Hi everyone,
I can cd to directories and list files with no problem on my device. It's rooted, ADB works, I can install .apks, etc...
However, I tried to install an .apk in /system/app, and there was not enough room. So, I used the adb install command to install, and specified it to install to /data/app (where there is room, according to df) and I get this error:
"can't find '/data/app' to install"
Again, I can cd to /data/app, and I can list files there -- the directory DOES exist on my device. But when I specify any directory (not just /data/app) to install to explicitly, I get the "can't find... to install" error.
I have never seen this before. What gives?
I'm not sure what command you're using but you don't need to specify a directory in which to install to. Just use 'adb install myapp.apk' and it will put it in /data/app. From the sounds of it ADB is trying to find another package to install called "/data/app" and failing to find it.
Not sure what happened during a ROM flashing, however, all in all, I can only boot my phone into Bootloader and recovery...nothing else, it says *error mounting /sdcard*So I can't restore or flash a previous backed up ROM. So I guess it would be called a soft brick. Any way of getting out of this? I tried to adb push, doesn't work. Tried the All in One kit, still nothing.
For anyone who can help me with my phone, I will compensate you for your time and knowledge.
If all else fails, I will just have to call and have the phone replaced.
Thanks in advance.
dont panic try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
I got as far as being able to mount my sdcard, now I can't push any files on to my phone?
put the rom in your adb folder, Use the command
adb push nameofrom.zip /sdcard
then in CWM it should appear
Check here for a full guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
C:\androidsdk\tools>adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip
cannot stat 'ROM.zip': No such file or directory
This is what it says when I try to push the ROM
and the rom is in the tools folder ?
you also naming it right ?
don't add the rom.zip after sdcard
i think that means you are pushing it to a rom.zip folder already on card--not 100% sure though
Thongvilay said:
C:\androidsdk\tools>adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip
cannot stat 'ROM.zip': No such file or directory
This is what it says when I try to push the ROM
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Could also be you're not typing the path to the file correctly.
Do this, on your PC navigate to the folder where you have the ROM.zip file (in your case the tools folder in androidsdk.
Hold down the SHIFT button while right clicking on the "tools" folder
A drop down menu will appear and chose "Open Command window here"
You should get a CMD window with the correct path.
Also for me it's always "platform-tools" folder that I put my file to be push in.
hey BBF nice to see still around--loving my 1s
sorry for off-topic guys
Friends,
Having issues with flashing a custom rom to just rooted HTC One X 2.20 (ATT). First Android phone for me, got it a week ago, and first run at any and all of these issues (just switched from iPhone, but still doing all of this using a Macbook Air). Here's the spread:
Unlock went fine, no issues.
Installed TWRP, DID NOT INSTALL SUPERUSER.
Managed to choke and wipe OS (along with caches, sdcard). Fastboot and adb work. I have full access to TWRP, however I cannot mount /sd to computer (Mac simply notes, when mounting, that the device is unreadable).
I managed to push both the rom I was hoping to install (aokp_evita_jb_build-4.zip), and gapps to sdcard with ADB, however neither file would show in TWRP's file manager (I placed them in the root dir of the phone). I attempted to run the ROM via fastboot to no avail. I did push the boot.img as directed.
As I did not install SuperUser when I was supposed to, I attempted to install the superuser.apk with ADB after the fact, with the resulting error stopping me in my tracks: /sbin/sh: pm: not found. The only resolution to this issue I could find did not seem to apply to my situation.
Are the lack of permissions granted by SuperUser the reason the rom and gapp .zip files do not appear in TWRP file manager? Can/should I continue to attempt installing the superuser.apk file? After digging through all of these godawful help requests (mine included), can/should I attempt to lock the bootloader and flash RUU? What am I missing that is painfully obvious to those with real experience in this mess?
emp1re07 said:
Friends,
Having issues with flashing a custom rom to just rooted HTC One X 2.20 (ATT). First Android phone for me, got it a week ago, and first run at any and all of these issues (just switched from iPhone, but still doing all of this using a Macbook Air). Here's the spread:
Unlock went fine, no issues.
