I found a guide to aply apps to sd on my milestone. I got it working, but the problem is, that apps installed in the data/app-private folder doesn't show as installed. I can see that they are placed in ext2 partion on my sd card along with the other apps, that normaly installes in data/app.Here is the guide i used
After creatting a ext2 partition on my SD card, i copied ext2. To sd card along with
mot_boot_mode script
#!/system/bin/sh
export PATH=/system/bin:$PATH
mot_boot_mode.bin
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
Then in recovery mode i entered
adb shell
su
cp /sdcard/ext2.ko /data/ext2.ko
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mkdir /data/sdapp
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
cp /data/app/* /data/sdapp/
mkdir /sdcard/sicherung
cp /data/app/* /sdcard/sicherung
rm -r /data/app
umount /data/sdapp
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
ls /data/sdapp
ln -s /data/sdapp /data/app
chmod 644 /data/sdapp/*
/data/busybox/chown -h 1000:1000 /data/app
/data/busybox/chown 1000:1000 /data/sdapp/*
/data/busybox/chown 1000:1000 /data/sdapp
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
mount -o remount,rw / /system
mv /system/bin/mot_boot_mode /system/bin/mot_boot_mode.bin
cp /sdcard/mot_boot_mode_script /system/bin/mot_boot_mode
chmod 755 /system/bin/mot_boot_mode
Do i need to make a symbolic link in data/app-private also?
I would realy like to get this working, because i purchased a lot of apps on the marked. But i have only half of them installed. It used to work on my HTC hero. But it was allready enabled in a custom rom. And that is not possible to do on a Milestone
Thanks
Fixed it by changing app-private folder two
hey glaus...
this almost seems like a guide, hehe...
i'm trying to get apps2sd to work on my milestone as well...
i tried booting in recovery mode and entering the chain of commands you just set out....
but when i go into recovery mode, i see the reboot system option, apply sdcard:update.zip, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition....
and under it, i have e: can't open /cache/recovery/command
any ideas on how to fix this or where can i enter those commands you set out?
i tried in adb shell, but i get a /data/busybox/chown is not found error when setting the permissions...
thanks!
do
crap me too and it deleted some apps 2 i really want this been trying for a week oh i have a telus milestone and get the same above error.busybox is installed and hard drive is partioned
ah crap market is gone 2 lol gotta do a nano restore......man i want this bad i even bricked my phone and brought it back to life this week arghhhh
yeah...i don't know where claus is from...but if he has a telus milestone, he's the only one i've seen been able to install apps2sd with a telus milestone
i've seen other countries, even some with the same bands as we have, but none have had the actual "telus" one....the funny thing is that i can get everything else to work..
i have titanium backup pro, emulator, root explorer and everything is at superuser access...
if claus can help, i will bear his children
edit: how the heck do you install/activate the mot_boot_mode script? I see reference to it in a few wikis on basically that's what will allow us to use apps2sd...but I have no clue how to implement it
got app2sd working on milestone using a diff method will post soon
ok i got app2sd working on my telus milestone here is how i did it if u tried this method here ur gunna have to unroot then root or use a nano backup of freshly rooted phone busybox need mot to be installed so use titanium for back up and proceed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=692367
ClausG76 said:
I found a guide to aply apps to sd on my milestone. I got it working, but the problem is, that apps installed in the data/app-private folder doesn't show as installed. I can see that they are placed in ext2 partion on my sd card along with the other apps, that normaly installes in data/app.Here is the guide i used
After creatting a ext2 partition on my SD card, i copied ext2. To sd card along with
mot_boot_mode script
#!/system/bin/sh
export PATH=/system/bin:$PATH
mot_boot_mode.bin
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
Then in recovery mode i entered
adb shell
su
cp /sdcard/ext2.ko /data/ext2.ko
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mkdir /data/sdapp
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
cp /data/app/* /data/sdapp/
mkdir /sdcard/sicherung
cp /data/app/* /sdcard/sicherung
rm -r /data/app
umount /data/sdapp
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
ls /data/sdapp
ln -s /data/sdapp /data/app
chmod 644 /data/sdapp/*
/data/busybox/chown -h 1000:1000 /data/app
/data/busybox/chown 1000:1000 /data/sdapp/*
/data/busybox/chown 1000:1000 /data/sdapp
insmod /data/ext2.ko
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdapp
mount -o remount,rw / /system
mv /system/bin/mot_boot_mode /system/bin/mot_boot_mode.bin
cp /sdcard/mot_boot_mode_script /system/bin/mot_boot_mode
chmod 755 /system/bin/mot_boot_mode
Do i need to make a symbolic link in data/app-private also?
