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htc hero running vinnalian 1.1 with amon recovery image
windows running 64bit ultimate
8 gig micro sd card with ext3 partion
now to the problem i have the sdk but every time i try to run adb remount it says remount command unknown this is when the phone is on, if i boot into recovery mode and type adb shell it finds the phone , but any other command throws up a /sh: adb error
can i enable apps2sd just buy running terminal on the phone its self via subfs and type su followed buy apps2sd on or do i have to use adb via windows
please help me out guys buy 1) telling me what is wrong with adb setup and 2) if i can do this just via the phone
thanks in advance
Have you enabled USB debugging on the phone itself?
Regards,
Dave
yes mate sorry i forgot to mention that didnt i lol
I also use Windows 7 64-bit, so have the same type of adb issues. To get around this, I use a Ubuntu (32-bit) VMWare machine that I wake up whenever I need to do adb things. Works like a charm.
Hi,
I have a Spice Mi-270 dual sim android 2.2 phone.Searching on the internet I came across an article where the procedure for installing the apps by default to sdcard is possible for non rooted phones.I tried it but when I type "adb devices" I get a blank list under list of devices attached.My phone came with the usb drivers, I have installed that.Tried installing Google USB driver package,revision 4.When the phone is plugged in get the message on the phone "USB Debugging started".Windows device manager shows "Android Phone" > Android Composite ADB Interface.Still my device is not detected with the "adb devices" command.I am using winxp pro sp3 32bit.Please Guide!
(If I have posted in the wrong section please inform me where to post)
I probably won't be helping. But on my un-rooted HTC Sensation i just have an app called app2sd. After i installed an app, if it's supported, i copy it to sd card.
Can't you just use that and save the hassle?
try this apps2sd
I have already installed the apps2sd but as said one can move the apps to sd if and only if supported by the app.Besides Android 2.2 by default provides the option to supported apps.How do I change the default install path to sd without rooting?
sounds like u need to root it and add the a2sd+ scripts OR root, install rom with a2sd+ and partition sd card accordingly.
do0b said:
sounds like u need to root it and add the a2sd+ scripts OR root, install rom with a2sd+ and partition sd card accordingly.
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Sorry doOb but I am not looking at rooting my phone but use the option
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2.
Why not root your phone? At the end or the day you still can unroot it. It's not like you flash to a different Rom and lost your stock Rom.
As far as I know your running froyo you already have move app to SD at the manage application in setting. There are free market app that can help you to move apps to SD with simple clicks without going to setting with the slow loading.
I'm afraid there are no default to app to SD unless you root your Rom and flash a2sd script like darktermor to make the whole process default. Better still, you also need to partition your card with an ext partition for it to work.
By the way... You should be able to adb shell your phone with a proper setup from your pc. You need to look for adb shell howto.
Sounds like your doing it from the wrong folder at cmd if your using windows. Try start cmd from the folder with adb.exe or set your system path to include the folder with adb.exe. I'm not with a pc now, I can't direct you. You have to look for it on what I mean.
By the way, can you also post the link for the article you found?
I have friends that can't root their phone. E.g HTC wildfire s
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darryl_co said:
Hi,
I have a Spice Mi-270 dual sim android 2.2 phone.Searching on the internet I came across an article where the procedure for installing the apps by default to sdcard is possible for non rooted phones.I tried it but when I type "adb devices" I get a blank list under list of devices attached.My phone came with the usb drivers, I have installed that.Tried installing Google USB driver package,revision 4.When the phone is plugged in get the message on the phone "USB Debugging started".Windows device manager shows "Android Phone" > Android Composite ADB Interface.Still my device is not detected with the "adb devices" command.I am using winxp pro sp3 32bit.Please Guide!
(If I have posted in the wrong section please inform me where to post)
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Sounds like the original issue was the pc not seeing the device....I know this may be elementary, but do you have it in "charge only" mode and not in the disk drive mode?
"Sounds like your doing it from the wrong folder at cmd if your using windows. Try start cmd from the folder with adb.exe or set your system path to include the folder with adb.exe." - pysionx
I am starting cmd from the folder with adb.exe that laocated in platform-tools.If I was not doing so I would get the error " 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file." and on typing adb devices in the cmd prompt I would not get the answer "list of devices"
pysionx - "By the way, can you also post the link for the article you found?"
Unfortunately no as this is my first post I am not allowed by the administrator to do so.Please Check out the attachment.Sorry for giving you the trouble to download attachment.
pfroyjr - "Sounds like the original issue was the pc not seeing the device"
If the pc does not see the device how do I get in Windows device manager showing "Android Phone" > Android Composite ADB Interface.
pfroyjr - "I know this may be elementary, but do you have it in "charge only" mode and not in the disk drive mode?"
I do not have it in "charge only" mode but in the disk drive mode, USB debugging started is the message received in the notification area.
But this causes hw to crash!
root_toor said:
But this causes hw to crash!
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I sorry but I did not understand. what causes hardware to crash?
