So this is the formula to take apps from phone to sd and vice versa on an eris.
Copy apps from phone to sdcard
cp data/app/* /sdcard/(folder)
Install apps from sdcard to phone
cd sdcard/(folder)
busybox install *.apk /data/app
Is it the same for the thunderbolt? I would do a test and find out, but I don't want to brick my phone by tampering it as it is mounted.
Edit: start with this of course.
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
That's kind of the long ended way of installing things, but yes, i dont see why that wont work, it's the same filesystem as any other android phone as long as the rom you are using doesnt do something funny.
You could do it via a file explorer gui app on the phone (there's quite a few free ones in the store), terminal emulator on the phone or via ssh if you have an sshserver set up on the phone as well. adb just seems like a pain to me mostly unless im rooting since it involves hooking things up to usb (unless you do wireless adb).
Also, only system dependant apps go in /system/app (stuff you wouldnt uninstall), anything else goes in /data/app
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Ok first things first : If you installed some launcher and your touch screen is not responding and you dont have USB debugging enabled then the only way to fix that is to install the original firmware, dload from here : http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...huawei-ideos-s7-slim-official-firmware-4.html check post 35 for the one i used
If you do have debugging enabled the download Superoneclick from below.
The super one click can aslo root the S7 slim and it has adb installed. Unxip it somewhere and go into the \adb folder. Open command prompt from there and run
Adb devices
If it doesnt show your device the either the debugging is not enabled or the right driver is not loaded. (Menu, Settings, Applications, Development, USB Debugging (Yes))
type adb shell
cd\data\app
rm *launcher*.apk
exit
adb reboot
This will remove the launchers thats faulty and touch screen will work again.
If you guys find a clockworkmod that works then leme know here cause i loaded the wrong one and its messed up.
Use psneuter to root and use the adb in the zip for the above
Cia
How to flash Recovery
Reserved for now
Use other Launchers
ADB remount
adb push c:\bluetooth_power.sh /system/etc/
unzip attached file to c:\
Swapping sdcard and sdcard2 around
adb remount
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
if you get permission denied error when doing adb remount then try the following instead :
adb push vold.fstab /sdcard/vold.fstab
adb shell
su
mount -o remount rw /system
cp /sdcard/vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
mount -o remount ro /system
exit
exit
reboot
Copy attached file into ur adb directory (and unzip it has the modified and original file in the zip) and do the above
Grumps said:
adb remount
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
if you get permission denied error when doing adb remount then try the following instead :
adb push vold.fstab /sdcard/vold.fstab
adb shell
su
mount -o remount rw /system
cp /sdcard/vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
mount -o remount ro /system
exit
exit
reboot
Copy attached file into ur adb directory (and unzip it has the modified and original file in the zip) and do the above
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this works great - - i had a problem where i have not been able to recover my internal SD card - tried everything - even back to original eclair and all - now i just use the external sd (16gb) for everything. No problems with camera recognizing sd card or programs not downloading, etc, etc....
I'll still try to maybe swap out the internal card, or try to get it functional again somehow, but in the meantime, the S7 if again functional.
Rom
Im currently using this rom an dit works perfectly : http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...ical/15812-rom-tri_zet-ideos_s7-slim-mod.html
Only problem i had was updating google maps so i just loaded the new version via .apk manually
O yes If you load that rom and it comes on the first time the screen might not respond (stuck on lockscreen) but its busy loading software in the background. Mine came up on the lock screen saying connect charger although the battery wasnt low so i plugged the charge cable in. It then rebooted after a while and the touch screen is working perfectly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942166
Grumps said:
Im currently using this rom an dit works perfectly : http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...ical/15812-rom-tri_zet-ideos_s7-slim-mod.html
Only problem i had was updating google maps so i just loaded the new version via .apk manually
O yes If you load that rom and it comes on the first time the screen might not respond (stuck on lockscreen) but its busy loading software in the background. Mine came up on the lock screen saying connect charger although the battery wasnt low so i plugged the charge cable in. It then rebooted after a while and the touch screen is working perfectly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942166
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I just got my Slim S7 yesterday, hated the launcher so I replaced it not thinking it would cause such a problem... long story short I tried installing the rom you linked hoping it would fix it(tried everything else) and the touch screen still is unresponsive and USB debugging is now disabled. Any ideas?
phxtravis said:
I just got my Slim S7 yesterday, hated the launcher so I replaced it not thinking it would cause such a problem... long story short I tried installing the rom you linked hoping it would fix it(tried everything else) and the touch screen still is unresponsive and USB debugging is now disabled. Any ideas?
