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No CP command in Dev Magic

I've been messing around with my Dev Magic and found a site for the G1 with some stuff to try:
http://gettinthru.blogspot.com/2009/04/mods-for-tmobile-g1-at-your-own-risk.html
In there, some of the things suggested use the linux command "cp" to copy files from/to the SD card. Problem is, I can't see it listed. Here is the listing of commands in /system/bin:
system_server
mediaserver
app_process
surfaceflinger
dalvikvm
dexopt
rild
wlan_loader
sdutil
service
netcfg
dumpsys
hcid
dd
cmp
df
date
cat
bugreport
chmod
chown
wpa_supplicant
wpa_cli
wipe
watchprops
vmstat
umount
top
vold
sync
stop
start
smd
sleep
setprop
setconsole
sendevent
schedtop
set_grp_id
route
rmmod
rmdir
renice
rm
reboot
radiooptions
ps
qemud
printenv
notify
netstat
mv
mount
mkdosfs
lsmod
mkdir
ls
log
ln
ioctl
kill
installd
iftop
insmod
ifconfig
id
hd
htclogkernel
getevent
getprop
flash_image
dvz
dmesg
dumpcrash
dhcpcd
debug_tool
toolbox
dumpstate
servicemanager
hciattach
logcat
sdptool
dbus-daemon
gzip
showlease
sh
schedtest
ping
logwrapper
iptables
linker
debuggerd
dosfsck
gdbserver
pm
svc
input
am
ime
monkey
akmd
As you can see, no cp. Any suggestions like a .apk of the command to push over to it?
Cheers

you can use dd to copy files aslong as you dont have busybox ( on the dream "all" the rooted images come with busybox )...
However you can use busybox from a non-rooted device by copying it to the folder "sqlite_stmt_journals" as it has both exec/write rights...

Seem to be sorted now...
I found that I can install Busybox like the G1 owners have as standard:
http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=228&catid=9
Folowed the guide and have cp and loads of stuff to play with now.
Cheers for your responses.

No problem... Wont take long before custom images are put together that include busybox as the magic now can also be rooted like the dream.

the "rootme" rom i provide in my rooting procedure has busybox installed, as well as apps2sd

the easiest way to replace the "cp" command is using "cat"
cat "sourcefile" > "targetfile"
if you need to copy more files, create a small script with a "for" loop.
Tom

[Q] Nabi XD root

So I have been working on rooting for the Nabi XD. Specifically to grab a dd of mmcblk0p1 and p2 so I can extract kernel and ramdisk to build a TWRP.
The 2 options I have tried are 1) Bin4ry root many Android, 2) Build TWRP based off the different Nabi2 kernel to gain access to /system
Bin4ry exploit fails with mount: Permission denied, when attempting to remount rw with busybox. The device is 4.1.1 so they must have patched it or cherry picked a patch. The build was this year.
The TWRP will boot but with a blank screen. Comparing the config.gz for kernel builds explains the blank screen. ADB is however is up and running, but the internal storage is not seen as a block device. cat proc/partitions is blank.
The third thing of interest is that there is a bin in xbin called su2. su2 -v yields an output of 3.3.
Code:
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ su2 -v
su2 -v
3.3
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ su2 -help
su2 -help
Usage: su [options] [--] [-] [LOGIN] [--] [args...]
Options:
-c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-, -l, --login pretend the shell to be a login shell
-m, -p,
--preserve-environment do not change environment variables
-s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default /system/bin/sh
-v, --version display version number and exit
-V display version code and exit,
this is used almost exclusively by Superuser.apk
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ ls -l su2
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 91728 2013-02-02 07:03 su2
How can I put this to use? Just running su2 over adb results in nothing, and through Term.apk as permission denied. I obviously need the associated Superuser.apk to grant access, but it seems hardcoded to look for su. I looked through the source to see if I could recompile to look for su2, but I don't know if it's as simple as that.
Any thoughts?

Strange they left the su binary there.
But first : show me a "ls -l su2", we need to see if it has correct permissions or if it is just there and cannot do anything
Second: just try "su2 -c /system/bin/sh", if you are lucky it starts a rootshell.
Regards

I thought it was weird too that is was left behind, and hopefully an easy way to even gain temp root. If I can just dd the boot partition it's smooth sailing.
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ ls -l su2
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 91728 2013-02-02 07:03 su2
No setuid bit set? Should be -rwsr-sr-x?
I tried the second thing via adb. It just echos the command and prompt stays $. Using something like Term.apk yields permission denied. Tried different quotes for passing -c. Any symlinking tricks?
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ su2 -c /system/bin/sh
su2 -c /system/bin/sh
1|[email protected]:/system/xbin $ su2 -c '/system/bin/sh'
su2 -c '/system/bin/sh'
1|[email protected]:/system/xbin $ su2 -c "/system/bin/sh"
su2 -c "/system/bin/sh"
1|[email protected]:/system/xbin $

