Root Help me with LG Home please!!

[connwa]

Can ANYONE help me install LG Themes and Home WITHOUT switching to a stock rom, ive tried installing it within android and it said installation incomplete.

 

[death2all110]

Try MercDroid Place the exe in tools folder with adb and try installing with it

 

[darkxsun]

Can ANYONE help me install LG Themes and Home WITHOUT switching to a stock rom, ive tried installing it within android and it said installation incomplete.

What are you trying? You should really just copy the apk file (and odex if there is one) straight into /system/app

 

[dots]

What are you trying? You should really just copy the apk file (and odex if there is one) straight into /system/app

You cannot just copy those files to that directory. If you tried that you would get some error like permission denied if you tried it with adb. And i just tried to copy an apk file from my sdcard using astro to the /system/app directory and you can't.

 

[jetblack]

Isn't that just because /system is mounted read-only by default? It should work if you remount it read-write.

 

[dots]

Isn't that just because /system is mounted read-only by default? It should work if you remount it read-write.

Yes.

One way to do that is to boot into recovery, then open an adb shell and you can /mount.

 

[savoxis]

Or....
Open a terminal via either adb shell or an emulator then

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /sdcard/YOURAPKFILE /system/app

 

[connwa]

Or....
Open a terminal via either adb shell or an emulator then

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /sdcard/YOURAPKFILE /system/app

Um can i just copy the odexes and apks using Root Explorer and then turn R/O to R/W? Idk. im running out of options lol

 

[jetblack]

Um can i just copy the odexes and apks using Root Explorer and then turn R/O to R/W? Idk. im running out of options lol

Yes. If you you have Root Explorer that's probably the easiest way. But I think you'll have to move them. Root Explorer's copy always renamed the files for me.

Also, it's the reverse order from what you posted. Mount /system r+w in root explorer first, then move the files, then remount it ro when you're done.

 

[connwa]

I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING, I've even attempted repacking it into a rom! lol i copied odexes ive pushed odexes and apks oooh im getting redfaced and about to give up on it. im running Velocity .2

 

[connwa]

WAIT. I tried Mercdroid. It says no certificates in CMD when i hit install. Is there any way to bypass the certificate check?

 

[darkxsun]

From 'adb shell' doing the following:

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /sdcard/YOURAPKFILE /system/app/

is really the simplest option. Good call, savoxis.

 

[connwa]

From 'adb shell' doing the following:

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /sdcard/YOURAPKFILE /system/app/

is really the simplest option. Good call, savoxis.

yeah but this happens

C:\VS740\sdk\tools>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
$ su
su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# mv /sdcard/LG_Home.apk /system/app/
mv /sdcard/LG_Home.apk /system/app/
failed on '/sdcard/LG_Home.apk' - Cross-device link
i now have a2sd though. what should i do now.

 

[darkxsun]

yeah but this happens

C:\VS740\sdk\tools>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
$ su
su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# mv /sdcard/LG_Home.apk /system/app/
mv /sdcard/LG_Home.apk /system/app/
failed on '/sdcard/LG_Home.apk' - Cross-device link
i now have a2sd though. what should i do now.

Oops!

Replace that line with this:

cat /sdcard/LG_Home.apk > /system/app/LG_Home.apk

 

[connwa]

Oops!

Replace that line with this:

cat /sdcard/LG_Home.apk > /system/app/LG_Home.apk

i posted a modified LG Home im getting ready to post a screenshot

 

[Rated_R]

Im going to post an installable version of LG home and Themes in just a few min.