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Adfree on 3G slide?

Has anyone gotten Adfree android to work on the my touch slide 3G?
I either get a reboot or error about writing to hosts
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Faud said:
Has anyone gotten Adfree android to work on the my touch slide 3G?
I either get a reboot or error about writing to hosts
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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See this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=664532
Ignore the installation commands, you need to boot in to recovery and push the hosts file to /system/etc/ on the phone.

Adfree works fine. The reason it doesn't work on slide has nothing to do with the app. The hosts file goes in /system/etc/ and since we don't have r/w access to /system, the app can't do what's its supposed to do. It works great I used it the whole time I had a G1, its just cus your phone isn't PROPERLY rooted. Neither is anyone elses til we get that SPL...
Til then you gotta adb push the file thru recovery...
I dunno if you know this, but adfree temporarily d/l's the hosts file to your sdcard, then deletes it when its done. But since it couldn't replace the file on my slide, it left it on the sdcard! All you gotta do is run the app and wait for it to error out, then go get the file and put it on your pc and adb push to /system/etc...
-BMFC
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bmfc187 said:
its just cus your phone isn't PROPERLY rooted. Neither is anyone elses til we get that SPL...
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Actually, its rooted just fine (you can run anything you want as uid 0). The SPL security has nothing to do with root.
It is like saying you don't have the proper key to a door just because after you open it there is a guard standing there not letting you in to the next room.
Just being picky...

i think what he meant is that with all the other phones most of us have had we had an SPL to flash once we had done the original tweaks(or before on some phones) so as of right now i agree that the phone is not rooted properly yet as i don't have full control over the phone whenever i want, i want to be able to mv stuff to system partition from android terminal
just being picky...

could anyone please post the actual commands? im new to adb and wold really appreciate the help adfree is the entire reason i even rooted
among others but it was the number one

adb push hosts /system/etc
-BMFC
Sent from my ROOTED myTouch3G Slide

thank you so very much

Other than removing a few of the stock apps, this is one of the things I'm looking forward to rooting for, I loved it on my G1.
With all of the folks having so much trouble rooting this sucker though, I may wait awhile.

it said this
' failed to copy 'hosts' to '/system/etc': Permission denied '

and if i type su it asks for a password and if i try to run in root it says that production models wont run in root
but i rooted and have the superuser permissions apk installed and has granted me permission to other things

ParkerOviedo said:
it said this
' failed to copy 'hosts' to '/system/etc': Permission denied '
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Were you booted in to recovery with /system mounted?

i was able to figure it out
i never tried typing su into the adb shell after i rooted
i got the prompt on my device and accepted it now i have full permissions

well it accepted the command and it pushed the host file to /system/etc but it still isnt disabling ads |:<

ParkerOviedo said:
well it accepted the command and it pushed the host file to /system/etc but it still isnt disabling ads |:<
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same thing happened to me. but as falken mentioned before, you have to make sure the system is mounted before running the command. so..
boot into recovery.
go to 'partitions'.
select 'mount /system'.
run adb command "adb push hosts /system/etc".
reboot system.
*you might wanna might wanna be sure the comp sees the device in recovery before running the command via "adb devices". i do this before i do any adb'ing.
*be sure the hosts file is in the root of your sdk directory, otherwise your command will vary.

poetik517 said:
same thing happened to me. but as falken mentioned before, you have to make sure the system is mounted before running the command. so..
boot into recovery.
go to 'partitions'.
select 'mount /system'.
run adb command "adb push hosts /system/etc".
reboot system.
*you might wanna might wanna be sure the comp sees the device in recovery before running the command via "adb devices". i do this before i do any adb'ing.
*be sure the hosts file is in the root of your sdk directory, otherwise your command will vary.
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All I get is "failed to copy 'hosts' to '/system/etc': Permission denied"
And yes my Phone is Rooted..
I did everything above. do I have to be in su or something...
Can you not do this on the stock rom. Do I have to flash one of the other roms to be able to push to System...

jnight666 said:
All I get is "failed to copy 'hosts' to '/system/etc': Permission denied"
And yes my Phone is Rooted..
I did everything above. do I have to be in su or something...
Can you not do this on the stock rom. Do I have to flash one of the other roms to be able to push to System...
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You need to have flashed the engineering rom so you have a root shell in recovery.

