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[KERNELFIX] damageless/Fresh 2.0b2 kernel w/ Apps2sd REV 3

I have tested the following with the frest 2.1 2.0b2 build and it does enable Apps2SD.
Ver 3 now should work on fresh fine, and damageless (sometimes I found enabling apps2sd on damageless causes lockups at boot, these can be fixed by doing WIPE for DATA for now) :/
MAKE NANDROID BACKUP
This has been tested on: Fresh 2.0b2
ADDED INSTRUCTIONS TO ENABLE ON DAMAGELESS
Also this has been edited so the first few pages refer to the old style before I had signed zips working. xD
Flash the Update Zip Attached VIA recovery menu. That means copy it to the root of your sdcard (aka /sdcard/).
I tested this after a fresh wipe with a blank ext2 partition and one vfat (normal). I did not even boot it first run but you should be able to flash this on an existing rom. Others can test on other roms but I am using this for now on fresh 2.1 2.0b2.
Afterwards run the following after booting
FOR VER 3 SIGNED
Code:
[B]
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/bin
ln -s /system/xbin/busybox /system/bin/sed
ls -l /system/bin/sed # make sure it exists
cd /
apps2sd on
# should say apps2sd enabled
reboot[/B]
FOR VER 1 SIGNED
Code:
[B]
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/bin
busybox --install /system/bin
ls -l sed # make sure it exists
cd /
chmod 755 /system/bin/apps2sd
chmod 755 /system/xbin/apps2sd
apps2sd on
# should say apps2sd enabled
reboot[/B]
FOR VER 3 SIGNED for DAMAGELES
Code:
[B]
adb remount
adb shell
cd /
apps2sd on
# should say apps2sd enabled
# below fixes up the scripts generated by the 'apps2sd on' line.. who ever wrote that had it put DOS CR/LF on the ends and thats whats breaking APPS2SD on damageless!
cd /system/etc/init.d
dos2unix 04apps2sd
dos2unix 05userinit
reboot[/B]
Enjoy

Will this work on the other 2.1 ROMs?

I have only tested on fresh 2.1 2.0B . I would think that logically this should work on the other fresh 2.1 2.0 and perhaps Damageless's. As for darchstar's try it I havent run that rom in a few days.

kkruse said:
I have only tested on fresh 2.1 2.0B . I would think that logically this should work on the other fresh 2.1 2.0 and perhaps Damageless's. As for darchstar's try it I havent run that rom in a few days.
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If someone could test this out and let me know if it works on my ROM then I would love to just use the same method to get it going with the author's permission (credit will be given).

i keep no space left on device when i do this command
cat /dev/zero > /dev/mtd/mtd2

networx2002 said:
i keep no space left on device when i do this command
cat /dev/zero > /dev/mtd/mtd2
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same for me
cat: write error: No space left of device

If I remember right it is a different file than what he posted...
I will have to check.

Maybe you can help me w/ this... When I adb shell in recovery I get "/#" instead of "#" & I can't "mount -a"...

networx2002 said:
i keep no space left on device when i do this command
cat /dev/zero > /dev/mtd/mtd2
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Another one with this issue.
Running Fresh 2.1 2.0b2 on a clean install.
Already have a partitioned SD card with apps installed (from fresh 1.1 rom)
Has anyone besides OP gotten this to work?

mrcharlesiv said:
Maybe you can help me w/ this... When I adb shell in recovery I get "/#" instead of "#" & I can't "mount -a"...
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/# would mean you are adb into recovery......I think

Aye, / # means you are in recovery mode on the phone is all.
Not sure why you aren't able to mount -a. I'm curious if anyone has gotten this method to work yet..?

So I went ahead and did every step despite the errors it gave just to see what happens... It's booting....
EDIT: Seems like it worked. My internal memory dropped by a/b 20 megs and I'm reinstalling everything. Idk.

mrcharlesiv said:
So I went ahead and did every step despite the errors it gave just to see what happens... It's booting....
EDIT: Seems like it worked. My internal memory dropped by a/b 20 megs and I'm reinstalling everything. Idk.
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K, I attempted to reboot and it hangs at the HTC screen, so I'm going to boot back into recovery and try to continue from the out of space error.