Google "Spice driver" I'll find a link if you can't. Windows is odd with its drivers sometimes. I remember the first time I ever used SDK I had to remove the default drivers and install the one from HTC but recently just installing the driver was good enough and I've only used adb and not the SDK. just a suggestion.
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EDIT: I forgot which posting I was replying to, sorry....
I found THIS which sounds like it's an issue with the phone and maybe not the same Android OS that everyone else has....just what I read. Happy Googling my friend. Sounds like it's a cool device, just not quite up to par with adb.
I do have the drivers of my mobile Spice Mi-270 which was shipped along with the phone. The drivers files are of similar names with that of the google usb drivers for android except for the file versions.
Thanks pfroyjr for the link.It seems it is the problem with the phone itself as I am not the only one facing the problem with adb comand.
darryl_co said:
I do have the drivers of my mobile Spice Mi-270 which was shipped along with the phone. The drivers files are of similar names with that of the google usb drivers for android except for the file versions.
Thanks pfroyjr for the link.It seems it is the problem with the phone itself as I am not the only one facing the problem with adb comand.
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Best advice is stay active searching for an answer...someone will eventually figure it out
I think it can be done with the help of adb .
Just run command from the folder having adb.exe file after connecting your phone in USB Debugging Mode.
"adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2"
YOu can change it to default by the following command.
"adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0"
Type the commands without quotes....
Hope it helps!!!
darryl_co said:
I have already installed the apps2sd but as said one can move the apps to sd if and only if supported by the app.Besides Android 2.2 by default provides the option to supported apps.How do I change the default install path to sd without rooting?
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Hey try this adb command from the directory having adb.exe file after connecting your phone to your pc by enabling USB Debugging Mode on it.
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2
You can change it back to default by this command ..
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0
Hope it helps you ...
yagya said:
Hey try this adb command from the directory having adb.exe file after connecting your phone to your pc by enabling USB Debugging Mode on it.
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2
You can change it back to default by this command ..
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0
Hope it helps you ...
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when I type "adb devices" I get a blank list under list of devices attached.When my phone is not listed how would the adb shell pm setInstallLocation command work ?
but The pc does see the device and I get in Windows device manager showing "Android Phone" > Android Composite ADB Interface.
Try to install universal root/z4root/any other rooting app and shell commander in your phone then root your device temporarily (temporary root means root will be removed when you reboot)with universal root asn then in shell commander type the commands
su
pm SetInstallLocation 2
and then you can unroot your phone
Also if you want to change back do the same but change 2(externel) to 0(auto)
Hope it helped you!!!
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Try to install universal root/z4root/any other rooting app and shell commander in your phone then root your device temporarily (temporary root means root will be removed when you reboot)with universal root asn then in shell commander type the commands
su
pm SetInstallLocation 2
and then you can unroot your phone
Also if you want to change back do the same but change 2(externel) to 0(auto)
Hope it helped you!!!
yagya said:
Try to install universal root/z4root/any other rooting app and shell commander in your phone then root your device temporarily (temporary root means root will be removed when you reboot)with universal root asn then in shell commander type the commands
su
pm SetInstallLocation 2
and then you can unroot your phone
Also if you want to change back do the same but change 2(externel) to 0(auto)
Hope it helped you!!!)
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I installed universal androot and rooted the phone.
Instead of shell commander I installed Move2SD Enabler.The move2sd had three radio buttons Auto, Internal and External.Initially it displayed the radio button on Auto.I selected External and clicked apply.Now it shows External.Then I unrooted the phone.In Apps2SD I found many apps that were listed under phone only under movable apps.Few questions do arise
1.If I restore to factory defaults will the installation to external storage be resetted?
2.Whenever I Install new apps it gets installed in the phones internal storage and the I have to move to sd.Why is that so?
3.Even after moving to the sd some amount remains in the phone internal storage.why?
4.Can I check using shell commander if the install location has changed? what is the command? Do I have to root the phone again to use the command?
darryl_co said:
I installed universal androot and rooted the phone.
Instead of shell commander I installed Move2SD Enabler.The move2sd had three radio buttons Auto, Internal and External.Initially it displayed the radio button on Auto.I selected External and clicked apply.Now it shows External.Then I unrooted the phone.In Apps2SD I found many apps that were listed under phone only under movable apps.Few questions do arise
1.If I restore to factory defaults will the installation to external storage be resetted?
2.Whenever I Install new apps it gets installed in the phones internal storage and the I have to move to sd.Why is that so?
3.Even after moving to the sd some amount remains in the phone internal storage.why?
4.Can I check using shell commander if the install location has changed? what is the command? Do I have to root the phone again to use the command?
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Restoring factory default settings will reset default install location to auto.
Since you used move to sd enabler it only makes all apps movable to sd but doesn't move them automatically.
System apps and Those apps that don't support app to sd by default can't be completely moved to sd card
Yes, you can check using shell commander but you need to riot you phone to use the command.
pm getInstallLocation
(returns default install location)
pm setInstallLocation 2
(installs app direct to external storage)
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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 want to make my android settings to be able move any apps to SD card.My phone is Lenovo A850.So,I tried this option.Using command promt on windows and type this adb devices but my device not on list attached. How to install drivers for this devices. I already enable usb debugging.Please help me.!!!
