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[Q] How to modify init.xxx.rc without rebuild boot.img ??

As everybody knows, Motorola and most of other android phones have locked the bootloader,
so repacking boot.img will not boot.
I see the init.xxx.rc files are modified in Cyanogenmod series ROMS, but I checked they
did not repacked boot.img( files are not from boot.img)
can somebody tell me how did they do that?
I am making a programm that works like bootmenu but I don't want replace logwrapper, I wish
I could add an exec command in the rc file

well, I saw there's 2nd-init. answered by myself..
~ # ls -l /init.rc
ls -l /init.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17507 Dec 14 14:26 /init.rc
~ # ls -l /system/bootmenu/2nd-init/init.rc
ls -l /system/bootmenu/2nd-init/init.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17507 Aug 1 2008 /system/bootmenu/2nd-init/init.rc
~ #
========
seems I can't make easier than the way bootmenu does..

This really do not know，but deliberately over the top with your Google Translation。。。

[Acer _AV041_A100_1.037.00_ww_gen1] root？

[Acer _AV041_A100_1.037.00_ww_gen1]
root
Can be successfully？？？

alexsec said:
[Acer _AV041_A100_1.037.00_ww_gen1]
root
Can be successfully？？？
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ZN's method still works just fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531646

i can't root!
i can't root!

Verify the device is showing under the device manager, usb debugging is turned on, and that it is being run as administrator.
What OS are you using?

i have the same problem. Can't root after the recent update. using W7, executing it with and without administrator rights. Executing with administrator rights it says something of ADB.

alexsec said:
i can't root!
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Updating script. Try once again.

rooted!! thanks!!

How to Updating script. Try once again.

@ ZeroNull, can you confirm whether ICS_rooting_A10x_A5xx works for the latest build?
Build number
Acer_A100_2.001.01_COM_GEN2
I have been unsuccessful so far:
==========================================
Preparation is finished.
-
Executing of the main script.
remote object '/system/bin/su' does not exist
The file "su" isn't created!
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Not getting root!
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Error!

I can confirm that I successfully rooted my A100 using ZeroNull's simple method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531646)
Build number: Acer_AV041_A100_1.037.00_WW_GEN1
I didn't even use the new script, I'm still using the old one (ICS_rooting.zip)
Unfortunately I can also confirm problems with recent updates of the SuperUser APK (It did not assign the correct Group ID), but apparently they were fixed in the latest update (v3.1.3)
Good Luck.
---------- Post added at 10:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:05 AM ----------
alexsec said:
i can't root!
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alexsec said:
How to Updating script. Try once again.
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Hi alexsec, did you try with the new script, it creates a different directory than the old script did, and it uses the mkdir -p option so it creates any parent directories it needs:
Code:
adb shell "mkdir -p /data/local/tmp"
adb push tools /data/local/tmp
adb shell "chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/mempodroid"
And it does a better job by waiting longer for the tablet to reboot:
Code:
rem Wait reboot tablet
for /L %%i in (1,1,7000000) do @rem
I even modify the getroot.sh script just to change back to the old su command and modify its permissions:
Code:
cd /data/local/tmp
echo >/data/local.prop
toolbox mount -o remount, rw /system/
cat su >/system/bin/su
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
sync ; sync ; sync
reboot
Good Luck...

Undeletable folder

Hello,
After flashing the most recent TuchMi ROM on my galaxy s3, trying it out and restoring to my nandroid backup of kyanrom I have a TuchMi folder I cannot delete. I have tried ES Fileexplorer and Root Explorer both. There are three zip files in the TuchMi folder that cannot be deleted, tells me file permissions cannot be changed.
That said, the timestamp on the /TuchMi folder is 8 March 1970. I am wondering if this is causing something to fail in deleting or being able to change permissions. I don't know if this is right place to ask this question but I can't ask in the TuchMi thread because I am too new. Anyone have an idea on what I can do to fix this?
Thanks
JMD