Installed TWRP, DID NOT INSTALL SUPERUSER.
Managed to choke and wipe OS (along with caches, sdcard). Fastboot and adb work. I have full access to TWRP, however I cannot mount /sd to computer (Mac simply notes, when mounting, that the device is unreadable).
I managed to push both the rom I was hoping to install (aokp_evita_jb_build-4.zip), and gapps to sdcard with ADB, however neither file would show in TWRP's file manager (I placed them in the root dir of the phone). I attempted to run the ROM via fastboot to no avail. I did push the boot.img as directed.
As I did not install SuperUser when I was supposed to, I attempted to install the superuser.apk with ADB after the fact, with the resulting error stopping me in my tracks: /sbin/sh: pm: not found. The only resolution to this issue I could find did not seem to apply to my situation.
Are the lack of permissions granted by SuperUser the reason the rom and gapp .zip files do not appear in TWRP file manager? Can/should I continue to attempt installing the superuser.apk file? After digging through all of these godawful help requests (mine included), can/should I attempt to lock the bootloader and flash RUU? What am I missing that is painfully obvious to those with real experience in this mess?
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Check the settings in TWRP. You should have everything mounted as writeable. Root files may not show up otherwise.
iElvis said:
Check the settings in TWRP. You should have everything mounted as writeable. Root files may not show up otherwise.
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TWRP Settings does not appear to contain an options relating to this: Zip file sig. verification/Force MD5 check/Use rm -rf/ Skip MD5 generation/Enable MD5 verification/Ignore image size errors/Simulate actions for theme testing
Tried to use ADB sideload to load the ROM, didn't work.
I've continued searching through threads to find a situation similar to mine, no luck.
EDIT: Rebooted a couple of time, retried pushing gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip and the aokp rom mentioned above. They now appear under /sdcard
Tried to install both .zip files, and was met with a FAIL for the following reasons: E: Unable to mount '/sdcard' and E: Unable to mount storege
So I went to replace libaudioflinger.so in /system/lib with one I'd built myself, but unfortunately something obviously went wrong and when I rebooted the device, it just hangs on the loading screen.
The good thing is that the original file is in /sdcard named '_libaudioflinger.so_', and I can connect via adb there. If i run 'su' which gives me some sort of root access, but when I try 'mount -o remount rw /system', it shows up as "Operation not permitted". If I'm able to get that filesystem mounted, I just need to run "mv /sdcard/_libaudioflinger.so_ /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so", anybody any ideas how I might be able to recover this?
seaders said:
So I went to replace libaudioflinger.so in /system/lib with one I'd built myself, but unfortunately something obviously went wrong and when I rebooted the device, it just hangs on the loading screen.
The good thing is that the original file is in /sdcard named '_libaudioflinger.so_', and I can connect via adb there. If i run 'su' which gives me some sort of root access, but when I try 'mount -o remount rw /system', it shows up as "Operation not permitted". If I'm able to get that filesystem mounted, I just need to run "mv /sdcard/_libaudioflinger.so_ /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so", anybody any ideas how I might be able to recover this?
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Hopped on #android-root and they got me all sorted. Basically just had some sort of a bad root/su which wasn't giving me the correct access. All back up and running 100% now, though.
If it boots into the bootloader you can always flash the factory image
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You can't brick a device by swapping system files.
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OK, in the middle of writing up this topic, my situation has suddenly changed. (And changed again.)
The story begins: an old AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G, still on Froyo. Put it through a factory-reset and began to fiddle with how to install Clockwork Mod recovery. So there's the guide to upload a modified 3e recovery.
I run adblinux to push the modified recovery over the stock 3e at "system/bin/recovery" -- but "system/bin" was only in read-only mode and adblinux can't run "mount" and doesn't have permission to enter shell and run "su" (or enter shell as root) and File Manager HD (with Super User privledges) can't modify read-only folder "system/bin".
