Hi guys! I need help because I have a problem that I do not manage to give it to an end. I think (hope not) I bricked my phone.
I have a Kyocera Brigadier (Verizon edition), where after many attempts, I succeeded to root it with Kingroot. I was very glad that I could to customize it like the old Nexus One. I installed Xposed and some modules like Gravity... All good. I was away in vacation and I said to test it more. I installed Busybox and Super Rom Tools. I did Install in BusyBox and in the morning I did not manage to wake the phone. I did a soft reset (keeping pressed power button 20 sec.), all good until I put it on sleep. It was the sleep of death. And again I had to forcibly restart. At one point it appeared above applications the default wallpaper, and oscillate when the home screen, when default wallpaper. An error message appear after few moments: Unfortunately, the process com.android.systemui has stopped. I went into Recovery (stock) and wanted to delete the cache but mistakenly (stress and nerves) gave reset phone, meaning Restore to factory settings. Besides the fact that I lost pictures and videos from vacation, I lost all applications and settings ... I said this is it, this happens if you don´t have your head on your shoulders. I was installed Titanium but I had not done any backup yet.
I tried now to uninstall applications imposed by Verizon, and try to eliminate the annoying message "This year SIM card is from unknown source" so I deleted one by one all applications and services that belonged to Verizon and Kyocera. I must say that after factory reset, remained the root and custom boot screen. Seeing that fail to get rid of that message, I said I'll try again when I get back home from vacation. I did again reset to factory default and surprise, it no longer occurs any application from Verizon or Kyocera, all I wiped disappeared. I did reset again and nothing. The custom boot screen was put to me, but not appears the Setup Wizard of the phone. I said this is it and so I do not want them ... After setting up my Gmail account when I tried to install applications from Google Play it gives me unknown error "-110". OK, I tried from the SD card and send it to me: For security .... bla bla ... block installation of apps obtained from unknown sources , but this setting is gray and I can not to mark off. I thought it was something from the root, and I did clean root from Kingroot but gave me error and gone and application and root. In settings of the phone it says at Root status - unknown (before it said rooted or unrooted)
Now I got home, I connected the phone to the computer and try to do adb install to see if it works. Recognizes it at adb devices, but if I give adb install any app it gives me this error:
C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools>adb install kingroot.apk
3221 KB/s (6649985 bytes in 2.015s)
WARNING: linker: app_process has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix.
WARNING: linker: app_process has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix.
pkg: /data/local/tmp/kingroot.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]
I tried to root it again with desktop version of Kingroot, Kingoroot, Rootgenius but no success...
What I noticed:
- all phone applications have 0.00B and at storage stays at Calculating...
- system time I think it's not correct, although it looks right it is set at 13/01/1970...
- whole system memory is read only. I cannot change anything, all apps data and settings are stored in the RAM flash not in ROM memory
I done before some roots and install custom recovery and ROMs of several phones like Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus, SII, SIII, Nexus 4, Motorola Xoom but I´m not a developer, I´m a firefighter so my knowledge of programming are limited... I just helped some friends to customize their phones and use their phone at max capacity.
So please can someone give me some solution to try? Some adb commands....
btw the bootloader is locked by Verizon
I have another friend with same phone, can I make a nand backup and flash it on my phone? How?
Thank you for your time!
Best regards!
THE SOLUTION!!!
I attach some screenshots maybe it help...
BUMP
Over 40 views and no solution to try?!
I played more today with ADB and I attach some results...
I tried to root it again with Kingroot PC version but no success...
Anyone knows how to make system read/write? Because I think this is the big problem.... If I can install apps maybe I can root it again with Kingroot apk...
In bootloader appear the sunken Android and an little 1 in the top left side and that´s all, tried fastboot oem unlock but failed, other commands like flash didn´t tried.
Please, any idea?
Best regards!
Hi,
I bought last week, the European Brigadier aka Torque KC-S701 and i had to root it but any success for now !
I read about your issue and i'm asking regarding your adb command's results :
C:\SDK\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 1602.805s
1) What was your aim doing that ? Unlocking the Brigadier ?
- a) Your bootloader had to be unprotected
- b) adb reboot-bootloader
- c) Fasboot devices
???
- d) If something apeared then
fastboot oem unlock
Vol UP to select opened cadenas and Vol Down to check it
- e) Reboot with
fastboot reboot-bootloader
2) What about now with the following command "adb shell' and 'll' or 'ls -al' ? did you compare with the first time as in your txt file ?
3) Maybe an idea : 'adb reboot recovery' ?
In all the cases, the real challenge is to mount /system in rw to push the 'root files' ...
Let us know about your tries ...
If Kyocera can flash your phone from scratch, that means it's able for us/someone to do the same ... :fingers-crossed:
the adb commands working perfectly...
- adb reboot-bootloader - phone reboots in bootloader (it appear sunken android with a little 1 in top left corner and that´s all)
- adb reboot recovery - phone reboots in recovery (you have only 3 options in recovery: reboot phone, restore to factory settings clean up cache memory)
With fastboot oem unlock command nothing happened on screen. Tried some combination of Vol UP, Vol Down, power button but nothing (I thought the options was hide from user viewing)... On nexus devices and other few, at this command you´ll be asked for Bootloader unlock but in this case Verizon make something well done...
In no one screen mode (recovery, bootloader, safe mode and normal) any command adb shell, adb remount, adb fastboot which contain /system failed for write mount... read only... (maybe I didn´t write the commands well)
Kyocera can flash the phone because they have the tools... I talk with a friend which told me that there is a chance by disassemble 2 phones (mine and one working good) and make a connection on the motherboard with some special cables with Box tool but it´s a risky operation.... There is chance to brick both phones and then Kyocera Service Center cannot do anything. Beside, opening the phones it´s hard to resealing again for water protection.
The only easy chance is to unlock bootloader and flash then original or custom ROM. but...
Obsy said:
the adb commands working perfectly...
- adb reboot-bootloader - phone reboots in bootloader (it appear sunken android with a little 1 in top left corner and that´s all)
- adb reboot recovery - phone reboots in recovery (you have only 3 options in recovery: reboot phone, restore to factory settings clean up cache memory)
With fastboot oem unlock command nothing happened on screen. Tried some combination of Vol UP, Vol Down, power button but nothing (I thought the options was hide from user viewing)... On nexus devices and other few, at this command you´ll be asked for Bootloader unlock but in this case Verizon make something well done...