rezin44 said:
Hello,
After flashing the most recent TuchMi ROM on my galaxy s3, trying it out and restoring to my nandroid backup of kyanrom I have a TuchMi folder I cannot delete. I have tried ES Fileexplorer and Root Explorer both. There are three zip files in the TuchMi folder that cannot be deleted, tells me file permissions cannot be changed.
That said, the timestamp on the /TuchMi folder is 8 March 1970. I am wondering if this is causing something to fail in deleting or being able to change permissions. I don't know if this is right place to ask this question but I can't ask in the TuchMi thread because I am too new. Anyone have an idea on what I can do to fix this?
Thanks
JMD
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Run "fix permissions" from recovery, and then try again.
(One of the most common reasons you can't delete something, even as root, is that its file attributes are set to "immutable" (which under linux often means you've been hacked, but no worries here))

Thanks for the quick reply but that didn't seem to fix it. I am at a loss, the folder is only 32meg so I am not too concerned but it is a little annoying. If there's another thing you can think of I'd appreciate it.
Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk 2

rezin44 said:
Thanks for the quick reply but that didn't seem to fix it. I am at a loss, the folder is only 32meg so I am not too concerned but it is a little annoying. If there's another thing you can think of I'd appreciate it.
Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk 2
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Nuke it (rm -rf somedir) from an adb shell, so you can see the actual error.

zmore said:
Nuke it (rm -rf somedir) from an adb shell, so you can see the actual error.
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Here's what it says.
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ cd sdcard
cd sdcard
[email protected]:/sdcard $ ls
ls
Alarms
Albums
Android
Application
DCIM
Download
EVA
Evernote
GOLauncherEX
GoStore
Library
Movies
Music
Notifications
Pictures
PlayerPro
Podcasts
Ringtones
SpeedSoftware
TuchMi
ba-superkeyboard
backups
data
ivona
mdm
media
rootz
svox
temp
[email protected]:/sdcard $ rm -rf TuchMi
rm -rf TuchMi
rm failed for -rf, No such file or directory
255|[email protected]:/sdcard $ rm TuchMi
rm TuchMi
rm failed for TuchMi, Is a directory
255|[email protected]:/sdcard $ cd TuchMi
cd TuchMi
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi $ ls
ls
Stock_SystemUI.zip
Voice_Reinstall.zip
XXBLG1_AndroidGX-MOD_NexusBattery.zip
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi $ rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm failed for Stock_SystemUI.zip, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi $ ls -l
ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 1280043 2008-08-01 07:00 Stock_SystemUI.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 29694315 2008-08-01 07:00 Voice_Reinstall.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2582686 2008-08-01 07:00 XXBLG1_AndroidGX-MOD_Nex
usBattery.zip
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi $
and these are the permissions of the subject directory.
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 1970-03-08 01:48 TuchMi
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this.
JMD

I had to delete it while plugged into my pc. Was just driving me crazy that I couldn't get rid of it.

Well, I've resigned myself to failure deleting these three files and the folder they're in. I've tried 8 or 9 different file managers. I downloaded and installed adb, learned enough to really screw up my phone, but that didn't work either. I tried deleting them through windows and debian too.
That said, I'm just going to live with things as they are now. In the future when a more mature JB rom comes out I'll try that but my question is this, can I just format (wipe) my sdcard partition and restore the stock at&t/Samsung rom using Odin?
Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk 2

rezin44 said:
Well, I've resigned myself to failure deleting these three files and the folder they're in. I've tried 8 or 9 different file managers. I downloaded and installed adb, learned enough to really screw up my phone, but that didn't work either. I tried deleting them through windows and debian too.
That said, I'm just going to live with things as they are now. In the future when a more mature JB rom comes out I'll try that but my question is this, can I just format (wipe) my sdcard partition and restore the stock at&t/Samsung rom using Odin?
Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk 2
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I noticed in your terminal output, that you weren't root (# vs $). "su" to root, and try again.

