How do i access /system of my rom on my computer ??
I want to change whole /system folder from another rom and es file explorer doesn't work for it !
Maybe someone can help me ?
invince2 said:
How do i access /system of my rom on my computer ??
I want to change whole /system folder from another rom and es file explorer doesn't work for it !
Maybe someone can help me ?
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Es works. You need to go to settings-tools-root explorer-mount R/W and mount system as writeable
donkeykong1 said:
Es works. You need to go to settings-tools-root explorer-mount R/W and mount system as writeable
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Did that...i wanted to replace the whole /system....and the phone crashes between the copying process...it cannot be done by es.
Need another method to do itfrom my laptop .
invince2 said:
Did that...i wanted to replace the whole /system....and the phone crashes between the copying process...it cannot be done by es.
Need another method to do itfrom my laptop .
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Crash could happen because you don't have enough memory. I did it for some system files on my phone and it always worked fine. But I always deleted the files I wanted to replace first
donkeykong1 said:
Crash could happen because you don't have enough memory. I did it for some system files on my phone and it always worked fine. But I always deleted the files I wanted to replace first
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i really need a solution to access that on my laptop !!
Someone help !
http://m.androidcentral.com/android-201-10-basic-terminal-commands-you-should-know
I would imagine adb would be your best option
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Oh GOD seriously?
Man you cannot replace the WHOLE system in any way except from recovery or bootloader...........NO ADB NO ES NOTHING will work.
ADB is feature that relies in the system of android. And when replacing the WHOLE system, the files needed for adb to work cannot change as they are in use, or if they change your phone will crash.
You can in no way change necessary system files while android is booted up beacause they are in use. Your whole operating system is in /system. Only recovery or bootloader will do.
mnomaanw said:
Oh GOD seriously?
Man you cannot replace the WHOLE system in any way except from recovery or bootloader...........NO ADB NO ES NOTHING will work.
ADB is feature that relies in the system of android. And when replacing the WHOLE system, the files needed for adb to work cannot change as they are in use, or if they change your phone will crash.
You can in no way change necessary system files while android is booted up beacause they are in use. Your whole operating system is in /system. Only recovery or bootloader will do.
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I thought you could use adb in fastboot?
Then push the files
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hossman said:
I thought you could use adb in fastboot?
Then push the files
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Im pretty sure you can't. ADB commands does not work in fastboot and vice-versa. ADB only works in Android environment AFAIK. Though you can use fastboot flash commands and not adb push....
Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up.:thumbup:
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What if i want to just replace some files ??
Is that possible ??
invince2 said:
What if i want to just replace some files ??
Is that possible ??
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Yes, as long as they are not needed for the system to function properly. You can replace them with ES or Push them via ADB with root access.
Related
Hi,
I'm attempting to replace Email.apk on my miui rom. This is the method I am using:
Code:
adb push Email.apk /sdcard/
adb shell
su
rm /system/app/Email.apk
rm /system/app/Email.odex
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system
cp /sdcard/Email.apk /system/app
reboot
When the phone has rebooted, my changes do not take affect. To check, I pulled the /system/app/Email.apk back, and found it to be the original version.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks,
Have figured this out...
adb appears to send some kind of cached version over. Renaming the file before transferring forced adb to use the correct file, and all is well.
jimhaddon said:
Have figured this out...
adb appears to send some kind of cached version over. Renaming the file before transferring forced adb to use the correct file, and all is well.
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How? I like to know too, guide step by step....thanks
You mean renaming the original file first to any name then copy the moded file with the original name ?
If that what u mean , so I better to delete the original one first then but enstead my moded file . Is that right ?
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Just use something like root explorer, no need for adb...
Joey2o11 said:
Just use something like root explorer, no need for adb...
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I tried to use root explorer to change phone.apk, it didnt work.. i changed the file but it kept on crashing all the time ...
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hielo_te said:
I tried to use root explorer to change phone.apk, it didnt work.. i changed the file but it kept on crashing all the time ...
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You'll get lots of FCs until you reboot the phone then it should be fine.
Hi all.
I'm trying to copy some files to the system partition after enabling write on read-only partitions and remounting it and everything is success, but when I restart the phone, files get deleted and partition back to original. I tried ES file explore and Total Commander.
Galaxy S2, cMIUI 2.10 JB
Hmm.. seems like a hard question!
Elancore said:
Hi all.
I'm trying to copy some files to the system partition after enabling write on read-only partitions and remounting it and everything is success, but when I restart the phone, files get deleted and partition back to original. I tried ES file explore and Total Commander.
Galaxy S2, cMIUI 2.10 JB
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Elancore said:
Hmm.. seems like a hard question!
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Hey,
no not a hard question but a bit confusing
So the copy to system works without probs?
