youtubetablet.apk /system/app/
mount -o ro,remount /system
this did seem to work, i mean It did copy the files into the system/app dir however I still dont see the app in my apps and still cannot install
One difference this time, if I copied the files into the system/app dir using root explorer then changed the permissions with root explorer I could, I mean it would allow me to check the box's and save the change
this time In root explorer I cannot keep or save the changes to the permissions, it gives some error about "not being able to change permissions on some file formats such as sdcard etc..." something like that
thanks
John

I was able to push the files over using this method found here (pushing it via adb with my TF in recovery (CWM)
http://androidforums.com/optimus-m-...anyone-who-has-rooted-deleted-lghome-apk.html
it did push the files but still doesnt show up as an app

The may seems simple and don't get mad at me for saying this, but did you reboot after you pushed it to /system /app? It should show up then. At least that is the way I push them and usually when it doesn't work, it is because I forgot that part.

Xerravon said:
[UPDATE] CWM - Stock + Root - 8.6.5.21 US 8.6.5.21-WW 8.6.6.23-WW Updated 12/29/2011 (daoist )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334673
John
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Have you tried flashing that ROM again?

baseballfanz said:
Have you tried flashing that ROM again?
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No I havent, is it ok to just reflash like that? I ask cause it says (in the thread) it wont work unless you have the update before that one installed.
Hi, Yes, I did reboot, actually tried the whole thing a few times/
thanks guys

Help in choosing correct steps

Hi!
I just bought xt1032 8gb, german market. Rom 4.4.2.
Can you suggest what steps should i petform in order to have cm11 installed? Links are also fine for some tutorials.
Thx.

jazzh said:
Hi!
I just bought xt1032 8gb, german market. Rom 4.4.2.
Can you suggest what steps should i petform in order to have cm11 installed? Links are also fine for some tutorials.
Thx.
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Here you go.. But read the thread before flashing it..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608377
Press thanks if I helped you
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OK, so I unlocked boot loader. Then rooted. Then installed cwm. Then performed backup. But now under folder clockworkmod I can't find my backup. Where is it? One more thing, I think root did not go well, no supersu app and total commander doesn't let me browse system files!?!

To root your phone download Superuser . zip from the below link and flash it via cwm..
http://goo.gl/DPrVzS
You need to copy the nandroid backup to pc using adb... You can't copy in usual way...
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Thx for supersu advice, i did it.
Now how to copy backup with adb, what is the location? I know its rhere somewhere cause i did backup rwice and the wnd time i saw free space was dramatically lower...

jazzh said:
Thx for supersu advice, i did it.
Now how to copy backup with adb, what is the location? I know its rhere somewhere cause i did backup rwice and the wnd time i saw free space was dramatically lower...
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I have done one time, but forgot the location now.. Are you able to see the nandroid backup files using the file Explorer.. It's somewhere inside the media directory.. Can you check with any root Explorer and tell me the location..?
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I found 2 backups under /data/media/clockworkmod/backups/... both are about 1gb in size. I couldnt enter data folder before while unrooted.
Now i usually copy files from phone to my nas over lan, so i dont have to adb every time, thats why 8gb is not low for me ... but i cant copy these backups, nor i can delete one of them, as if supersu is not allowing it. I'll try with some other file manager.

jazzh said:
I found 2 backups under /data/media/clockworkmod/backups/... both are about 1gb in size. I couldnt enter data folder before while unrooted.
Now i usually copy files from phone to my nas over lan, so i dont have to adb every time, thats why 8gb is not low for me ... but i cant copy these backups, nor i can delete one of them, as if supersu is not allowing it. I'll try with some other file manager.
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Try this and let me know if it works..
Enable USB debugging.. Connect your phone to USB..
Go to the adb location.. Open cmd there..
Try the below command and give enter..
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup C:\clockbkp
If it doesn't work, try below
adb pull /mnt/shell/emulated/0/clockworkmod/backup C:\clockbkp
Let me know which one works.
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jazzh said:
Thx for supersu advice, i did it.
Now how to copy backup with adb, what is the location? I know its rhere somewhere cause i did backup rwice and the wnd time i saw free space was dramatically lower...
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Instead of saying thanks, press thanks button
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padhu1989 said:
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup C:\clockbkp
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It didn't work, I don't know whats wrong.
Although I'm using Linux Mint, not windows.
I installed adb and fastboot:
Code:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils
but list of adb devices is empty:
Code:
adb devices
List of devices attached
Then I created /.android/adb_usb.ini with lines
Code:
1
0x22b8
because I saw the vendor id with:
Code:
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 22b8:2e80 Motorola PCS
but no devices found error again, tried also as root...
I must boot win in virtualbox and try from there then...

jazzh said:
It didn't work, I don't know whats wrong.
Although I'm using Linux Mint, not windows.
I installed adb and fastboot:
Code:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils
but list of adb devices is empty:
Code:
adb devices
List of devices attached
Then I created /.android/adb_usb.ini with lines
Code:
1
0x22b8
because I saw the vendor id with:
Code:
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 22b8:2e80 Motorola PCS
but no devices found error again, tried also as root...
I must boot win in virtualbox and try from there then...
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Sorry.. I'm not much familiar with Windows brother..
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/sdcard empty, can't write on it nothing overall

Hey. I have tried all of what i know, and i didn't get to a solution.
I can't do anything, for example take pictures or backing up whatsapp. and if i try to download somthing via chrome it says "No sd card"
HELP?

Format storage in TWRP

Sandman-007 said:
Format storage in TWRP
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I can't do that because i'm want to save my whatsapp conversations.
BTW im on android L

I'd recommend you To install KitKat again, but if you want to keep L and be able To read your storage go To terminal and type "su", press enter, type "restorecon -FR /data/media/0", press enter, wait and then reboot. To backup your data before you can go To recovery and use ADB pull.
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What he said. Just to add on to that after you do adb pull to backup your data you can not use adb push to put it back on. You'll have permissions issues. You'll have to use MTP and just copy/paste the data back.

Ok, thanks!
And how do I do adb pull in the recovery? (TWRP 2.7.1)

bm19981217 said:
I'd recommend you To install KitKat again, but if you want to keep L and be able To read your storage go To terminal and type "su", press enter, type "restorecon -FR /data/media/0", press enter, wait and then reboot. To backup your data before you can go To recovery and use ADB pull.
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YOU ARE ****ING GENIUS! i typed the command in the terminal and now all is ok, and nothing was lost!
thank you very much!

mojna37 said:
Ok, thanks!
And how do I do adb pull in the recovery? (TWRP 2.7.1)
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Click the link in my signature and read the adb and fastboot thread.
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