zmore said:
I noticed in your terminal output, that you weren't root (# vs $). "su" to root, and try again.
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Yeah, I caught that before you mentioned it yesterday but I thought I'd try it again as this is very new to me and I am using cheat sheets with adb common commands to navigate through this. Here is the output though. Still no bueno..
Code:
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 1970-03-08 01:48 TuchMi
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-04 08:05 ba-superkeyboard
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-04 09:45 backups
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-05 02:05 clockworkmod
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-03 20:09 data
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-04 14:24 ivona
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-08-31 09:00 mdm
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-08-14 17:39 media
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-03 21:31 rootz
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-09-04 23:14 temp
[email protected]:/sdcard # rm -rf TuchMi
rm -rf TuchMi
rm failed for -rf, No such file or directory
255|[email protected]:/sdcard # cd TuchMi
cd TuchMi
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # ls -l
ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 1280043 2008-08-01 07:00 Stock_SystemUI.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 29694315 2008-08-01 07:00 Voice_Reinstall.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2582686 2008-08-01 07:00 XXBLG1_AndroidGX-MOD_Nex
usBattery.zip
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm failed for Stock_SystemUI.zip, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # rm Stock_SystemUI.zip

rezin44 said:
Yeah, I caught that before you mentioned it yesterday but I thought I'd try it again as this is very new to me and I am using cheat sheets with adb common commands to navigate through this. Here is the output though. Still no bueno..
Code:
...snip...
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # ls -l
ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 1280043 2008-08-01 07:00 Stock_SystemUI.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 29694315 2008-08-01 07:00 Voice_Reinstall.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2582686 2008-08-01 07:00 XXBLG1_AndroidGX-MOD_Nex
usBattery.zip
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
rm failed for Stock_SystemUI.zip, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # rm Stock_SystemUI.zip
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Weird. As root, you normally only see that for immutable files, so, try:
lsattr foo.zip
and if you see an "i" flag for immutable, do a:
chattr -i file.zip

zmore said:
Weird. As root, you normally only see that for immutable files, so, try:
lsattr foo.zip
and if you see an "i" flag for immutable, do a:
chattr -i file.zip
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Code:
D:\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
b41c0497 device
D:\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ su
su
[email protected]:/ # cd sdcard/TuchMi
cd sdcard/TuchMi
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # ls -l
ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 1280043 2008-08-01 07:00 Stock_SystemUI.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 29694315 2008-08-01 07:00 Voice_Reinstall.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2582686 2008-08-01 07:00 XXBLG1_AndroidGX-MOD_Ne
usBattery.zip
[email protected]d:/sdcard/TuchMi # lsattr Stock_SystemUI.zip
lsattr Stock_SystemUI.zip
lsattr: reading Stock_SystemUI.zip: Function not implemented
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi # lsattr Voice_Reinstall.zip
lsattr Voice_Reinstall.zip
lsattr: reading Voice_Reinstall.zip: Function not implemented
[email protected]:/sdcard/TuchMi #
It kicked out those "Function not implemented" errors, I did some searching and some of the sites that popped up were fedora and ubuntu and they hinted at maybe I have the wrong file system for lsattr to work? In windows it shows the file system on both sdcards, int and ext, as 'generic hierarchical'.

I have had this issue with a couple of folder where I could NOT delete them on my i777 no matter what/how I tried. The files/folders I had were some that I extracted. Then when I was done with it I couldn't delete it. After I had two folders I couldn't delete as it too was bugging me was I connected up my phone via ums to my PC and transfered everything I wanted/needed from my sdcard (internal unremovable). Then when I had it all backed up I went into recovery and formatted my internal sdcard (I removed my external sdcard first to be safe). Then I booted up phone and saw it was all clean. Then I reconnected to PC and transferred all my needed files/folders back onto phone.
I THINK what happened was somehow it was a corrupted file and caused my issues. Completely wiping my sdcard fixed it though. Good luck to you.
Sent from My SGH-I777 Running Red Reaper Rom

