[solved] Mounting and accessing Android /root

orschiro · 2013-05-03 05:01:56

Hello,

I searched a bit on the Web and all I had found was MTP to mount the SD Card into my Linux system.

However, I would like to mount / and not only /mnt/sdcard to change some internals of my rooted device.

How would I do that and is there a way to do that in Nautilus?

Regards

Last edited by orschiro (2013-05-03 06:52:04)

WonderWoofy · 2013-05-03 05:09:21

You need the android development package, then you can use the adb shell.

This isn't really an Arch question... but you need android-sdk and android-sdk-platform-tools. You might just need the platform tools... but I ahve both, and haven't really don't much to figure out what I do and don't need. But the platform-tools package has fastboot and adb, which are the two most commonly used tools for flashing and whatnot.

orschiro · 2013-05-03 05:19:28

Thanks. I was aware of adb. However, adb is not very comfortable in terms of accessing the files as it only transfers files but does not allow me to view them on my Linux system.

opt1mus · 2013-05-03 06:03:06

You can get away with just an adb binary, at least for opening a shell to your android device. It's a rather crude way of managing files to and fro, but it's good enough for me.

orschiro · 2013-05-03 06:51:55

Well, since I only need to replace some files in /system I will follow your solutions and just rely on adb commands as well as shell.

Thanks!

progandy · 2013-05-03 06:54:53

You could also try to use an ssh server on the phone, sshfs on arch and "adb forward" to forward a local port to your android device.
Edit: Don't forget to remount /system as writable. For smaller changes it si easier to use adb, though. Just create the directory structure locally and use adb push or adb sync

Last edited by progandy (2013-05-03 06:57:00)

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[solved] Mounting and accessing Android /root

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