Does the Hosts file even block ads?

droctii said:
Does the Hosts file even block ads?
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Yup, and it makes the internet soo much faster. Adfree works fine as is if you add the rw overlay

dumfuq said:
Yup, and it makes the internet soo much faster. Adfree works fine as is if you add the rw overlay
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BINGO! Thanks!!!

[Q] how to get market

I just put cm7 on a sd and am running it on my NC. how do I get the market on it? I saw one link but don't understand how to do it.

If all you want is the market, you can download the newest market APK from my webserver. The link is:
http://www.r00tyou.com/android/tools/Vending(new).apk
To push it to the device simple connect the device to your computer using ADB and type the following in the console:
adb devices
adb install \path\to\the\downloaded\apk.apk
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Wait for it to successfully transfer over and install.
The viola, you have the newest market APK.
However, I suggest that you download the newest GAPPS from the cyanogen website and push over the whole gapps.
To do this, simply download the latest GAPPS from here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps
Again, using ADB type the following commands:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb push [the path to your SDK tools folder]\system system/
adb reboot
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The console will show the progress of what apps are being transferred over and installed. Once it is done rebooting it will prompt you for logging in to your google account to setup your device. You can simply skip this (Tapping in each corner of the screen starting from the top left going clockwise) or you can proceed with the setup process.
Hope that helps

Thanks for the info. It took some doing because I haven't written code since DOS.

Thanx alot man i had the same problem and this worked perfecty

Not sure if it's important since /system/ is mounted ro anyway but all apps in /system/app/ have 644 permissions, pushing files with adb (whether in linux or windoz) will give them 755 permissions defaultly, so I usually do a:
chmod 644 [app-name].apk
after I transfer the file. Might be a good idea to do this if you are remounting it a lot.
Cheers,
Mike
PS. Themed Markets :-D

Temp root for apps required root access (for s-on IS)

Psneuter exploit is working on IS, but because /system is locked on s-on phones, we can't copy su and superuser.apk into /system, apps required root access can't work.
The following procedure uses psenuter exploit to gain adb shell root, and then copy su (without privilege control ) and busybox into /sbin (which is on rootfs and in the global PATH list) to gain root access for apps.
The procedure:
1. Unzip the attached .zip into a directory (like c:\adb)
2. Open a command prompt and cd to the directory where you extracted the .zip (like cd \adb)
3. run pushroot.bat (simply type pushroot)
4. adb shell /data/local/tmp/getroot
5. adb shell
6. you are now in # prompt. Type /data/local/tmp/pushroot
You have to redo steps 4,5,6 once you reboot your phone.
The procedure will have all apps gaining root access.
!!USE ON YOUR OWN RISK!!
Known working programs: Root explorer, Titanium backup, gscript lite, trasproxy 2.04, ...
Some apps check existence of su in /system/xbin , and reject to proceed if the su binary is not exist (like transproxy 3.08). For this kind of apps, this procedure won't help.

Nice but old news mate...
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Good job...thanks

Thanks for writing this up, might quell the thirst for S-OFF a little longer

/system/ is writeable btw, if you remount it, but after reboot everything u done will be changed to the way it were before.
so a temp root in xbin is possible also, only it will be gone afterwards (atleast i never tried this, but should work also...)

Yes. /system could be remount in rw with root. However, the files you wrote will be gone after you remount ro, and then you won't be able to copy the same filename into the same location again before next reboot ( I don't know why, actually!!). This is why I put su in sbin instead of /system/xbin.

thanks to your files 非常感谢你的工作。

Does anyone know whether steps 4, 5 and 6 can be run from the device itself?
Can I put these commands into some sort of script and run it everytime I need temp root or would I need to do this from a computer every time?