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well I finally got it working. I ended up doing multiple battery pulls and installed the geeksu recovery, and that's all I did. I'm up and running on that rom. Only thing is thatbi somehow lost root, but that was no biggy.
I've got a droid razr; rooted, stock rom
I broke the screen accidentally and now the screen isn't showing anything and touch isn't working.
I'd like to recover all the data off my device, but since it's locked, it won't budge. Drives won't mount when I plug it into my PC.
I've got a previous backup which is a little older, but i'm interested in backing up the actual databases (texts, call logs, etc) and system data too, along with my images and personal data.
Is there any way I can perform a whole backup while the system is locked like this?
I've already searched the forum for previous threads with similar issues, but I couldn't find one with a viable solution.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
Partial Update
Hey all-
I've partially solved my problem.
I was able to get ADB working miraculously. I downloaded the Motorola Device Manager and installed it, also downloaded the Android SDK/Java SDK;
Using the sdk manager i installed the google usb drivers (im not sure it helped any way, but just in case)
after that I ran through the process of adb
Code:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
**plug in device**
adb wait-for-device
adb get-serialno
From there I was able to use "adb shell" and navigate around the file system; used su, went to /data/system/ and did "mv gesture.key gesture.key.bak"
I then restarted my phone and did a repeat of wait-for-device, and get-serialno just to verify the phone was connecting properly.
I then browsed to my computer and amazingly, the drives mounted, my sdcard, and sdcard-ext as removable drives and I was able to view the contents.
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So now, I'm stuck here with a device that's NOT locked, I can view my files, and I can navigate the file system.
My end goal is to be able to copy everything from /data/ to /etc/ /system/ /root/ /sdcard*/ /vendor/ /xbin/ and any other system file that's not available through the mounted drives.
I'll keep this thread updated, and if anybody has any help or clue on how I'd do this, it'd be greatly appreciated.
So far I've tried variations on "adb pull" using / as a root dir; trying to find a way to use the shell to invoke scp, ssh, or some other file transfer, but I get no network connection. While in the adb shell and doing any file operations, I get an error stating that it's a read-only file system as well.
Fixed
I just wanted to let you all know that I've resolved my problem.
Let me state the issue again.
- Screen and touch broke.
- Device locked with pattern
- Rooted
- ICS - Stock Verizon ROM
- USB Mode was UMC, not PTP/MTP
- USB Debugging enabled
I used ADB to delete /data/system/gesture.key and rebooted, effectively removing the device lock, and allowing drives & data on my SD cards to show up in explorer after a reboot of the phone.
After futzing around for a bit, I realized the phone was tied to my Google account, and I remotely installed "Droid VNC Server" (app name org.onaips.vnc)
From there I found a way to activate the VNC server through the ADB command line
Source: android.stackexchange.com/a/31957
Code:
Application located in
/data/data/org.onaips.vnc/files
With a root shell, run this
chmod 766 /data/data/org.onaips.vnc/files/androidvncserver
Then you can execute the vnc server from the command line
/data/data/org.onaips.vnc/files/androidvncserver
Run this to forward the port
adb.exe forward tcp:5901 tcp:5901
On your VNC client, connect to localhost:5901
From there I was able to get access to my home screen and pulled the notification drop down and changed from USB Mass Storage to Camera/Media Mode
Rebooted the phone, started the vnc server again, connected to it and moved some files around to my SD Card
In another adb shell as root, I was able to copy files from /data/data/ (or anywhere else I wanted) and write them to anywhere on /sdcard-ext/
From there in another command shell, I ran adb pull /sdcard-ext/datafolderfile
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I believe this to be the overall gist of things, though I ran into hiccups along the way, while I was messing around, I changed some permissions which caused my su executable to break and only be allowed to run shortly after booting the phone; and also because of the broken screen, something would cause the phone to reboot every so often, breaking my connections, backups, file transfers, and etc
There's also a cool option in adb
Run
"adb backup" and it'll give you all the switches, you'll have to confirm the backup on your phone, so be sure to be running VNC and confirm it, but adb backup should be able to grab everything you need. Like I said it didn't work for me because my phone would reboot;
I hope everybody that sees this can benefit from it
Annafunny said:
So did you extract your data from your Razr with adb finally?