BusyBox v1.21.1 Multi-Call Binary

-- Do not flash this if you do not need it.
-- If this BusyBox provides you with the needs that you seek for but your current BusyBox does not provide them to you then uninstall your current BusyBox and flash this zip.
( BusyBox Distro for Android ARM/MIPS/x86 )​
-- BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2013.
-- Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed
copyright notices.
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This isn't my work.​
Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]
or: busybox --list[-full]
or: busybox --install [-s] [DIR]
or: function [arguments]...
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Click to collapse
BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox will act like whatever it was invoked as.​
After seeing so much lacking from busybox in my own personal use and experience I grew tired and spent hours searching for a more fully loaded compiled BusyBox which in turn would be stable.
Here is a list of all the current applets available for this version of BusyBox from A-Z:
A:
Code:
acpid
add-shell
addgroup
adduser
adjtimex
ar
arp
arping
ash
awk
B:
Code:
base64
basename
bbconfig
beep
blkid
blockdev
bootchartd
brctl
bunzip2
bzcat
bzip2
C:
Code:
cal
cat
catv
chat
chattr
chgrp
chmod
chown
chpasswd
chpst
chroot
chrt
chvt
cksum
clear
cmp
comm
conspy
cp
cpio
crond
crontab
cryptpw
cttyhack
cut
D:
Code:
date
dc
dd
deallocvt
delgroup
deluser
depmod
devmem
df
dhcprelay
diff
dirname
dmesg
dnsd
dnsdomainname
dos2unix
dpkg
dpkg-deb
du
dumpkmap
dumpleases
E:
Code:
echo
ed
egrep
eject
env
envdir
envuidgid
ether-wake
expand
expr
F:
Code:
fakeidentd
false
fbset
fbsplash
fdflush
fdformat
fdisk
fgconsole
fgrep
find
findfs
flash_eraseall
flash_lock
flash_unlock
flashcp
flock
fold
free
freeramdisk
fsck
fsck.minix
fsync
ftpd
ftpget
ftpput
fuser
G:
Code:
getopt
getty
grep
groups
gunzip
gzip
H:
Code:
halt
hd
hdparm
head
hexdump
hostid
hostname
httpd
hush
hwclock
I:
Code:
id
ifconfig
ifdown
ifenslave
ifplugd
ifup
inetd
init
inotifyd
insmod
install
ionice
iostat
ip
ipaddr
ipcalc
ipcrm
ipcs
iplink
iproute
iprule
iptunnel
K:
Code:
kbd_mode
kill
killall
killall5
klogd
L:
Code:
less
linux32
linux64
linuxrc
ln
loadfont
loadkmap
logger
login
logname
logread
losetup
lpd
lpq
lpr
ls
lsattr
lsmod
lsof
lspci
lsusb
lzcat
lzma
lzop
lzopcat
M:
Code:
makedevs
makemime
man
md5sum
mdev
mesg
microcom
mkdir
mkdosfs
mke2fs
mkfifo
mkfs.ext2
mkfs.minix
mkfs.reiser
mkfs.vfat
mknod
mkpasswd
mkswap
mktemp
modinfo
modprobe
more
mount
mountpoint
mpstat
mt
mv
N:
Code:
nameif
nanddump
nandwrite
nbd-client
nc
netstat
nice
nmeter
nohup
nslookup
ntpd
O:
Code:
od
openvt
P:
Code:
passwd
patch
pgrep
pidof
ping
ping6
pipe_progress
pivot_root
pkill
pmap
popmaildir
poweroff
powertop
printenv
printf
ps
pscan
pstree
pwd
pwdx
R:
Code:
raidautorun
rdate
rdev
readlink
readprofile
realpath
reboot
reformime
remove-shell
renice
reset
resize
rev
rfkill
rm
rmdir
rmmod
route
rpm
rpm2cpio
rtcwake
run-parts
runsv
runsvdir
rx
S:
Code:
script
scriptreplay
sed
sendmail
seq
setarch
setconsole
setfont
setkeycodes
setlogcons
setserial
setsid
setuidgid
sha1sum
sha256sum
sha3sum
sha512sum
showkey
slattach
sleep
smemcap
softlimit
sort
split
start-stop-daemon
stat
strings
stty
su
sulogin
sum
sv
svlogd
swapoff
swapon
switch_root
sync
sysctl
syslogd
T:
Code:
tac
tail
tar
taskset
tcpsvd
tee
telnet
telnetd
test
tftp
tftpd
time
timeout
top
touch
tr
traceroute
traceroute6
true
tty
ttysize
tunctl
tune2fs
U:
Code:
ubiattach
ubidetach
ubimkvol
ubirmvol
ubirsvol
ubiupdatevol
udhcpc
udhcpc6
udhcpd
udpsvd
umount
uname
uncompress
unexpand
uniq
unix2dos
unlzma
unlzop
unxz
unzip
uptime
usleep
uudecode
uuencode
V:
Code:
vconfig
vi
vlock
volname
W:
Code:
watch
watchdog
wc
wget
which
whoami
whois
X:
Code:
xargs
xz
xzcat
Y:
Code:
yes
Z:
Code:
zcat
zcip
--- Happy Hunting!
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As you all can see, this version is freakin loaded with possibilities. The other ones I used don't even come close to comparing to this version.
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By the way, it comes with VI
Don't play with it unless you know how - could cause some serious damage lol.
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Play Store Busybox Installer
Hi,
We could possible install following app from play store and perform busybox installation with ease.
Goto google play store and search for "Busybox X", author Robert Nediyakalaparambil [root].
I have tried myself and it works, found sendmail command which missing from previous installer.
Cheers! :victory:

donchai said:
Hi,
We could possible install following app from play store and perform busybox installation with ease.
Goto google play store and search for "Busybox X", author Robert Nediyakalaparambil [root].
I have tried myself and it works, found sendmail command which missing from previous installer.
Cheers! :victory:
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Or we could just install this busybox, and a quick note:
For me, after flashing this busybox, su binary botched, Supersu couldn't reinstall it.
So I rigged up a flashable zip so that won't happen anymore, also bash is no longer symlinked to sh
https://db.tt/CvZQjsSC
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Bump this badass busybox
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Modding.MyMind said:
By the way, it comes with VI
Don't play with it unless you know how - could cause some serious damage lol.
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Click to collapse
I prefer nano so it doesn't really matter to me.

sbase for Android: tiny, full featured binaries and source code

These are a downstream distribution of the "suckless" binaries found at http://git.2f30.org/
They can be used as improved shell or in your application, root or otherwise.
A more reliable way to run native functionality than through Busybox.
For more information, access to source code and binaries, I suggest you head to http://fusion.github.io/sbase-for-android/
Here is a list of binaries currently available, source code included -- MIT license:
basename cal cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum cmp col cols comm cp cron
cut date dirname du echo env expand expr false find fold grep head kill
link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mktemp mv nice nl nohup paste
printenv printf pwd readlink renice rm rmdir sed seq setsid sha1sum
sha256sum sha512sum sleep sort split sponge strings sync tail tar tee
test time touch tr true tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uudecode uuencode
wc xargs yes
clear df dmesg halt id
lsusb mknod mkswap pagesize pidof respawn stat
sysctl truncate watch
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Click to collapse

[Tool][bin] Official Toybox for android

What is toybox?​
Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable. It's simple, small, fast, and reasonably standards-compliant.
Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. After a talk at the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference explaining this plan (outline, video), Google merged toybox into AOSP and began shipping toybox in Android Mashmallow.
Toybox aims to provide one quarter of a theoretical "minimal native development environment", which is the simplest Linux system capable of rebuilding itself from source code and then building Linux From Scratch and the Android Open Source Project under the result. In theory, this should only require four packages:
1) Set of posix-ish command line utilities
2) Compiler
3) C library
4) Kernel.
This provides a reproducible and auditable base system, which with the addition of a few conveniences (vi, top, shell command line history...) can provide a usable interactive experience rather than just a headless build server.
Why is toybox?​
The 2015 toybox talk starts with links to three previous talks on the history and motivation of the project: "Why Toybox", "Why Public Domain", and "Why did I do Aboriginal Linux (which led me here)?". If you're really bored, there's even a half-finished a history page.
The toybox maintainer's earlier minimal self-hosting system project, Aboriginal Linux, got its minimal native development environment down to seven packages in its 1.0 release (busybox, uClibc, gcc, binutils, make, bash, and linux) and built Linux From Scratch under the result. That project was the reason toybox's maintainer became busybox maintainer, having done so much work to extend busybox to replace all the gnu tools in a Linux From Scratch build that the previous maintainer handed over the project (to spend more time on buildroot).
Despite the maintainer's history with busybox, toybox is a fresh from-scratch implementation under an android-compatible license. Busybox predates Android, but has never shipped with Android due to the license. As long as we're starting over anyway, we can do a better job.
These days, toybox is replacing busybox in Aboriginal Linux one command at a time, and each toybox release is regression tested by building Aboriginal Linux with it, then building Linux From Scratch under the result with the new toybox commands. The list of commands remaining is tracked in the roadmap, and the replacing busybox in Aboriginal Linux is one of the main goals for toybox' 1.0 release.
Building LFS requres fewer commands than building AOSP, which has a lot more build prerequisites. In theory some of those can be built from source as external packages (we're clearly not including our own java implementation), but some early prerequisites may need to be added to bootstrap AOSP far enough to build them (such as a read-only version of "git": how does repo download the AOSP source otherwise?)
Source: http://www.landley.net/toybox/about.html

Downloads:
http://www.landley.net/toybox/bin/
GitHub:
https://github.com/landley/toybox

In case

Busybox vs toybox, who's the best?

