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[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Copr Recovery IMG

I don't think anything would happen because i would assume you would need to flash it as well. this will just simply copy/paste it. I think this question would be better off for someone that works on ROMs. If anyone has a answer for this it would be greatly appreciated.
[G1 Apps and Games] Diceman4:
He's right. You would need to flash it, but you could try it in the terminal view. Copy the image to the root of the SD first and then type

# su

# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (Or whatever it is named)

If it gives you an insufficient memory error than you will need to use fastboot (If you haven't used it before search the forum I'm sure there is a good tutorial on setting it up, but if you have the sdk than you have it already installed)
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Using a HTC magic, Numbers do not appear to work in the terminal using this app.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Yeah i know im working on that. It is annoying the hell out of me. I know what the problem is just is being a pain. I promise it'll be working soon
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Sweet! Your on the ball!
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Pics Added

Pics Added
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Symlink fix comming soon

Symlink fix coming soon.

Opinions on Terminal reflection?

Basically anything you do in the GUI you will see reflected in the terminal?
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
That could be useful, provided it does not cause any lag time.

For a purely aesthetic addition, would it be possible to have amber text on black background?

I am loving the app, thanks for all of the updates.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Are you referring to the terminal or the UI
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
Sorry about that, I was referring to the terminal.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Consider it done along with a few new treats
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Recursive Zip Support Added

Recursive Zip Support Added for Extraction

Compressions support in the works.

view, extract all or single targets to the directory of your choice.

Remember u must Mount as RW if you would like to extract to anywhere other than in your SD card.

More terminal colors added per request:

Amber on Black

Green on Black

Red on Black
[G1 Apps and Games] Binary100100:
Addition Recommendations/Bug in Initial Command

I don't think

Initial Command

in terminal works.

I put in "su" and it still shows "$" in the terminal.

I can go in there and type in "su" which brings up "#" just fine.

I don't think that I can really review the app because there is nothing to really compare it to (good for the dev) but I will say that it replaced my Astro and my terminal/better terminal apps.

The

on screen keyboard

is definitly a welcome feature in this app since a lot of new Android phones will be lacking the physical keyboard. Long overdue in a terminal app.

I actually don't mind the gui. I think it would be a nice add on to change the views in the file browser. List, List Details, Thumbnails, Large Icons, Small Icons, etc.

Also... a select all would be welcome as well would a select multiple. I was surprised when I explorered my /system/sd/lost+found directory and noticed about 150 #1234556 (or whatever) files in there taking up god knows how much space in my ext3 partition.

Maybe a task manager? That would be cool. It would replace another yet popular and heavily used app.

Perhaps add some basic scripts such as reboot recovery, reboot bootloader, delete cache, move cache to sd, move cache to ext2/3/4, move apps to sd (unless your running a CM rom of course this could be useful), etc.

BONUS: (not even sure if it's possible) Allow to zip/unzip an apk and sign it (zip and apk) would be very useful for themers... but that's why we have computers.

But it is in fact the best file browsing app out there. Well worth the money.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Thank You,

I will look into the initial command, I am working on other views as well.

I did add unzip support sip support is on the way.. soon apks will havean install /unzip option.

as far as basic scripts go i dont think you cna reboot anymore since 1.5 unless it just wont work via terminal.

for scripts i would suggest using Gscript to create your own or via the text editor.

Also i will look into your other suggestions
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Added Displayed file size
[G1 Apps and Games] alritewhadeva:
Great app, great dev. Updates every day almost :D
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Thank you :-)

It still has a long way to go though. But thanks to you and everyone else helping to support this app it gets better and better. I apologize for so many updates, but with an app that has this kind of power you really need to make sure any and all bugs are corrected. Also u can test something 1000 x and its perfect then as soon as you update it you happen to find a bug lol.
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
Any chance for a password when its launched? Meaning if somebody picks up my phone I want to make sure if they launch that app they don't well delete things. Maybe a 4 digit pin or something.