In no one screen mode (recovery, bootloader, safe mode and normal) any command adb shell, adb remount, adb fastboot which contain /system failed for write mount... read only... (maybe I didn´t write the commands well)
Kyocera can flash the phone because they have the tools... I talk with a friend which told me that there is a chance by disassemble 2 phones (mine and one working good) and make a connection on the motherboard with some special cables with Box tool but it´s a risky operation.... There is chance to brick both phones and then Kyocera Service Center cannot do anything. Beside, opening the phones it´s hard to resealing again for water protection.
The only easy chance is to unlock bootloader and flash then original or custom ROM. but...
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Well, I read you and sommething seems to be intersting ... Whenyou go into recovery, you found 3 options then 'Restore to factory settings' and your will be back alive ! I suppose ... :laugh:
I think thius is the only way to 'recover' a working phone because seing your pictures ... your phone dis not respond correctly !
Give you a try ... :good:
Lol, if you didn´t observe it I did it few times - restore to factory setting but unfortunately the programs and services which I delete it was from eprom memory so now is nothing to restore. And now with the system files blocked on read only I cannot push it them back....
So, unable for you to restore but what happened when you did a : 'adb shell && ll '?
What did you see compare to your txt file ? The same or not ?
This is ADB shell from today. What's curious is that date and time are prehistorical and nothing change except the dev and data files... What should be mentioned is that system file is locked to 15.05.2015 the time when phone went crazy....
Obsy said:
This is ADB shell from today. What's curious is that date and time are prehistorical and nothing change except the dev and data files... What should be mentioned is that system file is locked to 15.05.2015 the time when phone went crazy....
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The date are not prehistorical ... i have the same date about on my Torque KC-S701 as 1970-01-01. Which could be intersting seemed to be the different date for some directories (1970/01/01 21h36 to 1970/01/03 02h43) ... WEIRD !
Take a look on mine.txt in attachment.
So try to go on /system and make a ll to compare 'permissions' with mine.
I think you made a recovery with weird present recovery in your phone. Weird because different to the original ...
So, you told us /system was now RO, did you try to re root your phone by the same way used your first time ? This could be give you the right to put in RW that you want and to get from someone which have the same phone, the original directories which are differantly dated as your first ...
This is just an idea ... :silly:
Rood i did with Kingroot.apk but now I cannot install any app nor Play Store (error -110) neither SD card (cannot pass by unknown source)... I tried the desktop version of Kingroot but no success...
I did cd /system and here it is.
All seems to be good ...
USB debugging is active because you can use adb without any problem.
Did you try a adb shell fix_permissions ? I saw you tried to install kingroot by adb but did you try to re-ionstall kingroot.apk with adb.exe -r kingroot.apk ?
So, on your screenshots, we can see calculating place taking by apps but whitout any results ... Did tou try to see sommething by adb shell df just to see if you can see something in /data ?
So, what about adb shell mount ?
In all the cases, without root, you can't mount /system in RW !
I hope you'll get more further info to solve your issue without sending your phone for flashing to Kyocera !
....
zegoo said:
All seems to be good ...
USB debugging is active because you can use adb without any problem.
Did you try a adb shell fix_permissions ? I saw you tried to install kingroot by adb but did you try to re-ionstall kingroot.apk with adb.exe -r kingroot.apk ?
So, on your screenshots, we can see calculating place taking by apps but whitout any results ... Did tou try to see sommething by adb shell df just to see if you can see something in /data ?
So, what about adb shell mount ?
In all the cases, without root, you can't mount /system in RW !
I hope you'll get more further info to solve your issue without sending your phone for flashing to Kyocera !
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adb.exe don´t work...
adb install -r kingroot.apk same error...
adb shell df and mount > this is the results:
C:\SDK\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 926.4M 132.0K 926.3M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 926.4M 12.0K 926.4M 4096
/mnt/asec 926.4M 0.0K 926.4M 4096
/mnt/obb 926.4M 0.0K 926.4M 4096
/system 1.4G 959.0M 515.2M 4096
/data 11.6G 352.3M 11.2G 4096
/cache 845.6M 13.6M 832.0M 4096
/persist 7.8M 4.1M 3.8M 4096
/firmware 64.0M 56.9M 7.1M 16384
/sysprop 7.8M 5.0M 2.8M 4096
/carrier 39.3M 4.0M 35.3M 4096
/mnt/shell/emulated 11.6G 352.3M 11.2G 4096
/storage/emulated/legacy 11.6G 352.3M 11.2G 4096
/data/DxDrm/fuse: Permission denied
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard1: Permission denied
/storage/sdcard1 14.8G 7.5G 7.3G 8192
C:\SDK\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=948676k,nr_inodes=181731,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=948676k,nr_inodes=181731,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=948676k,nr_inodes=181731,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=948676k,nr_inodes=181731,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/sysprop /sysprop ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/carrier /carrier ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
DxDrmServerIpc /data/DxDrm/fuse fuse.DxDrmServerIpc rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1013,group_id=1000,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:64 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso88591,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
C:\SDK\sdk\platform-tools>
If u can understand something... o.0
Thanks!
Why did you say 'adb.exe' does not work ?
'adb' or 'adb.exe' is the same ...
So you wrote that your memory is in Read Only, i don't understand ... Were you talking about /data because /data is ReadWritable ?
I know we have not got the same phone but there is my 'mount result command' in attachment. /data is in RW as it should be and /system in RO as too.
You should compare this two files, may be you'll find something instersting to solve your issue ... So is there someone which have the same phone which could give you the same command result to compare ? :good:
adb.exe no such command
On mount beside some numbers I have this line in addition to yours
DxDrmServerIpc /data/DxDrm/fuse fuse.DxDrmServerIpc rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1013,group_id=100 0,allow_other 0 0
Yes, the /data is RO or corrupted
C:\SDK\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ cd /system
cd /system
[email protected]:/system $ ll
ll
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-18 23:45 app
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2015-05-18 23:45 bin
-rw-r--r-- root root 6120 2015-05-15 21:25 build.prop
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-10 08:08 csc
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-15 20:40 etc
drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-07-13 22:18 fonts
drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-07-13 22:18 framework
drwxrwx--x root root 2014-07-13 22:18 kcjprop
drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-07-13 22:18 lib
drwx------ root root 1970-01-01 02:00 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-16 22:42 media
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-18 22:39 priv-app
drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-07-13 22:18 tts
drwxr-xr-x root root 2015-05-09 17:40 usr
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2014-07-13 22:18 vendor
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2015-05-18 23:45 xbin
[email protected]:/system $ cd /data
cd /data
[email protected]:/data $ ll
ll
opendir failed, Permission denied
255|[email protected]:/data $
255|[email protected]:/data $ df
df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 926.4M 132.0K 926.3M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 926.4M 12.0K 926.4M 4096
/mnt/asec 926.4M 0.0K 926.4M 4096
/mnt/obb 926.4M 0.0K 926.4M 4096
/system 1.4G 959.0M 515.2M 4096
/data 11.6G 938.7M 10.7G 4096
/cache 845.6M 13.6M 832.0M 4096
/persist 7.8M 4.1M 3.8M 4096
/firmware 64.0M 56.9M 7.1M 16384
/sysprop 7.8M 5.0M 2.8M 4096
/carrier 39.3M 4.0M 35.3M 4096
/mnt/shell/emulated 11.6G 938.7M 10.7G 4096
/storage/emulated/legacy 11.6G 938.7M 10.7G 4096
/data/DxDrm/fuse: Permission denied
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard1: Permission denied
/storage/sdcard1 14.8G 7.5G 7.3G 8192
1|[email protected]:/data $
BTW u have LTE working on Orange?