RockRatt said:
I have had this issue with a couple of folder where I could NOT delete them on my i777 no matter what/how I tried. The files/folders I had were some that I extracted. Then when I was done with it I couldn't delete it. After I had two folders I couldn't delete as it too was bugging me was I connected up my phone via ums to my PC and transfered everything I wanted/needed from my sdcard (internal unremovable). Then when I had it all backed up I went into recovery and formatted my internal sdcard (I removed my external sdcard first to be safe). Then I booted up phone and saw it was all clean. Then I reconnected to PC and transferred all my needed files/folders back onto phone.
I THINK what happened was somehow it was a corrupted file and caused my issues. Completely wiping my sdcard fixed it though. Good luck to you.
Sent from My SGH-I777 Running Red Reaper Rom
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Thanks, Im gonna give this a try

Well, it's beat me. After trying all the above things I still cannot delete the TuchMi folder. I tried formatting the sdcard partition from windows, CWM, and fedora. All three did format and manage to wipe everything from that partition except the TuchMi folder.
All I can say is be wary of that ROM.
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[GUIDE] Universal rooting to any ics that you have the stock firmware.

This guide was tested on my samsung galaxy [email protected] gt-B5330 and it worked.
WARNING: this can brick your phone, used on your own risk (both eyes wide open).
The idea behing can be ported on any phone that allows you to upload custom firmware (most samsungs with odin).
The idea is that you escalate to superuser by setting suid on /system/bin/toolbox executable.
By duing that you can run most of the unix commands on android as a superuser.
I is enought for you to copy su utility somewhere where there is not a nosuid option on mountpoint. and make it a suided executable then execute su and get the #.
It's all down hill from here.
I cannot verify for every ics rom out there, but it seems that now ics uses ext4 filesystem for the system partition.
I have made a script that inspects a stock rom firmware isolate the permissions for the toolbox executable and add to them SUID,SUIG.
After that it pachs the firmware back and you can flash it to your device and have a easylly rootable device. (I will post the stept to take to get a standard rooted device).
What you need:
a linux/gnu (it will not work with cygwin because we have to mount the ext4 partition).
simg2img utility (you can get it from xda site it is in ext4_utility packet).
su, busybox and superuser.apk binaries for android (you can take them from a rooting package).
heimdal (for linux) xor odin (for windows and if you cannot flash the firmware on your phone form linux).
I've put all untilities that are not standard into the tar.
just unpack and you have the universal-patch.sh to run over an .tar.md5 firware stock rom.
And post-firmwareUpdate.sh to run after you flash in order to make the root a standard android root.
This was not tested on any other phone (was tested only on GT-B5330) and do it on your own risk.
This rooting does not exploit any weakness (or flaw) in kernel or any thing, it just modifies the stock firmware to make it more flexible so it should be forward compatible with any version of android after ics.

I assume this would exclude HTC's since you meed to be s-off to flash a firmware. I would probably verify that and edit the title if necessary. Other than that, this looks like it could be helpful.

Help to understand the procedure
Hi ETTT,
first of all thanks for your job and effort in finding a solution to this issue.. it has been driving me crazy till now.. but thanx to you i see the light :good: I see it but i cannot really understand the procedure.. Could you please write a step by step explanation of what i need to do. (I am not what we could call a genius with linux).
Thanks in advance.

The First said:
Hi ETTT,
first of all thanks for your job and effort in finding a solution to this issue.. it has been driving me crazy till now.. but thanx to you i see the light :good: I see it but i cannot really understand the procedure.. Could you please write a step by step explanation of what i need to do. (I am not what we could call a genius with linux).
Thanks in advance.
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If you are refering to the procedure that the script is doing here is the version of step by step (with-out the script):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956653
If you want to know the step by step with the script, here (I will not respond to more basic than this, like how to boot ubuntu and stuff.):
mkdir -p /tmp/foo
sudo mkdir /mnt
cd /tmp/foo
tar -xzf universal-patch.tar.gz
export PATH=./:$PATH
{get the firmware here and unzip it, it should have a file with .tar.md5 suffix}
./universal-patch.sh {the name of the firmware including the .tar.md5 suffix}
wait a while. you should have by the way about 10 times the size of the zip as free space.
if all goes well you will have a myfrm.tar.md5 rady for flashing.
flash the firmware, and after boot enable usb debuging, hook the phone to pc
sudo adb devices
./post-firmwareUpdate.sh
you should have a rooted phone.
you cannot go any more basic than that.
Have fun.