I managed to find a go around by pushing the modified-recovery into the sdcard's root and going through a terminal emulator on the phone to overwrite the file... but I rebooted the phone without running "chmod" on the newly overwritten file and the Infuse bricked so bad that even the battery in off-state refused to refresh.
I understand and accept what I did should be labelled as 'idiotic', but I did manage to wait at the Samsung logo until adblinux recognized the device and eventually restored the original recovery back to "system/bin" (I also found out adblinux didn't have permission to run chmod in the "system/bin" directory).
So... A few questions before I continue:
Why did (pushing the old recovery) work? ADB initially did not recognized the phone, but then the Infuse came up as "I997ae56e13f recovery" -- why was the name now 'recovery?'
And why does running "./adblinux reboot recovery" brings back the bootloop? (In fact, I cannot enter recovery mode, so something is still wrong -- the recovery file is not 755 and I can't chmod a read-only file-system either from adb or via super-user terminal. The temp-root method times out.)
OK, now I'm going home. I'll probably still try to re-install SuperUser. Maybe that will allow adblinux to run "su" in shell, but I'm not going to try anything too extreme.
Justin20 said:
OK, in the middle of writing up this topic, my situation has suddenly changed. (And changed again.)
The story begins: an old AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G, still on Froyo. Put it through a factory-reset and began to fiddle with how to install Clockwork Mod recovery. So there's the guide to upload a modified 3e recovery.
I run adblinux to push the modified recovery over the stock 3e at "system/bin/recovery" -- but "system/bin" was only in read-only mode and adblinux can't run "mount" and doesn't have permission to enter shell and run "su" (or enter shell as root) and File Manager HD (with Super User privledges) can't modify read-only folder "system/bin".
I managed to find a go around by pushing the modified-recovery into the sdcard's root and going through a terminal emulator on the phone to overwrite the file... but I rebooted the phone without running "chmod" on the newly overwritten file and the Infuse bricked so bad that even the battery in off-state refused to refresh.
I understand and accept what I did should be labelled as 'idiotic', but I did manage to wait at the Samsung logo until adblinux recognized the device and eventually restored the original recovery back to "system/bin" (I also found out adblinux didn't have permission to run chmod in the "system/bin" directory).
So... A few questions before I continue:
Why did (pushing the old recovery) work? ADB initially did not recognized the phone, but then the Infuse came up as "I997ae56e13f recovery" -- why was the name now 'recovery?'
And why does running "./adblinux reboot recovery" brings back the bootloop? (In fact, I cannot enter recovery mode, so something is still wrong -- the recovery file is not 755 and I can't chmod a read-only file-system either from adb or via super-user terminal. The temp-root method times out.)
OK, now I'm going home. I'll probably still try to re-install SuperUser. Maybe that will allow adblinux to run "su" in shell, but I'm not going to try anything too extreme.
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I am curious how adblinux differs from the linux compiled version of adb. Usually it's just called adb.
Anyway, if you are using a Linux OS, and you pulled the original recovery to your PC before overwriting it, it should maintain it's permissions. Likewise, a push would set the permissions like they were on the host PC as well. They say to chmod afterward, because if you are using a windows packaged/downloaded file, or pushing with a Windows PC, the permissions could be anything in the end (rarely what you really want).
As to why the device name changes, not sure. Device names change based on the ROM installed (not always serial number), so it's not out of the question that recovery could tack on something else.
With above, problem is, even with Linux, it doesn't always line up so permissions can be influenced in a push but you may not get what you were asking for. Try chmod 755 the recovery on the local side and adb push the recovery again, after making a backup of the recovery that is there and see if it continues to bootloop.
If all else fails, as long as you have download mode, you can always use ODIN (or Heimdall) to go back to stock (albeit newer Gingerbread). Option A gives you root only, option D, root + recovery (CWM).
Hope this helps.
Thanks for replying!
joel.maxuel said:
I am curious how adblinux differs from the linux compiled version of adb. Usually it's just called adb.