Humm, about 'adb.exe', you are under windows and when you write 'adb' or 'adb.exe', this is the same. Juste take a look inside the directory where 'adb.exe' is located.
So, under Linux, for my mind, i wrote 'adb ' ...
Regarding your '/data', i can read:
'/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc, data=ordered 0 0' in the result of your mount command, that's meaning '/data' is correctly mounted in 'RW' as it had to be.
Regarding the line(s) which is(are) different between our each 'mount command', i don't know more further ... Weird !
Regarding the 'll command' when you to see in '/data', i have exactly the same ... This is a Kyocera protection ! Sucks !
The only weird thing i saw regarding your different command are as your phone was in its first stage when you bought it that's why i have an advice ...
Try to get 'root' again ! You had to succeed to push the files needed in '/data/local/tmp' as it was done before. :good:
For LTE, your right, the Torque KC-S701 is for European market and is able regarding LTE French network aka Orange for Free network for my mind ... as it should be regarding your Brigadier if Verizon and Kyocera respected the law ... We have the same equipment, the only difference is the screen, better is yours ! Lucky guy !
Today from nothing, the "sleep of death" and "the process com.android.systemui has stopped" come back.... Clear cache from fastboot didn´t help, only restore to factory settings.....
I played with some adb commands and this is the results. If someone have time to watch it and maybe have an idea.... Thanks!
So... Hear is very clearly what u need to do. But before I tell u I want to make somethings clear.
Root access alone will not make /system rw.
You have to mount system as rw.
Apps that relay on root access will do this for u if they modify the /system which exposed would have.
Also removing/uninstalling /system apps is not ever recommend for many reasons. If there were ever an update you would not be able to apply the update.
You have titanium back up. Use the freeze option instead. This allows u to restore the app if ever needed.
Now on to your issue. Please forgive me as your OP is a bit of a run on and broken English.
From what I can understand (and with a bit of guessing) one of your xposed mods cause a FC of the system UI. Which lead u to hunt down issues in the wrong place (even if u hadnot factory reset clear cache would have done no good)
Xposed is.... OK... But has many fundamental flaws in a nut Shell it replaces a few native .jars with hooks built into them (this in of itself modified files in the /system of which the normal end user has no idea which files so right off the back you will never be able to update your system if ever and OTA comes for it)
Secondly the biggest flaw in exposed... The modules. Way to much trust is given to the creator of said module and many of the modules I inspect have modules active by default. This is a HUGE no no because say a certain aspect of this module does not work with your current rom(version of Android altered by OEM and carrier) well guess what happens... You have just created a device that when it boots it runs that module which causes the system UI to crash and now u can not access or use your phone. And because your rooted but not unlocked (bootloader not carrier unlocked) you have no custom recovery and therefore no way to restore the /system partition of your device... Welcome to your house hold another paper weight brick.
So you or any average Android "tinkerer" thinks (and rightfully so because its says EVERYWHERE a factory reset will restore my phone to like the day I got it) I can restore my phone with a reset. Well that is true to an extent. If you never touched the /system partition of your device a factory reset just erases all data in /data (user data partition) and presto phone is back to new... However the simple act of rooting a device touched the /system to place two files in there. The su binary and the supersuer apk.
Anyways. To continue on. I hope the above info enlightens you to your current issue. You need to restore your /system partiton... How do I do this you ask.. Well IF you had root you could replace every file you modified or touched or removed (with the exact same file that comes preloaded can not be a copy of an apk from the play store and another device that's "close enough")
Each file must be signed from your OEM.
OK so you say well **** I don't have root access any more.
Still not the end of the world. You could fastboot flash (or whatever means of bootloader communication Kyocera uses)
However because your bootloader is locked you can not just flash the /system with anything. It must be an image signed by OEM and or carrier.
And sense most oems do not have just a system img to flash you will need to locate the entire package they flash, and it must be for your EXACT DEVICE if you flash say an AT&T package on your vzw device you will only cause fastboot flash failures due to signing mismatch or worse.
So I leave you with this.
Google
Fastboot OEM files for (insert device name/brand/carrier)
And may I wish u the best of luck
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk 2
Thank you too much for your time!
English isn´t my primary language.. and I don´t use Google translate.... only when i don´t remember something... The biggest mistake I did was to unroot the phone, I get an error and from then /data was corrupted
The phone worked well one week with Xposed modules until I installed Busybox. Next day the mess begin. So I blame Busybox. Now I don´t have root and any other apps installed, xposed or modules and I het again that systemui error? Why?
I can´t find any OEM files for Kyocera Brigadier... so can I get one from a functionally phone? Like I said, I had 2 friends with same phone, one rooted and one not
Which commands should I use for it? Did you see the last adb commands I used? one post before?
Thanks again!
Obsy said:
Thank you too much for your time!
English isn´t my primary language.. and I don´t use Google translate.... only when i don´t remember something... The biggest mistake I did was to unroot the phone, I get an error and from then /data was corrupted
The phone worked well one week with Xposed modules until I installed Busybox. Next day the mess begin. So I blame Busybox. Now I don´t have root and any other apps installed, xposed or modules and I het again that systemui error? Why?
I can´t find any OEM files for Kyocera Brigadier... so can I get one from a functionally phone? Like I said, I had 2 friends with same phone, one rooted and one not
Which commands should I use for it? Did you see the last adb commands I used? one post before?
Thanks again!
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You will have xposed installed tho. Not the apk but remember the app xposed installs and replaces files inside the system.
