i just installed busybox from the playstore, it's done successfuly but there are some files in the storage that bugs me. it's called toolbox-stericson and busybox-stericson. can i delete or just move those files to some folder, because it makes the structure of the storage ugly. thanks.
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Yes you may delete them, those are more of temporary files.
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After the ICS update, we now have a "vendor" directory within our system folder.
This folder seems to hold duplicates of folders found within the "system" directory (which includes the "app" directory, containing bloatware and copies of apps from "system/app").
My questions are:
What is the purpose of the "vendor" directory?
And, can the "vendor" directory be safely deleted all together? (I did give this a go, and up to now, do not seem to be experiencing any side effects.)
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Vendor directory is there since gingerbread. That is where sony put all miscellanous files. For example all apk's inside the vendor/app are only being used by setup guide. If setup guide is launched for the 1st time it copies all the contents inside vendor directory and being copy pasted to it's respective directories.
It was mainly made for the use of the factory reset in the settings app in the phone. Wherein if you do a factory reset the phone delete's all the data it contains and return back the 3rd party files back in case you uninstalled it.
Oh, I never noticed it while I was on GB. The only reason I noticed it this time was because I had bloatware running from the vendor dir (such as Lets Golf).
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Yes. If you were a ROM developer and want to integrate some optional apps(let users have the right to uninstall it if they want to) then the best place to put it is in the vendor directory.
How does that work then? As with the bloatware I had, I had to use root explorer to remove it from the vendor directory to stop it from being available on the device, the option to uninstall in the settings menu wasn't available.
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I'm not sure if it was a bug or what but that's not the case on GB. Probably sony intended it to be like that or they have done some minor errors.
Anyways I don't see any good reason why the likes of let's golf be considered as a system app. It won't even work unless you download it's game data.
Ah I see.
Yeah, I'm with you on that one, totally not cool of them to make a game a system app .
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Due to vendor app partitions.
We get very less space around 40 kb in system partitions
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To get rid of this f***** use less partition .
Flash arc s fw.
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Is there no other way of completely removing the partition without having to flash an S rom?
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Is there no other way of completely removing the partition without having to flash an S rom?
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No there is no other method
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MOD ----> Move or Delete
Why he ask 4 questions in 1 thread and put it to General...
The answers are also questions so move!!!
What are these files for after rooting my Nexus 7 I found them in the sdcard dir, /storage/sdcard/!ReadyToFlash/Root_Files/busybody.zip and /storage/sdcard/!ReadyToFlash/Root_Files/CWM-SuperSU-v0.94.zip and /storage/sdcard/TWRP/.twrps? Should I delete them if I do not wish to use them?
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those are the super user and busy box apps . They were pushed to your device by the root method you used. They are quite small in size and are not hurting anything being there.. I would just leave them be. But they were pushed there then extracted to the correct directories.
A different opinion:
If you are using TWRP for recovery, then keep that folder and delete the !Ready... one. If you are using CWM for recovery, then you can delete both folders.
Not much point in keeping files you don't need.
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Has anybody figured out a way to store data from app to a flash drive? I've tried multiple things like moving files on es files and even tried the directory bind app to no avail... Any other ideas?
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Do a search for Directory Bind on this site. It does what you want. Caveat: I can't get it to work with 4.2, so I reverted to 4.1.2 until the emulated directory structure issue is solved.
I actually got the app from the page on xda... I just tried four times with two apps and can't get it to work... I know the two files have to match perfectly... I do have a question though... Did u rename the storage file extsdcard or did I just rename the file in the app to usbStorage?
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I figured out why it wasn't working...I'm on job 4.2.
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I use usbStorage because Stickmount mounts my flash drive there. 4.2 uses /storage/shell/emulated/0/usbStorage/sdn1/* for its source, and /sdcard/* for its target. I can bind them (especially on a second mount, when n=b), but apps don't find the real target. More correctly, Directory Bind doesn't allow me to specify the real target.
It works great in 4.1.2, so I am running 4.1.2.
I'm not the lowest of the low, but I am the slowest of the slow.
Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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Not there either. I've searched every folder. It's only shows when I go into recovery.
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Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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Mount>shell>emulated>cwm>backup
nbeebe24 said:
/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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my data folder on root is empty
heat361 said:
Mount>shell>emulated>cwm>backup
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Mnt>shell is empty on my stock ROM
I had cwm made many backups and just changed to twrp but my internal storage is all filled up and I cannot field the previous backups to delete... Any help?
I am having this same problem too and am searching for solution... I have asked all over the forum and also googled but to no avail. Help please....
Need to search harder...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38857026&postcount=18
But my /data folder is empty. I use root explorer and couldn't find anything in /data folder. Was previously looking for WPA_supplicant for my ap list also....
I am currently using root explorer and es explorer v3. ES explorer v3 doesn't have the root settings. I'll download the stable version from play store and try.
Update : I've got it working. This means only es explorer can see CWM backup and wpa_supplicant
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Need to search harder...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38857026&postcount=18
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Yes it does as I'm using it! Seriously, follow EVERY instruction on my post and look at the pictures
I did some testing on my own. Root explorer works too. Just need to toggle r/w from root location. Data folder populated after that. As for the latest es explorer v3, toggling root explorer will enable data folder contents to be viewed.
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I use a custom ringtone and notification sound on my phone. Each time I update my ROM, I have to copy two .ogg files from my /sdcard/, to /system/media/ringtones.
Is there any way to get an app or scripts that will get su permissions, mount /system/, copy the files, then unmount all in one go?
Not that I'm aware of, I do the same thing every flash.
Btw the notification sound goes in system/media/audio/notifications
You could try making a flashable.zip of the sounds you want and flash them after your ROM.
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You can put them in
sdcard/ringtones
sdcard/notifications
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If making a flashable zip is the easiest option, how would I make one of those?
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