Installing BusyBox crashes phone

Question

I'm trying to install BusyBox on my rooted stock Droid DNA.

Every time I try the normal install, it fails saying that the program can't be installed in /system/bin. If I do the smart install, it crashes and restarts the phone.

Anything I can do to make it work?

Edit so I looked through the busybox applet manager and about 20-30% are installed/symlinked by the smart install before it crashed the phone. I don't know if this is going to make a difference.

Also, would I be better off not doing it this way and installing through clockwork mod or adb?

Answer 1

I too have a HTC DNA but did not want to root my phone so I just did it the "non-root" way with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=burrows.apps.busybox.

This way I am not voiding any boot-loaders or warranties.

Required:
✔ Android Terminal Emulator Application
After having a rooted phone for years, I know that there are plenty of applications that allow users to customize their phones; however, when I recently bought a brand new phone this year, I decided not to root it and I realized the main reason for rooting my phone was simply to obtain more linux tools. I made this simple application in order to help users simply install BusyBox without the hassle of being rooted!
All binaries are installed in: /data/data/burrows.apps.busybox/app_busybox/
In Terminal Emulator, Preferences: Initial command: export PATH=$PATH:/data/data/burrows.apps.busybox/app_busybox/
Provided extra Binaries:
✔ add-property-tag
✔ backup
✔ bash
✔ btool
✔ check-lost+found
✔ dexdump
✔ drm1_func_test
✔ hcidump
✔ hcitool
✔ iwmulticall
✔ latencytop
✔ librank
✔ micro_bench
✔ multitouch
✔ nano
✔ opcontrol
✔ openvpn
✔ oprofiled
✔ procmem
✔ procrank
✔ rawbu
✔ run_backup
✔ run_restore
✔ sane_schedstat
✔ scheduler
✔ scp
✔ showmap
✔ showslab
✔ sqlite3
✔ ssh
✔ ssmgrd
✔ strace
How to use BusyBox Non-root:
✔ Step 1: Click on "Install" to install BusyBox
✔ Step 2: Open your Terminal and change directory to the path!
Permissions requested:
✔ Internet: Download BusyBox (make sure you are on WiFi!)
✔ Script: Add PATH to Terminal

Regards,

Answer 2

You should check the following:

1. Check that /system is mounted as read-write. You can either check the mount filesystem or just try to copy a file with a root explorer to it.
2. Check that /system filesystem is not full and you have enough space.

As for the install, I would use the smart install in this case, since it won't overwrite all commands present in your ROM. If you find you still can't install it on /system/bin you could try to install it in /system/xbin.

If you find that /system is mounted in read only and you can't install it with that app, then you should install busybox from a flashable zip through recovery.

Answer 3

What is your version? Because version 9.0 a had bug which crashed the mobile it seems. He fixed it in 9.1 and it got to play store on January 29th.

Answer 4

I ended up getting it to work by using ES File Explorer to mount system as writeable. I did a NAndroid backup first in case I needed to start over again, but after mounting system, it appears that it installed like it is supposed to.