The system UI failure is likely due to on the the apks u uninstalled via titanium backup.
To hunt the exact reason u have the UI fc preform a logcat
Boot phone...
Connect to pc
From your directory with adb open comand promnt on pc (assuming your using Windows)
Type
adb logcat > systemuifc.txt
Cause the UI to crash...
Wait 30 seconds then close the command prompt
This will create a text file of the logcat in the directory.
Look thru the logcat to find what caused the UI to crash.
U can email it to me and I can browse it
My user name at g mail dot com
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I thought I read somewhere... But I looked back and didn't see it. Is the su binary anywhere in /system/xbin/
Because unless u removed it manually or used some kind of app to remove it, it should still be there...
If it is. And we can find the issue for UI crash and what apps u need, I'm sure it's fixable...
But the larger issue is fixing the corrupted /data
I would preform a factory wipe in recovery, then in fastboot mode use command prompt
fastboot erase userdata
That would be the only thing I could think of to try and correct the corrupt data
Once u get the data corruption issue dealt with. You "could" pull any missing apks from your friends phone. Then push them to yours once u get your data partition fixed, and re root
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Related
Manually set variables as shown below
NOTE: I have found out that the Atrix also uses the name Mapphone_cdma in place of Olympus in their code. Why I do not know... I have noticed that the log.txt generated by bootmanager after repackaging the boot.img says that it cannot find a file named init.olympus.rc BUT shows no error with init.Mapphone_cdma.rc
NOTE: So far only works with CM7 as being the Phone ROM. I tried other ROM's as the phone ROM and I get a lot of errors.. I think it might be because of the structure of the CM7..
Code:
Filesystem [B]Size[/B] Used Available Use% Mounted
tmpfs 439.6M 32.0K 439.6M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15
[B]629.9M[/B] 16.5M 581.4M 3% [U]/cache[/U]
/dev/block/[B]mmcblk1p1 (Depends on the ROM, this is the setting for CM7)[/B]
10.7G 3.2G 7.5G 30% [U]/sdcard[/U]
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12
[B]309.9M [/B]249.5M 44.4M 85% [U]/system[/U]
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16
[B]2.0G[/B] 620.0M 1.3G 32% [U]/data[/U]
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What phone do you have?[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Current setting =[/COLOR] [B]Olympus[/B] [I](<--generates errors on CM7, May work with other phone ROM's)[/I] [U]or[/U]
[B]Mapphone_cdma[/B] [I](<--generates no errors on CM7)[/I]
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What is your sdcardblock? [/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Current setting = [/COLOR]/dev/block/[B]mmcblk1p1[/B]
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What is your system size in mb?[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Current setting =[/COLOR] [B]309mb[/B]
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What is your data's size in mb?[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Current setting =[/COLOR] [B]2.0G = 2000mb[/B] [I](I put 500mb)[/I]
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What is your cache size in mb?[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Current setting =[/COLOR] [B]629mb[/B] [I](I put 250mb)[/I]
NOTE: if you have a smaller SDcard, let's say 4gb, the above inputs can be slightly modified if you receive "Low Disk Space" when trying to install a ROM.zip. The cache size can be reduced to as low as 200mb and the data size I would go as low as 500mb. The only one that should stay UN-modified is the System size..
Follow these steps to get a successful install/force close error galore!
Boot into CWM
Make a backup of your current ROM
Boot your phone back up
Use Root explore, File Manager or what ever File browser you'd like to use
copy the boot.img from /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/nameofyourbackup
to /sdcard/BootManager/phoneRom (Thanks to hatefuel19 for his discovery. Fix found Here!)
Start BootManager and now select "Setup Phone ROM"
(Should say successful, If not go back to step 4)
Go to "install Zips", then select ROM of your choice.
Select "Wipe System", "Wipe Data", "Wipe Cache" and select "Sot1"
(Wait for install to complete..........................)
Download the file from down below named "BootManager-rom1-Atrix.zip"
place "BootManager-rom1-Atrix.zip" in the slot1 folder replacing the update.zip (<---delete)
(it is not necessary to rename "BootManager-rom1-Atrix" to "update" but you can if you want)
Now that you have replaced the file boot back into CWM
select "zip from sdcard"
select "install zip from sdcard"
select "external sdcard"
Navigate to BootManager
select "Rom1"
select "BootManager-rom1-Atrix.zip"
***At this point you will now have a successful install***
(This does not mean it will boot up successfully, you will still get errors no matter what ROM your using)
I have done some research and talked to the dev of init2winit and when it shows the block being busy or not available that is because it's mounted.. Doh!! lol I didn't even think of that..
If you choose to boot the phone up "as is" (meaning whatever ROM you are using) you will get stuck at the moto-boot screen or it will boot up into the ROM and everything will force close on you. To get it back to normal just go;
back into CWM
select "backup/restore"
select "advanced restore"
and all you have to restore is the boot.img
****About the two files uploaded****
"BootManager-rom1-Atrix (original).zip"
This is a modified update.zip by init2winit just for the Atrix. But this one is lacking one file that is crucial for the phone to recognize the install
"BootManager-rom1-Atrix.zip"
This file contains everything that "BootManager-rom1-Atrix (original).zip" has but I replaced the the update-binary located in the zip under \META-INF\com\google\android with one from the Alien #4 ROM because the update-binary has information sensitive to our phone (do not touch the updater-script it has information to keep the ROM from installing over your current Phone ROM)
***Question For a Dev***
I uploaded both the .txt files that are generated by bootmanager and recovery. at the bottom of the log.txt it says the following errors;
blocks
cp: can't stat '/data/local/tmp/system/lib/modules/ext2.ko': No such file or directory
cp: can't stat '/data/local/tmp/system/lib/modules/mbcache.ko': No such file or directory
sed: /data/local/tmp/boot.img-ramdisk/init.vivow_ct.rc: No such file or directory
sed: /data/local/tmp/boot.img-ramdisk/init.vivow_ct.rc: No such file or directory
sed: /data/local/tmp/boot.img-ramdisk/init.vivow_ct.rc: No such file or directory
What are these files and are they named something different on the Atrix?
That is a normal error, it is part of a script for another phone but will not hinder the install in anyway on ours.
Disclaimer: Neither I nor anyone else is responsible if you brick, break or blow up your Atrix. Everything that YOU do is at YOUR OWN RISK!!
STILL in the process of getting the Atrix supported with BootManager
All Credit goes to Init2Winit Applications for the creation of this Awesome APP!