Of course It would be great to have it as an option for those that do not want it.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Hrm it would be easy to implement but difficult to decide when to prompt you. Let me see what i can come up with i dont want you to be ambushed by password attempts
[G1 Apps and Games] alritewhadeva:
QQ- Does this work with Hero ROMS? I just flashed one and i want to use my favorite file manager :P SUFBS haha :D
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
I have been using hero since the design and works fine for me.. you might get stuck on a black screen initially but thats actually the super whitelist user hanging just be patient and wait and after u accept SU permissions everything should be smooth
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
I was thinking right when the app started and no other time. Meaning not everytime something happened just when the app starts.
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
This one's a keeper, purchased.

Quick question. The ROM I'm running uses symlinks and binds to accomplish Apps-to-SD. Does mounting system/data as RW not work in this scenario, or am I doing something wrong?
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
it should work...

are you having trouble getting them to mount as rw?

what are you trying to do that u are feeling that it is not working

and what rom and revision are you using
[G1 Apps and Games] evilive27:
i tried bought the application off the market...

everytime i long press anything it force closes on me.

i'm running a rooted Rogers HTC Dream.

any ideas?
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Hrm. when you long click it pulls the current CHMOD settings for the file.

if it is crashing it sounds liek you may not be rooted properly because it does not do anything special. Can you list what build/whos build

also can u go into a terminal and type this and email or list the results of in your response please.

busybox ls -ld /data

it should look simular to this.

drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 Jul 12 00:54 data

If you get an error saying that busybox is not found there is your issue.

This was designed under the assumption you are using a cooked Rom and 99% of them have Busybox by default.

Instructions for busybox install via the phones terminal

1. Download BusyBox to your PC and then copy it to your Devices SD card.

2. type su and hit enter for super user access

3. Mount Data. type: mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /data or just use the mount data option in my app.

4. make a directory in data called busybox and copy the file from your sdcard into that folder

5. In the terminal type 'cd /data/busybox; chmod 777 busybox; ./busybox --install; export PATH=/data/busybox:$PATH';
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
That shouldnt be to hard but keep in mind anytime the app restarts for any reason you will be prompted again. I will try to work it into the next update, im stuck at work until monday so i cant promise anything until tuesday'ish
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
ROM info is in my sig. What's happening is even when I mount system and data as RW, I cannot edit any files (xml, for example) in the /data/data/... directories. When I save it tells me that the file is read-only.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Ahh well yeah you can mount and unmount as RW all you want

but if you are trying to edit a file you have to make sure its is chmod for editing even know you might have set it to RW the xml may be say 555

chmod it to 755 or 777 and try

Mounting only allows the contents of that partition to allow writing, each file will still have its individual privledges
[G1 Apps and Games] evilive27:
I'm not running any custom ROMS because the Rogers HTC Dream doesn't have any yet. The phone is rooted, but maybe you're right... maybe its not rooted as much as it can be.

I tried your steps above to install busybox but everytime i type in "chmod 777 busybox"

it says operation not permitted. I did mount data for read/write.

any other ideas or am i outta luck until theres better rooting for the Rogers HTC Dream?
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
As long as you are rooted

You can still install busy box it just requires root access to install once installed you will have no issues
[G1 Apps and Games] evilive27:
okay so i figured it out and finally install busybox.

under the folder /data/busybox there are a bunch of files now... except they all say 1.66mb next to the files.... something might have gone wrong again.

but anyway, even with busybox installed, it crashed and force quits on every long hold.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
sounds like you didn't get it installed right.

try this link

How to install Busybox
[G1 Apps and Games] evilive27:
awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, it worked now. I can finally copy, paste, etc now!!

WOOHOO. Thanks for being patient with this noooob
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
No worries. Its not your fault im glad its working for you now ! :-)
[G1 Apps and Games] eleme:
I love this app, been on it since 1.0. Only thing it need imo (unless I missed it somewhere) is to allow the browser to d/l any file (ala Astro, so I don't have to install that).

Keep up the great work!
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Thanks!.

Actually I dont include that for a few reasons..

1 to help cut down on the app size.

2 Hero already does and the next release of android will support all downloads

3 there is an app u can get for free called download crutch on the market that does that for you :-)
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
1.9.9

Update 1.9.9

:

System/Data RW/RO replaced with S & D buttons as well as option to remount on click or from menu still for those that find the buttons to small

Optional Expandable tool bar added with:

Settable Home Button

Bookmarks

Quick Exit
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
I love the new buttons for system and data rw. Would it be possible to add the option of selecting multiple files at once?
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Working on it i promise.. just having a few issues with googles crap apis atm
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
I just bought it off the Market, but am having issues with it force-closing everytime I long-press on a file/folder :(. Any fix for this?