Thanks for your effort, I'm already have my XWALH3 patched, btw you should to check the patch on line 19, you've misstype something there
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app

The file after qa
phyxar said:
Thanks for your effort, I'm already have my XWALH3 patched, btw you should to check the patch on line 19, you've misstype something there
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app
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Thanks for testing and input.

phyxar said:
Thanks for your effort, I'm already have my XWALH3 patched, btw you should to check the patch on line 19, you've misstype something there
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app
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XWALH3 i've produce from your universal-patch cannot being flashed to my phone, odin crash each time open those files

phyxar said:
XWALH3 i've produce from your universal-patch cannot being flashed to my phone, odin crash each time open those files
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I'm puting the xdelta to the XWALH3
here are the md5s for the original and patched firmware.
cfe3ca545c4a2c8d453e02cd549655a1 B5330XWALH3_B5330OJVALH1_B5330XXLH4_HOME.tar.md5
624f63943bff54941e4042a39d7928f2 myfrm.tar.md5
Now I have some question in order to debug:
does the patching you have done yeild the same file as I have here?
have you use the same imput? (that's why I've give you the md5 of my imput).

Hey you have rooted you b5330 then do you notice any performance upgrade
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda premium

Can I patch the firmware using windows??
Because I'm on win
I don't really understand using linux
Or can you make single click batch file that I can use it to patch my firmware???
I really appreciate it if someone provide it
Thanks
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app

byboyz said:
Can I patch the firmware using windows??
Because I'm on win
I don't really understand using linux
Or can you make single click batch file that I can use it to patch my firmware???
I really appreciate it if someone provide it
Thanks
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app
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I don't know windows that much to make a batch clone of the script. so you need linux.
But you can use a live cd (maybe from ubuntu) to run the script.

ETTT said:
I don't know windows that much to make a batch clone of the script. so you need linux.
But you can use a live cd (maybe from ubuntu) to run the script.
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Thx for ur reply
How can I open XWALH3.patch that u give earlier??
Bcause I don't know anything about linux
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app

byboyz said:
Thx for ur reply
How can I open XWALH3.patch that u give earlier??
Bcause I don't know anything about linux
Sent from my GT-B5330 using xda app-developers app
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that patch is an xdelta patch.
There is an xdelta application on windows, don't know if it works, but it should work.