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This thread is really old (4 years)... and the answer was provided.
To avoid further issues, closed.
I picked up an Archos G9/80 and immediately came here to root it. Instead I wound up installing SDE and flashing Freezenooks G9 Build8 from tis thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171742
I just have one problem. I can't get Dropbear SSH II to install. I tried both from the Play store and adb installing it. I even tried the older version. The apk installs fine but it fails to install the service. They both fail during a step where it says its remounting read-only. This is interesting as I notice that the rootfs is mounted read-write by default. From adb shell I tried to force it read-only with mount -o remount,ro but it fails as the Device is busy. I'm guessing this is the same problem that the installer is encountering and since it can't remount rootfs as read-only it proceeds to remove the binaries it's copied over. I've been trying to find out where it copies them before it deletes them. I assume they would be in /system/bin but I can't ever find them there. I gets to the error step way too fast.
Does anyone have any workarounds? Could / should I "borrow" the binaries from another Android box and copy everything to the correct place?
Hey all. So i'm running the newest version of RootBox with crpalmer's kernel. I haven't tried any adb access or just folder access through windows on my computer. I use Ubuntu 12.04. I have adb set up perfect, always have, it works like normal. I can't access my files through the computer, so I tried so through adb. I have tried adb shell [commands] and adb shell to just login to a shell. When I try to ls storage/sdcard0 I get nothing. it acts like there is nothing there, as if my storage is mounted somewhere else. When I pull down statusbar on phone it says connected as Media Device (MTP) or teh option for Camera (PTP) and I can't disable them, I can only choose one or the other. So idk if that's causing my computer to read it as storage mounted elsewhere or what, but it sucks and I was seeing if anyone could help me find teh solution. adb is so buggy sometimes its aggravating. for instance, just to try, I pulled an app from /data/app and it worked fine, but I tried to push a ROM zip to storage/sdcard0 and I couldn't, with the usual error in one of these cases, cannot stat file: "xxx" is not a directory. so I have no way to get these files onto my device other than through dropbox or something, or maybe an FTP or LAN connection and I will probably do so, but I wanna figure out what's going on as I need to move some stuff. And just for the sake of knowing how to fix another crappy adb bug. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.
Are you sure /sdcard0 is the actual sd mount point?
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yeah. on mine it is. I was pretty sure it was same on all DNA's. mine is /storage/sdcard0 or /mnt/storage/sdcard0.
Check if permissions on all files in the sd card are set to at least 444 (readable by everything)
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Hello,
Veteran SW guy here; but newbie at Android.
I have three tablets. All of them are Ematic Model EGS004. All three were bought for the sole purpose of being used by children to watch educational videos (in mp4 and flv formats) and read PDF documents. Absolutely nothing else. No games. No internet access whatsoever. Etc.
Two of the tablets are still in the box and have not been touched. I'm hoping that they may be useful for making/restoring an original image of the tablets.
To implement the requirements of this project, I did the following to one of the tablets:
1) Used the instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2495069 to get root access with Cydia Impactor and Chainfire SuperSU.
2) Installed Titanium Backup (root). Using this, I uninstalled most of the Google applications (excluding Google Play), messager, YouTube, games, etc.
3) Installed File Manager (Explorer) by Rhythm Software.
4) Installed Shell Terminal Emulator by MobilDev. Using the shell, I went to the /system/lib directory and renamed libwifidisplay.so
and libwpa_client.so to libwifidisplay.disabled and libwpa_client.disabled.
Unfortunately, upon reboot, the tablet gets stuck in the bootup screen (with the ematic logo). Obviously, something about Android causes a hang if an expected kernel module is missing...
I tried using the shell in Cydia Impactor. But, the file system was read only. I tried:
mount -o rw,remount /system
But, I get an "Operation not permitted" since I am not root.
I downloaded the ADB bundle for windows at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download and successfully installed adb on my PC. I could get into a shell with the "adb shell" command. But, the /system/lib directory still is read only and I can't seem to remount it since I am not root.
I tried "adb remount". "Operation not permitted" was the result, again.
Cydia Impactor installs its "su" binary in /system/xbin. I tried running it from there using various invocations like "su -c mount -o rw,remount /system" Each time, the shell hung and I never got a shell prompt afterwards.
