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Busybox?

Root from Paul didn't come with one, and seeing as we can't get full system access (from what i understand) im curious as to if we can actually get busybox?
The 'busybox on rooted desire' on MoDaCo didn't help at all.
I've installed bb via Titanium, yet Metamorph didn't recognise it anywhere.
Cheers in advance for help

It comes with A2SD - but you can push the busybox binary to /system while the phone is in recovery.
If you pushed bb yourself, use its absolute path (like /data/somewhere/busybox) or put its path in your $PATH to get it going. I personally, without root, put busybox in the free-to-write-to /sqlite* directory (I put * because I don't recall the full name) and it runs fine from there.

do you have a link to apps2sd & does it come with a guide as to how to install it so noobs can understand?

A2SD was taken down "temporarily".
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...ide-now-with-new-improved-easier-root-method/
Sorry

Although this still seems to work:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307398/apps2sd-miniguide/

LeszekSwirski said:
Although this still seems to work:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307398/apps2sd-miniguide/
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Bare in mind I think it was taken down as (for some) it 'removed root' and also got some phones stuck in a reboot loop. Bad times.

GANJDROID said:
Root from Paul didn't come with one, and seeing as we can't get full system access (from what i understand) im curious as to if we can actually get busybox?
The 'busybox on rooted desire' on MoDaCo didn't help at all.
I've installed bb via Titanium, yet Metamorph didn't recognise it anywhere.
Cheers in advance for help
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You didn't read to the end of that thread
* install Titanium
* run Titanium
* click the "problems" button and install Busybox
* boot into recovery
* adb shell from my Mac
* mount /system
* cp /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files/busybox /system/bin
* cd /system/bin
* ./busybox --install -s .
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By what I've read, though, Metamorph dies on its arse because of the lack of system rw access.

Loccy said:
You didn't read to the end of that thread
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Aye, I read that, but no Mac, and I can't get to the folder where Titanium saved bb to (assuming that because it's not on the sd card in any data or the titanium folders) the phone system(?)

jayshah said:
Bare in mind I think it was taken down as (for some) it 'removed root' and also got some phones stuck in a reboot loop. Bad times.
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Had heard about that, but I think he may be working for a solution?
From what I can remember from the rooting guide he said it was 'currently unavailable'

GANJDROID said:
Had heard about that, but I think he may be working for a solution?
From what I can remember from the rooting guide he said it was 'currently unavailable'
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Yeah, hence it's hopefully only temporary.

GANJDROID said:
Aye, I read that, but no Mac, and I can't get to the folder where Titanium saved bb to (assuming that because it's not on the sd card in any data or the titanium folders) the phone system(?)
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Install Titanium. Then get your phone into recovery using Paul's Linux ISO. In the Linux console (i.e. where you'll have typed ./step2.sh to get the recovery up), you should be able to do adb shell from there. Then follow my instructions from mount /system onwards.

I didn't follow Pauls guide as I only have access to Windows, so I used the lanarchy guide, which I think might have been taken from The Unlockr.
Maybe fill me in w/ bb according to that?

i am a bit ashamed to ask this but:
....
* boot into recovery
* adb shell from my Mac
* mount /system
....
boot into recovery -> ok
adb shell from mac.. ok? hm, i have macos as a seperate installation and i used it for rooting, so there is a pushfiles folder with recovery-mac.sh.. sudo ./recovery-mac.sh?
How do i mount /system then? Don't know where to navigate to find access to the sdcard . @volumes there are only my harddrive partitions, can't see the sdcard?
No idea, sorry, first time (ok, second time after root) i get in touch with adb, mac, sudo wtf?

Ok, all you need is some kind of environment where adb actually works.
Get your phone into recovery (the green menu screen) using whatever means or method you have.
Then, if you have Windows, you'll need the Android SDK. Ditto on a Mac. Anything with adb so that you can plug your device into your computer, do adb shell, and get a shell window up. Then
mount /system
onwards.
The key is that your phone needs to be in recovery before you do adb shell, otherwise you have no r/w access to /system.

ah! ok, perfect. The android sdk is on my windows computer, the push-files on my mac, that's the problem
thanks for your help!
the recovery is not the problem, but mount /system did nothing because there is no android sdk on my mac.. got it now i think.

mount system -> ok
copy busybok -> ok
when i try to install i get dozens of lines with "no such file or directory".
reboot -> phone not booting, hangs when displaying the HTC Logo omg
flash rom again?

same problem as watercool. Loads of "No such file or directory" messages.
But, I rebooted and it went through as normal, booted the OS fine.

hm, dont want to wipe again, pff..
flashed AhmgskMod mod again without wiping, everything ok now

watercool said:
mount system -> ok
copy busybok -> ok
when i try to install i get dozens of lines with "no such file or directory".
reboot -> phone not booting, hangs when displaying the HTC Logo omg
flash rom again?
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Sounds like you missed the . off of the end of the
./busybox --install -s .
command.
You need that . if you're following my instructions.

ok, i did it with and without the "."
With the dot there was no response (so probably it installed correctly?).
Anyway it didn't boot afterwards. i will try it again
edit: ok, tried again and my phone stucks @ htc screen
i think busybox is installed but for some reason it doesn't boot (using the ahmgsk mod)
anyway, thanks for your kind help!