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I.. have no idea actually. I don't know how to configure Wine to properly emulate an environment for the Windows ADB and I can't get the correct phone-drivers for my WinXP system. (Kleis won't recognize the rooted phone, though if I leave the phone plugged in while installing Kleis, it will interrupt with a "Samsung Mobile Device connected" message.)
joel.maxuel said:
They say to chmod afterward, because if you are using a windows packaged/downloaded file, or pushing with a Windows PC, the permissions could be anything in the end (rarely what you really want).
With above, problem is, even with Linux, it doesn't always line up so permissions can be influenced in a push but you may not get what you were asking for. Try chmod 755 the recovery on the local side and adb push the recovery again, after making a backup of the recovery that is there and see if it continues to bootloop.
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Unfortunately I can't chmod and push at the same end.
-I tried changing the permissions of recovery file on my PC, but I wouldn't be able to push it onto the "system/bin" directory in the phone.
-I tried changing the permissions on the existing "/system/bin/recovery" file, but the phone says it's a read-only filesystem.
-I tried chmod from the phone in a different directory, but I can't move the file into the "system/bin" directory (cross-device link), delete the existing recovery file (read-only filesystem), and.. why don't I have the copy command?
joel.maxuel said:
If all else fails, as long as you have download mode, you can always use ODIN (or Heimdall) to go back to stock (albeit newer Gingerbread). Option A gives you root only, option D, root + recovery (CWM).
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I thought flashing with Odin/Heimdall required access to recovery (to wipe all user data and cache folders either before or after the flash).
Without a recovery mode to boot into, won't I be sunk if things go wrong?
Also, I seem to have a different Heimdall frontend, one that doesn't have slots for PDA. It might be because I'm using an newer/older (1.3.1) edition from Ubuntu 12.04 (the official downloads page only has it for 12.10~13.04 editions of my OS), so I'm probably going to have to command-line it.
Code:
heimdall --verbose flash --factoryfs factoryfs.rfs --cache cache.rfs --modem modem.bin --kernel zImage
Look about right? (No partition image table from the tarball found in that forum link?)
Justin20 said:
I.. have no idea actually. I don't know how to configure Wine to properly emulate an environment for the Windows ADB and I can't get the correct phone-drivers for my WinXP system. (Kleis won't recognize the rooted phone, though if I leave the phone plugged in while installing Kleis, it will interrupt with a "Samsung Mobile Device connected" message.)
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There is adb for Linux, I think adb is natively Linux anyway (the Windows version being the port). Don't have to worry about drivers if in Linux, due to the native support. If using Debian, Ubuntu (or any other Debian derivative), just need to run:
Code:
sudo apt-get install adb
But judging by immediately below, a different version of ADB probably won't change much.
Justin20 said:
Unfortunately I can't chmod and push at the same end.
-I tried changing the permissions of recovery file on my PC, but I wouldn't be able to push it onto the "system/bin" directory in the phone.
-I tried changing the permissions on the existing "/system/bin/recovery" file, but the phone says it's a read-only filesystem.
-I tried chmod from the phone in a different directory, but I can't move the file into the "system/bin" directory (cross-device link), delete the existing recovery file (read-only filesystem), and.. why don't I have the copy command?
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'cp' should exist, be interesting if it did not. A different ADB could change the outcome (#1), but as pointed out before, you probably won't get the permissions you wanted in the end. Outcomes 2 and 3 would end up being the same, as the device is mounted read only.
You may get lucky with this:
Code:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw system
If root has any influence with this ADB session, it will remount your /system so you can chmod your recovery file on the device end.
Justin20 said:
I thought flashing with Odin/Heimdall required access to recovery (to wipe all user data and cache folders either before or after the flash).
Without a recovery mode to boot into, won't I be sunk if things go wrong?
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My understanding is that it is completely separate, as the process will replace recovery to stock as well. But just in case, keep this one as a last resort.
