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I want to install an application as a system application.
To do so, I must remount the system partition RW, to do so I run the command adb shell remount rw in a terminal, but I get the error /system/bin/sh: remount: not found.
How can I remount the system partition RW?
The command is: adb remount, please try this first. However, if it doesn't work, make sure your device is rooted, and try these commands:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
Those commands will directly remount the system as RW. However, you must be rooted.
I have faced the exact same issue: "remount: not found". Seems there are different syntax possibilities depending on the OS or updated libs. In case the syntax doesn't suit, it just interprets 'remount' as a command "not found".
Then I tried
mount -o rw,remount /system
and it worked.
The strange thing is, a few months before, just after having rooted my device, this worked: mount -o rw;remount /system.
There seems to be also: mount -o remount,rw /system.
Just try different syntaxes. If you rooted your device, one must work.