Also, is it possible to show hidden files/folders?

Thank you.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Sorry a few people have reported this issue. Im looking into it now

I am trying but unable to duplicate the issue. Do you have busybox installed?

Also what device and rom are you running

sounds like busybox just isnt installed correctly

Busybox

Yeah i had hidden files on but was causing some issues with certain builds I am working on resolveing the issues so it can be added back in
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
Hey pentace thanks for the help so far. Will update you asap! =) I'd love to try it out now but the link to busybox is broken :(.
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
I don't know why, but every time I check the market there is a new version available for download. It always seems to be 1.9.9

Of course I install it and later low and behold there is a new version and it appears to be 1.9.9.

Who knows, but I think its rather odd. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Nah that was my fault.

i found a few bugs and fixed them as i found them so you wouldnt have to deal with them.

U can test it for hours straight with no issues and as soon as u upload the new version you find one .. damn little buggers lol
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
Hi all, for those of you still having the force close problems, I figured the problem was that busybox was not included in the path. I pulled /init.rc from my phone and saw the following:

The problem was that busybox was in /system/xbin/bb/busybox, and it wasn't in the path. I think you can simply move busybox from /system/xbin/bb/busybox to /system/xbin/bb. However, I created a symbolic link instead, using the following:

After that, things work! By the way, I'm using myhero 0.0.7 by redglasses. Hope it helps! :)
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
No sweat. I just kept seeing the same app version number or at least I thought I did and kept updating, but I thought man am I going nuts or is all this flashing, hacking, chmoding of files causing my market place to go insane.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
HAHA nope granted sometimes i do get ghost updates by some apps where it says i have an update i go and its not there.

But usually if there is a bug i fix there will be no ver number change. But if u see me change it that fast it was probably something big..

On the other note ahs anyone seen a ghosting happen ocassionally? where when u open the app the icons are messed up and if u backspace it will ext and the app in its working form will be under it?
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
New Browser Bar look

Is the new Browser bar working ok for everyone? Does it look ok?
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
Do you mean the little toolbar and the S D buttons?

If so yeah they are a little tiny, but I manage.

I must say without a doubt your app is smoking. All you need to do is add the ability to backup apps and install apps like Astro and I'll delete that thing. :D

No dis-respect intended to the author of Astro of course.

Also I was playing with the search last night and man I was really digging it alot.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
tried your symlink idea- i am on nk02 32A ion (Magic). You are right busybox was in bb. So i made the symlink as you provided it and busybox now appears in xbin. BUT i still get the force closes with it! maybe a reboot is required?

and busybox works - before the symlinks it said busybox not found to the command busybox df -h (only one i can remember off the top of my head), but now after symlink it comes up correctly......

still getting forceclose city. did the command on the previous page busybox ls -ld /data and got correct response....

can someone help me? without the long press/copy/paste etc this app is fairly useless to me....funnily enough root explorer copies and pastes ok...
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
You should be able to install apps :-) and technically u cna back them up copy paste:-p lol
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Yeah it is still not linked properly.. if u cannot busybox -ls or anything without file not found.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
i just tried the command you had on previous page and it worked perfectly. so busybox works. root explorer works for copy and paste too.

busybox ls -ld /data

gives:

drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 Jul 13 12:06 /data
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Browser Download Helper Added

Per a few requests a browser Download Helper was added. this will allow you do download any file type. This will not open files just allow them to be download.

As far as all other requests. they are on the way a few steps at a time. The little ones when i have little time before work like tonight... The bigger ones when i have a few hours to spare.

Keep them coming I have not forgotten them :-)
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
There should be no reason it crashes then ..

Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall?

also do u have an error log u can send me?
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
i have attached a logcat of it- this is with the new 2.0 version. i have uninstalled and reinstalled a few times to no avail....must be something to do with the ion rom?

hopefully the logcat helps to figure out what i am doing wrong- love this app on my G1
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
Cracks me up. Everytime I dod anything your app pops up and says what do you want to use? Your app and the default is listed. Of course I just set what the default should be.