I would realy like to get this working, because i purchased a lot of apps on the marked. But i have only half of them installed. It used to work on my HTC hero. But it was allready enabled in a custom rom. And that is not possible to do on a Milestone
Thanks
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fixed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=692367
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I have been having this error message come up using the terminal. I was attempting to add the volume enhancements via Lucid's script on the hybrid JF 1.51 with the HTC apps. I have asked Lucid if he knew how to solve this, but i wanted to see if anyone else might know the solution. I have been searching on here and also on google and yahoo but I have yet to find anything. I even took out my sd card to see if that would help after restarting my phone but nothing. Did i just screw myself?
innerlight said:
I have been having this error message come up using the terminal. I was attempting to add the volume enhancements via Lucid's script on the hybrid JF 1.51 with the HTC apps. I have asked Lucid if he knew how to solve this, but i wanted to see if anyone else might know the solution. I have been searching on here and also on google and yahoo but I have yet to find anything. I even took out my sd card to see if that would help after restarting my phone but nothing. Did i just screw myself?
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i'm not privvy to lucid's script, but..
remount /system rewrite
do a cp -f to the files you are replacing
remount /system read-only
if you still get no space left, reboot your phone, then try again.
pershoot said:
i'm not privvy to lucid's script, but..
remount /system rewrite
do a cp -f to the files you are replacing
remount /system read-only
if you still get no space left, reboot your phone, then try again.
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forgive my ignorance but do I type this in terminal as is? Because when I do that it cannot find remount.
I think I found the problem as to why I saw that error. I went from JFs-1.51 US built to the hybrid one that cyanogen did (the JF-1.51 + HTC apps) and I think there maybe something wrong inside there. First wiped and flashed JF's one and then wiped and flashed the cyanogen one and the problem is there.
innerlight said:
forgive my ignorance but do I type this in terminal as is? Because when I do that it cannot find remount.
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copy the three files needed for the volume increase (2 if your on JF (AudioFilter and AudioPara4)) on to the sdcard in to lets say a directory named 'audio'. make sure you have unmounted the sdcard from within your OS after you have completed the copy, and have unplugged the USB cable.
open up terminal (on your phone)
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd /sdcard/audio
# mkdir BK
# cp -p /system/etc/Audio* ./BK
# cp -f AudioFilter.csv /system/etc
# cp -f AudioPara4.csv /system/etc
# cp -f AudioPara_TMUS.csv /system/etc
# mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ exit
bounce your phone.
pershoot said:
copy the three files needed for the volume increase (2 if your on JF (AudioFilter and AudioPara4)) on to the sdcard in to lets say a directory named 'audio'. make sure you have unmounted the sdcard from within your OS after you have completed the copy, and have unplugged the USB cable.
open up terminal (on your phone)
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd /sdcard/audio
# mkdir BK
# cp -p /system/etc/Audio* ./BK
# cp -f AudioFilter.csv /system/etc
# cp -f AudioPara4.csv /system/etc
# cp -f AudioPara_TMUS.csv /system/etc
# mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ exit
bounce your phone.
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Thanks for the reply. I am still getting the same error with the JF-1.51+HTC apps build. I told Cyanogen about it and hopefully he will get it sorted out because his built is faster than the regular JF build. I guess I have to decide if the added HTC apps are worth more than the sound increase.
I have an Atrix on AT&T. Which means there's a bootloader encryption, and the carrier prevents non-market apk installations, which I have resolved since my phone is rooted and I have changed the boot animation already.
In order to do these things, I found Ghost Commander that would let me chmod my system directories...which is fine, but I feel kind of gimped that I can't do it on terminal.
Basically, what I want to be able to do is remount /system as rw using terminal.
This method doesn't work on both terminal and emulator on my phone. I have done:
Terminal:
Code:
sudo su
cd [sdk directory]
./adb devices
./adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system
and this is where I get stuck because I just get an Invalid argument error.
Here is some info about my sytem -
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system ext3 ro,noatime,nodiratime, data=ordered 0 0
Been searching for the answers for a while now, and now I'm here. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
there
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/mmcblk0p12 /system
back
Code:
mount -o remount,ro /dev/mmcblk0p12 /system
Hmm, well at least I didn't get any errors this time.
I didn't get a confirmation or that it did anything at all. Is that normal?
Run mount with no parameters and look for the line with that device name, should see rw in that line instead of ro.
