Root Stock System Folder?

mikematias123 said:

If I know the command and to set it up im a fast learner lol

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mikematias123 said:

Not rally? I dont have a computer is there a better way?

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Smarmylamb said:

Is the phone still booting to the virgin mobile screen or is it just booting to the Kyocera event screen?

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Mumford67 said:

Hi Smarmylamb,

Hoping you can help me out here. I have an Event which keeps loading as far as the Virgin Mobile screen and then reboots.

I'd like to take the system folder you put on Dropbox and move it to my phone. Grabbed the ABD utility and intend to push the files over to my phone in hopes of making it functional again past Safe Mode.

Quick question:

Is it safe to push over the full system folder, or am I only pushing over select files from the system folder? Just want to make sure that I don't overwrite anything that is phone-specific and that would limit its functionality further.

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mumford67

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Smarmylamb said:

Well why is it not booting?

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• Upon purchasing the phone, I quickly rooted it. Installed Titanium Backup but stupidly did not bother to back the darned thing up.
• Removed a few small items like the Connection Optimizer which were listed as causers of the phone to reboot and that were noted on this forum as safe to remove.
• Phone started randomly rebooting anyway. Often in the middle of an apps use or during a call. Other times even when the phone was not being used.
• Purchased a 16G MicroSD card, installed it, and moved a number of apps over, thinking it might be a question of memory and resources.
• Phone soon went from rebooting to getting stuck in bootloops. At first they were periodic and would eventually kick out of the loop. Eventually got to the point where all it does is the bootloop and never boots into normal mode. Bootloops consistently present the Event screen, then the Virgin Mobile animation and then it stops, the screen slightly dims and then the phone reboots.
• Removing or reinstalling the MicroSD card has no effect on the bootloop. Nor does booting in recovery mode and running the cache wipe or the factory reset.
• Discovered through trial and error that the phone does boot in Safe Mode and it stays up. Never reboots on its own and its never an issue getting it in Safe Mode. Have use of most Google apps but that's about it.

Mumford67 said:

Problem is that I'm aware of the symptoms, but have no idea what the disease is.

Here's what I can tell you:

• Upon purchasing the phone, I quickly rooted it. Installed Titanium Backup but stupidly did not bother to back the darned thing up.
• Removed a few small items like the Connection Optimizer which were listed as causers of the phone to reboot and that were noted on this forum as safe to remove.
• Phone started randomly rebooting anyway. Often in the middle of an apps use or during a call. Other times even when the phone was not being used.
• Purchased a 16G MicroSD card, installed it, and moved a number of apps over, thinking it might be a question of memory and resources.
• Phone soon went from rebooting to getting stuck in bootloops. At first they were periodic and would eventually kick out of the loop. Eventually got to the point where all it does is the bootloop and never boots into normal mode. Bootloops consistently present the Event screen, then the Virgin Mobile animation and then it stops, the screen slightly dims and then the phone reboots.
• Removing or reinstalling the MicroSD card has no effect on the bootloop. Nor does booting in recovery mode and running the cache wipe or the factory reset.
• Discovered through trial and error that the phone does boot in Safe Mode and it stays up. Never reboots on its own and its never an issue getting it in Safe Mode. Have use of most Google apps but that's about it.

Whatever the problem is is something that grew over a two month period until the phone decided it won't work in normal mode. And it's most likely software based alone, as the phone runs with no issues whatsoever in Safe Mode.

But as I'm only an android novice, that's about all I've got.

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Smarmylamb said:

Wow that's a lot but don't do what I did I tried to push the whole system folder and it won't boot at all it just turns on them off then back on into recovery but I think the connections optimizer is what might be the problem just try to push it threw adb and set permissions 0644 I believe or maybe 0755 in shell.

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Mumford67 said:

So dumb follow-up question:

Where is the system folder located on this phone? I'm assuming its not on the sdcard partition and I currently can't run File ES Explorer to determine the location.

Like I said, I'm a novice here.

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Smarmylamb said:

Lol it's not dumb like you said your novice but the system is in the root of the phone itself so your command would be like adb push appname.apk /system/app then adb shell then su then chmod 644 /system/app/appname.apk. Do you know how to use adb?

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Mumford67 said:

I thought I had a general idea but I've hit my first snag. It recognizes the device but won't let me push to the device as its a read-only file system

Tried the following:

adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
su
shell@android:/ # mount -o rw, remount /system

But it responds
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

Any other way to get the system folder into rw status? Or am I doing something wrong or missing something?

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Smarmylamb said:

That's looks about right idk other ways for you to remount just Google others ways to remount with adb

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Mumford67 said:

UPDATE: Managed to push the Connection_Optimizer.apk file into the system folder. While in shell, I had to do a chmod 777 for the system folder first and then it allowed the push. Went back into shell, did the chmod 644 for the Connection_Optimizer.apk and then remounted the system back to ro.

However, it didn't end up changing anything. Bootloop persists regardless.

Oh well....back to the drawing board

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Smarmylamb said:

Well let's see what else did you remove? Also did you go to your settings to see that the connection optimizer app is installed? And did you check to see if the option to enable it was there?

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Mumford67 said:

Connection Optimizer is installed and is enabled....at least it is running in the processes.

Honestly, its been months so I'm not sure what else was removed at this point. Would need to research other posts about cleaning up the phone to see what clicks.


Does adb have anything to the extent of a "dir" command to allow viewing of a directory on the phone?

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Jonnal said:

Edit: Never mind!

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