Last night I tried adding a2sd, e2fsck to /system/bin of Fresh and made a directory SD in /system
Then I added to the init.rc
on property:cm.filesystem.ready=1
class_start default
start a2sd
and
service a2sd /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/sh /system/bin/a2sd
disabled
oneshot
then mkbootimg and placed that boot.img into fresh's zip and resigned it.
It flashed ok. But still didn't take. I'm still learning, the stuff I did to iniit.rc I was just basically copying and pasting from other roms with a2sd init.rc's I was going to start a thread until I saw this one.

I was able to boot back into recovery and complete the setup past the out of space error (I still get it though) and reboot. It booted up, but apps are still installing to the internal memory, so it did not work.

mrcharlesiv said:
So I went ahead and did every step despite the errors it gave just to see what happens... It's booting....
EDIT: Seems like it worked. My internal memory dropped by a/b 20 megs and I'm reinstalling everything. Idk.
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Try this from CMD Prompt
Adb remount
Adb shell
# cd /data/app
#pwd
let us know what you get
if data/app it didnt work.

So I've reinstalled about 15 apps and my internal memory is staying at 73...
I'm still kinda worried about those errors I got.

mrcharlesiv said:
Maybe you can help me w/ this... When I adb shell in recovery I get "/#" instead of "#" & I can't "mount -a"...
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same here... anyone know where to go from here?

mrcharlesiv said:
So I've reinstalled about 15 apps and my internal memory is staying at 73...
I'm still kinda worried about those errors I got.
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did you try doing what swaze said?
swaze said:
Try this from CMD Prompt
Adb remount
Adb shell
# cd /data/app
#pwd
let us know what you get
if data/app it didnt work.
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kashb91 said:
did you try doing what swaze said?
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Way to rain on my parade! Yeah it didn't work. Idk why my memory dropped and stayed lower then?

[Q] Restoring stock recovery

Anyone know how I can restore to stock recovery? I rooted and flashed CWM recovery, but I need to restore to stock because I am having so many problems with random reboots that I see lots of people are also having problems with. I have downloaded the dump. If someone could tell what I need to do on would be extremely grateful.

Even on stock this thing has issues... Im gonna try and return it for a mytouch 4g instead....
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Ace42 said:
Even on stock this thing has issues... Im gonna try and return it for a mytouch 4g instead....
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That's my problem too, but I can't send it back until I get the stock recovery back. I installed CWM after I rooted.

see my next post for the 1 click

ehall2k7 said:
That's my problem too, but I can't send it back until I get the stock recovery back. I installed CWM after I rooted.
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Me too, which is why I regret it now....I want a phone hat I less buggy, this thing crashes all the time which sucks. Also the phone won't get much faster since it doesn't have enough space for the galaxy s lagfix, which applies to this since it has rfs and not ext4 like it needs..
@person above, if we brick it then they would replace it, right? You would just need to do some "acting" in the store and play dumb with the rep, if you know what a mean.
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I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know
updated to Here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
that is the link to SuperOneClick its a Root app that you can also use to unroot the device.. i Haven't Received my other SK4G yet to test but it should work its universal and works on multiple phones.
hopefully those that have root can use this method to unroot

blu9987 said:
I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know and i'll post a thread in the dev forum
edit: updated the zip due to a silly error
edit2: in the off chance that you get "mount: operation not premitted" that means it failed to mount /system as rw and wont remove superuser. If you let it continue it will still flash over bml8 though. You can manually remove superuser another way. My phone was only permitting me to mount by
Code:
adb shell
su
(look on phone press allow for superuser popup)
remount rw
then removing all the files using these commands
Code:
adb shell rm /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh (most likely not there this is old)
adb shell rm /system/bin/jk-su (same as above)
adb shell rm /etc/passwd (pretty sure this isnt here either)
adb shell rm /etc/group (same)
adb shell rm /system/bin/su
adb shell rm /system/xbin/su
adb shell rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
adb push playlogo /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell rm /etc/resolv.conf
adb shell rm /system/bin/remount
adb shell rm /system/bin/busybox
Not saying that you'll have to do that could just be my phone since im on ext4 and such.
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I'll try it out in the next few hours and let you know. I'm not worried if it bricks cuz I'm still in the 14 days to return it and have had nothing but problems with it random rebooting. I'll let you know. Thanks again.