Armv7 build?
Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk 2

Waiting armv7 build. Thanks

Very interesting project!!:good: I've been doing as much of my development that I can on Android, but this will be a way to keep it all localized! This is exactly what we need:victory:. Great development!!:good::highfive:
What's the time frame for a Armv7 build? (no rush, just anxious with anticipation)

Can anyone suggest me which one to download for moto x play

hello i have toybox on my marshmallow(low end device) , i want to how to make swapfile on the SD card(VRAM),(RAM runout fast) all apps for VRAM use busybox so they wont work
so ive tried ot use terminal shell with "swapon" but i guess i missing something, i searched all over the net didnt found to much on toybox
what command\string i need?
sorry if i am on the wrong thread and sorry for my bad English
PS
i can adjust my ZRAM but its zram its swapfile on the RAM also its limited to 0-200MB and i need more
thanks

I obtain this toybox from my Xperia m, cm 13 rom, from this path /sbin/toybox and this is for armv7 arch.
https://mega.nz/#!toURVICL!M7048C6RhYlhuZcoxXzvF5Zm7ALvZIql93asmysJas0

Any updates for this?
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ToyBox:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/tool-official-toybox-android-t3290884
BusyBox + ToyBox:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...zip-busybox-v1-26-2-flashable-binary-t3581875
download modif, BB 1.28.3, TB Armv7 build:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jM4CMB3sF_wRvUaLv5n8hVkLA65glbZj/view?usp=drivesdk
use Terminal Emulator:
typing: busybox (enter)
typing: toybox (enter)

@Paget96
toybox does not require a separate dev developed binary for android devices like busybox does?
like meefik, stericson, osm0sis ones....!
Edit:- answer is here https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/122

HemanthJabalpuri said:
@Paget96
toybox does not require a separate dev developed binary for android devices like busybox does?
like meefik, stericson, osm0sis ones....!
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Nope
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usage is sometimes different between toybox and busybox. since twrp has started replacing busybox with toybox some scripts won't work properly anymore. this mean sometimes it is necessary to port flashable zip (for example when awk is used). for those who want to test shell scripts on pc i share my little wrapper shell script for quick testing applets syntax

Code:
acpi arch ascii base64 basename blkid blockdev bunzip2 bzcat cal cat
catv chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot chrt chvt cksum clear cmp comm
count cp cpio crc32 cut date devmem df dirname dmesg dnsdomainname
dos2unix du echo egrep eject env expand factor fallocate false fgrep
file find flock fmt free freeramdisk fsfreeze fstype fsync ftpget
ftpput getconf grep groups gunzip halt head help hexedit hostname
hwclock i2cdetect i2cdump i2cget i2cset iconv id ifconfig inotifyd
insmod install ionice iorenice iotop kill killall killall5 link ln
logger login logname losetup ls lsattr lsmod lspci lsusb makedevs
mcookie md5sum microcom mix mkdir mkfifo mknod mkpasswd mkswap mktemp
modinfo mount mountpoint mv nbd-client nc netcat netstat nice nl nohup
nproc nsenter od oneit partprobe passwd paste patch pgrep pidof ping
ping6 pivot_root pkill pmap poweroff printenv printf prlimit ps pwd
pwdx readahead readlink realpath reboot renice reset rev rfkill rm
rmdir rmmod sed seq setfattr setsid sha1sum shred sleep sntp sort
split stat strings su swapoff swapon switch_root sync sysctl tac tail
tar taskset tee test time timeout top touch true truncate tty tunctl
ulimit umount uname uniq unix2dos unlink unshare uptime usleep uudecode
uuencode uuidgen vconfig vmstat w watch wc which who whoami xargs
xxd yes zcat
Do you plan to add dd and gzip?
Painfully they are missing.

posix [dd] Partially implemented
lsb <gzip> Not started yet
http://www.landley.net/toybox/status.html

Very usefult. It helps me.
Thank you very much

I have two Xiaomi phones with A11.
Both have /sytem/bin/toybox installed
Is it common that toybox is pre-installed by default?