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Thanks guys, but I resorted to busybox chmod command instead lol
I tried this and got no errors, and using cat /proc/mounts/ I see the path as rw. But when I try to copy I still get the read only file system error.
**Lol, I had the phone in usb storage mode and had to switch it to Windows Media Sync**
I have made a file to mount an sdcard second partition to "/data". It needs to go in "/system/etc/init.d/". Can some have a look to tell me if it would work or not as I don't have a partition sdcard.
-Download link: http://db.tt/paxqo1b
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
if [ -e /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-num/p2 ]
then
busybox mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock10 /;
busybox umount /data;
busybox mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-num/p2 /data;
busybox chown system system /data;
busybox chmod 771 /data;
busybox mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock10 /;
fi;
Why would you want the whole data partition on the sdcard? It will ruin it a lot quicker, and also slow the phone down if the card isn't fast enough.
Jack
I just rooted my SG S4 Android 5.0.1 with auto-root. Everything worked fine (root complete and SU installed) till I think I gave a bad mount command in the root directory on the phone in terminal (i guess here it went wrong, not sure. Or perhaps during installation of bash or nano) when I was installing bash and nano. Since it rebooted, I **lost the wifi and cannot adb shell into my phone** anymore from mac.
Afterwards, I managed to flash clockwork mod recovery v6.0.4.6. and was able to mount /system, which enabled the ./adb shell again. However i can now only pwd and cd, everything else gets this error: /sbin/sh: ls: Permission denied
I think my phone is still recoverable, however I don't know what to do and don't want to risk making things worse. Which andoird wizard can help me please?
**Below here were my bash nano install commands:**
./adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp -r /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/terminfo /system/etc
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/profile /etc
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/bash /data
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/nano /data
chmod 755 /data/bash
chmod 755 /data/nano
cd /system/bin/
mv sh sh.old
ln -s /data/bash sh
ln -s /data/bash bash
ln -s /data/nano nano
export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo
export TERM=linux
mount -o remount,ro /system
**P.S. So I also performed a regular mount in root, which i think is what made things bad, but not totally sure!**
ansjovis86 said:
I just rooted my SG S4 Android 5.0.1 with auto-root. Everything worked fine (root complete and SU installed) till I think I gave a bad mount command in the root directory on the phone in terminal (i guess here it went wrong, not sure. Or perhaps during installation of bash or nano) when I was installing bash and nano. Since it rebooted, I **lost the wifi and cannot adb shell into my phone** anymore from mac.
Afterwards, I managed to flash clockwork mod recovery v6.0.4.6. and was able to mount /system, which enabled the ./adb shell again. However i can now only pwd and cd, everything else gets this error: /sbin/sh: ls: Permission denied
I think my phone is still recoverable, however I don't know what to do and don't want to risk making things worse. Which andoird wizard can help me please?
**Below here were my bash nano install commands:**
./adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp -r /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/terminfo /system/etc
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/profile /etc
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/bash /data
cp /storage/extSdCard/bashnano/nano /data
chmod 755 /data/bash
chmod 755 /data/nano
cd /system/bin/
mv sh sh.old
ln -s /data/bash sh
ln -s /data/bash bash
ln -s /data/nano nano
export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo
export TERM=linux
mount -o remount,ro /system
**P.S. So I also performed a regular mount in root, which i think is what made things bad, but not totally sure!**
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If you can get into download mode ,flash stock rom from Sammobile
I am trying to create an overlay folder under /system/vendor so that I can throw a layers apk there to hide the nav bar. I am currently using the build.prop method which doesn't work nicely with the Now on Tap action of Swipe Navigation which is what I am ultimately trying to fix.
I tried using Solid Explorer to simply create the new directory like I did previously in 7.0 and 6.x but was unable to do so (action failed). I decided to try using the terminal and create the folder and move files from there but got the message that the system was read-only. I then attempted to mount system a few different ways all of which failed. I did use su before entering these commands.
Code:
angler:/system/vendor $ mkdir overlay
mkdir: 'overlay': Read-only file system
angler:/system/vendor $ mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mount: '/dev/block/platform/soc.0/f9824900.sdhci/by-name/system' not user mountable in fstab
angler:/system/vendor $ /system/bin/mount -o rw,remount,rw /system /system
mount: '/system' not in /proc/mounts
angler:/system/vendor $ /system/bin/mount /system
mount: bad /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
Googling around didn't yield much in the way of solutions other than these different methods of mounting system. Am I just unable to mount system as rw in 7.1.1 currently, and if so, is there another way to accomplish what I want?