ehall2k7 said:
I'll try it out in the next few hours and let you know. I'm not worried if it bricks cuz I'm still in the 14 days to return it and have had nothing but problems with it random rebooting. I'll let you know. Thanks again.
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Just to give a heads up a bricked device will stay at the splash screen or may not even turn on, so it will be hard for them to know.I wish this phone was better, since I wanted I ever since I heard it was being remade by sammy.
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blu9987 said:
I edited noobnl's one click uninstaller for epic4g with what i posted above.
Extreme warning: Untested! I do not know if it will work, use at your own risk. Possibility of bricking you!
This one click SHOULD
1. remove root and replace with original files
2. reflash stock bml8 over modified? one (I think CWM is bml8)
Theoretically it shouldnt brick you, but no guarantees.....
If anybody has the guts to test this let me know and i'll post a thread in the dev forum
edit: updated the zip due to a silly error
edit2: in the off chance that you get "mount: operation not premitted" that means it failed to mount /system as rw and wont remove superuser. If you let it continue it will still flash over bml8 though. You can manually remove superuser another way. My phone was only permitting me to mount by
Code:
adb shell
su
(look on phone press allow for superuser popup)
remount rw
then removing all the files using these commands
Code:
adb shell rm /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh (most likely not there this is old)
adb shell rm /system/bin/jk-su (same as above)
adb shell rm /etc/passwd (pretty sure this isnt here either)
adb shell rm /etc/group (same)
adb shell rm /system/bin/su
adb shell rm /system/xbin/su
adb shell rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
adb push playlogo /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/playlogo
adb shell rm /etc/resolv.conf
adb shell rm /system/bin/remount
adb shell rm /system/bin/busybox
Not saying that you'll have to do that could just be my phone since im on ext4 and such.
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I tried it and still no luck. Here is what I am seeing:
one click uninstaller based off of noobnl's
Press any key to continue . . .
copy and run the exploit (may take 2 minutes)
84 KB/s (0 bytes in 5392.000s)
2 KB/s (0 bytes in 88.000s)
[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C
[*] checking NPROC limit ...
[+] RLIMIT_NPROC={2650, 2650}
[*] Searching for adb ...
[+] Found adb as PID 2390
[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset!
[*]
[*] If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to
[*] [email protected] so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.
[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our work,
[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD!
[*]
[*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.
remove joeykrim root method
mount: Operation not permitted
rm failed for /system/bin/joeykrim-root.sh, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/jk-su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/passwd, Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/group, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/xbin/su, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/app/Superuser.apk, Read-only file system
failed to copy 'playlogo' to '/system/bin/playlogo': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/bin/playlogo: Read-only file system
rm failed for /etc/resolv.conf, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/remount, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/busybox, Read-only file system
copy recovery and flasher
384 KB/s (0 bytes in 313888.000s)
495 KB/s (0 bytes in 7864320.015s)
flashing recovery
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1
FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(498): start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
open device file: Permission denied
bmldevice_get_size: bmldevice_open failed!src: /sdcard/bml8.bin
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x0
part_size: 0x0
reboot: Operation not permitted
wait 60 second
cleanup
done
Press any key to continue . . .
Do you think it would be possible to flash the bml8.bin with ODIN? I haven't tried to go into download mode but it should be possible seeing how its almost identical to the vibrant and it's made by samsung.

I wonder if this has a bootloader like htc devices where you can flash system images which have the stock recovery, or if the system dump has it, then we can do.. flash recovery /sdcard/xxx.img from term or adb or fastboot, which ever one.
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you can try making your filesystem r/w before running it.. I dunno why its not mounting properly with adb...
you all have usb debugging enabled right?
Open up command prompt,
cd C:\path\to\uninstaller
adb shell
su
(check prompt on screen superuser)
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
then just click the run.bat while the first window is still open
Also before trying this try clearing data on superuser.apk on your phone
You can also try remounting to RW on your phone with like root explorer or terminal emulator... I honestly have no idea why adb keeps getting permission denied

blu9987 said:
you can try making your filesystem r/w before running it.. I dunno why its not mounting properly with adb...
you all have usb debugging enabled right?
Open up command prompt,
cd C:\path\to\uninstaller
adb shell
su
(check prompt on screen superuser)
remount rw
then just click the run.bat while the first window is still open
Also before trying this try clearing data on superuser.apk on your phone
You can also try remounting to RW on your phone with like root explorer or terminal emulator... I honestly have no idea why adb keeps getting permission denied
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Okay so the original recovery is located on a different part, which CWM doesnt write to, allowing the old one to be used again using this method, correct?Just want to better understand how it works.