Questions:
1) Surely there's a way that I can get back in to rename these files now... I can "ls" them from the adb shell. I can pull them to my PC with adb pull. (adb put doesn't work either since the file system is read only.) Ideas?
2) Once I get this solved, what is the best way to get rid of the wireless capability so that children can never use it? I would like to move videos and PDF's between it and a PC strictly via USB.
3) Is there a way to image/restore one of the untouched tablets - or, for that matter, this one once its up and running like it needs to be?
Thanks everyone!
Jim
Let's try a simpler question since there have been no responses:
Once I get into a shell (non-root) using ADB or Cythia Impactor, I believe I can rename the files if I can only get SuperSU to work. However, when I invoke su, the shell hangs:
su -c ls
su
etc. All of these hang. I assume that SuperSU is waiting for a confirmation from the android display. But, since I'm stuck at the startup screen, there's never an opportunity. How can I get the shell to interact with me as root so that I can remount the file system as RW and rename files?
Thanks,
Jim
rivkah613 said:
Hello,
Veteran SW guy here; but newbie at Android.
I have three tablets. All of them are Ematic Model EGS004. All three were bought for the sole purpose of being used by children to watch educational videos (in mp4 and flv formats) and read PDF documents. Absolutely nothing else. No games. No internet access whatsoever. Etc.
Two of the tablets are still in the box and have not been touched. I'm hoping that they may be useful for making/restoring an original image of the tablets.
To implement the requirements of this project, I did the following to one of the tablets:
1) Used the instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2495069 to get root access with Cydia Impactor and Chainfire SuperSU.
2) Installed Titanium Backup (root). Using this, I uninstalled most of the Google applications (excluding Google Play), messager, YouTube, games, etc.
3) Installed File Manager (Explorer) by Rhythm Software.
4) Installed Shell Terminal Emulator by MobilDev. Using the shell, I went to the /system/lib directory and renamed libwifidisplay.so
and libwpa_client.so to libwifidisplay.disabled and libwpa_client.disabled.
Unfortunately, upon reboot, the tablet gets stuck in the bootup screen (with the ematic logo). Obviously, something about Android causes a hang if an expected kernel module is missing...
I tried using the shell in Cydia Impactor. But, the file system was read only. I tried:
mount -o rw,remount /system
But, I get an "Operation not permitted" since I am not root.
I downloaded the ADB bundle for windows at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download and successfully installed adb on my PC. I could get into a shell with the "adb shell" command. But, the /system/lib directory still is read only and I can't seem to remount it since I am not root.
I tried "adb remount". "Operation not permitted" was the result, again.
Cydia Impactor installs its "su" binary in /system/xbin. I tried running it from there using various invocations like "su -c mount -o rw,remount /system" Each time, the shell hung and I never got a shell prompt afterwards.
Questions:
1) Surely there's a way that I can get back in to rename these files now... I can "ls" them from the adb shell. I can pull them to my PC with adb pull. (adb put doesn't work either since the file system is read only.) Ideas?
2) Once I get this solved, what is the best way to get rid of the wireless capability so that children can never use it? I would like to move videos and PDF's between it and a PC strictly via USB.
3) Is there a way to image/restore one of the untouched tablets - or, for that matter, this one once its up and running like it needs to be?
Thanks everyone!
Jim
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Erratic Ematic
rivkah613 said:
Let's try a simpler question since there have been no responses:
Once I get into a shell (non-root) using ADB or Cythia Impactor, I believe I can rename the files if I can only get SuperSU to work. However, when I invoke su, the shell hangs:
su -c ls
su
etc. All of these hang. I assume that SuperSU is waiting for a confirmation from the android display. But, since I'm stuck at the startup screen, there's never an opportunity. How can I get the shell to interact with me as root so that I can remount the file system as RW and rename files?
Thanks,
Jim
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I rooted my son's EGS004, installed busybox, and played around with it without any apparent problem. When I rebooted it, I was prompted to set up the device then and every subsequent time I rebooted it. I could not install any apps and could not redo the Cydia Impactor rooting procedure. The reason was that /data was reporting itself as 0.00B in size. Factory reset didn't change anything. Ematic wants me to return it.
Your issue sounds different, but it could be something as simple as the device being very unforgiving. There's a pinhole with a reset button (never worked for me but tech support suggested it) which may help.