I'm in the process of getting The Olympus (Atrix) supported.
Stay Tuned!!
Wow this would be so cool I would definitely use if enough roms were supported for our phones. I was gonna post about this earlier just to let other users know so glad you did and getting some extra news bout it on the Atrix
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WooOoOOooOooOOoW
ClearFire said:
I'm in the process of getting The Olympus (Atrix) supported.
Stay Tuned!!
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Nice. Would love to have this app. Thanks. Patiently waiting...
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Wow this would be so cool I would definitely use if enough roms were supported for our phones. I was gonna post about this earlier just to let other users know so glad you did and getting some extra news bout it on the Atrix
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It should work with any ROM with the new installer and edify scripts.
So in the meantime, does anyone know have a line on the Atrix' settings for manual setup?
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So in the meantime, does anyone know have a line on the Atrix' settings for manual setup?
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Yes, they outline the steps for the "How to" on manual setup but unfortunately I tried that already and it does not work. It's taking init2winit some time to get us support and I suppose that's because our phone is one hell-of-a beast to tame
EDIT: I copied the directions for manual set-up if you would like to give it a go!
Manual set-up
Found in /system/build.prop at the line ro.product.board = Product Board:
In adb shell while in recovery type mount and look for sdcardSdcard Block:
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for system size System Size:
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for data size Data Size:
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for cache size Cache Size:
thanks for the info! I'm curious what rom you tried it on/with. I noticed this morning when I flashed CM7-PB2 that it moved the internal SDcard to mnt/emmc... I wonder if changing where the SD card mounts could break the operation of the program. were you using the internal SD, or an external SD? Sorry if it sounds like the Spanish inquisition, I'm just picking your brain so I can start trying different configurations; maybe with a little trial and error we can get it working...
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thanks for the info! I'm curious what rom you tried it on/with. I noticed this morning when I flashed CM7-PB2 that it moved the internal SDcard to mnt/emmc... I wonder if changing where the SD card mounts could break the operation of the program. were you using the internal SD, or an external SD? Sorry if it sounds like the Spanish inquisition, I'm just picking your brain so I can start trying different configurations; maybe with a little trial and error we can get it working...
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Well I tried using internal and external SD card on both Ninja SF ROM by samcripp and Alien #2 by Kennethpenn. I have not flashed CM7 as I am waiting for a more stable build. Let me know how it goes for you though
So from stock OTA GB unlocked and rooted here are my results:
Product Board = olympus
So far so good, but the adb shell from recovery didn't go so hot. Here are my commands and the output
C:\root>adb shell mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 on /cache type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=co
ntinue,data=ordered)
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No SDcard block. Maybe use dev/block?
C:\root>adb shell df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted
tmpfs 408.1M 32.0K 408.0M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15
629.9M 16.8M 613.1M 3% /cache
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Which values become the system, data, and cache sizes?
Also, is it normal to have to reflash my recovery every time I want to use it? Right after flashing it works great, but any other time I get the android with the white triangle screen
Ok, while you are in recovery menu you MUST go down to the Mount and Storage option on the phone and then mount the individual paths because in recovery everything is unmounted except for the cache. Then you type in those commands and you will get the following results..
mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 on /cache type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=co
ntinue,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 on /sdcard type vfat (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=00
00,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixe
d,errors=remount-ro)
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted
tmpfs 439.6M 32.0K 439.6M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15
629.9M 16.5M 581.4M 3% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
10.7G 3.2G 7.5G 30% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12
309.9M 249.5M 44.4M 85% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16
2.0G 620.0M 1.3G 32% /data
In adb shell while in recovery type mount and look for sdcard, Sdcard Block: mmcblk0p18
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for system size, System Size: 309.9M
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for data size, Data Size: 2.0G
In adb shell while in recovery type df -h and look for cache size, Cache Size: 629.9M
and as to your second question;
No, it is not normal to have to re-flash your recovery every time after the first use.
Not sure which recovery you are using but it should always be the latest version available.
here is the latest Recovery that can only be used (flashed) if your bootloader is unlocked!
Is this app still being worked on for atrix support by default or is it going to stay at a manual setup
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marko! said:
Is this app still being worked on for atrix support by default or is it going to stay at a manual setup
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The support is still being worked on, a lot of bugs (I'm assuming) to be worked out. Unfortunately though the manual setup does not work and I have tried every which way possible to get it to work.
Like I said previously, our device is too beastly to be easily tamed
Glad to hear that. Yes we definitally have a beast.
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I am, however, going to flash CM7 pre-beta build #3 today and I will try bootmanager app then as the CM7 build has a different set-up as to were things are located (Manual Set-up that is). I will report back if it works
Fingers Crossed!
Unfortunately I am getting no luck with Bootmanager on CM7....
Sorry guys! But stay tuned as I'm sure we will have support very soon!
I was drooling over this app when my buddy with an Inc1 showed it to me. Having it on the atrix would be epic.
10tonhammr said:
I was drooling over this app when my buddy with an Inc1 showed it to me. Having it on the atrix would be epic.
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Yea I installed it on my boys Evo4g and it is super clean! Though my only issue is that in order to install zips on the ROM's in bootmanager, is that you have to install them through bootmanager and sometimes could cause a boot-loop (soft-brick) so I do recommend, when we get it, to make a habit of doing backups
EDIT: the boot-loop doesn't happen every time, but has happened twice
Hi All,
(Reposting this as previous post was on more generic forum... I've read tons of Threads here, but not yet found a solution).
My Galaxy Tab 10.1 is useless right now as it cannot write to internal storage.
Lots of apps crashing on use and doing a factory reset from the recovery menu does not help (Tablet is in exact same state aon reboot).
So, I've been using adb:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb remount
remount failed: Operation not permitted
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Here's the mount information from shell
[email protected]:/mnt/asec $ mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /system ext4 ro,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data ext4 ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
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So, I've tried to mount manually from adb shell:
[email protected]:/ $ mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
[email protected]:/ $
[email protected]:/ $ mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl9 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl9 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
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But, I have no SU command:
[email protected]:/ $ su
su
/system/bin/sh: su: not found
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I've got the su binary from downloading off aforum, but I cannot copy that up either (even to seemingly writable mount points)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push su /cache
failed to copy 'su' to '/cache/su': Permission denied
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So then I followed a guide I found linked on a forum to get the Tablet Restocked to factory settings.
However, when I try to write via Odin, I get an error message on the tablet in Red:
Bct_sync_Odin: Error to NvBuBctUpdate![err:0x140005]
DownloadPartition_Odin: Error to Bct_sync_Odin![err:0x140005]
Tegra_Nand_Write: Error to DownloadPartition![err:0x140005]
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Is my tablet bricked ?
