Root Need some ADB help please

[Kirch21]

I am trying to push a /system to my droid on a Mac. I have gotten into the sdk/tools folder successfully and i can run adb commands like "./adb devices" to get my serial number so im pretty close i am just stuck

MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$ ./adb -s 040364F919021012 /push Desktop/system /system

is what i did but its not doing anything

any ideas of what i may be doing wrong?

thanks, kirch

 

[johnlgalt]

no slash in front of push

Also, the items you need to push need to be in the same directory as the adb executable itself. So, if the tools folder has a sub folder called Desktop, and that has a subfolder called system, then the command will work. If not, then you're better off copying that /system folder to the /tools folder under the SDK, and perhaps calling is something like /mysystem (just in case having a folde rnamed /system under /tools creates a problem).

Then your command would be

adb push /mysystem /system

which should then work.

I had to use a similar method to push the correct folder for the AdamZ Nandroid backup onto my phone, b/c the Zip contained everything in a folder, and I didn't know that, so I used WinRAR to extract it to a folder using the .ZIP name, and then deleted all the old Nandroid backups I had, and tried to restore, and it errored out with a code 25....

Luckily, I understood enough of how to do it that moving the *correct* folder to /sdcard/nandroid worked perfectly fine the first time I tried it.

(Theoretically, it *should* be able to provide you the ability to copy directly from where the folder is stored, but you'd have to go through some hoops, as adb runs from that particular folder, so it may get tricky as you used several /../../.. commands followed by the full path to your folder as it resides on the Desktop - i.e. in Windows 7 the path is c:/users/{your username}/Desktop....)

 

[Kirch21]

no slash in front of push

Also, the items you need to push need to be in the same directory as the adb executable itself. So, if the tools folder has a sub folder called Desktop, and that has a subfolder called system, then the command will work. If not, then you're better off copying that /system folder to the /tools folder under the SDK, and perhaps calling is something like /mysystem (just in case having a folde rnamed /system under /tools creates a problem).

Then your command would be

adb push /mysystem /system

which should then work.

I had to use a similar method to push the correct folder for the AdamZ Nandroid backup onto my phone, b/c the Zip contained everything in a folder, and I didn't know that, so I used WinRAR to extract it to a folder using the .ZIP name, and then deleted all the old Nandroid backups I had, and tried to restore, and it errored out with a code 25....

Luckily, I understood enough of how to do it that moving the *correct* folder to /sdcard/nandroid worked perfectly fine the first time I tried it.

(Theoretically, it *should* be able to provide you the ability to copy directly from where the folder is stored, but you'd have to go through some hoops, as adb runs from that particular folder, so it may get tricky as you used several /../../.. commands followed by the full path to your folder as it resides on the Desktop - i.e. in Windows 7 the path is c:/users/{your username}/Desktop....)

Ok i placed the /system folder into the tools folder in the SDK. I renamed it to /mysystem and ran

Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached 
040364F919021012	device

Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$ ./adb -s 040364F919021012 push /mysystem /system
cannot stat '/mysystem': No such file or directory
Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$

what am i doing wrong now? thanks for the help

 

[johnlgalt]

Not sure why you did the -s and the number after it - perhaps the -s is needed, but looking at the command reference when typing out just adb in the commandline, I don't see a reference to -s....

Did you try typing in just what I typed?

 

[johnlgalt]

Oh, and I think you need to mount the /System partition first, now that I think about it - I am assuming you're booted into recovery, so do that before typing the command in CMD...

Assuming, of course, that you really *do* want to copy a folder of stuff from your computer to the /SYSTEM folder on the DROID....

If not, let's back up to what you are trying to do again....

 

[Kirch21]

Oh, and I think you need to mount the /System partition first, now that I think about it - I am assuming you're booted into recovery, so do that before typing the command in CMD...

Assuming, of course, that you really *do* want to copy a folder of stuff from your computer to the /SYSTEM folder on the DROID....

If not, let's back up to what you are trying to do again....

Ok so i need to boot into recovery first and mount /system? doing that now

 

[Kirch21]

Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$ ./adb remount
remount succeeded
Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$ ./adb push /mysystem /system
cannot stat '/mysystem': No such file or directory
Jason-Kirchmans-MacBook-Pro:tools Kirch$

hmm im in recovery, and mounted /system through revovery and through adb remount

any other ideas?

 

[johnlgalt]

And you have /mysystem located in {your Android SDK folder}/tools/_____, so that it is a subdirectory of tools where adb is?

That is *exactly* how I copied the folder extract from AdamZ's Smoked Glass 4.5 to my sdcard....

I would say it is something on the hone, but the fact is that it is not finding that directory where it is looking....

Give me a screen capture of your cmd window

 

[Kirch21]

And you have /mysystem located in {your Android SDK folder}/tools/_____, so that it is a subdirectory of tools where adb is?

That is *exactly* how I copied the folder extract from AdamZ's Smoked Glass 4.5 to my sdcard....

I would say it is something on the hone, but the fact is that it is not finding that directory where it is looking....

Give me a screen capture of your cmd window

the /system was a .zip folder i unzipped, renamed to /mysystem and placed in Desktop/SDK/tools/

here is a screenshot of my CMD window

 

[NeuroNY]

I have a Macbook Pro too, and I don't know why we have to do this extra step (I'm sure others do) but I think you have to do the following command:

"./adb push ./mysystem /system"

where you add the "./" in front of the subdirectory within your Tools directory.

 

[Kirch21]

I have a Macbook Pro too, and I don't know why we have to do this extra step (I'm sure others do) but I think you have to do the following command:

"./adb push ./mysystem /system"

where you add the "./" in front of the subdirectory within your Tools directory.

Success! Thank you both for your help!! Much appreciated!

 

[johnlgalt]

weird - didn't think about the ./ reference to a directory in the current directory. I should have, in retrospect.

Glad you got it working.

 

[Kirch21]

weird - didn't think about the ./ reference to a directory in the current directory. I should have, in retrospect.

Glad you got it working.

Thanks for helping me out im trying to get this ADB stuff more and mroe everday

BTW i "Thanked" you haha

 

[johnlgalt]

Heh, kewl, my first!