I'm trying to find thread I read this from, so if I find it I'll post link to it. When I was on early 7 previews that was set up with systemless root I went into twrp and then went to terminal and typed the following, touch su. When your in terminal cd to both bin and xbin and type command "touch su" without quotes. Then reboot and you should be able to use something like es file explorer to get into and write in /system. Hope that helps.
Found it, look to post = 15
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/es-file-explorer-doesnt-understand-t3242775
Unfortunately that did not end up working for me, thanks for looking up the link for me though!
On Nougat the rw mount command should be typed like this:
mount -o rw,remount /system
then for touch:
touch sbin/su
Thank you blitz for clarifying.
Hmm... it seems like the mount worked but the touch did not. I ended up using just "touch su" but ran into a different error with mkdir. I think I may just be out of luck for now. Thank you both for your help!
Code:
~ # mount -o rw,remount /system
~ # cd /system/bin
/system/bin # touch sbin/su
touch: sbin/su: No such file or directory
/system/bin # touch su
/system/bin # cd /system/xbin
/system/xbin # touch su
/system/xbin # cd /system/vendor
/vendor # mkdir overlay
mkdir: cannot create directory 'overlay': No space left on device
AbuShabanov said:
Hmm... it seems like the mount worked but the touch did not. I ended up using just "touch su" but ran into a different error with mkdir. I think I may just be out of luck for now. Thank you both for your help!
Code:
~ # mount -o rw,remount /system
~ # cd /system/bin
/system/bin # touch sbin/su
touch: sbin/su: No such file or directory
/system/bin # touch su
/system/bin # cd /system/xbin
/system/xbin # touch su
/system/xbin # cd /system/vendor
/vendor # mkdir overlay
mkdir: cannot create directory 'overlay': No space left on device
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I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish but still:
The touch sbin/su means creating an empty file called su in the sbin subdirectory under the current directory. So if there is no subdir named sbin under /system/bin, then it's not going to work
Secondly, you should know about the ls command: ls -la lists the files in the current directory, and remember than in unix and linux terminology, a directory is also a file so you'll also see directories (including current "." and parent "..")
Third, you should know about the df command which shows filesystem disk space usage. df -h will show you how much free space you have an all of your filesystems, including system.
Last, with great power comes great responsibilities. Running the wrong command as root will easily make your system unusable.
I have substratum installed and inside /system/vendor there is a link (again a file) called overlay which links to directory /system/overlay where apks are.
rchtk said:
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish
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I am trying to create an overlay folder under /system/vendor so that I can throw a layers apk there to hide the nav bar.
rchtk said:
I have substratum installed and inside /system/vendor there is a link (again a file) called overlay which links to directory /system/overlay where apks are.
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Are you on the 7.1.1 (NPF10C)? If so it sounds like you have accomplished what I am trying to do. I'm only familiar with the basic unix commands as I haven't actively used it in about 5 years. Would you mind sharing how to create the link to /system/overlay from /system/vendor, or does Substratum take care of that? Offhand it sounds like a symbolic link but my terminology is pretty rusty.
AbuShabanov said:
I am trying to create an overlay folder under /system/vendor so that I can throw a layers apk there to hide the nav bar.
Are you on the 7.1.1 (NPF10C)? If so it sounds like you have accomplished what I am trying to do. I'm only familiar with the basic unix commands as I haven't actively used it in about 5 years. Would you mind sharing how to create the link to /system/overlay from /system/vendor, or does Substratum take care of that? Offhand it sounds like a symbolic link but my terminology is pretty rusty.
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Yes 7.1.1.
Substratum created the overlay directory and the link to it.
Manually that would be:
mount -o rw,remount -t auto /vendor
mount -o rw,remount -t auto /system
mkdir /system/overlay
cd /system/vendor
ln -s /system/overlay
mount -o ro,remount -t auto /vendor
mount -o ro,remount -t auto /system
But links do take a very small amount of bytes (roughly name and target) so for that, you'll need some space in your vendor partition (no space left on /vendor). check with "df".
I have 3.8MB free (that's an original vendor + overlay link)
rchtk said:
mount -o rw,remount -t auto /vendor
mount -o rw,remount -t auto /system
mkdir /system/overlay
cd /system/vendor
ln -s /system/overlay
mount -o ro,remount -t auto /vendor
mount -o ro,remount -t auto /system
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Well, this works and I was able to mount system and vendor, create the link, move the apk file, etc but it appears that the apk itself is not working on NPF10C. Thank you for your help and the refresher on the unix commands!