faf said:
Does anyone know whether steps 4, 5 and 6 can be run from the device itself?
Can I put these commands into some sort of script and run it everytime I need temp root or would I need to do this from a computer every time?
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I believe you can do it from a terminal emulator but haven't got the chance to try it myself though.
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pushroot error
c:/adb>adb shell ln /data/local/tem/busybox /data/local/tmp/cp
Link failed File exists
and
c:/adb>adb shell /data/local/tmp/getroot
mmap<> failed. operation not permitted
Why??THX....

itandy said:
I believe you can do it from a terminal emulator but haven't got the chance to try it myself though.
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Definitely, this is the way to go.
Unfortunately, the root exploit I know could run on device itself, including
rageagainstthecage (ratc) and local root exploit (hotplug) both failed on IS.
The solution will be nearly perfect if we can get temp root on IS without a computer link.
Any input will be welcome.

sky1212 said:
pushroot error
c:/adb>adb shell ln /data/local/tem/busybox /data/local/tmp/cp
Link failed File exists
and
c:/adb>adb shell /data/local/tmp/getroot
mmap<> failed. operation not permitted
Why??THX....
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Please then type adb shell.
If you see # but not $, do
cd /data/local/tmp
rm ./cp
ln busybox cp
./pushroot
Then you finished the install.
If you see $, please do all over again.

You can also add ShootMe (screen capture app) and SetCPU to the list of working apps. SetCPU will only allow you underclock for now due to the kernel, but it is a nice touch if you are worried about battery life. Adfree doesn't appear to work

l0st.prophet said:
You can also add ShootMe (screen capture app) and SetCPU to the list of working apps. SetCPU will only allow you underclock for now due to the kernel, but it is a nice touch if you are worried about battery life. Adfree doesn't appear to work
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Adfree is working for me. Are you getting some type of error message?
MetaMorph, screenshot and MyBackup Root are also working.
I had to mount system, then push su to /system/xbin. Then install BusyBox Installer from Market.

No erro, still got the ads. I've tried rebooting & rerooting, still no luck

l0st.prophet said:
No erro, still got the ads. I've tried rebooting & rerooting, still no luck
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What site/app are you going to so I can see if I get the ads.

the anti-ads actually tries to modify the current host file... which is not allowed in your state as far as i know
what you can do is replace it by pushin it to the right spot
but after reboot gone,but sure u know

Adfee is working for me, you can also add Droidwall.

@eddycyf, did you test adfree with apps? Since it aint working for prophet...
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Mhm AdFree isnt working for me. The App states that everything is okay, and that my hosts file is up to date, but I see ads everywhere.
But I am kinda happy now, because i can use Titanium Backup

One click root after update: "We have root, but couldn't push busybox. Not sure why!"

One click root after update: "We have root, but couldn't push busybox. Not sure why!"
I just updated .890 which seemed to go fine with no errors (unfroze all bloat, but did not unroot), but I lost root, as expected.. but when I use Pete's one-click root tool (latest version), it gets to step 3 and gives me the error about not being able to push busybox...!? It says I "have root", but none of my apps recognize it.. I've pulled the battery, rebooted and retried like 10 times... still can't get it to re-root. I've made sure Debugging and Unknown Sources is enabled and tried in Charge Mode and Mass Storage mode... Am I going to have to stock flash this thing and re-update & re-root?
I THINK I have some type of root.. maybe... because Root Explorer will let me mount the System directory as R/W and I can TRY to manipulate files, but if I delete something (like su), it appears to delete successfully, but the file comes back if I refresh the directory.. but I also noticed when I go into the System directory, Root Explorer claims I only have 1MB of free space out of 318.00MB... how did that happen? If I try to run Superuser.apk, it force closes on me.
Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated...

there's an app on the android market that will push busybox if you have root. I'd look into that
edit: have you attempted to run the one-click root again? and if that doesn't work you can try to use the adb method if you're comfortable with it. And make sure that all of your drivers and everything are up-to-date

I have done battery pulls and like a dozen+ re-tries at the 1-click root, always get the same error.. I have been into the ADB shell to try and figure this out and I see the ADB Shell starts out by giving me a # prompt... that means writable/root, right? Any instructions on what I have to do from there?
I will look into that push busybox app, thanks.