ETTT said:
If you are refering to the procedure that the script is doing here is the version of step by step (with-out the script):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956653
If you want to know the step by step with the script, here (I will not respond to more basic than this, like how to boot ubuntu and stuff.):
mkdir -p /tmp/foo
sudo mkdir /mnt
cd /tmp/foo
tar -xzf universal-patch.tar.gz
export PATH=./:$PATH
{get the firmware here and unzip it, it should have a file with .tar.md5 suffix}
./universal-patch.sh {the name of the firmware including the .tar.md5 suffix}
wait a while. you should have by the way about 10 times the size of the zip as free space.
if all goes well you will have a myfrm.tar.md5 rady for flashing.
flash the firmware, and after boot enable usb debuging, hook the phone to pc
sudo adb devices
./post-firmwareUpdate.sh
you should have a rooted phone.
you cannot go any more basic than that.
Have fun.
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hi there, I'm stuck at last point/step: ./post-firmwareUpdate.sh
my terminal respond many error about busybox
the code like this:
2684 KB/s (91980 bytes in 0.033s)
4016 KB/s (996704 bytes in 0.242s)
4491 KB/s (1085140 bytes in 0.235s)
.//busybox: 1: .//busybox: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
.//busybox: 1: .//busybox: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
dd if=/data/local/tmp/su of=/mnt/obb/su # copy the su binary to a place that can be sudoed
chown 0.0 /mnt/obb/su # modify the owner
chmod 6755 /mnt/obb/su # set SUID flag.
/mnt/obb/su # becomes root !!
mount -o remount,rw /system # remount the system partition as readwrite.
dd if=/data/local/tmp/su of=/system/xbin/su #copy su in path
chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
chmod 755 /system/bin/toolbox # close the security hole (toolbox is nolonger with SUID)
dd if=/data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk of=/system/app/Superuser.apk # copy the superuser application
chown 0.0 /system/app/Superuser.apk
chmod 666 /system/app/Superuser.apk
#now this is done for busybox
dd if=/data/local/tmp/busybox of=/system/xbin/busybox
chown 0.0 /system/xbin/busybox
chmod 755 /system/xbin/busybox
cd /system/xbin
for k in
nt/obb/su # copy the su binary to a place that can be sudoed <
/mnt/obb/su: cannot open for write: Permission denied
1|[email protected]:/ $ chown 0.0 /mnt/obb/su # modify the owner
Unable to chmod /mnt/obb/su: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ chmod 6755 /mnt/obb/su # set SUID flag.
Unable to chmod /mnt/obb/su: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ /mnt/obb/su # becomes root !!
/system/bin/sh: /mnt/obb/su: not found
# remount the system partition as readwrite. <
mount: Operation not permitted
/system/xbin/su #copy su in path <
/system/xbin/su: cannot open for write: Read-only file system
1|[email protected]:/ $ chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
# close the security hole (toolbox is nolonger with SUID) <
Unable to chmod /system/bin/toolbox: Read-only file system
er.apk of=/system/app/Superuser.apk # copy the superuser application <
/system/app/Superuser.apk: cannot open for write: Read-only file system
1|[email protected]:/ $ chown 0.0 /system/app/Superuser.apk
Unable to chmod /system/app/Superuser.apk: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ chmod 666 /system/app/Superuser.apk
Unable to chmod /system/app/Superuser.apk: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ #now this is done for busybox
10|[email protected]:/ $ dd if=/data/local/tmp/busybox of=/system/xbin/busybox
/system/xbin/busybox: cannot open for write: Read-only file system
1|[email protected]:/ $ chown 0.0 /system/xbin/busybox
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ chmod 755 /system/xbin/busybox
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
10|[email protected]:/ $ cd /system/xbin
[email protected]:/system/xbin $ for k in
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smhybrid said:
hi there, I'm stuck at last point/step: ./post-firmwareUpdate.sh
my terminal respond many error about busybox
the code like this:
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Ok it seams busybox has a thing against ")" in comments.
Here is the script without comments, so try this.

ETTT said:
Ok it seams busybox has a thing against ")" in comments.
Here is the script without comments, so try this.
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no good, it's still have same error...
maybe the problem is in busybox?
and i don't know why I'm unable to do chmod

smhybrid said:
no good, it's still have same error...
maybe the problem is in busybox?
and i don't know why I'm unable to do chmod
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give this command:
adb shell ls -l /system/bin/toolbox
and let's see if the toolbox has suid.

ETTT said:
give this command:
adb shell ls -l /system/bin/toolbox
and let's see if the toolbox has suid.
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what i get is
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 99068 2012-08-09 11:59 toolbox
how to get suid?

smhybrid said:
what i get is
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 99068 2012-08-09 11:59 toolbox
how to get suid?
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have you flash the patched firmware?