Cheers,
Ro
Same issue here. Every reboot resets it to the same state.
froalskiner said:
Same issue here. Every reboot resets it to the same state.
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why don't you just download new firmware from sammobile.com abdominal flash it via odin..
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msedek said:
why don't you just download new firmware from sammobile.com abdominal flash it via odin..
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Doesn't look like that will work as the disk is mounted in read-only mode.
Using Odin, I get an error message on the tablet in Red:
Bct_sync_Odin: Error to NvBuBctUpdate![err:0x140005]
DownloadPartition_Odin: Error to Bct_sync_Odin![err:0x140005]
Tegra_Nand_Write: Error to DownloadPartition![err:0x140005]
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Do you have an already flashed cwm recovery?If yes try going to advanced/fix permissions.
nighthawk696969 said:
Do you have an already flashed cwm recovery?If yes try going to advanced/fix permissions.
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Nope, never flashed the Tablet.
robilco said:
Nope, never flashed the Tablet.
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Then maybe it's a hardware failure. Claim warranty from Samsung.
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Then maybe it's a hardware failure. Claim warranty from Samsung.
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Yep, in an ideal world I'd deffo do this.
But I bought a refurbished Tablet so only came with a 90-day warranty.
Plus, I bought it in the US and I live in Ireland, so European service centre's won't touch it.
My only option is to ship it to a company in Texas, for €60 then attempted repair for $199 + $80 shipping back to Ireland.
Its a little too much .... So, I'm on the lookout for a smashed tablet that I can buy and recover a mainboard from.
Hi robilco,
Did you ever find a solution to your problem? I'm experiencing this exact problem. In fact, I've tried just about everything you did mentioned in this thread and more including trying to an upgrade/restore from Kies and no luck.
I can't do anything from Odin because I'm getting the same errors as you. Can't write or transfer anything via adb just like you. Since it's not rooted, I can't change permissions and because everything appears to be read-only, I can't root it!
It was working fine until the end of June. I turned off my tablet for an extended period because I was not using it. When I turned it back on I noticed that it was taking a long time to start up. It was stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 logo for about 10 minutes before it finally proceeded to the load up. When it finally starts up, it will start to run all the updates after which it will freeze up and stay frozen until the battery drains or I force a hard reboot, after which again it will stay on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 logo for another 10 minutes when I turn it on again.
I was able to get around the update freezing by immediately shutting off the internet once it loads up and turning off all automatic updates.
Also every time it starts up, it will start back up in the same state it was before. That is, if I change any settings, adjust the date/or time, install any new software, or anything like that, it will reset to the previous state once I restart the tablet again. I suspect the operating system is stuck in some sort of read-only state since I cannot make any permanent change.
I also cannot perform any factory reset on it. I've tried both the software reset through the Android settings menu and doing a factory hard reset by going into the Android System Recovery <3e> mode and it always returns to the same state it was mentioned earlier.
I also cannot perform the Ice Cream Sandwich update because after it downloads, it needs to reset and again it will be stuck on the logo for about 10 minutes before returning to the aforementioned state. I've tried the upgrade about 3 times now.
The issue is definitely not related to the battery since it is always fully charged when I try making changes and I have 12.68GB space left on a 13.11GB capacity.
Yep - Looks like we have the EXACT same issue and tried all the same resolutions.
I've also been trying the 'nvflash' tool but no luck there (yet)
I've been told the only option is to return it to samsung and get it fixed.
But since I bought my table in USA and I'm now in Europe, Samsung Europe have no interest in helping me and it would cost too much to get it repaired.
I'm on the lookout for a smashed tablet that I can get on eBay or a replacement mainboard so I could just switch out the component.
Ro
sienarot said:
Hi robilco,
Did you ever find a solution to your problem? I'm experiencing this exact problem. In fact, I've tried just about everything you did mentioned in this thread and more including trying to an upgrade/restore from Kies and no luck.
I can't do anything from Odin because I'm getting the same errors as you. Can't write or transfer anything via adb just like you. Since it's not rooted, I can't change permissions and because everything appears to be read-only, I can't root it!
It was working fine until the end of June. I turned off my tablet for an extended period because I was not using it. When I turned it back on I noticed that it was taking a long time to start up. It was stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 logo for about 10 minutes before it finally proceeded to the load up. When it finally starts up, it will start to run all the updates after which it will freeze up and stay frozen until the battery drains or I force a hard reboot, after which again it will stay on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 logo for another 10 minutes when I turn it on again.
I was able to get around the update freezing by immediately shutting off the internet once it loads up and turning off all automatic updates.
Also every time it starts up, it will start back up in the same state it was before. That is, if I change any settings, adjust the date/or time, install any new software, or anything like that, it will reset to the previous state once I restart the tablet again. I suspect the operating system is stuck in some sort of read-only state since I cannot make any permanent change.
I also cannot perform any factory reset on it. I've tried both the software reset through the Android settings menu and doing a factory hard reset by going into the Android System Recovery <3e> mode and it always returns to the same state it was mentioned earlier.
I also cannot perform the Ice Cream Sandwich update because after it downloads, it needs to reset and again it will be stuck on the logo for about 10 minutes before returning to the aforementioned state. I've tried the upgrade about 3 times now.
The issue is definitely not related to the battery since it is always fully charged when I try making changes and I have 12.68GB space left on a 13.11GB capacity.
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robilco said:
Yep - Looks like we have the EXACT same issue and tried all the same resolutions.
I've also been trying the 'nvflash' tool but no luck there (yet)
I've been told the only option is to return it to samsung and get it fixed.
But since I bought my table in USA and I'm now in Europe, Samsung Europe have no interest in helping me and it would cost too much to get it repaired.
I'm on the lookout for a smashed tablet that I can get on eBay or a replacement mainboard so I could just switch out the component.
Ro
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I've found a few posts from users with what sounds like the same issue as ours but no solution either. I've also tried going through the Samsung route but at this point they haven't been very responsive. Their only response was a canned message asking me for my contact info -- something I already provided them with when I submitted my trouble ticket. They haven't even followed up with that or my repeated attempts to get a response.
Way to go Samsung.
tl;dr
What I really would like is some way to move a file from my phone's internal storage (it's in /data/data/...) to my computer when it's connected via USB. I'll settle for a way to find my SD card directory and move it there. Alternatively, I'd be okay with putting it somewhere that survives a factory reset from recovery mode.