Ace42 said:
Okay so the original recovery is located on a different part, which CWM doesnt write to, allowing the old one to be used again using this method, correct?Just want to better understand how it works.
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I'm pretty sure clockworkmod one click you guys used flashed CWM recovery to /dev/block/bml8 so this restores the original bml8 image
and heres a copy paste from the dump thread
Code:
bml4 1280 KB contains Sbl.bin (1310720 bytes) Secondary Boot Loader (loads the Linux kernel and passes the necessary arguments)
bml5 1280 KB contains Secondary Boot Loader (for recovery, ect)
bml8 7680 KB empty - on Epic 4G and Fascinate, contains recovery.bin
And since you all used the epic recovery flasher, i concluded that it probably flashed bml8 and that you just replace it with the stock bml8 ya?
Also the epic recovery flasher pushes recovery files into /system/bin which need to be removed and I realised that I didnt include that in the one click uninstaller *facepalm*

blu9987 said:
I'm pretty sure clockworkmod one click you guys used flashed CWM recovery to /dev/block/bml8 so this restores the original bml8 image
and heres a copy paste from the dump thread
Code:
bml4 1280 KB contains Sbl.bin (1310720 bytes) Secondary Boot Loader (loads the Linux kernel and passes the necessary arguments)
bml5 1280 KB contains Secondary Boot Loader (for recovery, ect)
bml8 7680 KB empty - on Epic 4G and Fascinate, contains recovery.bin
And since you all used the epic recovery flasher, i concluded that it probably flashed bml8 and that you just replace it with the stock bml8 ya?
Also the epic recovery flasher pushes recovery files into /system/bin which need to be removed and I realised that I didnt include that in the one click uninstaller *facepalm*
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Oh I see, well I'll let you know how it turns out then.
Edit: In system /bin I have
-recovery(ukn file type)
-recoveryfiles(folder)
-recoveryres(folder)
Also these "bml" files are in /SYS/BLOCK <--according to root explorer
While /DEV/Block only shows "vold" folder, nvm term shows that bml is there

Ace42 said:
Oh I see, well I'll let you know how it turns out then.
Edit: In system /bin I have
-recovery(ukn file type)
-recoveryfiles(folder)
-recoveryres(folder)
Also these "bml" files are in /SYS/BLOCK <--according to root explorer
While /DEV/Block only shows "vold" folder, nvm term shows that bml is there
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-recovery(ukn file type) comes with the stock system but the one click installer pushed over a modified one. Youd need to replace with the original...I'll add that into the uninstaller
-recoveryfiles(folder) is from the one click installer
-recoveryres(folder) is also from the one click installer
There is also
/system/xbin/remount
and
/system/xbin/busybox
and /system/bin/playlogo (which I already have in the uninstaller..the playlogo they use is what gives permanent root if i remember correctly)
It would be so much easier if somebody on 100% stock would gain temporary root using rageagainstthecage and root.sh and pull the images for a tar then we can put together a stock flash with factoryfs.rfs cache.fs intram.lfs recovery.bin boot.bin sbl.bin and modem.bin
If anyone is interested pm me and i'll give you the info you need on how to do it

blu9987 said:
-recovery(ukn file type) comes with the stock system but the one click installer pushed over a modified one. Youd need to replace with the original...I'll add that into the uninstaller
-recoveryfiles(folder) is from the one click installer
-recoveryres(folder) is also from the one click installer
There is also
/system/xbin/remount
and
/system/xbin/busybox
and /system/bin/playlogo (which I already have in the uninstaller..the playlogo they use is what gives permanent root if i remember correctly)
It would be so much easier if somebody on 100% stock would gain temporary root using rageagainstthecage and root.sh and pull the images for a tar then we can put together a stock flash with factoryfs.rfs cache.fs intram.lfs recovery.bin boot.bin sbl.bin and modem.bin
If anyone is interested pm me and i'll give you the info you need on how to do it
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Thr thing is..I'm exchanging mines today so I will try what you said and then do a factory erase afterwards. If it leaves some files there's not much I can do, can you fix he uninstaller to add the other files today, ill really appreciate it.
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Disregard this post i'll make something and put it up after portfolio is done in a few hours

