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HTC Magic Ringtones & Alarms

I rooted my HTC Magic today and I loaded the RAv1.1.0 custom rom. Its a great rom, but the ringtones are a bit boring and i really liked the htc ones. So i extracted the files from a Hero ROM and pushed it to my phone.
If anyone wants these media files, i have packaged them toagther and made a small python script to install it automatically for you, you just need to run just run push.py file.
Let me know how it goes, it works great for me
Cheers
spatali
PS: Reboot the system after running the script. Otherwise they wont show up until next reboot
Tutorial & .bat (for windows) by TikiiTorch
For people who don't have python install in Windows
1) extract the above .zip file into your "android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\tools\" directory (wherever that might be)
2) get on your command line and cd to the "htc_media" directory you just created.
3) enter the following commands:
Code:
adb remount
adb push alarms /system/media/audio/alarms/
adb push ringtones /system/media/audio/rigntones/
adb reboot
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or use push.bat in the zip
DOWNLOAD
Ringtones & Alarms
thanks TikiiTorch

didn't download. requires login to download.

Rroet said:
didn't download. requires login to download.
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No it doesnt.. just click the request ticket link above the file... then do the same when it changes to download.

Thanks
Flashed the Drizzy TF3D rom and was seriously missing the stock notifications.
Thanks for tracking this down and sharing!

Any idea why now under ringtones it list every ring tone twice, yet there is only one copy of each file in the directory?
thanks
Okay never mind, I deleted them, rebooted, copied them back, rebooted and now only one is showing up. That was very strange.

So how does one go about installing these ringtones to the phone? A myTouch 3G specifically using Cyanogen's 4.0.1 ROM. I guess I'm a little confused as fas as running the python script itself....any help would be absolutely appreciated! Thanks everyone!

juanavila said:
So how does one go about installing these ringtones to the phone? A myTouch 3G specifically using Cyanogen's 4.0.1 ROM. I guess I'm a little confused as fas as running the python script itself....any help would be absolutely appreciated! Thanks everyone!
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Im guessing you are on windows without python installed, so you will want to:
1) extract the above .zip file into your "android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\tools\" directory (wherever that might be)
2) get on your command line and cd to the "htc_media" directory you just created.
3) enter the following commands:
Code:
adb remount
adb push alarms /system/media/audio/alarms/
adb push ringtones /system/media/audio/rigntones/
adb reboot
OR Download this zip (same as spatali's above but with my .bat file included) and double click the push.bat file thats in there.
Let me know...

@TikiiTorch this is great, i'll include your tut and .bat file in the first post
ps: I dint know push command works for entire folder ^^

i'm not an expert, but isn't the reboot commando:
Code:
adb shell reboot

unirox said:
i'm not an expert, but isn't the reboot commando:
Code:
adb shell reboot
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Whoops, you're right. Re-upping now with the correct code.. Thanks unirox!
... upped .. OPs link above includes correct commands lol
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@Spatali thank you, you did all the hard work!

Ringtones on sdcard
There is an easier way
Just create on your sdcard a "media\audio" folder and copy into it notifications, ringtones and alarms folder.
Disconnet your phone from the pc and new medias will be detected automatically

castorjunior said:
There is an easier way
Just create on your sdcard a "media\audio" folder and copy into it notifications, ringtones and alarms folder.
Disconnet your phone from the pc and new medias will be detected automatically
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But with this method, don't those files remain on the SDCard rather then becoming part of the system?

TikiiTorch said:
1) extract the above .zip file into your "android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\tools\" directory (wherever that might be)
2) get on your command line and cd to the "htc_media" directory you just created.
3) enter the following commands:
Code:
adb remount
adb push alarms /system/media/audio/alarms/
adb push ringtones /system/media/audio/rigntones/
adb reboot
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I think you mean "adb push ringtones /system/media/audio/ringtones/"
(ringtones)

Cyalintz said:
I think you mean "adb push ringtones /system/media/audio/ringtones/"
(ringtones)
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I fail... horribly...
yes, thanks, must have been a bad finger day

TikiiTorch said:
But with this method, don't those files remain on the SDCard rather then becoming part of the system?
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You're right, the files remains on the sdcard but it doesn't really matters as they are detected and used automatically, the same way as if they are part of the system

how do i get on my "htc_media" directory i just created

castorjunior said:
You're right, the files remains on the sdcard but it doesn't really matters as they are detected and used automatically, the same way as if they are part of the system
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if using SUFBS with root and mounting system RW, does it not write to system when copying file from sdcard folder to system/media/notifications?

lpasq said:
if using SUFBS with root and mounting system RW, does it not write to system when copying file from sdcard folder to system/media/notifications?
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Yes, it would indeed move them there if you used the above method.

