[Cawt]

Hello,
just got Samsung Galaxy S II and I'm trying to open a file in terminal emulator for android.
The file is named 'setup.sh'. When I type 'sh setup.sh' in terminal, it writes back 'Can't open setup.sh'
The file is saved on the phone.
Anyone knows how to open it? What I am doing wrong?

[droidmyme]

Try typing in the file path before the command, eg

$ /system/bin/sh setup.sh.

I don't know if you need to add the "sh" before... Just going by fuzzy memory here.

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[Cawt]

Thanks for reply. I placed the file on phone(I believe it's internal sd card) and it's just remains there, what can be file path for it?
Also, do you know what is directory for root of internal sd card?

[droidmyme]

Thanks for reply. I placed the file on phone(I believe it's internal sd card) and it's just remains there, what can be file path for it?
Also, do you know what is directory for root of internal sd card?

Well, I'm just learning about this, too. Thanks to your question, I was able to find some interesting information about Android!

To find out how the internal flash memory is divvied up, you type

$ cat /proc/mtd

That shows you the "blocks" of the internal memory.

I'm not exactly sure how to run your file, but I know how to run other binary files. First, put the file you want to run on the root of your sd card. (/sdcard)

Second, open the terminal emulator and type $ su to change to superuser. The cursor should change from a $ to a # symbol.

Then type # mount -o remount, rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock /system. This changes the permission on the /system files to read write.

Then move the file from the SD card to the binary folder with # cat /sdcard/yourfilename > /system/bin/yourfilename

Then do # chmod 755 /system/bin/yourfilename

After that, the file should run from within the /system/bin directory. Also remember, to change back the memory to read only with # mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /mtd/block/mtdblock5 /system.

I got a lot of this information from this website, if you are interested in learning more:



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