Do u have root-enabled on it?
U can try Solid explorer once, too, to be sure.
CHEERS
I enabled root explorer and I mounted the file system to be writable, yes I have a rooted phone.
I can copy to system root folders anything (media files), the files stay there until I reboot the phone then they disappear, they get deleted maybe? how to disable that?
Thanks
Elancore said:
I enabled root explorer and I mounted the file system to be writable, yes I have a rooted phone.
I can copy to system root folders anything (media files), the files stay there until I reboot the phone then they disappear, they get deleted maybe? how to disable that?
Thanks
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That listen like u have to save changes?!
Pls try the Solid explorer (for me the best explorer ever)
Copy files and have a look for root-acces request (should be asked for Solid, if it's new)
The copy/replace the file.
CHEERS
Thanks Hannibal for reply, I got no luck on doing it, they still get removed after reboot. Is there a way to flash these files that I want to copy to system as an update.zip?
Elancore said:
Thanks Hannibal for reply, I got no luck on doing it, they still get removed after reboot. Is there a way to flash these files that I want to copy to system as an update.zip?
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Sure there's a way, but I can't help u with it, sorry.
With new Titanium Backup u can create flashable .zips but for sure only from isntalled apps.
Maybe u have a look at google. I remind for a tool which u just say what u wanna flash an it creates the flashable .zip.
Much success....
CHEERS
Edit: Sorry but couldn't answer u yesterday.
XDA had a prob for a while
When I use an explorer like ES explorer or Root explorer I can go to system/ and find several files & folders.
However, when going to recovery and using the TWRP File manager or by using ADB Shell the System-folder is empty except for a folder named bin/. No sign of build.prop or any other files/folders.
Can anyone please help me explain why this is so? Is this normal?
wish someone knew the answer to this
really irritating ... i am using note 2 using philz CWM it's alright and the aroma file manager works like a charm .. but using TWRP .. same problem even the aroma file manager get's crippled ...
i really prefer twrp .. but until there's a fix i am sticking to CWM
Gnopps said:
When I use an explorer like ES explorer or Root explorer I can go to system/ and find several files & folders.
However, when going to recovery and using the TWRP File manager or by using ADB Shell the System-folder is empty except for a folder named bin/. No sign of build.prop or any other files/folders.
Can anyone please help me explain why this is so? Is this normal?
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i face the same problem now, maybe it's RE who hide such kind of information from users to prevent the system
On the TWRP home screen, select mount and check the "system" box. You should now be able to browse the entire system directory.
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dalvikna said:
i face the same problem now, maybe it's RE who hide such kind of information from users to prevent the system
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Go to TWRP, go to Mounts and select system.
Now you will be able to see contents of /system partition.
Press Thanks if helped.
Hand Solo said:
On the TWRP home screen, select mount and check the "system" box. You should now be able to browse the entire system directory.
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Thank you
Hand Solo said:
On the TWRP home screen, select mount and check the "system" box. You should now be able to browse the entire system directory.
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hnkotnis said:
Go to TWRP, go to Mounts and select system.
Now you will be able to see contents of /system partition.
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You're my savior. Messed up by build.prop file so much to the point of bootlooping, and just needed to delete it and dirty-reflash my rom, without a computer. But everytime I would do that, it would preserve build.prop for some reason, anyway, Thanks
Thanks!
Hand Solo said:
On the TWRP home screen, select mount and check the "system" box. You should now be able to browse the entire system directory.
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Thank you... this was what i needed.
hnkotnis said:
Go to TWRP, go to Mounts and select system.
Now you will be able to see contents of /system partition.
Press Thanks if helped.
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thank you
Plesse. Somebody can help me. I can't mount data because, ask me for a password so i cant get INTI data folder, to delete my password
hnkotnis said:
Go to TWRP, go to Mounts and select system.
Now you will be able to see contents of /system partition.
Press Thanks if helped.
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Lol... ran into this today and wanted to just impress upon folks just how amazing and encouraging it can be when someone takes the time to type out a response/suggestion.
In this case, 6yrs after the hnkotnis made this simple post, I'm rushing through a bunch of stuff, screwed up my build.prop (experimenting) and then came up against a roadblock where I couldn't restore my build.prop backup in TWRP.
I was confused as hell - I'm a relatively advanced used with several hundred ROM flashes under my belt and lots of troubleshooting capability but here I am absolutely stalled out on an issue that just drives me up the wall. I'm about to cave and just reset the phone entirely but figure I'll ask the question of Google.
I arrive here and within 10s I'm saying "Duh" to myself... grab the backed up build.prop, repeat the process and I'm back in business.
hnkotnis; if you're still around and part of this community - thank you! You're one of the good ones that make XDA what it is.
