The shell is a piece of software that provides an command-line interface to the operating system. Use this tag for shell-specific issues; general command-line issues should use the 'command-line' tag instead. See full tag wiki for other related tags.
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How do I view/mount nandroid file on device?
From Android's terminal, I tried to mount a nandroid img:
losetup -f
gives "/dev/loop0".
However, when I try losetup /dev/loop0 /sdcard/nandroid/... data.img it says no such directory. Same thing ...
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Android ADB Shell Recovery Mounting
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I need assistance mounting an Android phone's internal data using the Android ADB Shell while the unit is connected via USB and in recovery mode. How do I form a proper mount command? See ...
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Error when trying to use adb shell in recovery mode
I have a Chinese phone which I've been unable to install ClockworkMod on. I decided to try booting into recovery mode to manually backup/restore the system partition.
However, if I plug my phone into ...
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Can't connect to the device with ADB when it's in recovery mode
I am having some problems with my Samsung Galaxy S2 and I want to start an fschk session on the device.
So, I installed Android SDK with platform-tools. I can access to the device when it's normally ...
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Remount writable by all users?
I want to remount a read-only partition in read-write mode, but I want it to be writable for all users.
So far I've got this:
mount -o bind /someplace /someplace_else
mount -o remount rw ...
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How to switch off HDMI
I have an android box with a HDMI port. Im connecting it to a projector. To the same projector Im also connecting a PC via VGA cable. Now I want to give my box a command to switch off the HDMI port, ...
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Flash update.img using flash_image
I want to flash a new ROM using the shell. (Need this later to do per app so there is no other way than shell). Here is what I tried
connected to 192.168.1.9:5555
Pauls-MacBook-Pro:~$ adb shell
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Install Bash on rooted Kindle Fire
I just rooted my Kindle Fire and installed QuickSSHd, an SSH daemon app.
I can log in via SSH (using Putty in Windows 7) and become root, etc. It appears, however, that the only shell installed is ...
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Android Recovery
I am trying to find a way to reboot android devices into recovery. I know that you can use "reboot recovery", however not all toolbox versions support this. So I thought that I would make use of ...
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Is it possible to enable Location Services via Shell?
Is it possible to enable Location Services(GPS or Google NetworkLocation) via ADB or Terminal Emulator?
I'm on a rooted Phone.
Extra Points: Is it also possible to change other system-related ...