YoLanC said:
I want to make my android settings to be able move any apps to SD card.My phone is Lenovo A850.So,I tried this option.Using command promt on windows and type this adb devices but my device not on list attached. How to install drivers for this devices. I already enable usb debugging.Please help me.!!!
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If you have root, you can use a simple app called AppMgr III (Apps 2 SD):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
It allows you to move apps to either internal or external storage easily!
Hey Guys,
Been lurking for a while. I want to get into some Android development. I bought a cheap Galaxy Tab s SM-T800 from ebay. It was a retail unit, so came with the usual retail protection, but that was no issue, I've reflashed it and rooted it, it is now running 6.0.1 with build number MMb29K.T800XXU1CRJ1.
The issue is, there are a bunch of apps and files that appear to be left over from the retail demo mode, and I can't remove them. The apps won't uninstall, it just says "uninstall unsuccessful", and the files, when I try to delete them, it just says "failed to delete".
Even after freshly restoring the new firmware, the storage on this device is pretty much zero, a lot of the space being taken up with the files and apps that I can't remove.
There was just about enough space remaining to install System App Remover, but that couldn't delete the files and apps either.
How are these files being write protected? How do I go about removing the write protection? I'm wondering if this device, because it was a retail demo unit, was configured with some kind of write protected partition, which is why the storage is so low, and why I can't delete the apps?
Any thoughts, this is driving me nuts.
Thanks
Install a file manager that allows to mount the partitions in question as READ-WRITE, thus folders/files can get deleted
jwoegerbauer said:
Install a file manager that allows to mount the partitions in question as READ-WRITE, thus folders/files can get deleted
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Thanks, but I can't install any of the file manager apps, as there is not enough free space. I'll need to do it by connecting from Windows. What android partition/file manager would be a good one to use from Windows?
DotNetDude said:
Thanks, but I can't install any of the file manager apps, as there is not enough free space. I'll need to do it by connecting from Windows. What android partition/file manager would be a good one to use from Windows?
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Because your device is rooted, you use ADB ( read: Android Debug Bridge ) - what you've to install on your Windows computer - to manage this device - you must have turned on Developer options -> USB Debugging on it, of course: IMHO the only the chance you have.
Once done so, you connect your device via USB cable with Windows computer, then in Windows command prompt run the commands as follows - one after one:
Code:
adb devices
adb root
adb shell mount -o rw,remount / -t auto
If success then your Android device completly is switched to READ-WRITE mode, you then via further relevant ADB commands can remove folders/files which you consider dispensable, even apps if you know their package name, and so on ...
jwoegerbauer said:
Because your device is rooted, you use ADB ( read: Android Debug Bridge ) - what you've to install on your Windows computer - to manage this device - you must have turned on Developer options -> USB Debugging on it, of course: IMHO the only the chance you have.
Once done so, you connect your device via USB cable with Windows computer, then in Windows command prompt run the commands as follows - one after one:
Code:
adb devices
adb root
adb shell mount -o rw,remount / -t auto
If success then your Android device completly is switched to READ-WRITE mode, you then via further relevant ADB commands can remove folders/files which you consider dispensable, even apps if you know their package name, and so on ...
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Thanks for your details.
So I tired this but the adb root command wasn't working. It was coming up with the message:
adbd cannot run as root in production builds
So after a bit of research, I found the adp insecure app from Chainfire, that apparently resolves this exact problem. So I've deployed that to the tab and run it, but now when I connect the tablet to my PC, the PC doesn't connect. I get the charging symbol on the tab, so the connection is in place, but it is not detected by the pc, so I can't connect using adb.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated?
Thanks
DotNetDude said:
Thanks for your details.
So I tired this but the adb root command wasn't working. It was coming up with the message:
adbd cannot run as root in production builds
So after a bit of research, I found the adp insecure app from Chainfire, that apparently resolves this exact problem. So I've deployed that to the tab and run it, but now when I connect the tablet to my PC, the PC doesn't connect. I get the charging symbol on the tab, so the connection is in place, but it is not detected by the pc, so I can't connect using adb.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated?
Thanks
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I realise I am responding to my own message!
Now that I am running with adb insecure, I have realisd that the USB debugging mode from developer settings is working in reverse. That is, if I enable it, the tab detaches form the PC. If I disable it, the tab reconnects to the pc. However with that setting disabled, and the pc connected, when I then run the command adb devices, it says there are no devices connected (even though I can browse to the tablet through windows explorer)
From within the adb insecure app on the tablet, when I enable the app, I can see it displays a message that says USB debugging is disabled.
I have no idea what is going on here...
Any help much appreciated?
Thanks
@DotNetDude
May be reading this helps.
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@DotNetDude
May be reading this helps.
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Thanks for this. Actually, adbd insecure was just causing more problems. In the end I have resolved this by extracting the PIT file and re-partitioning. Firmware then restored correctly and all the problems are now gone, and there is plenty of free space remaining.