??
Guys which is the easiest method now ? I'll update the first post accordingly

spatali said:
Guys which is the easiest method now ? I'll update the first post accordingly
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The easiest way, obviously would be to just put these files onto your SD and let the device recognize them.
If you want to properly replace these ringtones onto a ROM that does not have them, then what you have posted is the correct way.

help changing boot screen

Hey all, ive been trying to change my boot screen to the haters gonna hate one for a few days now but cant seem to get it to work at all, i have full root and tried to the fastboot method and recovery/adb method. no matter what it stays the same as the one i had originally, i never get errors when trying to push the files if someone can give me instructions for dummies haha or another method id really appreciate it sorry for being a noob at all this.

I had the same problem
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps

oh yeah sorry i should have included that i am on evios 1.2 beta 2 rom

I'm not familiar on where to place boot on this rom. Try all three locations I suggested. System customize resource. System media. Data local. Tell me if it works out.

I had this animation on EViO. I just pushed it from my desktop to system/media. Worked fine for me.

how do you push it from the desktop? i tried all 3 methods posted above and none worked. i had the file in the android sdk tools folder though...also whenever i try to do adb remount i get "remount failed:invalid argument" and adb root gives me "error:closed" i tried killing adb and restarting but no luck

This might be an obvious question, but do you have USB debugging enabled on your phone? Under Setting>Applications>Development
You arent going to be able to push anything if you can't get ADB running first.

yeah debugging has been enabled the whole time

ok have you been in recovery mode?
try typing
adb shell
su (make sure #comes up.)
exit (retype until you get back to the tools directory)
then do the push commands to system media, system customize resource, and data local.

Just use this program. Its as easy as it gets.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701295

dkdude36 said:
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps
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Putting sound in boot animation doesn't work with cm6. Just to clarify. No one has been able to get it to work unless you found something out to make it work please share as I have hates going to hate also and want to use haters everywhere mp3 and is perfect for it.
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yeah i have also been in recovery mode every time i tried to run a command prompt for adb...i tried that when i hit adb shell i get # but when i type su after the # it says "/sbin/sh: su: not found"

mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock4 on /system failed: Device or resource busy
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
thats what i get when in command prompt when i try to use the program you just posted above

Want a easier way? Use root explorer and copy and paste. Works for my every time. It's in the market. And root explore you can manually turn writeable on and off to move it into system. It's on the top right of screen in root explorer when you go into system folder.
Edit: the command you are tying to put in enables you to push and pull in the system folder. Root explore you can just click a button.
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Good idea
Root explorer works most of the time. If you have the cash, go ahead. You should make site out posted though.

/sbin/sh: reboot: not found
been trying to use adb and i keep on getting that....any of you know a fix?

[Q] Custom boot animation attempt gone wrong

I don't understand why this won't work. I'm running the stock 2.2 rom and I've tried all the correct directories like system/media or system/customize/resources and still the boot screen won't change. Somewhere along the way I lost my original boot screen too, so now all I have it the words "android" when it boots up.
Any ideas on how to make this work other than doing a restore?

Umm, you should have the PB zip file in the SD card, go to bootloader, have it update, and then it should work. o.o

AKHincredible said:
Umm, you should have the PB zip file in the SD card, go to bootloader, have it update, and then it should work. o.o
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Negative. Bootanimations are not flashed as a PB31IMG. You're confusing it with Splash1.
OP- what are you naming the zip? VZW_bootanimation.zip or bootanimation.zip? If you're stock 2.2, it should be the former and placed in system/customize/resource, IIRC.