Remove files from system

I'm trying to remove some preinstalled apps from /system/app folder. My phone is rooted.
When I'm trying this over adb it says that I only have Read permissions. What am I doing wrong?

Put the phone into recovery mode then do the adb commands.
You only have read access while booted. R/W access while in recovery.

Mh I tried this but I couldn't even open the shell, said something.sh is missing.
You mean the normal recovery and not Clockworkmod or something, right?

You have to put it in the custom recovery. Clockworkmod or whichever one you use.

Ah okay, thank you, I will try that.
Though I need to use the normal recovery.

I tried it with clockwork now. It works but when I do "cd system" and do "ls" it's empty...so I can't see any app-folder?!
Edit: Oh I forgot - do I need to mount system first using the partitions menu?!

Eggcake said:
I tried it with clockwork now. It works but when I do "cd system" and do "ls" it's empty...so I can't see any app-folder?!
Edit: Oh I forgot - do I need to mount system first using the partitions menu?!
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Code:
mount /system
At the adb shell.

Oy, thanks now I finally got it
Remove worked, pull didn't (or it took >5min for a simple apk file and I aborted it too early).

Flash_Image command not found

Hello All,
I just updated my ROM to CR_Mod_2.13.531.1_OTA's
And then when I went to reboot into recovery I got the red Triangle exclamation, and thus decided to reflash my recovery image by using the terminal, and even in adb, I get "Flash_image" command not found, and I've tried googling (So please spare me the rude comments about learning to use it) and come with little to luck with finding a method of what went wrong with this. If anyone can shed some light on this, and what I can do to fix it so I can get into my recovery again would be a great help.
-Thanks

soulysephiroth said:
Hello All,
I just updated my ROM to CR_Mod_2.13.531.1_OTA's
And then when I went to reboot into recovery I got the red Triangle exclamation, and thus decided to reflash my recovery image by using the terminal, and even in adb, I get "Flash_image" command not found, and I've tried googling (So please spare me the rude comments about learning to use it) and come with little to luck with finding a method of what went wrong with this. If anyone can shed some light on this, and what I can do to fix it so I can get into my recovery again would be a great help.
-Thanks
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same here friend when i find teh answer ill be sure to let u know

so when in terminal to try place Flash_image into /system/bin:
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin
I get:
cp: can't create ' /system/bin/flash_image ' cannot allocate memory

When you get to the triangle with the Exclamation point
All you have to do is stay at that screen and click
VOLUME UP and POWER
then it will show you the options.

soulysephiroth said:
so when in terminal to try place Flash_image into /system/bin:
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin
I get:
cp: can't create ' /system/bin/flash_image ' cannot allocate memory
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You have to have s-off and /system mounted as r/w to do that. Otherwise you have to push it to /system/bin while in clockwork recovery.
@ xologist, I think they're looking to flash the clockwork recovery image, not the update.zip and stock recovery old way.
To mount system r/w within android tyoe mount -o rw,remount /system and try the copy again.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

Well thats problem, I can't even access my recovey, thats why I'm trying to flash a new image. everytime I try I always get
"Error writing recovery: No space left on device"

soulysephiroth said:
Well thats problem, I can't even access my recovey, thats why I'm trying to flash a new image. everytime I try I always get
"Error writing recovery: No space left on device"
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That means you don't have s-off. There's a stickied thread in the development section, an alpharev live linux CD that you can use to patch your phone's bootloader to allow you to write to protected partitions like /system, recovery, etc.

[Q] Copying files to /system | S-ON | HTC One X

I have rooted my HTC One X and want to copy files in /system/xbin folder. My phone shows S-ON. And Eclipse is not able to copy files to /system and adb push from shell is also not working. Is there a way I can copy files to /system/xbin?
I am running stock ROM.
My phone is NOT associated with any vendor.

adb remount
adb push filename /system/xbin
Sent from my HTC One X

You can also use es file explorer and go into the options tick up to root and the request root and then tick mount as r/w.
Then just move files as you will.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA Premium HD app

realunited123 said:
adb remount
adb push filename /system/xbin
Sent from my HTC One X
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The above way does not seem to work. Whenever I use adb remount(or adb mount) it says operation not permitted and I am trying to this from root privileges
My OS is :- Ubuntu 12.04
ADB(platform-tools) -> Rev 20
If you need anything more please ask me .

