I have removed all busybox apps, un installed it from every path, nothing in xbin, but in bin I have something called toybox, with lots of symlinks, how do I remove it, or is it by system?
EDIT: Just need to know if toybox is from the system, I found it in /system/bin, and lots of symlinks
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hi,
anyone who has galaxy nexus and haven't modified anything, can you please check and see if you have /system/xbin folder?
i installed some program called busybox by accident and i think it created /system/xbin folder.
so i uninstalled the app but the folder is still there..
so i'm wondering if it was there in the first place..
can i delete the whole folder?
right now i have 3 files in that folder : busybox, dexdump, su.
anyone?
dlxowhd said:
hi,
can i delete the whole folder?
right now i have 3 files in that folder : busybox, dexdump, su.
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I would not delete the xbin directory, it is a system directory included with the operating system.
"dexdump" is Dalvik disassembler (usefule for developers).
"su" is superuser, so if you delete that you will no longer have root.
"busybox" is a set of useful Linux utilities that are essential when you have root privileges.
So, like I said I would leave it, busybox was not the one who installed that directory.
hellos, in trying to get some ad block host files installed but there's no conventional way to write the files... can i use cwm or adb to push the host files?
i understand this isn't practical in terms of keeping the host files up to date but once the files are there 90-99% should be blocked for at least a few months which is good enough for me.
i had the same problem on my a510. after you mount it as rw, use chmod to give yourself write permissions the correct dir (/etc i think?), put the host file in place, then change the permissions back.
i did this with adb.
i cant remember what the permissions are suppose to be for /system and /etc after i messed with them, so i set them both to 755, and now AdFree works as advertised. where before i tinkered with permissions, it couldn't write the host file. i tired a couple adblock apps, and they all had the same write permission issue.
Rusty_Gunn said:
i had the same problem on my a510. after you mount it as rw, use chmod to give yourself write permissions the correct dir (/etc i think?), put the host file in place, then change the permissions back.
i did this with adb.
i cant remember what the permissions are suppose to be for /system and /etc after i messed with them, so i set them both to 755, and now AdFree works as advertised. where before i tinkered with permissions, it couldn't write the host file. i tired a couple adblock apps, and they all had the same write permission issue.
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I'm using A700 and I've already tried editing permissions, didn't work.
I am trying to get rid of lots of bloatware that I don't want in my new unlocked Motorola Atrix hd phone. I have rooted the phone and got terminal emulator and su working. When I read around on the internet, there are posts describing to remount the /system/app for read/write, delete the apk and odex files and the remount again for read only.
My understanding is that root should be able to "rm" those files in "su" mode if you can see them. So why do we have to remount them before deleting and after? What does it do? What happens if I simply "rm" the apk and odex files in /system/app without remounting before or after, I mean if I am able to "rm"?
Thank you.
I believe the logic is that for security reasons the system/app partition is mounted in read-only mode by default. With root privileges, you can mount it as read/write and make changes such as removing apk files. When you're done editing, you should remount the /system/app partition as read-only, restoring it to its default state. If you don't, any process could theoretically make changes to the files in that partition which could damage your OS or apps.
So we remount the partition because we cannot delete them otherwise. That means if we are able to delete them without remounting, it is OK to do so. Correct?
I believe so. But just to be sure, I would strongly advice to make a nandroid backup before you delete any files.
skipperx said:
I am trying to get rid of lots of bloatware that I don't want in my new unlocked Motorola Atrix hd phone. I have rooted the phone and got terminal emulator and su working. When I read around on the internet, there are posts describing to remount the /system/app for read/write, delete the apk and odex files and the remount again for read only.
My understanding is that root should be able to "rm" those files in "su" mode if you can see them. So why do we have to remount them before deleting and after? What does it do? What happens if I simply "rm" the apk and odex files in /system/app without remounting before or after, I mean if I am able to "rm"?
Thank you.
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Just use this app free from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumobile.manager.systemapp
No messing around with Terminal and any commands.
I found out. I could not delete even as su and got a msg that it was read only. That's why we need to remount.
Or you can use Titanium Backup. TB has option to backup system app&data and then remove.
It's safer...
You can also freeze apps with TB. If something goes wrong, you can unfreeze it or do factory reset.
Should I (could I) uninstall my bin one?
Don't mess with them.
It's correct then? I guess the bin is symlinked to xbin. Just don't remember seeing that before.
Hello, i read a lot on google about root but didn't find the answears that i'm looking for, hope some of you can explain.
I want to access the /system of my phone to change hosts file for example.
I know i need root access for that of course but that is my question.
What is neccessary for that, is placing the su binary in
/system/xbin/su
enough to access /system?
do i have then root access? or i need busybox, superuser.apk and some commands also?
thank you guys
if you have su already pushed into system partition means you got root access but if you dont have supersu installed you can't manage permissions that an application would request
so it is just the *su binary* necessery without chmod or something else? (theoretic)