Just tried to create a symlink between /sdcard/0/Cyandelta (the folder with files) and /sdcard/Cyandelta so it would flash additional zips correctly, but it gives me "link failed No such file or directory". Any help would be appreciated.
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Make sure you're running the command as su
and check your pathnames
if you're trying to create a link between the internal and external sd, I'm pretty sure it's not possible
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Make sure you're running the command as su
and check your pathnames
if you're trying to create a link between the internal and external sd, I'm pretty sure it's not possible
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Same error as su, I guess I'll have to verify paths next time Cyandelta runs an update.
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If it's a directory you're linking. Try mkdir, and create the target directory first?
But, from what I gather directory links usually fail. At least that is what --help says
DaemonDign said:
If it's a directory you're linking. Try mkdir, and create the target directory first?
But, from what I gather directory links usually fail. At least that is what --help says
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I think recovery sees a different filesystem layout than file explorers do, so I'll have to verify the directories next update, but I'll try linking the individual files.
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EDIT Same error with files.
So it installs the updated ROM from /sdcard/0/Cyandelta/ROM.zip (which only exists when viewing from recovery) then it looks for the additional zips in /sdcard/Cyandelta (which exists according to root browsers, but not recovery). Anyone know how I could fix this without a symlink, since /sdcard/0 doesn't actually exist?
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Hey guys, I accidentally deleted my youtube app like an idiot and have been trying to re-download it for a long time now. I used nookdevs enable android mark process but once I run autonook it tells me that I did not extract the files in the right folder. It tells me to put them into platform-tools. Only problem is I did put the files into the that folder and it still gives me the same answer. Any help would be appreciated. thanks guys
Why don't u just download it again off the market its free
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I've just tried to install the latest Youtube from the market. It fails to install for some reason. The message in notification bar is "Installation unsuccessful"
Use root explorer and copy it to system/apps and make sure the permissions are the same as rest of them and reboot see if that works make a backup of ur rom for incase it goes wrong for u
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I need it too.. can anyone help...
I own NC with FLASHED android Honeycomb... everything works great but Youtube is failing..
Is installed successfully but cannot open any video.
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I need it too.. can anyone help...
I own NC with FLASHED android Honeycomb... everything works great but Youtube is failing..
Is installed successfully but cannot open any video.
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Your deal problem is kind of an easier fix. Search the forums for "failing youtube app" and im sure something will come up. I remember that when I installed Auto-Nooter 3.0 it told me this
If your Youtube fails to launch, download the attached EVO HQ, and follow this code in adb
Code:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb uninstall com.google.android.youtube
adb push YouTube.apk /system/app
adb reboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942424
Thats the forum for that so not sure if that helps lol
festa20 said:
Use root explorer and copy it to system/apps and make sure the permissions are the same as rest of them and reboot see if that works make a backup of ur rom for incase it goes wrong for u
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How do you get the app though. I have been to the market and cant find it. Must my market be updated or is my intelligence getting the best of me lol?
Can someone help me out. I'm new to ADB and trying to learn. I followed the code posted above to push the YouTube apk to my NC but I keep getting this message:
cannot stat 'YouTube.apk' : No such file or directory
I have the YouTube.apk downloaded to my computer. What am I doing wrong?
Where is the file located on your hdd?
I have the youtube.apk in my C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools folder because that is the folder where adb.exe is located.
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Where is the file located on your hdd?
I have the youtube.apk in my C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools folder because that is the folder where adb.exe is located.
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So the youtube.apk needs to be with adb.exe? My only problem is when i run it, it tells me that I have extracted the files into the wrong folder which i didnt and stops.
hey guys, before submitting a bug to Hash i wanted to ask here if anyone tested this yet and made the same experience as i did: SafeStrap 1.08 is not fully compatible with the XT883.
Backups are not working because \system can't be mounted.
anyone can confirm this?
It's a known issue. If you're feeling brave, you can try my modified (and slightly older, now) version of SafeStrap that'll nandroid backup my ME863, and will probably nandroid backup your XT883 as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20976390&postcount=294
i tried it, backups working fine now, thanks a lot!
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I'm using the xt883 radio.img and a tweaked build.prop on the xt862 and can't back-up using SafeStrap.
TBBle said:
It's a known issue. If you're feeling brave, you can try my modified (and slightly older, now) version of SafeStrap that'll nandroid backup my ME863, and will probably nandroid backup your XT883 as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20976390&postcount=294
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So, I was trying to swap out my 2nd-init.zip recovery file with the one from the thread you posted. I'm trying to use file browsers to move the altered 2nd-init.zip file into /etc/safestrap and it won't work no matter the app I use. Is there a particular app/method I should be using here for this last step?
Thanks. Forgive the noob.
