Using terminal emulator - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me somewhere I could go to learn command prompts for the terminal emulator on our phone... I've googled it, but there's nothing there that im looking for... I wanna start to learn.. any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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Learn some basic Linux commands.
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Our phones are stripped versions of linux basically as stated previously

first type in "su" without "", so then you can edit your system files etc..
google some
some are
reboot
reboot download
reboot recovery
etc

xriderx66 said:
first type in "su" without "", so then you can edit your system files etc..
google some
some are
reboot
reboot download
reboot recovery
etc
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Right, regardless of the two posts stating that Android is basically Linux being technically correct, you will find very few shell commands that actually work. Of the ones you do find, most of the switches and options will not work. The commands mentioned by xriderx66 are ADB commands, and you may have better luck concentrating on those. The phone does not have a full shell, it only has busybox, which is a stripped down version of a shell with most popular shell programs built in. The busybox on the phones are highly stripped down even for busybox. In fact this phone is the only shell I have ever used that does not even recognize the command switches for ls.
Here is an ADB tutorial.

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[Q] Please Help! Uninstalling AT&T apps on rooted HTC Aria

Hello,
I rooted my HTC Aria this weekend but it looks like it picked to wrong rom and the AT&T apps are still installed. I used Titanium Back Up (full version)phone app to tried to uninstall them but it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to uninstall AT&T apps on rooted Aria running 2.1?
Thanks
Im new to all this unrooting and rooting and roms and all of that but I absolutely hate how ATT puts all of that unusuable crap on the phone and doesnt allow you to remove it
Moved to HTC Aria specific forum.
Cheers,
Search, there's a thread for an alternative method to remove the bloatware. Of course the other alternative is to flash attns liberated or cm6.1 RC1 rom...just do a quick browse of the aria general/aria development...you'll find what you're looking for
Edit: thinice is the author of the aforementioned "alternative method: removing bloatware" thread which is in the aria development subforum. I'd link you but don't think I can using the xda app
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piyanee said:
Hello,
I rooted my HTC Aria this weekend but it looks like it picked to wrong rom and the AT&T apps are still installed. I used Titanium Back Up (full version)phone app to tried to uninstall them but it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to uninstall AT&T apps on rooted Aria running 2.1?
Thanks
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What Rom did u use?
Did u wipe all data in clockwork?
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you can remove bloatware easily enough using SDK Tools.
with Windows OS:
Run CMD prompt, navigate to SDK/Tools folder, then enter the following commands...
"LS" then Enter to list the installed Apps
"RM Facebook.apk" Enter and "RM Facebook.odex" Enter.
im doing this strictly from memory, so it may not be 100% accurate. there is a guide for this somewhere here, but you get the idea
zedbra said:
you can remove bloatware easily enough using SDK Tools.
with Windows OS:
Run CMD prompt, navigate to SDK/Tools folder, then enter the following commands...
"LS" then Enter to list the installed Apps
"RM Facebook.apk" Enter and "RM Facebook.odex" Enter.
im doing this strictly from memory, so it may not be 100% accurate. there is a guide for this somewhere here, but you get the idea
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1) you have to boot to recovery/clockwork
2) then mount /system and /data
3) Start->Run->cmd
>adb shell
>cd /system/app
>ls -l
>rm com.facebook.whatever
I also had to >rm -r /data/data/com.facebook.whatever
as well as >adb uninstall com.facebook.whatever
to get some of the apps completely off the phone.

when a cooked rom??