I never used Heimdall, just ODIN through a WinXP Virtual Machine (only heard about Heimdall later), but when I used ODIN, I never had any problem with these generic drivers (adbsetup-1.3):
http://dottech.org/21534/how-to-ins...ows-computer-for-use-with-your-android-phone/
Wow, I wish I took better notes last week. I had to go elsewhere and come back to this project and whatever progress I had made, I think I'm starting over from scratch.
I still can't mount/remount the system folder from anywhere (via ADB under Win/XP and Linux/Ubuntu 12.04); running "su chmod" from the phone still gives a permission denied, changing from Superuser to SuperSU didn't do anything (both programs did find the SU binary to be outdated), and adding a Busybox APK did not add a 'copy' function to my terminal emulator (on the phone) so running an ADB shell would be limited in that regard as well.
I'm going to have to take the phone to a McDonald's and attach a Google account to it. (I would have liked to have done all this offline somehow.)
joel.maxuel said:
when I used ODIN, I never had any problem with these generic drivers (adbsetup-1.3):
http://dottech.org/21534/how-to-ins...ows-computer-for-use-with-your-android-phone/
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How did you manage to get your virtual OS to go "online?" When I tried installing the Google device drivers that came with adbsetup, a big red "X" popped up (Install failed).
I saw that there was a Java-based ODIN, but it's Java 8.0. Should I be using a later/earlier version of Odin/Heimdall? The latest versions don't support my OS (surprising since they support the latest, 14.04, and 12.10 but not anything between or 12.04, the other big release). The existing XDA threads all use Odin/Heimdall 1.1 -- the 1.3 version I have does NOT look like that (and does not have the "PDA" options in the GUI).
Justin20 said:
How did you manage to get your virtual OS to go "online?" When I tried installing the Google device drivers that came with adbsetup, a big red "X" popped up (Install failed).
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Did the adbsetup binary change? I remember a DOS install process, so there shouldn't have even been a setup wizard (graphical anyway).
Anyway, to get the virtual OS to recognize, need to right click on the devices icon on the bottom status bar (at least in VirtualBox), looks like a USB drive, and select Android, or whatever pops up.
Hope this helps. Also, did the shell remount mentioned earlier have any effect (using adblinux)?
Sent from my Asus MeMO Pad 8"
joel.maxuel said:
Did the adbsetup binary change? I remember a DOS install process, so there shouldn't have even been a setup wizard (graphical anyway).
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The DOS prompt process begins a driver install. From there, the Setup Wizard popped up.
joel.maxuel said:
Anyway, to get the virtual OS to recognize, need to right click on the devices icon on the bottom status bar (at least in VirtualBox), looks like a USB drive, and select Android, or whatever pops up.
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Another bad sign: nothing pops up.
As for using mount/remount, the option "remount" was not found. (It would scroll down the whole list of options and switches.)
I think it's time for me to give up the ghost on fixing this issue. I still don't know how I managed to foul it up in the first place because I tried repeating it (entering the command-prompt from the phone, entering superuser, and moving files into "/system/bin") to no avail. So there is a modified 3e recovery file in "/system/bin" without the correct permissions that's preventing the phone from entering recovery mode (and slowing up the boot-up process and "battery recharge" icon when powered off), but other than that the device works, so that's something.
I still would like to try flashing the entire thing with ODIN/Heimdall if I could get either to work. (I ran the latest Heimdall, 1.4.0 32-bit, under WinXP only to find it was not a valid binary. The various Open Disk-Imager in a Nutshell (ODIN) apps out there, but nothing looks like those used on these forums (and did not include a PDA option).
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The DOS prompt process begins a driver install. From there, the Setup Wizard popped up.
I still would like to try flashing the entire thing with ODIN/Heimdall if I could get either to work. (I ran the latest Heimdall, 1.4.0 32-bit, under WinXP only to find it was not a valid binary. The various Open Disk-Imager in a Nutshell (ODIN) apps out there, but nothing looks like those used on these forums (and did not include a PDA option).
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The correct version of ODIN will be packaged with whatever image you choose. Just find a windows machine lying around, install the adbsetup drivers, and flash away. Hope this helps.