It might've seemed silly at the time and perhaps even a moment to make this post but I don't think we can understate the importance of community like this...
Cheers:highfive:
Hey there guys!
Well this is gonna sound a bit ridiculous but I've actually deleted Launcher2.apk and SystemUI.apk instead of copied them (stupid yeah I know I could eat my face off right now...) and I need them back. There's no official ROM available for download which pretty much sucks so I can't get them anywhere. So if anyone here has the same tablet as me, consider sharing those two system apps with me.
Thanks.
Benzonat0r said:
Hey there guys!
Well this is gonna sound a bit ridiculous but I've actually deleted Launcher2.apk and SystemUI.apk instead of copied them (stupid yeah I know I could eat my face off right now...) and I need them back. There's no official ROM available for download which pretty much sucks so I can't get them anywhere. So if anyone here has the same tablet as me, consider sharing those two system apps with me.
Thanks.
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I am surprised that there isn't any restore system. Looks if you have a kernel menu with touch combinaison. Like us with power on button + vol up.
Bizcuite
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Well I can get into recovery easily but it's useless, can't mount external sd card so I can't flash anything.
Benzonat0r said:
Well I can get into recovery easily but it's useless, can't mount external sd card so I can't flash anything.
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Just to be sure you have no way to reflash any firmware?
Else try to connect your tab to your computer and use adb even if your system bootloop. Try to install adb and push your missing files.
I doubt that there are no firmwares to download.
If they havr used the same boot like archos. The mount of the sdcard depend of the initramfs (ramdisk) not the OS.
Bizcuite
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bizcuite said:
Just to be sure you have no way to reflash any firmware?
Else try to connect your tab to your computer and use adb even if your system bootloop. Try to install adb and push your missing files.
I doubt that there are no firmwares to download.
If they havr used the same boot like archos. The mount of the sdcard depend of the initramfs (ramdisk) not the OS.
Bizcuite
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It's not in a boot loop it just hangs at "bootanimation" (If you'd call it that I know I wouldn't) and wham stays like this forever.
Oh and another problem.
Code:
adb shell
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed no such file or directory (2) -
Can't push files from recovery because I need to mount /system. I can't do that because adb shell isn't working.
I don't see 7h G3 anywhere, see for yourself.
http://arnovatech.com/support/updates_fwm.html?country=gb&lang=en
Benzonat0r said:
Hey there guys!
Well this is gonna sound a bit ridiculous but I've actually deleted Launcher2.apk and SystemUI.apk instead of copied them (stupid yeah I know I could eat my face off right now...) and I need them back. There's no official ROM available for download which pretty much sucks so I can't get them anywhere. So if anyone here has the same tablet as me, consider sharing those two system apps with me.
Thanks.
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I have the same tablet, if you need these two files ... here they are: View attachment Launcher2.apk
View attachment SystemUI.apk
Just in case when still struggling or for future need:
unbrick-and-reflash-arnova-7h-g3-solved
Running sense 5 rom version y5... situation : I play a game called imobsters so I need to copy files (.tff files) into system/fonts folder.. I do it everything copies.. I did it rw mounted method on es file explorer.. when I log back into imobsters.. on certain usernames it doesn't display their names.. all I see is blank spaces and empty boxes.. is there a fix for this or way around it on sense roms.. I had no problem copying these files on mean bean rom.. please help... an Thnx in advance
Need to figure out how to DISPLAY emoji not type it.. would be another way of saying this
Did you set proper permissions after copying the files?
Captain_Throwback said:
Did you set proper permissions after copying the files?
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I mounted as rw when I did an even tried this method: drag files to any folder on your internal memory. boot into recovery, mount data n system, go to file manager n look for your files, click on the files n move it to system/font. wipe cache, reboot
chico260 said:
I mounted as rw when I did an even tried this method: drag files to any folder on your internal memory. boot into recovery, mount data n system, go to file manager n look for your files, click on the files n move it to system/font. wipe cache, reboot
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Again, doesn't sound like you set permissions.
Captain_Throwback said:
Again, doesn't sound like you set permissions.
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Would you happen to know the correct permissions
chico260 said:
Would you happen to know the correct permissions
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No, but I'd use whatever permissions the other files in the folder have .
Captain_Throwback said:
No, but I'd use whatever permissions the other files in the folder have .
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Tried an still didn't work.. would s-on be a factor?...
chico260 said:
Tried an still didn't work.. would s-on be a factor?...
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Get Rom toolbox and go to the interface section and click on fonts. Now click Local fonts. Now you want to find the font you want on your SD card and install them in a click. So Simple. Much Easy. Fast. Such amazement. Wow. (Doge meme hahaha)
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