When will it arrive?for 101 i mean
It won't happen until we get permanant root. No telling when that will happen.
a better question is, when will root be available, doesn't seem we have people with the right skills interested on the 101
Does the rageagainstthemachine root patch not work? Are you able to get to the /data/local directory and place something there that will allow for a flash_image command to be run? Do we know if they have the same type of hardware-level protection like HTC does?
EDIT: Can someone do the following:
1. download the rage zip enclosed, and unzip to it's own directory
2. run the following from your command prompt, assuming you have the Android SDK installed and in the path
adb push root/rageagainstthecage /data/local/tmp
adb shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage
./data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage
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It should kick you out and display some messages on the screen...just not errors. Then type:
adb shell
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You Should see a "#".
If so, then we have temp root and then we should be able to perform some other functions like flash a recovery, etc....
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jerdog said:
Does the rageagainstthemachine root patch not work? Are you able to get to the /data/local directory and place something there that will allow for a flash_image command to be run? Do we know if they have the same type of hardware-level protection like HTC does?
EDIT: Can someone do the following:
1. download the rage zip enclosed, and unzip to it's own directory
2. run the following from your command prompt, assuming you have the Android SDK installed and in the path
It should kick you out and display some messages on the screen...just not errors. Then type:
You Should see a "#".
If so, then we have temp root and then we should be able to perform some other functions like flash a recovery, etc....
Sent with my fingertips and voice on my Evo
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It does not work as of the latest Archos firmware. All the previous firmwares/z4root work fine for temp root. The ADB device part of the Archos just never comes back (doesn't show in device manager for instance). I do not know if this helps, but Archos also has a crippled busybox and it seems furthered crippled as of the last firmware upgrade.
Tsusai said:
It does not work as of the latest Archos firmware. All the previous firmwares/z4root work fine for temp root. The ADB device part of the Archos just never comes back (doesn't show in device manager for instance). I do not know if this helps, but Archos also has a crippled busybox and it seems furthered crippled as of the last firmware upgrade.
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Maybe have something to do with newer ARM architecture?
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Why do you need permanent root?
Archos kindly released SDE which provides a way to install your own builds in dual boot.
Some links for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871335
http://www.openaos.org/
IRC #openaos on freenode
Maurice
The SDE require booting in recovery mode, and people said that it's often not perfect.
A permanent root for main OS would still be very useful, and still allow us to dual boot when we need to..
I think so too. PermaRoot would be very usefull.

[Q] Imoseyon leanKernel V2.4

So I feel like a total Noob, which i am, but I cannot get this new Kernel to work for me. I do the following steps:
1) Open Terminal Emulator (install it from market if you don't have it).
2) Type "su" (without quotes) and hit enter.
3) Type "speedtweak.sh" (without quotes) and hit enter.
When I type in and I get speadtweak.sh and i get Speedtweak.sh not found... what in the world am I doing wrong?
when terminal boots up I get:
$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$
when your terminal boots up-
$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$
-- You need remember ALWAYS lower sensitive case characters
type su hit return
it will come up #
then
type speedtweak.sh hit return
There you will access the dialog output from speedtweak.sh.
Good luck
You have to install BusyBox. If you haven't it'll show up as "not found".
Having same issue. Busybox is installed even tried using adb shell. Any advice?
Did you install the kernel through Rom Manager or through Recovery? If it was through Rom Manager it could have been a bad flash.
Also, you can try this
I found this thread through google, searching for "speedtweak.sh not found." I dislike necroposting but I tried various suggestions found on multiple websites and none of them worked for me. I kept getting the same error code. Hopefully this will help someone else with the same issue. I don't know much about Linux/Unix so I am always extremely methodical about typing in commands precisely as they're posted, double-checking each step so I'm certain I did everything correctly.
I finally solved the issue for me by entering in the following in Terminal Emulator.
su
/sbin/speedtweak.sh
Typing in the full path for the speedtweak script worked for me. Perhaps someone with more experience can explain why that was necessary. Were we working in DOS, I'd know to add C:/sbin/ to the autoexec.bat path line... :silly:
Terminal emulator from the market had something changed in the last update so for some reason now you have to manually enter it or change the path in the settings.
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What is Gfree?

I've got a few questions about Gfree.
1. What is it?
2. Is it a part of Android SDK or do I get it as stand alone tool?
3. Do I use it on the phone or on the PC in the command mode?
thanks.
this may give you a clue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik..._Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29_using_gfree_v0.7
if not try looking here: stfw
NO. I've been at that link already.
It does not explain what Gfree is.
It only says to use commands like this:# ./gfree -f -b hboot-eng.img -y recovery.img
No explanation.
And Google does not give any good links either.
bumping up.
G-free is an application to gain permanent root access to your phone. The commands are what determines what you want the application to do such as sim unlock, s=off and such.
Also it is a standalone tool but adb is used to push the file to the phone. Commands are done through terminal emulator on the phone.
lowandbehold - thank you very much.
So this is something like z4root or SuperOneClick -a stand alone rooting app...
It just needs commands through terminal emulator.
The same concerns Rage?

Are Root and ADB root different things?