I'm bad with technology. I can only get my phone into recovery and/or download modes, and I want to pull a few files off it before I factory restore. I am on the default firmware (though my phone IS rooted) and I have no interest whatsoever in doing things like putting CWM on here. Thank you in advance for not suggesting anything of the sort!
I have adb installed. My computer "sees" my phone just fine. I can use adb shell and muck around, but I get "permission denied" when I try to look at anything other than the root directory or do anything. How do I change these permissions, or copy an entire folder despite them? I tried looking into it more and got "adbd cannot run as root" as an error, which I don't understand because my phone is rooted and Superuser is installed. Is it just because I can't turn the damn thing on?
I can get to the files (and see them) if I open ADB and use "su -" and remount the system as RW, which I figured out thanks to Google. I can see the file just fine, I just don't know the command to move it. Is it "cat"?
edit: it does seem to be "cat", for moving internally, but I can't move it anywhere that I can figure out how to access. I have an SD card in my phone, and /sdcard and /sdcard1 both seem to exist, but using cat to move a file to either of them won't make it actually show up on my SD card. Also, using ls on /sdcard doesn't display anything at all, so I don't see /sdcard/external_sd which google maybe suggested I should.
edit2: this is what "adb shell mount" returns. I don't think it's seeing my SD card at all:
C:\Users\User>adb shell mount
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 /data ext4 rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
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if I use "cd /mnt" and "ls" it doesn't return anything, so it doesn't see anything there.
edit3: I can also move the file with "dd". What a journey of discovery I'm having here! I just can't figure out how to move it somewhere that actually gets it off the phone. I tried exiting the shell (via Ctrl-D) and then using pull, but it just gave me permission denied again. I have it in /sdcard/ and I tried using "adb shell cat" and I created a file that has the only contents "permission denied"
I would also accept a way to just rip every single file, since I know the location of the thing I want, I just can't DO anything to it.
Thank you again in advance, I'm really bad with this stuff and I appreciate it.
Probably a total jerk move to bump this, but I've managed to narrow the topic down significantly, and maybe everyone will think there's a reply and flock in to read it and one of those people will be able to help me!
I'm trying to put the SU binary in a different place than the /system folder. I can flash it to /data with the correct permissions, but when I run SU, it doesn't get root.
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ /data/su
/data/su
1|[email protected]:/ $ id
id
uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),1007(log),1009(mount),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats)
Is there a reason why it doesn't work in /data/? Is there another folder (not /system/) where it should work?
Code:
ls -la /data/su
-rwsr-sr-x root root 380532 2008-08-01 12:00 su
# From a working /system/su :
-rwsr-sr-x root root 380532 2008-08-01 12:00 su
Has to be in /system. It has elevated privileges that you can't get in the /data partition. Are you unable to put it in /system, as in trying to root a new device, or is there another reason you're against putting it there?
I continued searching myself (like I should) and I just found the answer (sorry, forgot to subscribe to the thread). /data is mounted with "nosuid" option, so privilege elevation isn't possible.
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo
cat /proc/self/mountinfo
1 1 0:1 / / ro,relatime - rootfs rootfs ro
12 1 0:12 / /dev rw,nosuid,relatime - tmpfs tmpfs rw,mode=755
13 12 0:9 / /dev/pts rw,relatime - devpts devpts rw,mode=600
14 1 0:3 / /proc rw,relatime - proc proc rw
15 1 0:13 / /sys rw,relatime - sysfs sysfs rw
16 15 0:5 / /sys/kernel/debug rw,relatime - debugfs debugfs rw
17 1 0:14 / /acct rw,relatime - cgroup none rw,cpuacct
18 1 0:15 / /mnt/asec rw,relatime - tmpfs tmpfs rw,mode=755,gid=1000
19 1 0:16 / /mnt/obb rw,relatime - tmpfs tmpfs rw,mode=755,gid=1000
20 12 0:17 / /dev/cpuctl rw,relatime - cgroup none rw,cpu
21 1 179:1 / /system ro,relatime - ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 ro,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
22 1 179:7 / /data rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime - ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 rw,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered
23 1 179:2 / /cache rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime - ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 rw,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered
24 1 0:18 / /Removable rw,relatime - tmpfs tmpfs rw,mode=755,gid=1000
25 1 0:19 / /mnt/sdcard rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime - fuse /dev/fuse rw,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other
26 24 179:9 / /Removable/MicroSD rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime - vfat /dev/block/vold/179:9 rw,dirsync,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow
rtname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro
If I understand this correctly, there's no location (except for /system) that is mounted without the nosuid flag (or at least no location where I can put the SU binary). Is it possible to create a new partition that would also be automatically mounted at startup? Which files should I edit/where should I look for info?
I'm not trying to root a new device. It works perfectly fine in /system/. I want to have root access without it being obvious that it's available.
You can use the option of SuperSU to have no icon or use a launcher that can hide apps, like Nova. Then you would only be able to tell if you were looking under the All Tab in the Application Manager in Settings, or if you have a device like a Samsung where it might show your device status as Custom. If that's the case, I believe there's an Xposed mod to change that to official status.
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es0tericcha0s said:
You can use the option of SuperSU to have no icon or use a launcher that can hide apps, like Nova. Then you would only be able to tell if you were looking under the All Tab in the Application Manager in Settings, or if you have a device like a Samsung where it might show your device status as Custom. If that's the case, I believe there's an Xposed mod to change that to official status.
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No, I'm trying to hide it on a system wide level. I'm doing this for forensics/research purposes. Not for the user, but for apps. For XPosed, there's also RootCloack, but that's lacking in many ways. There are a lot of ways of still detecting root while RoatCloack is installed.
Does anybody know how I can add a partition? I've searched for documentation but so far I've only found information about how to resize partitions.
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No, I'm trying to hide it on a system wide level. I'm doing this for forensics/research purposes. Not for the user, but for apps. For XPosed, there's also RootCloack, but that's lacking in many ways. There are a lot of ways of still detecting root while RoatCloack is installed.
Does anybody know how I can add a partition? I've searched for documentation but so far I've only found information about how to resize partitions.
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Messing with that would be a good way to brick the device. I don't believe there would be a way to create a new partition in that manner, and if you could, even less likely it would be able to run su from it. And different manufacturers do their partitions and sometimes even files systems differently. If you could, somehow, get it to work with one phone, it wouldn't be a universal solution.