Problem solved, flashed incredibly re-engineered rom. Used adb to push bootanimation.zip. It worked. Pushed android_audio.mp3, didn't work. Its probably needing to be named VZW_Droid.mp3 or something, but I don't really care for sound.
All else fails, flash a custom rom.
PS: A ideas why xda's search function hasn't worked for days? EPST doesn't work at all in this rom and I'm being forced to use qpst, which lacks some of the features I'm looking to edit.

The audio needs to be named boot_audio.mp3 for it to work correctly.

got bored and tried pushing a new boot audio. So far boot_audio.mp3 doesn't work, nor VZW_Droid.mp3. I'm still trying more names

rotaryboots said:
got bored and tried pushing a new boot audio. So far boot_audio.mp3 doesn't work, nor VZW_Droid.mp3. I'm still trying more names
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I use root explorer to do things like this, and it's very simple. Let me know if you make progress! I don't see how it's not working....
More than likely, its going to be named VZW_Droid on the inc.

regarding your first un-edited post, no I'm not adding .mp3 to the mp3's file name. I'm simply using adb push boot_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Just tried putting it in /system/media, no dice

rotaryboots said:
regarding your first un-edited post, no I'm not adding .mp3 to the mp3's file name. I'm simply using adb push boot_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Just tried putting it in /system/media, no dice
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If you want it that bad, spend the 4 bucks and get root explorer, and try that method. Couldn't hurt, and root exp is a great tool to have if you're rooted. That is my suggestion, sir

your kidding right? Or I could just use terminal and use commands like mv, chmod, rm, cd, ls, ls -l, etc. Been using linux commands since redhat came out. I could also just use adb shell, then cd /system/customize/resource, ls, mv boot_animation.mp3 VZW_Droid.mp3, then ls, cd /, umount /system, (command C), adb reboot, and then check to see if it works.
root explorer doesn't offer me anything I can't just do with adb or terminal on the phone.

rotaryboots said:
your kidding right? Or I could just use terminal and use commands like mv, chmod, rm, cd, ls, ls -l, etc. Been using linux commands since redhat came out. I could also just use adb shell, then cd /system/customize/resource, ls, mv boot_animation.mp3 VZW_Droid.mp3, then ls, cd /, umount /system, (command C), adb reboot, and then check to see if it works.
root explorer doesn't offer me anything I can't just do with adb or terminal on the phone.
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Just letting you know of the hands down simplest way to do it, bud

Bricked my phone after LCD Density Modder

Hi, First I'm not a clever man, nor do I know what I did to brick it but, I used
"LCD Density Modder" on the market and bricked my phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpi&hl=en
My phone is bricked, it won't load anything past "Google", I've taken out the battery and put it back in MULTIPLE times, I've tried to reboot into Recovery Mode and get a red Triangle with an error.
I'm on 4.1.1 GSM model, Rooted and Stock ROM.
Is there anyway to fix this issue without completely wiping out my phone? The last backup I did was a week ago by hand, with click and drag.
Thanks for any help, I would appreciate it.

That's not bricking. And the red android is the stock recovery. Your going to need to flash a recovery and flash another ROM.
Sent From My Toro+ via White Tapatalk

First off, your device is not bricked. Bricked means it is irreparable.
Second, all you have to do is get a hold of the stock build.prop file for your ROM build and replace what you currently have with it.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

efrant said:
First off, your device is not bricked. Bricked means it is irreparable.
Second, all you have to do is get a hold of the stock build.prop file for your ROM build and replace what you currently have with it.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Or this
Sent From My Toro+ via White Tapatalk

Oh, wow, thanks, and that will save my files?
Is there a step by step process? I...am not a clever man =| or if there's a keyword I can search. Thanks...
I'm asking because I can't transfer files via USB to my Galaxy Nexus, nor does my computer detect it.

Download CWM, rename it to cwm.img and place it in the same directory as your fastboot.exe file on your PC
Boot your device into the bootloader
Type: fastboot boot cwm.img
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
Type: adb pull /system/build.prop
Open it up in a text editor, change the value in the ro.sf.lcd_density to 320 and save it.
Type: adb push build.prop /system/
Type: adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Type: adb reboot

Ignore the post I just made,
I found it manually, and rebooted the phone but it's still black screen when I pushe d it to the phone.
"build.prop /system/" sounds wrong though...but I am still shocked I was able to pull it.