Originally Posted by TBBle
It's a known issue. If you're feeling brave, you can try my modified (and slightly older, now) version of SafeStrap that'll nandroid backup my ME863, and will probably nandroid backup your XT883 as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20976390&postcount=294
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So, I was trying to swap out my 2nd-init.zip recovery file with the one from the thread you posted. I'm trying to use file browsers to move the altered 2nd-init.zip file into /etc/safestrap and it won't work no matter the app I use. Is there a particular app/method I should be using here for this last step?
Thanks. Forgive the noob.
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you need to place the recovery file into the original 2nd-init.zip. backup the original file and check the permissions of the new file. you need to do this after succesful installation of the recovery of course
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you need to place the recovery file into the original 2nd-init.zip. backup the original file and check the permissions of the new file. you need to do this after succesful installation of the recovery of course
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I copied the 2nd-init.zip to my computer and unzipped it just fine. I put the tweaked recovery file in the folder and rezipped it. I just can't get it back into the /etc/Safestrap folder because root browser says it failed. I checked permissions on every folder in the path (including /system) and user has write permissions on each one, so I don't see how that could be a problem. I'm not allowed, for some reason, to make any changes to /etc/Safestrap except I can extract the 2nd-init.zip to my SD card, which is how I got the copy I tweaked and am now trying to replace back on the device.
If anyone can tell me what they did to put the tweaked 2nd-init.zip back into /etc/Safestrap, that would be helpful.
Thanks.
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try renaming the original 2nd-init.zip to 2nd-init.org. then copy the modified 2nd-init.zip from your sdcard to etc/safestrap
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eis0r said:
try renaming the original 2nd-init.zip to 2nd-init.org. then copy the modified 2nd-init.zip from your sdcard to etc/safestrap
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Well, just tried it using Root Browser and Script Manager, both of which I find to be very capable file browsers, and it didn't work. It's just not letting me make any changes to the folder /etc/Safestrap. It allowed me to extract the 2nd-init.zip out of that folder, but won't allow me to zip or unzip anything into it. I'll keep playing with it and update if anything changes.
Otherwise, I'll just wait till I no longer need the xt883 radio.img to back up and flash ROMs.
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Well, just tried it using Root Browser and Script Manager, both of which I find to be very capable file browsers, and it didn't work. It's just not letting me make any changes to the folder /etc/Safestrap. It allowed me to extract the 2nd-init.zip out of that folder, but won't allow me to zip or unzip anything into it. I'll keep playing with it and update if anything changes.
Otherwise, I'll just wait till I no longer need the xt883 radio.img to back up and flash ROMs.
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/etc is a symlink to /system/etc which is read only. In a terminal emulator run the command:
busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
Then try moving the files to /etc /safestrap
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Endoroid said:
/etc is a symlink to /system/etc which is read only. In a terminal emulator run the command:
busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
Then try moving the files to /etc /safestrap
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Sweet, thanks, I'll try it right now! Will I need to change it back when I'm done? Hopefully, this will get me a nice shiny back up finally
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Ok, so I got Root Browser to move the original 2nd-init.zip to my sd card and placed the tweaked one in /system/etc/Safestrap successfully, but then Safestrap wouldn't get past the splash screen. I swapped back to the original one and it still wouldn't boot into recovery. Just the splash screen with option to start system or press menu button to go into recovery. I pressed menu and the screen stayed black both times.
Oh well, I'm not in a hurry to flash ROMs or get a backup, so I uninstalled Safestrap for now and will try again when I no longer need the xt883 radio.img.
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Ok, so I got Root Browser to move the original 2nd-init.zip to my sd card and placed the tweaked one in /system/etc/Safestrap successfully, but then Safestrap wouldn't get past the splash screen. I swapped back to the original one and it still wouldn't boot into recovery. Just the splash screen with option to start system or press menu button to go into recovery. I pressed menu and the screen stayed black both times.
Oh well, I'm not in a hurry to flash ROMs or get a backup, so I uninstalled Safestrap for now and will try again when I no longer need the xt883 radio.img.
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You don't NEED to change it back, it will automatically on next boot, if you felt the need run the same command but switch rw to ro.
As for your problem with safestrap I can't help you with that
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It's all good, thanks for the help. I can wait
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Ok for some reason I removed an apk file in the system app folder (capture screen I think)
I didnt make a backup before removing but can I just copy over the file from the rom and paste it in as i dont want to reflash again as I have the rom/phone the way I want it
Thanks
Yes you can but after you do that re apply permissions and owner info.
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Thanks for info but how do you do that?
Permissions and owner?
Use mount /system and then adb to device while in recovery and open shell. Then do a cd to whatever folder u want and do a chown root /../../../file. Ten using recovery fix permissions or do a chmod.
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Hi! Is it possible to flash with recovery gapps.zip in any way? Tried with command file and renaming gapps.zip to update.zip. When i restarted to bootloader, device tried to flash something (saw a progress bar), but nothing happened... Or any way to add gapps.zip files to bin file from amazon?
