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Home screen icon for terminal program?

I'm using terminal-ide http://code.google.com/p/terminal-ide/ which is basically a terminal for android with all sorts of utilities. One is able to create bash scripts for example. Is there a way to ...
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How do I script my phone?

What I mostly want to do, is quickly alter settings, add alarms etc. It is perhaps called something else? This is from a Windows PC. Language is not important, but I know Python and UNIX scripting. ...
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How can I fix phone corruption when using USB mass storage mode?

It used to happen in stock ICS and remains in CyanogenMod 9. Whenever I connect my phone to computer through USB using mass storage mode (MSC), my phone gets crazy. In ICS, I remember it used to mess ...
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delete packages of domain

THere is a command to ease the pain of managing packages for Android phone, adb shell pm uninstall org.kde.necessitas.example.one But I have many phones and just want to delete all packages from a ...
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Start an Android application via a shell script?

Is it possible to start an actual Android application from the command line in Android? For example, say I'd simply like to start/bring to the front my calendar. Is there a way that I can do this ...
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On Android can I write scripts (similar to Win .bat files) to combine several command line commands?

On Windows, I can run two commands using a .bat file. How can I achieve the same thing on Android For example: update my podcasts by calling pcastclient /updateALL force sync of my pictures ...
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How can I run a script on boot?

I'm accustomed to running scripts on boot in Linux, but I'm not sure how to do this in Android. I'd like to start my SSH daemon on start, so I'll always be able to connect. How can I run an arbitrary ...
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init.d doesn't get executed

i am using samsung s2 and a custom rom, external sd card is mounted to /emmc but i want it to mount to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd, how could i mount it using init.d? i made a file called "99mount" with ...
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Where are binaries installed?

I just recently rooted my phone so I could install SL4A. I want to execute some commands via a Python script, specifically turn Google voice off for all calls, make the call and then turn it back on. ...
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Shell script to kill custom apps, run another app then restart killed apps?

Is it possible to make a shell script that would run using Smanager, for example, to do the following: Kill a list of custom apps loaded from a file Run one custom app loaded from the same file When ...
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Scripting Android [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there no way to get scripts to run in Android? There were similar questions like this one here Is there no way to get scripts to run in Android?. Most of them were ...
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Is there no way to get scripts to run in Android?

Since Android is Linux at its base, I logically think it should be possible to run a script on Android, like a Python script or PHP script (with executable bit obviously). If not conventionally, is ...
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How to create an update.zip file that can copy & rename a file?

Here's exactly what I'm looking for - I need an 'update.zip' file that can copy a file (example): /system/framework/file-to-copy.apk to another folder: /system/ and then it would rename the ...
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How can I successfully run this script on a emulated terminal on Android?

Background I am trying to install Ubuntu onto my Acer Iconia A500 using VNC and this application called Complete Linux Installer. My tablet is rooted and I have found several sources saying they have ...
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How can I execute a script on the SD card and be able to pass arguments to it?

I tried executing a script on the sdcard as is because on FAT, everything is 777. ./.profile ./.profile: permission denied I added this as the initial command for the Android shell and it executes ...
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Is there an application that allows fine tuning of what ringtone to play on Android? [closed]

I'm not very satisfied with phonebook's ringtone assignment: they disappear sporadically and sometimes fail to play (default ringtone is played instead). Ideally I want an application that do this: ...
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Can't run any Python script on my Android phone

I have an Acer Liquid Metal, Gingerbread... I've tried installing Python on Android (and s4la: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/) but when I run the hello world script I get: dlopen ...