Root Cannot mount /system as rw!

[wilberfan1]

This is driving me nuts!

Despite hours of googling, I cannot mount (or remount) my /system folder as rw--so that I can access it via adb, for example.

The phone is rooted, the usb debug mode is on... I can copy/paste from WITHIN the phone...but I get a "Read-only file system" error when I try and 'adb push ...' something to the phone...

Is there something about this model phone that would be preventing this? I've only had the thing for 5 days, so I'm still a bit new at this...

 

[asadullah]

This is driving me nuts!

Despite hours of googling, I cannot mount (or remount) my /system folder as rw--so that I can access it via adb, for example.

The phone is rooted, the usb debug mode is on... I can copy/paste from WITHIN the phone...but I get a "Read-only file system" error when I try and 'adb push ...' something to the phone...

Is there something about this model phone that would be preventing this? I've only had the thing for 5 days, so I'm still a bit new at this...

It's because you need a boot.img with r.o secure=0 in the build prop if someone posts one i'll hook it up

 

[wilberfan1]

It's because you need a boot.img with r.o secure=0 in the build prop if someone posts one i'll hook it up

That would be shear awesomeness!

(I'd appreciate some instructions on how to install it, etc, too...)

Gracias!

 

[asadullah]

That would be shear awesomeness!

(I'd appreciate some instructions on how to install it, etc, too...)

Gracias!

It's easy you just use flash_image binary. I should be getting my phone in the next day or so and I'll post instructions unless I get the boot.img before hand

 

[wilberfan1]

It's easy you just use flash_image binary. I should be getting my phone in the next day or so and I'll post instructions unless I get the boot.img before hand

Are there long-term ramifications of doing this? For example, will I be able to upgrade to Gingerbread when it's available?

I appreciate your help with this! It was driving me quite nuts...

 

[richiedaze]

**Warning possible damage can be done if erasing system files**

You can do this very easily in the terminal emulator on the phone or on a adb terminal.

If you type:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

If you restart your phone, you will have to redo this again.
To mount it read only again switch 'rw' from above command to 'ro'.

To check the mount status type:

mount

**Remember if you erase certain things, your phone will not start! You have been warned!!!**

 

[wilberfan1]

You can do this very easily in the terminal emulator on the phone or on a adb terminal.

Oh, I've performed the mount command many times, trust me. (There's even an app for that that makes it very easy.) But I still couldn't adb push anything:

It's because you need a boot.img with r.o secure=0 in the build prop if someone posts one i'll hook it up