I hate double bumping but "efrant" instructions, I pushed it via your manner, which still boots into the black screen via build.prop /system" and it goes to black screen...and I tried pushing to "/system/build.prop" still doesn't work.
Any assistance?

smartedpanda said:
I hate double bumping but "efrant" instructions, I pushed it via your manner, which still boots into the black screen via build.prop /system" and it goes to black screen...and I tried pushing to "/system/build.prop" still doesn't work.
Any assistance?
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So what did you do exactly? Did you pull the file from your ROM first, modify it, and then push it back?

So, I'm not using ADB kit, I'm using Galaxy Nexus Tookit v 7.4. I pull it through there, and modify it from 241 to 320 by hand. Save the file. Push it back up using the toolkit, and it's not sticking to the ROM.
I push it up, reboot, and check it by re-pulling it making sure it stucks but I keep seeing the 241 density not the corrected 320.
Should, I be pushing to /system/build.prop or "build.prop /system/" ?
Both methods aren't sticking to /system/build.prop

smartedpanda said:
So, I'm not using ADB kit, I'm using Galaxy Nexus Tookit v 7.4. I pull it through there, and modify it from 241 to 320 by hand. Save the file. Push it back up using the toolkit, and it's not sticking to the ROM.
I push it up, reboot, and check it by re-pulling it making sure it stucks but I keep seeing the 241 density not the corrected 320.
Should, I be pushing to /system/build.prop or "build.prop /system/" ?
Both methods aren't sticking to /system/build.prop
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I don't provide support for toolkit use. Either do it the way I mentioned or ask in the toolkit thread for support if you want to use a toolkit.

It's to do with the permissions that get set on the file when you push it back to the device. it needs to be read only for the group and world
It baffled me for a good while. After pushing the file, do the following.
Code:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Hope that helps
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium

efrant said:
I don't provide support for toolkit use. Either do it the way I mentioned or ask in the toolkit thread for support if you want to use a toolkit.
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- Didn't know it was a hassle, my apologizes. I'll try to do it the old school method.
trevd said:
Its to do with the permissions that get set on the file when you push it back to the device. it needs to be read only for the group and world
It baffled me for a good while. After pushing the file, do the following.
Code:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Hope that helps
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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I had a feeling it was a permissions issue, but wasn't sure how to fix it.
I'll start pulling up the command prompts...wish me luck, thanks for all the help so far guys. I'll do two backup a week from now on, instead of weekly.

Finally got adb in cmd setup, I get a "failed to copy 'build.prop' to '/system/build.prop': Read-Only file system
I'll try it again, I'm pretty sure I forgot a step.

smartedpanda said:
Finally got adb in cmd setup, I get a "failed to copy 'build.prop' to '/system/build.prop': Read-Only file system
I'll try it again, I'm pretty sure I forgot a step.
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Probably missed this step:
efrant said:
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
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efrant said:
Probably missed this step:
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LOL, yeah I did, got that, did everything from scratch per your instructions, got up to the lovely adb reboot...and nothing, at all, black screen.
I re-pulled it, to make sure the DPI was changed to 320...and it was, and still black screen...=[ I'm really sad now.

smartedpanda said:
LOL, yeah I did, got that, did everything from scratch per your instructions, got up to the lovely adb reboot...and nothing, at all, black screen.
I re-pulled it, to make sure the DPI was changed to 320...and it was, and still black screen...=[ I'm really sad now.
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Did you change the permissions like trevd suggested?
While booted in CWM with /system mounted:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
If that still doesn't work after a reboot, I suggest you re-flash grab the system image for 4.1.1 from Google's site, extract the system.img, reboot your device into the bootloader, and type: fastboot flash system system.img. It won't wipe your device, but it should fix anything that was messed up. (It will also remove root and busybox and whatever else you have installed on the system partition.
)