I have attached a one click uninstaller for root, revised and will work. Just extract and run the run.bat
It should remove all root and reflash stock over clockworkmod!
If this works let me know and i'll post it in its own thread

Shameless triple post:
Anyone end up testing this? It would be highly beneficial if somebody could remove CWM and root, restore to stock, and follow some instructions to pull the necessary images to make an odin tar. I would do this myself but I don't have a sidekick. Or maybe once we get a working CWM make a pre-rooted odin flash

[Q] i have an error while i'm trying to update firmware

when i'm trying to update firmware im geting this:
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak
mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak
failed on '/data/local/tmp' - Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/ $
and because of that i can't go to the next step
what's wrong with it??

bobnur said:
when i'm trying to update firmware im geting this:
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak
mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak
failed on '/data/local/tmp' - [COLOR=Red]Permission denied[/COLOR]
255|[email protected]:/ $
and because of that i can't go to the next step
what's wrong with it??
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adb shell
su
then type your commands
Maybe give link to commands or post commands to be used.

tobdaryl said:
adb shell
su
then type your commands
Maybe give link to commands or post commands to be used.
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my tab is not rooted...
su just works with rooted tabs...

bobnur said:
my tab is not rooted...
su just works with rooted tabs...
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Updating can usually be done by unzipping update once and placing the new zip on sdcard or external sdcard, reboot and accept request to update - shows in notification area
Have you tried that method?
also
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system update.blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot

tobdaryl said:
Updating can usually be done by unzipping update once and placing the new zip on sdcard or external sdcard, reboot and accept request to update - shows in notification area
Have you tried that method?
also
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system update.blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
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Somehow it doesn't work...
Is it some other ways??

bobnur said:
Somehow it doesn't work...
Is it some other ways??
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I don't know of others without being rooted or flashing a recovery ( twrp ).
Maybe someone else has a better idea!

tobdaryl said:
I don't know of others without being rooted or flashing a recovery ( twrp ).
Maybe someone else has a better idea!
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My knowledge of linux/android is limited, but I agree with post #2. You need to have root (su) permissions in order to move that file, because I'm assuming its on the root of your tablet's internal memory. So, you could either use the "su" command, type in the appropriate password and THEN move the files, or use the (safer) sudo command, which will allow you to perform just one action. If you login as superuser (using su w/ password), you have unlimited access and could potentially really break stuff if you're not careful.
Another idea is that since you're moving it from the /data partition, and that partition is currently in use, it would deny you permission. Theoretically speaking, you could unmount the partition through CWM and then just access your tablet in fastboot mode (don't boot into Android, as it needs that /data partition).
Just my two cents, and I'm not responsible if your tablet breaks, or if the zombies eat it. You know, whichever comes first

Need help with adb :\

Hey everyone!
Recently I've had problems with using the command "adb remount". I thought it was a kernel problem but it happened with both Trinity and
Elementalx kernel. I have installed the universal naked drivers 0.73 for my nexus 5. I think it is a root problem since nothing pops up on my phone
when entering "adb root". I have tried to retype it several times and it doesn't say "adb is already running as root" or something like that like it used
to. It keeps repeating "restarting adbd as root" whenever I type that command. Sorry if I'm not clear :/
Thanks everyone!

I personally prefer to run adb via recovery. Have you tried this?

I have also failed to use remount in android.
The solution is as rootsu suggests.
Boot to recovery and do
Adb shell mount /system
Or
Adb shell mount /data
Which ever partition you want to be changing
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rootSU said:
I personally prefer to run adb via recovery. Have you tried this?
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It does work that way but am I stuck on using this method?