ETTT said:
have you flash the patched firmware?
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well, I've just do all of Your step, except this:
flash the firmware, and after boot enable usb debuging, hook the phone to pc
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because I don't know the meaning of flash the firmware. How to do that?
So I skip that and hook the phone to pc with usb debugging enabled
i'm new at linux, but I want to try this method for my galaxy chat

[Q] PurpleDrake-Lite error message in (Arch)linux

Hi,
I was about to start the PurpleDrake-Lite shell script in my distro, phone plugged in and configured thoroughly following the tutorial, but the output gave an error message right at start so I Ctrl+c'd to stop the script. Here is the issue:
In purpledrake_linux.sh, on line 17:
Code:
chmod -R 755 ./assets/linux/
of course, the error says "no such file or directory", because in the 'assets' directory there is:
Code:
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x linux32
drwxr-xr-x linux64
drwxr-xr-x osx
-rw-r--r-- permaroot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x purpledrake_main.sh
-rw-r--r-- start_restore
-rw-r--r-- temproot.bin
drwxr-xr-x windows
(I stripped the unnecessary bits from the output,) but no 'linux' directory.
I don't know if I should report it as a bug, and if so, where exactly?
Else, it seems even pointless to quit the process right at this stage, because the second script called, purpledrake_main.sh might well find it's way to the relevant directory? (In linux32 or in linux64, depending on the architecture of the machine, right?) and they all have the right 755 permissions anyway as it appears from the output.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Mélodie

meylodie said:
Hi,
I was about to start the PurpleDrake-Lite shell script in my distro, phone plugged in and configured thoroughly following the tutorial, but the output gave an error message right at start so I Ctrl+c'd to stop the script. Here is the issue:
In purpledrake_linux.sh, on line 17:
Code:
chmod -R 755 ./assets/linux/
of course, the error says "no such file or directory", because in the 'assets' directory there is:
Code:
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x linux32
drwxr-xr-x linux64
drwxr-xr-x osx
-rw-r--r-- permaroot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x purpledrake_main.sh
-rw-r--r-- start_restore
-rw-r--r-- temproot.bin
drwxr-xr-x windows
(I stripped the unnecessary bits from the output,) but no 'linux' directory.
I don't know if I should report it as a bug, and if so, where exactly?
Else, it seems even pointless to quit the process right at this stage, because the second script called, purpledrake_main.sh might well find it's way to the relevant directory? (In linux32 or in linux64, depending on the architecture of the machine, right?) and they all have the right 755 permissions anyway as it appears from the output.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Mélodie
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Hi,
The header of the script contains this information:
# PurpleDrake root for LG G3 - Linux launcher
# - A collaboration between @autoprime , @thecubed (iomonster) , and @teamandirc (jcase)
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Is there a specific place in this forum dedicated to bug reports? If so, where?
Now, what if I would start directly with the script which is inside the assets/ sub-directory: the file having for name "purpledrake_main.sh"? Would this have a chance to work directly? Or perhaps, should I reather use the first script, and just ignore the first error message and continue?
up! \o/

meylodie said:
Hi,
The header of the script contains this information:
Is there a specific place in this forum dedicated to bug reports? If so, where?
Now, what if I would start directly with the script which is inside the assets/ sub-directory: the file having for name "purpledrake_main.sh"? Would this have a chance to work directly? Or perhaps, should I reather use the first script, and just ignore the first error message and continue?
up! \o/
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It looks like there is a Q&A forum for purpledrake here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g3/help/qa-root-twrp-tmo-g3-purpled-t2926609 maybe ask the question there and you will get a faster response.

justmpm said:
It looks like there is a Q&A forum for purpledrake here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g3/help/qa-root-twrp-tmo-g3-purpled-t2926609 maybe ask the question there and you will get a faster response.
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Hi,
I don't think so, the topic contains "D851 only". I would risk being struck by lightning if I would not obey the rules?!

meylodie said:
Hi,
I don't think so, the topic contains "D851 only". I would risk being struck by lightning if I would not obey the rules?!
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Hi,
Solved here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-...purpledrake-lite-t2821000/page78#post58280432
The script needs '*' at the end of the string "linux". Line 17:
Code:
chmod -R 755 ./assets/linux*/
instead of
Code:
chmod -R 755 ./assets/linux/
Thanks to tzvi.