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Help With ADB...please

Hey guys, i'm having a bit of a problem here. It might be a stupid problem that i am over looking, but i just cant seem to figure it out. I dont use ADB often, but i just installed cyanogens newest rom and it no longer comes with the advanced launcher. which i absolutely love. so heres my issue, I am trying to follow these directions:
Installation
- Plug your USB cable into the phone and your computer
- Make a backup of your original launcher: "adb pull /systemapp/Launcher.apk LauncherBAK.apk"
- Remount the /system filesystem: "adb remount"
- Unzip the advanced launcher "unzip Launcher_update_x.zip"
- Push the advanced launcher "adb push Launcher.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk"
- Remove the odex file "adb rm /system/app/Launcher.odex"
- Reboot your phone.
This is whats happening:
cd C:\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\tools
C:\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3\tools> adb shell
#adb pull /system/app/Launcher.apk LauncherBAK.apk
adb: not found
#
I tried moving forward without backing up. this is what i get:
adb: not found
#adb remount
adb remount
#adb: not found
#
This is where im at. can sombody please point me int he right direction of whats going on here? thank you

As I understand it, when you type adb shell, youre in the android shell, and no longer use the adb commands, but you use the commands that youd use in console. ADB has different commands, which you can list by just typing adb.
SO,
plug it in
adb remount
adb pull /system/app/Launcher.apk LauncherBAK.apk
unzip Launcher_update_x.zip
adb push Launcher.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
adb rm /system/app/Launcher.odex
reboot
That should work. Dont use the shell. The pros can feel free to correct me.

Hummeroid said:
As I understand it, when you type adb shell, youre in the android shell, and no longer use the adb commands, but you use the commands that youd use in console. ADB has different commands, which you can list by just typing adb.
SO,
plug it in
adb remount
adb pull /system/app/Launcher.apk LauncherBAK.apk
unzip Launcher_update_x.zip
adb push Launcher.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
adb rm /system/app/Launcher.odex
reboot
That should work. Dont use the shell. The pros can feel free to correct me.
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As far as I know this is right. Don't try to pull when you're in adb shell.

Hummeroid said:
As I understand it, when you type adb shell, youre in the android shell, and no longer use the adb commands, but you use the commands that youd use in console. ADB has different commands, which you can list by just typing adb.
SO,
plug it in
adb remount
adb pull /system/app/Launcher.apk LauncherBAK.apk
unzip Launcher_update_x.zip
adb push Launcher.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
adb rm /system/app/Launcher.odex
reboot
That should work. Dont use the shell. The pros can feel free to correct me.
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Right on! thanks so much Hummeroid.

Okay so I tried to do it without the shell and this is what i'm getting. So I'm stuck...Btw, I really appreciate all the help everyone's giving me.
C:\>cd androidsdk\tools
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT96LLV00999 recovery
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb remount
remount failed: Invalid argument
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>

Why are you doing in recovery, try it with the phone on.

[Q]I'm trying to make a little .cmd file to uninstall my apps. need a little help.

Trying to make a little .CMD Files to uninstall my app so I don't have to type everything in again when I do a flash rom.. here is what I have
Code:
pause
@adb kill-server
@adb shell cd /system/app/
@adb shell su*
pause
@adb shell rm /system/app/RemotePVR.apk
@adb shell rm /system/app/tn55-android-blur.apk
@adb shell rm /system/app/FaceRecognition.apk
@adb shell rm /system/app/Layar-samsung.apk
pause
The issue is at the "@adb shell su*" I get an error saying at the super not found.. now when I type the commands in my self it works great.. but in a .bat file or .cmd files it does not work.. what i'm I missing?

Every call to ADB like this is a standalone command.
That is, when you do a
Code:
adb shell cd /system/app/
what happens is that it starts the adb shell, runs the command, and then exits. So when you call su, you lose superuser access when running the next adb shell command, because that shell instance is now gone, kaput, finito.
I also tried to make a script like this, but got stuck. We need to chain commands to ADB, like you can do in *nix with a semi-colon separator between command, like thus:
Code:
command1 ; command2
("&&" in Windows/DOS)
But ADB doesn't seem to support chaining commands.
I guess you have to do a shell script, put it on the phone and run it from there. Or some kind of "adb sushell" command would be nice...

Thanks I was kinda wondering if that was what was happening.. to bad the su command would not stay active.. o well.... maybe someone will come up with something..