http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/Motorola_Droid_3
This is where all the info about the adb and one-click stuff. The tough part about the adb method is manually pushing su to the (i think) system/xbin folder. Then i just used the app on the marketplace to push busybox. But there's a download link for both of those on the website

Thanks for the links. I think a problem with my ADB is when I reboot it (step 3), I no longer have a # prompt.. it goes back to the $ prompt... the only way I can seem to get the # prompt in ADB is when I use Pete's temporary ADB root... but once I reboot, that goes away. When I try to do step 4, rm /data/local/12m, it says it's a directory and it's not empty and it won't remove it. :\
How do I normally make ADB give me that # prompt so I can write/edit? or am I totally off-base here?..
*edit* I am going to try and do Pete's temp ADB root again and just try steps 18+ and see if that gets me anywhere...

Kraxis said:
Thanks for the links. I think a problem with my ADB is when I reboot it (step 3), I no longer have a # prompt.. it goes back to the $ prompt... the only way I can seem to get the # prompt in ADB is when I use Pete's temporary ADB root... but once I reboot, that goes away. When I try to do step 4, rm /data/local/12m, it says it's a directory and it's not empty and it won't remove it. :\
How do I normally make ADB give me that # prompt so I can write/edit? or am I totally off-base here?..
*edit* I am going to try and do Pete's temp ADB root again and just try steps 18+ and see if that gets me anywhere...
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After temp ADB root, steps 18 and beyond should do it. You may want to check /system/bin and /system/xbin to remove the old su binaries before pushing the new one. Some folks have one in each location for some reason. Put it in xbin, but if it doesn't work, /system/bin will. Superuser wouldn't recognize xbin for me so I moved it to /system/bin and i'm good since.
Anyone have a thought on the xbin not always working? I think this is the 3rd topic i've seen with this issue, not including myself.
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OK, I got root back! I used steps 18+ for "ADB Method" (after using Pete's temp ADB root) and essentially replaced SU and Superuser.apk, CHMOD'd it rebooted and I had root! Thanks guys!!

Issues With Installing Busybox

I've tried using the app from the android store, I even was able to install it through that by mounting /xbin using root explorer and then installing it. The problem with that is when I reboot my phone busybox is no longer installed. So I figure I can install it manually using the adb tools but therein lies the problem. I cannot execute the busybox binary from the data folder. These are my steps to trying:
Code:
adb shell
su
cd /data/local
mkdir busybox
exit
adb push busybox /data/local/busybox
adb shell
su
cd /data/local
chmod 755 busybox
cd /data/local/busybox
./busybox
sh: ./busybox: can't execute: Permission denied
And here I am stuck... btw the binary I downloaded was here: busybox dot net/downloads/binaries/latest/ (under 10 posts cant post links for some reason...) And I downloaded the armv71, which I'm assuming is the right architecture for the moto x. Maybe it's wrong but since the moto x uses a custom architecture, I have no idea what binary to use. Anyways any suggestions would be appreciated.

Well, you're trying to cd to the file rather than the directory containing the file. Not sure if that's the issue or not, but it surely isn't helping.

You have not turned write protect off. Run motowpnomo
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Problem was that I was chmodding the directory instead of the binary also I was missing arguments and the directory of installation. (had to mount system as root as well).
Well I was able to get it to install but the problem is the write protection, when I reboot my phone all the files that were in the /system/xbin directory were gone. Unfortunately that program no longer exists, all links point to a "Page Not Found" page. I would rather not download it from an unofficial source so I'm sol unless I can install it through recovery but I have no idea how to go about doing that and I don't see any instructions.
Thanks for the help guys.

Well, I think this is new: just downloaded Stericson's BusyBox Pro installer (as usual) to my Moto X Play on 6.0 Marshmallow and it is asking for the unusual default installation path of "/su/bin". As you know, " system/xbin" or "system/sbin" are usually the preferred installation paths for BusyBox, so this change simply got me stuck in the process thinking where to install BusyBox. My first thought is BusyBox auto-choose where to be installed according to system characteristics and I should go on and just install where it is asking me to, but... I don't know. Does somebody have a similar experience?