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Messing with that would be a good way to brick the device. I don't believe there would be a way to create a new partition in that manner, and if you could, even less likely it would be able to run su from it. And different manufacturers do their partitions and sometimes even files systems differently. If you could, somehow, get it to work with one phone, it wouldn't be a universal solution.
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Is there a reason why you think it would be impossible to su from it if it's mounted without the nosuid flag?
Maybe a different approach then: Where should I look if I want to mount /data (or any other partition) without the nosuid flag?
It also doesn't have to be a universal solution.
I just don't think it's possible to mount another partition with that flag.
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I see various options for converting system apps <==> user apps and moving or linking some to SD. But I don't see a good general discussion of this. Also, I think my old phone needs a more hard core approach--probably one that trims down /system and reduces how much /system overlaps redundantly with updates on /data. So here goes...
First off, these solutions seem inadequate:
built-in apps2sd: it still fills up internal memory a lot.
s2e: an all-or-nothing approach for each category
free version of link2sd: cannot move-and-link app data, nor system apps
I've been fairly happy with link2sd, but it's still not radical enough for me. Can s2e be combined with it to reclaim even more space?
Assumptions about a stronger solution:
It will require root access.
It will break OTA (can this be turned off safely? can someone link to a good overview of problems/workarounds?)
It *might* require a fairly fast SD card (but still limited to an old phone's bus speeds, etc.) Note: I just bought a 32GB class 10 SDHC card (UHS-1 U3) for my s5360.
It might require one or two paid apps (hopefully not)
One of the most promising options I've seen is to convert system apps to user apps and then move-and-link them to SD. For the conversion step, do the following all do the same thing?
link2sd Plus (paid)
Titanium Backup Pro (paid)
System Tuner (paid) -- I've tried the free ones and move (and freeze) always fails.
app mover (free) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999346
And are there rules of thumb for what can be safely converted?
EDIT: I just found this handy list--my guess is that any green or yellow Yes can be safely converted to a user app and even moved/linked to SD, but that red shouldn't, and think twice before uninstalling yellow :
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Barebones#CM-10.1_App_list_.28WIP.29
Can apps that were moved to /data still be updated? I'd especially like to target outdated system apps that are have already been updated anyway and are thus running from /data anyway. My understanding is that 'moving' those to /data doesn't increase /data usage and doesn't reduce performance--just slightly reduces permissions--as long as I don't move/link them to SD.
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In all seriousness, though, I'm not entirely sure the Link2SD has good implementation of this method. You might try Titanium Backup to convert system to user apps, then try linking it with Link2SD. It may still not work, but it'd be worth a shot, I suppose.
Furthermore, I always delete bloatware I'm not going to use with Titantium Backup. If I need to go back to stock for an OTA, I just flash the complete stock of whatever phone I'm on.
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If this can all be done successfully, can the internal partitions then be resized? That is, if we safely shunt some of /system and /cache off to SD, can we then let /data steal some space from both? (My s5360 has this by default: /system 230MB, /cache 40MB, /data 197MB)
My old s5360 seems to get full almost immediately after flashing a cm11 rom (LolliKat) and minimal gapps onto it, although I plan to try again with a version of minimal gapps that installs to SD.
For that matter, can some ROMs be installed primarily to SD? I get the impression that that's how some dual-boot (multiROM) approaches work, but I don't really know.
I've also seen one guide for permanently mounting /system as read-write. I think I'd be ok with that (are the security concerns truly awful?), especially if it meant that system apps would update themselves in-place without impacting /data. But I'm guessing it's not that simple.
can't create /system/... Read-only file system
I found another cool feature of link2sd to "integrate update into system", removing it from data and eliminating the double use of space. The free version includes this feature, but unfortunately it always errors out for me:
`sh: [51]: can't create /system/app/Music.apk.t: Read-only file system`
I tried upgrading to link2sd Plus, since that's the version that includes a convert feature, which requires write access to /system:
C-Jon said:
One of the most promising options I've seen is to convert system apps to user apps and then move-and-link them to SD.
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But that feature failed too, for the same reason. So I tried all of the following--granting each app superuser access for 10 minutes each time--and they also failed to successfully mount /system as RW:
X-plore - long press the / folder and choose System Shell, then enter `su` and `mount -o remount,rw /system /system`. It gives no error, but if I then immediately `cd system` and try to `mkdir xxzz` it gives an error: `can't create directory 'xxzz' : Read-only file system`. If I use the GUI, I can apparently create a folder under /system with no error, but if I browse up and come back, the folder is gone.
ES File Explorer (free version) - menu, Root Explorer, Mount R/W. I tried running it multiple times, setting both `/` and `/system` to RW. After doing this a couple times, `/` showed up as already RW, but `system` never did. I immediately retried link2sd Integrate--fails with same error.
mountsystemrorw - this app is dedicated to this one task, and when I click "MOUNT /system RW" it claims success ("Your system is now mounted RW!"); but it actually fails. (At least, link2sd Integrate and X-plore still give the same error/failures.)
AnExplorer - menu, Root. I don't see 'mount' options.
Has KitKat made it nearly impossible to mess with /system, even as root? Or am I doing something wrong?
Just in case, I tried re-running "recreate mount scripts" in link2sd, which had worked before, and this time it failed too! `can't create /system/etc/init.d/11link2sd: Read-only file system`. So maybe something has changed since I first installed link2sd. Hmm. I do see this in a thread on stack exchange, "Write access to the system partition is usually blocked by the kernel at boot." But "recreate mount scripts" worked before, *after* I'd flashed the current kernel (Kernel Bangprovn#1.zip) and ROM (LolliKat Stable 2.zip). That's how I got the ext4 partition working for link2sd in the first place.
I'm getting frustrated and don't want to have a big fight every time I want to integrate or convert an app. So I'm wondering just how feasible the following might be...
I've also seen one guide for permanently mounting /system as read-write. I think I'd be ok with that (are the security concerns truly awful?), especially if it meant that system apps would update themselves in-place without impacting /data.
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I'm guessing they wouldn't simply self-update. But if I could easily run the Integrate step without this RW battle, that might be enough.
If it helps, here is my mount info:
Code:
cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,relatime,memory 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock8 /system yaffs2 ro,seclabel,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock9 /cache yaffs2 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock10 /data yaffs2 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdext2 ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,barrier=1,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
using bin/mount rather than xbin/mount
I finally found a solution: remount by explicitly using `/system/bin/mount -o ...` rather than just `mount -o ...`. I'm guessing that at some point the version in /system/xbin started taking priority and for some reason that version fails silently. More info here:
http://android.stackexchange.com/a/110883/109855