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Yuretz said:
Hi! Is it possible to flash with recovery gapps.zip in any way? Tried with command file and renaming gapps.zip to update.zip. When i restarted to bootloader, device tried to flash something (saw a progress bar), but nothing happened... Or any way to add gapps.zip files to bin file from amazon?
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No
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No
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And Why am i not able to install google apps from zip? Or any way to execute sh files inside zip?
Because it's a STOCK RECOVERY. Every zip requires a signing code to maintain amazon's security standards. So no tiny zip will work.
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Understand about not possible flashing. but what about apk installation or executing sh files from zip?
Yuretz said:
Understand about not possible flashing. but what about apk installation or executing sh files from zip?
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*Facepalm* MOD CLOSE THE THREAD!
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Yuretz said:
Understand about not possible flashing. but what about apk installation or executing sh files from zip?
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This is HIGHLY MODIFIED ICS you can't run sh files in a zip manually install you can but otherwise it breakes key programs anyway like contacts (YES I HAVE MANUALLY INSTALLED GAPPS)
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Looking for a definitive answer here, as I have searched and read and I still have yet to find an answer so please don't tell me to go search or read such and such thread. Thanks.
So I have gone from 4.1 to 4.3 and back and forth several times and my question is how to handle the file structure change. I understand that a new emulated file structure is located at data/media/0 but should I copy my old data there? Is there anyway to prevent the multiple user file structure? I tried pushing a layout_version file and changing permissions but when I flashed a 4.3 Rom it still created a 0 folder.
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Looking for a definitive answer here, as I have searched and read and I still have yet to find an answer so please don't tell me to go search or read such and such thread. Thanks.
So I have gone from 4.1 to 4.3 and back and forth several times and my question is how to handle the file structure change. I understand that a new emulated file structure is located at data/media/0 but should I copy my old data there? Is there anyway to prevent the multiple user file structure? I tried pushing a layout_version file and changing permissions but when I flashed a 4.3 Rom it still created a 0 folder.
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The actual location when viewed with a root file manager has been here on 4.1.2:
/data/media
Once you flash a 4.3 ROM, the actual location gets changed (and all the files moved) to here:
/data/media/0
The problems arise if the version of your custom recovery is not compatible with a 4.3 ROM. If it is not and you keep flashing 4.3 ROMs you might soon end up in trouble. If, while using the 'older' custom recovery, you continue flashing, your sdcard ends up somewhere around here:
/data/media/0/0/0/0/0/0 (etc.)
with all your files copied to every '0' directory and your symlinks end up the same way, and your device quickly runs out of space
Using a file manager that will show hidden files and folders, copy/move the files in the last '0' directory to:
/data/media/0
Now you can delete all the "extra 0" except for /data/media/0
Reboot
Profit?
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The actual location when viewed with a root file manager has been here on 4.1.2:
/data/media
Once you flash a 4.3 ROM, the actual location gets changed (and all the files moved) to here:
/data/media/0
The problems arise if the version of your custom recovery is not compatible with a 4.3 ROM. If it is not and you keep flashing 4.3 ROMs you might soon end up in trouble. If, while using the 'older' custom recovery, you continue flashing, your sdcard ends up somewhere around here:
/data/media/0/0/0/0/0/0 (etc.)
with all your files copied to every '0' directory and your symlinks end up the same way, and your device quickly runs out of space
Using a file manager that will show hidden files and folders, copy/move the files in the last '0' directory to:
/data/media/0
Now you can delete all the "extra 0" except for /data/media/0
Reboot
Profit?
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Thank you, I understand all that. What I don't get is should I copy all over my old data (backups and so on) into the /data/media/0 folder?
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Thank you, I understand all that. What I don't get is should I copy all over my old data (backups and so on) into the /data/media/0 folder?
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Yes that's what I said
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Konfuzion said:
Thank you, I understand all that. What I don't get is should I copy all over my old data (backups and so on) into the /data/media/0 folder?
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I personally only do it on an as-needed basis, but it really depends on your usage. Before switching b/t 4.1 and 4.3+ ROMs, I make sure to copy/paste my SMS backup and/or MyBackup (rerware) backups to the appropriate file structure I am moving to. The apps themselves will only look in their current file structure when you try to restore. Of course in order to copy/paste the backups, you have to allow root access in ES File Explorer or whatever you use. TWRP backups can stay in the /0 structure just fine, as it will always look there in recovery.
Music and pics can be a challenge since they take up a lot of space, and replicating them in two different file structures will eat up a lot of storage. I don't store a lot of media on my phone, though, so I'm not sure the best way to address that. It's easy enough to find pics through file explorer, but I'm sure music playing apps only look in one folder or structure by default.
For most other apps, they will store their settings in each structure without taking up too much space, so it's fine to leave them as-is. Whenever you restore a Nandroid it's going to overwrite them again anyway.
Not sure if I have helped, but just sharing my experience.