FINALLY! SUCCESS! I forgot the permission like you mentioned, but it didn't work the first two times, guess I mistyped something, it worked the third time.
I honestly appreciate all the help, and all the inputs. My phone is at 100%, and I'm doing a backup as we speak now.

efrant said:
Download CWM, rename it to cwm.img and place it in the same directory as your fastboot.exe file on your PC
Boot your device into the bootloader
Type: fastboot boot cwm.img
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
Type: adb pull /system/build.prop
Open it up in a text editor, change the value in the ro.sf.lcd_density to 320 and save it.
Type: adb push build.prop /system/
Type: adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Type: adb reboot
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I know this thread is dead but I would like to say that this is the single most useful post I've seen in ages! I was looking around for nearly an hour and every post resulted in saying "reflash rom"...
Then I saw this, and worked!! My phone is her old self again
thumbs up!

[Q] Accidentally modified Framework

Like a dummy I tried to rename framework-res while using my nexus so I could replace it with an edited one (deb rooted, stock 4.4.4 rom, franco -17 kernel)
Now Im trying to ADB in to rename the original file so it will boot again.
I'm connected to the nexus in ADB but when I try to pull or rename the file I always get some sort of error.
I was able to adb push a framwork file I downloaded on my computer but it still wouldnt boot. Im assuming it was bad.
Any help is much appreciated!
thanks!

Rhatfield25 said:
Like a dummy I tried to rename framework-res while using my nexus so I could replace it with an edited one (deb rooted, stock 4.4.4 rom, franco -17 kernel)
Now Im trying to ADB in to rename the original file so it will boot again.
I'm connected to the nexus in ADB but when I try to pull or rename the file I always get some sort of error.
I was able to adb push a framwork file I downloaded on my computer but it still wouldnt boot. Im assuming it was bad.
Any help is much appreciated!
thanks!
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The reason it would not boot with the one you pushed to the device is probably because you have to set permissions correctly after the push. Framework res should probably be set to rw-r--r--
Run this after the push, or if the file is still on the phone, run it now.
Code:
adb shell
su
chmod 644 /system/framework/framework-res.apk

SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
The reason it would not boot with the one you pushed to the device is probably because you have to set permissions correctly after the push. Framework res should probably be set to rw-r--r--
Run this after the push, or if the file is still on the phone, run it now.
Code:
adb shell
su
chmod 644 /system/framework/framework-res.apk
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I will give it a shot the second I get home! Thank you so much for the help. So by default files pushed to the system do not have full read and write permissions?
Thanks again!

Rhatfield25 said:
I will give it a shot the second I get home! Thank you so much for the help. So by default files pushed to the system do not have full read and write permissions?
Thanks again!
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Yes, most of the time, pushed files will copy with bad permissions. Every time I've ever edited a system APK, I've had to subsequently set permissions before it would act correctly. Might not be 100% your issue, but it's definitely worth a shot.

SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
Yes, most of the time, pushed files will copy with bad permissions. Every time I've ever edited a system APK, I've had to subsequently set permissions before it would act correctly. Might not be 100% your issue, but it's definitely worth a shot.
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Well now Ive run into a new problem. When I SU to get root access it tells me that /sbin/sh isnt found.
I rooted the n7 with cf autoroot.
this would be a whole lot easier if twrp would mount the tablet so I could just upload and flash a zip to update it.

Well I was able to sideload the boot animation herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2591471 just to confirm that sideload was working. I rebooted and it worked but still will not get past the boot animation.
The framework file simply needs to be put in /system right? so the command would look like
abd sideload framework-res.apk /system
Is that right?

Rhatfield25 said:
Well now Ive run into a new problem. When I SU to get root access it tells me that /sbin/sh isnt found.
I rooted the n7 with cf autoroot.
this would be a whole lot easier if twrp would mount the tablet so I could just upload and flash a zip to update it.
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What about trying to use the terminal emulator in twrp?
Rhatfield25 said:
Well I was able to sideload the boot animation herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2591471 just to confirm that sideload was working. I rebooted and it worked but still will not get past the boot animation.
The framework file simply needs to be put in /system right? so the command would look like
abd sideload framework-res.apk /system
Is that right?
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You need to fix the framework file before you can boot. Try running the permission command without su first.