Busybox help ?

[swickdick]

Hey guys. I was hoping to get a little assistance downloading and installing busybox on my Droid using solely the phone, no PC, if possible. I've tried a bunch of things but can't seem to work it out.

[Se7enLC]

It's definitely possible - that's how I installed it. I believe I did something like this:

1) emailed myself the binary
2) saved it (I might have needed the DownloadCrutch app to allow me to save unhandled filetypes)
3) mounted /system as r/w
4) copied it over to /system/xbin
5) chmod busybox to be executable.

[swickdick]

OK. So making it r/w, copying, and the latter is done through the emulator right

[Se7enLC]

OK. So making it r/w, copying, and the latter is done through the emulator right

The terminal emulator, yeah.

[Topsy]

As long as you are rooted and have a terminal app with SU, it can be done solely on the phone.

[Quie2Droid]

Hey Guys,

I have rooted my Droid, placed the busybox binary in the tools folder and have attempted the process to push busybox with the cmd prompt on my computer. However I can get the adb shell symbol, and when I type "su" I get the # symbol. But can't get past that point. Can someone help me figure this out? I would greatly appreciate it. I also have roothelper installed. I am trying to get metamorph working to use themes and status bar applicaiton. Thanks in advance.

[Se7enLC]

Hey Guys,

I have rooted my Droid, placed the busybox binary in the tools folder and have attempted the process to push busybox with the cmd prompt on my computer. However I can get the adb shell symbol, and when I type "su" I get the # symbol. But can't get past that point. Can someone help me figure this out? I would greatly appreciate it. I also have roothelper installed. I am trying to get metamorph working to use themes and status bar applicaiton. Thanks in advance.

When you type su, you get the # symbol - that's supposed to happen. # is the root prompt. Just continue following directions from there.

[Quie2Droid]

Well, when I try the chmod 755 it tells me it can't. I am completely wet behind the ears on this stuff.

[Se7enLC]

Well, when I try the chmod 755 it tells me it can't. I am completely wet behind the ears on this stuff.

What does it say *exactly*? And what did you type?

[Quie2Droid]

it says no such file found. I type adb shell, get $, then type su, get the #. From there not sure what to do to get busybox going.