Hey guys,
I currently have LeoMar Revolution ROM installed, so phone is rooted, Superuser works fine etc.
Want to start playing around with adb (am new to this) and have the device showing up when running 'adb devices' but i cannot get adb root? Although the device is rooted ok?
So question is (yes i searched but cant find the answer) are phone root and adb root different things?
If so how do i go about getting adb root so i can push apps etc from cmd line?
Thanks in advance
kangfu84 said:
Hey guys,
I currently have LeoMar Revolution ROM installed, so phone is rooted, Superuser works fine etc.
Want to start playing around with adb (am new to this) and have the device showing up when running 'adb devices' but i cannot get adb root? Although the device is rooted ok?
So question is (yes i searched but cant find the answer) are phone root and adb root different things?
If so how do i go about getting adb root so i can push apps etc from cmd line?
Thanks in advance
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When through cmd, you write su and press enter
If you get a $ sign, then you aren't adb rooted!
If you get a # sign, then you are adb rooted!
Umm, for adb root, I guess use superoneclick root and click shell root, you will get the # sign then!
Thanks for quick reply
I run abd shell and then su and i do get the #.
id=0 so i have root in an 'abd shell' but i cant get root when i just put 'adb root'
Tried to adb push the apks manually in adb shell but adb push doesnt exist in shell?
But i am trying to run a batch file that pushes some hidden apks and i get the error "cannot run as root in production builds" when i run the batch file?
Edit: I may have had a secure kernel installed, will try another kernel and re-try. Is it possible to have su rights when booted up with a secure kernel? That would explain things ..
kangfu84 said:
Thanks for quick reply
I run abd shell and then su and i do get the #.
id=0 so i have root in an 'abd shell' but i cant get root when i just put 'adb root'
But i am trying to run a batch file that pushes some hidden apks and i get the error "cannot run as root in production builds" when i run the batch file?
Edit: I may have had a secure kernel installed, will try another kernel and re-try. Is it possible to have su rights when booted up with a secure kernel? That would explain things ..
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I have never tried doing pushing/pulling on stock/secure kernels ... so I can't tell you what's going wrong!
Will have a play with flashing other kernels and try again.
I have the yellow triangle show up on boot so i thought i had an insecure kernel. But maybe it is just there from when i installed a previous ROM/insecure kernel?
kangfu84 said:
Will have a play with flashing other kernels and try again.
I have the yellow triangle show up on boot so i thought i had an insecure kernel. But maybe it is just there from when i installed a previous ROM/insecure kernel?
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Yellow triangle means you have a insecure kernel, maybe, Cf-root
"adb root" was only available on the original "Google dev phones" and requires special code somewhere on the phone (in the kernal?) to support it. When you root the phone it does not include the special code for "adb root" to work. I don't know what you need to do to get it working, but most people don't bother because there are other ways to do the same thing.
{Build:KI4, Version:1.3.4 (stock, rooted)}
LouisJB said:
"adb root" was only available on the original "Google dev phones" and requires special code somewhere on the phone (in the kernal?) to support it. When you root the phone it does not include the special code for "adb root" to work. I don't know what you need to do to get it working, but most people don't bother because there are other ways to do the same thing.
{Build:KI4, Version:1.3.4 (stock, rooted)}
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Can i adb push apk's as su in an adb shell?
If so i guess i can push the apks i want to manually instead of using the batch file which is trying to get adb root.
kangfu84 said:
Can i adb push apk's as su in an adb shell?
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1. If you use one of my insecure kernels, adb will be running as root, issue "adb root" and it will reply "adb is already running as root"
2. Yes you can adb push when using su root.
3. Why do you want to push APKs? If its to install them, then just use adb install <FILE NAME>
adb root can be used when ro.debuggable is set to 1 in /default.prop
and on every reboot ro.debuggable is replaced by the one in kernel you are using
Why did you bump a thread from November 2011 to post this gem? Is that what "Recognized Contributors" do? I did wonder.
Geez Oinky. I could really take that comment of yours (which is true on so many levels) & run with it ;-) But I can't be arsed these days (like more than a few people on here).
Probably one of the criteria for getting RC status; how many 8 mth old threads you bump over X period of time
oinkylicious said:
Why did you bump a thread from November 2011 to post this gem? Is that what "Recognized Contributors" do? I did wonder.
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i was googling something related to this but not this and found this thread, readed it all and found that no one had answered this
then i thought many others can also look for this and i thought of answering for others who are googling for it not for the op, because i know op had got the answer many moths ago
and real xda member never offense but help others

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