Im not at a pc but can u test
adb shell su command
Does tht work ?

you could make a 2nd script which pushes the 1st to the device with "adb push". this script then gets root with "su" and uninstalls/deletes the apps ... btw. you can try using "pm" (packetmanager) which can install/uninstall/reinstall apps. however i don't know if it works with system apps...

Alright here : (eg, say remove launcher)
Code:
adb shell su -c 'mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system'
adb shell su -c 'rm /system/app/Launcher.apk'
adb shell su -c 'rm /system/app/Launcher.odex'
adb shell pm uninstall com.android.launcher
fyi : "SystemApp Remover" on market essentially does the same thing, except it eliminates the need for u to look for the package name ur self.

Hm, that works, but I get a superuser prompt on the phone for every new command (the "app name" is the command line).

Daneshm90 said:
Alright here : (eg, say remove launcher)
Code:
adb shell su -c 'mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system'
adb shell su -c 'rm /system/app/Launcher.apk'
adb shell su -c 'rm /system/app/Launcher.odex'
adb shell pm uninstall com.android.launcher
fyi : "SystemApp Remover" on market essentially does the same thing, except it eliminates the need for u to look for the package name ur self.
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sweet that worked. I would get the SystemApp Remover but I can't download paid apps till Google will fix my account. unless there is something like it for free.

adb problems.......

first of all iv been trying to root my legend for hours and this is geting very furstarting... i am using the guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845512
i have finaly managed to get adb to work and have made my goldcard after 2 days of intense work and now im trying to downgrade my phone to root it
i am geting the following error in adb
when i type adb remount it says remount failed operation not permitted i have looked all over the net and found no answer
in additon to that when im trying to use adb push i type the following
adb shell
$su
su
#adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
i just get the same line repeated how to excute commands from adb? this is very confusing since im noob with rooting also the following lines i don't know how to excute them too
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push misc1-2.img /data/local/
chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/misc_backup.img
/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img
please explain to me how to use theese thanks!

That one is relatively easy. You could also follow Paul's guide but I like my approach better
Connect your phone to your PC. Second you have to install VISIONary r13 into your phone and do the "temproot" procedure. After a successful "temproot" you should be able to adb shell and then su. Fire up command prompt and issue:
adb shell
su
...you should have root privileges now (showing #). Next thing is backing up misc partition and replacing it with one from hack4legend-v5.zip. Extract this zip somewhere and fire another command promt there. Now you should upload flash_image binary and misc1-2.img:
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push misc1-2.img /data/local/
...switch back to 1st command prompt and change permission of flash_image_binary:
chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
...and backup your current misc partition:
cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/misc_backup.img
Now flash misc1-2.img:
Code:
/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img
exit
...and you are set to downgrade retaining HBOOT 1.00.
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Read better, you have to open a new terminal for pushing the files to the phone, you can't use adb push while you are in adb shell.
BTW you should avoid posting questions in development section.

[Q] ADB permission denied

Hi,
my ADB doesn't work correctly. I plug the phone into the pc with USB Debugging enabled (stock V20m 2.3.4) and run adb.
I can type su and the phone shows shell was given su rights, so the connection must be ok.
But I can't give any command. When I type in adb remount it says permission denied. The same problem with any other command like adb pull /system/app/Camera.apk
Everytime comes permission denied.
What can I do? Please help me.

You're running a kernel which doesn't enable the adb remount option (or rather default.prop in the ramdisk doesn't). To get around it:
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system
...this basically does the same thing. There may be something else wrong though, as pulling an app from /system/app should work without it.
EDIT: Make sure you're not in the adb shell when running adb commands. Pull and push commands for example must be run in the computer-shell, not the adb shell.

Thank you very much!
TrymHansen said:
EDIT: Make sure you're not in the adb shell when running adb commands. Pull and push commands for example must be run in the computer-shell, not the adb shell.
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That was the solution for the problem with pull/push files.

[Q] Renaming SystemUI.odex to SystemUI.odex.bak in /system/app/ using ADB

Hey guys,
I'm attempting to rename SystemUI.odex to SystemUI.odex.bak in /system/app/ using ADB. Is this the correct string of console commands?
Code:
adb shell remount rw
adb pull /system/app/SystemUI.odex
adb push /system/app/SystemUI.odex.bak
adb chmod 644 /system/app/SystemUI.odex.bak
adb rm /system/app/SystemUI.odex
adb shell remount ro
Confirmation would be appreciated.

Ok, according to Hencke, this is the only ADB command I would have to use:
Code:
adb shell remount rw
adb shell mv /system/app/SystemUI.odex /system/app/SystemUI.odex.bak
adb shell remount ro
Totally makes sense. Thanks!