Additional Question
treebill said:
You can also use es file explorer and go into the options tick up to root and the request root and then tick mount as r/w.
Then just move files as you will.
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First of all thanx it worked. I think I will have to live with this way A ADB/Eclipse based would have been cool
Will the files moved from SDcard to phones root in anyway lose and privileges(like losing executable)? If yes, please suggest a way to restore it.

KillerTheLord said:
The above way does not seem to work. Whenever I use adb remount(or adb mount) it says operation not permitted and I am trying to this from root privileges
My OS is :- Ubuntu 12.04
ADB(platform-tools) -> Rev 20
If you need anything more please ask me .
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When doing adb shell su do you get any toast notification on your phone? Or does it just say denied ?
Strange it works perfectly here Also are you using SuperSU or any other superuser app?
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KillerTheLord said:
First of all thanx it worked. I think I will have to live with this way A ADB/Eclipse based would have been cool
Will the files moved from SDcard to phones root in anyway lose and privileges(like losing executable)? If yes, please suggest a way to restore it.
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Yes you need to change the permissions after moving from sdcard. Use Root Explorer(Long press on the file--> Change permissions)

realunited123 said:
When doing adb shell su do you get any toast notification on your phone? Or does it just say denied ?
Strange it works perfectly here Also are you using SuperSU or any other superuser app?
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Yes you need to change the permissions after moving from sdcard. Use Root Explorer(Long press on the file--> Change permissions)
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I am using SuperSU as Super User App. And I think I am doing something wrong here. You mentioned about adb shell su. I think I might be wrong here. Here is how I tried to execute the command.
[email protected]: <path to platformtools> ./adb remount
remount failed: Operation not permitted
do I have to raise ADB shell to SU level. If yes, how?

KillerTheLord said:
I am using SuperSU as Super User App. And I think I am doing something wrong here. You mentioned about adb shell su. I think I might be wrong here. Here is how I tried to execute the command.
[email protected]: <path to platformtools> ./adb remount
remount failed: Operation not permitted
do I have to raise ADB shell to SU level. If yes, how?
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Strange. Are you using the stock kernel ? If that is the case then it does not have insecure adbd (ro.secure=0) so remount will not work. Try a custom kernel.
Does adb has SU permissions from recovery ? Try booting into recovery, mounting the system partitions and try to push something from adb. Check the SuperSU app to update binary but that should not be a problem.

realunited123 said:
Strange. Are you using the stock kernel ? If that is the case then it does not have insecure adbd (ro.secure=0) so remount will not work. Try a custom kernel.
Does adb has SU permissions from recovery ? Try booting into recovery, mounting the system partitions and try to push something from adb. Check the SuperSU app to update binary but that should not be a problem.
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Yes I have rooted the phone but the ROM is stock(I was thinking to put in CM9 Alpha).
About the second thing. I know how to boot my phone into recovery(Vol Down + Power -> From Screen -> Recovery(ClockwerkMod))
But about the rest I don't know.
Sorry about my annoying questions this is my first time I am dealing with rooting and stuff.

KillerTheLord said:
Yes I have rooted the phone but the ROM is stock(I was thinking to put in CM9 Alpha).
About the second thing. I know how to boot my phone into recovery(Vol Down + Power -> From Screen -> Recovery(ClockwerkMod))
But about the rest I don't know.
Sorry about my annoying questions this is my first time I am dealing with rooting and stuff.
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I guess you are using stock kernel then. Try franco's or faux's kernel.
adb remount wont work from os on stock boot.img.
After rebooting into recovery go to mounts and storage-->mount /system and then push something from adb. See if that works.

KillerTheLord said:
Yes I have rooted the phone but the ROM is stock(I was thinking to put in CM9 Alpha).
About the second thing. I know how to boot my phone into recovery(Vol Down + Power -> From Screen -> Recovery(ClockwerkMod))
But about the rest I don't know.
Sorry about my annoying questions this is my first time I am dealing with rooting and stuff.
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I think this app does exactly what you want :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687590

realunited123 said:
I guess you are using stock kernel then. Try franco's or faux's kernel.
adb remount wont work from os on stock boot.img.
After rebooting into recovery go to mounts and storage-->mount /system and then push something from adb. See if that works.
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Well this didn't work either. I hope to switch to some other ROM in future(I hate HTC Sense ). But as of now Root Explorer did the job. I mounted my sdcard and copied files to it and used Root Explorer to move files to /system and then changed permissions.
Thanks for help it really made it easy .

make sure your path devs are oke for su.
in terminal run:
sudo su
adb kill-server
adb devices
you should see your HOX HTxxxxx nr.
and here you should be able to connect eclipse to HOX by adb.