Lxve said:
It does work that way but am I stuck on using this method?
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I don't think so. It's just easier.
With SlimKat and elementalx*
I have adb and apps set as root in slimkat although I doubt this is a requirement in non-AOSP roms that do not have this option. Need USB debugging on and the screen unlocked
Code:
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb root
adbd is already running as root
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # exit
exit
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb push test.txt /system/
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # cd system
cd system
[email protected]:/system # ls
ls
addon.d
app
bin
build.prop
core
etc
fonts
framework
lib
lost+found
media
priv-app
[B][COLOR="Red"][B]test.txt[/B][/COLOR][/B]
tts
usr
vendor
xbin
[email protected]:/system #

Help on pushing files to device (ADB)

Hello guys, experiencing another problem now :silly:
Have search all around, couldn't find any valid answers so I decided to ask myself.
So I was just making a rom, which I have already installed. It's based on Cataclysm (personal use only - Till I ask for perm).
I have installed the rom, then I decided to theme some system files. And so I did. I theme the "Settings.apk" for now, and decided to push it to my device instead of installing the whole rom over again. Now mind you when I made roms and modified system apps, pushing these files to the device was straight forward. However on this Hammerhead, I've been running into some issues.
When pushing the file to my device like this
Code:
adb push Settings.apk system/priv-app
.
I get an error that says -
Code:
failed to copy "Settings.apk" to "system/priv-app/Settings.apk" : Read only file system.
So I then decided to try the following -
Code:
[x] adb root - Permission Denied
[x] adb remount - Permission Denied
So then I decided to use some shell commands to set the system as rw, I did the following.
Code:
[x] adb shell
[x] $ su - gave it permission
[x] $ mount -o rw,remount /system - It mounts it.
I then restarted cmd with root permission.
Code:
adb root"
- it restarted however, this time it stated.
Code:
Device not found.
I probably did the wrong thing above, so how exactly can I push files to /system?
SOLVED
Thanks to everyone that answered my question in detail.

The easiest way I know to push files to /system through adb is using a custom recovery . Try with it.

Why not use usb or AirDroid to transfer files?

gee2012 said:
Why not use usb or AirDroid to transfer files?
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Is it possible to push files to /sustem/priv-app with it?
varuntis1993 said:
The easiest way I know to push files to /system is using a custom recovery . Try with it.
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How would I do so? I've ever only used recovery to flash. And that was it, thanks if you can guide me through it?
Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;

krishneelg3 said:
Is it possible to push files to /sustem/priv-app with it?
How would I do so? I've ever only used recovery to flash. And that was it, thanks if you can guide me through it?
Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;
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Boot into recovery and connect the usb cable. Open a cmd prompt.
Code:
adb shell
mount /system
exit
adb push c:\users\krishneelg3\desktopmyfile /system/priv-app
You can also use the "mount system" option in recovery and skip the first 2 commands above.

krishneelg3 said:
How would I do so? I've ever only used recovery to flash. And that was it, thanks if you can guide me through it?
Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;
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Open recovery, mount system partition and connect it to pc and then normal procedure.
It will be running as adbd to no need to type adb root. Hope this helps

rootSU said:
Boot into recovery and connect the usb cable. Open a cmd prompt.
Code:
adb shell
mount /system
exit
adb push c:\users\krishneelg3\desktopmyfile /system/priv-app
You can also use the "mount system" option in recovery and skip the first 2 commands above.
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Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated.
Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;

You can still do it through Android, but it's more difficult because adb root doesn't always work (requires kernel) and you have to mount r/w which is just a pain. I always adb push in recovery.
However, here is an example of a successful attempt to adb push on my nexus 5.
Code:
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb root
adbd is already running as root
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # exit
exit
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb push [B][COLOR="Red"]test.txt[/COLOR][/B] /system/
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # cd system
cd system
[email protected]:/system # ls
ls
addon.d
app
bin
build.prop
core
etc
fonts
framework
lib
lost+found
media
priv-app
[B][COLOR="red"]test.txt[/COLOR][/B]
tts
usr
vendor
xbin
[email protected]:/system #

rootSU said:
You can still do it through Android, but it's more difficult because adb root doesn't always work (requires kernel) and you have to mount r/w which is just a pain. I always adb push in recovery.
However, here is an example of a successful attempt to adb push on my nexus 5.
Code:
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb root
adbd is already running as root
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
[email protected]:/ # exit
exit
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb push [B][COLOR="Red"]test.txt[/COLOR][/B] /system/
C:\Users\rootsu\Desktop\tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ # cd system
cd system
[email protected]:/system # ls
ls
addon.d
app
bin
build.prop
core
etc
fonts
framework
lib
lost+found
media
priv-app
[B][COLOR="red"]test.txt[/COLOR][/B]
tts
usr
vendor
xbin
[email protected]:/system #
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Thank you I will keep my eye on this and see if the process is similar. Thanks for the info.
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