NikMel said:
make sure your path devs are oke for su.
in terminal run:
sudo su
adb kill-server
adb devices
you should see your HOX HTxxxxx nr.
and here you should be able to connect eclipse to HOX by adb.
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The problem was not accessing the device using ADB. The problem was I was not able to write to root system. ES Explorer and Root Explorer both did the job for me. I will be putting the final instructions for the process(detailed ones) soon.

Instructions onw how to copy files to root file system on HTC One X with S-ON
1) Unlock and Root your phone. Follow instructions below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeq8Jx28cs
and then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lMHUgxwww
2) Install ES Explorer(File Manager) Link :- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en
3) Connect device to computer(even if it is not recognized by ADB/Computer)
4) In Phone select Disk drive option. Now the phone's storage will be mounted on your computer as removable device.
5) Copy the files you want to send to phone's root system to any folder here.
6) Change phone's mode to charge only and wait for 2-3 secs(let phone remount sdcard)
7) Open ES Explorer and open menu(those 3 dots at bottom and select Settings)
8) Tick the following options
Up to Root
Root Explorer
Mount File System
9) A dialog box for permission will open Grant it.
10) Now copy files from /sdcard/<Folder where u put files> to where ever you want o copy files to.
11) Long press on file to change permissions and stuff.
Post here if you are stuck someone will surely help you.

Messed up build.prop, phone won't boot, can I push build.prop via adb?

My phone is on 4.1.2 still, and I had edited the build.prop to not update to 4.2 (after hearing all the problems). Now that 4.2.2. is out i decided to update, I tried restoring the build.prop file that i had as a backup of 4.1.2. I guess I must've changed some text without realizing.
Now my phone is stuck, it gives me the Google Logo with the unlocked sign, and then it disappears...and where there should be a boot animation...black. Nothing. Stays like that.
Any way I can push the build.prop via the computer using abd or something?

Not sure if adb will push to system, since i had an issue pulling from system.
Are you rooted?
You could try booting to recovery to enable adb, then remount system as r/w
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system
cd /system/ NOT SURE IF THIS IS REQUIRED, I'D TRY IT FIRST WITHOUT THIS LINE TO SEE
chmod 644 build.prop
chown root.root build.prop
exit
I've never had to do that, but i belive my linux syntax is correct, i pulled it from http://www.linux.org/article/view/file-permissions-chown. This is only of course if the build.prop failed bc on the incorrect permissions and ownership(maybe you had it on your sdcard). If this doesn't work, it looks like you'll be fastboot flashing a system image. [Sometimes the time and date of your build.prop may affect the ability to ota even if you get it to boot, to which you would need to reflash the system image anyway]. But i'd like to know if you try this and it works.

So what I ended up doing was installing clockwork recovery and then installing an odexed Rom version of the stock image of 4.1.2. Everything works, nothing got wiped.
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bodh said:
Not sure if adb will push to system, since i had an issue pulling from system.
Are you rooted?
You could try booting to recovery to enable adb, then remount system as r/w
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system
cd /system/ NOT SURE IF THIS IS REQUIRED, I'D TRY IT FIRST WITHOUT THIS LINE TO SEE
chmod 644 build.prop
chown root.root build.prop
exit
I've never had to do that, but i belive my linux syntax is correct, i pulled it from http://www.linux.org/article/view/file-permissions-chown. This is only of course if the build.prop failed bc on the incorrect permissions and ownership(maybe you had it on your sdcard). If this doesn't work, it looks like you'll be fastboot flashing a system image. [Sometimes the time and date of your build.prop may affect the ability to ota even if you get it to boot, to which you would need to reflash the system image anyway]. But i'd like to know if you try this and it works.
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Yes, you need to 'cd /system' before typing the commands to change permissions and ownership, as you have them.
Sent from my Nexus

ksc6000 said:
So what I ended up doing was installing clockwork recovery and then installing an odexed Rom version of the stock image of 4.1.2. Everything works, nothing got wiped.
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How did you install clockwork recovery when it was not booting at all ??! Could you please guide me ? I actually have an LG Optimus G stuck in boot loop ..... (T_T)

Claureid said:
How did you install clockwork recovery when it was not booting at all ??! Could you please guide me ? I actually have an LG Optimus G stuck in boot loop ..... (T_T)
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Then you should go to your own forums, as 99% of the info here wont do you any good

Claureid said:
How did you install clockwork recovery when it was not booting at all ??! Could you pbootlease guide me ? I actually have an LG Optimus G stuck in boot loop ..... (T_T)
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I don't think you can do that with your phone what I did. But here is the gu ide that I used to temporarily boot into clockwork recovery to use it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23229578&postcount=3

ksc6000 said:
I don't think you can do that with your phone what I did. But here is the gu ide that I used to temporarily boot into clockwork recovery to use it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23229578&postcount=3
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Thanked you buddy !!