For instance I about cracked up when I tried to call somebody from my contacts list. Do you want to use dialer or SUFBS.

I've always used Crutch, which seemed to work for downloads, but hey more the merrier unless this works even better. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
Ok, reflashed my phone last night and went to play with this app today. I fired it up and clicked on bookmarks and got a forced closure. I decided who cares why fight it. I'll just uninstall and redownload it. I downloaded and installed it and no more toolbar. I checked the market and it says 1.9.6 on site. As well I checked the version of the installed app with Astro and it said the samething. I could of sworn I had 1.9.9 earlier because I made a comment to you about downloading the same version over and over.

I would of used Astro to reload 1.9.9 but since I couldn't back up your app I appear to be back at 1.9.6. Yeah I know there are other ways, blah, blah, but I figured I own it so why bother at this moment.

Not a big deal not having the bookmark tool bar, but wanted you to know just incase something is a little off on the market.

Oh yeah I figured out how to install apps I guess the clicking on the app makes a difference. :p
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
I can also confirm a force close issue with the bookmarks. You can set bookmarks, just not use the toolbar to access them.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Crashing

Sorry I was made aware earlier this morning of the crash .

It is nothing wrong with youur phones

The permissions dor the book marks to open were left out of the manifest it will be re added tonight and also try to cut down the download helper wanting to open everything.. but hey you wanted it to be able to DL everything that existed :-p
[G1 Apps and Games] kizer:
I personally don't mind the download helper wanting to do everything. I've been setting defaults and moving on. ;) No biggie to me just wanted you to know just incase somebody else mentions it.
[G1 Apps and Games] CPR123:
I can't find the app in the market!

I search, su, root, terminal, pub and still unable to locate it. I also search under tools, is it still available in the market?
[G1 Apps and Games] johnnylicious:
think in the next update

you can have a feature that can "select" multiple files in a directory to delete

for example when uninstalling ringtones / wallpaper i can delete in batches

thanks great job on this app! i love it
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
I asked about this yesterday, pentace states that it will be there as soon as he smooths out a few issues.
[G1 Apps and Games] johnnylicious:
thanks alot sorry if it was asked i didnt even bother searching for that question lol :D
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
BookMarks Fixed

Bookmarks and Downloader Fixed
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
Initially I did not think that I would like the bookmarks, but I have to admit that I love it already. One thing that would be nice is an option to have the tool bar up by default. Also, would it be possible to save the bookmarks and settings to the sd, this would be great for those of us who wipe with each cyanogen update.

Thank you for all of your dedication to making ths suvh an excellent app. This is definitely my most used app.
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Yeah im sure those options wouldnt be to hard... For now you can go into data/data/com.protocol.x.su.fbs and copy the data base folder and pref folder to your sd card before a wipe and then after reinstall move them back
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Search issues

If your using the latested hero build you may notice search not working.. With every update they do they remove more and more linux commands from the OS and im not sure why they are doing this.

I am working on a fix
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Fixxed

Search should now work with all Builds again including the newer Hero builds, also it is slightly faster as well
[G1 Apps and Games] terryowen:
Following up on my other post in the wanted apps, about TC or MC...

I tried the latest version of SUFBS on Friday and I do like it better than most of the other file managers but there are a couple of things that would make it hands down best - if the bottom slide or the top toolbar could be customizable, with any of the long press options on a file. This would go a long way towards making the gui faster to interact with.

Also, I tried to read a text file with your internal viewer and it must have been too big because it locked up. (500k) And can the font size/color of the internal text viewer be modified?

FWIW, the version I tried had a spelling error when the message about preparing content is displayed.

Thanks,

Terry
[G1 Apps and Games] terryowen:
Apologies for the double post. I must have clicked send twice.

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Thanks,

Terry
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Yeah someone pointed out the spelling error that will be fixed next update.

As far as locking up unless it crashed it probably didnt lock up. With a custom progress bar, when it goes into sleep mode and u wake , the animation freezes but its still processing. But yeah a 500k txt file is pretty big.

Changing the text size and color is an easy add i can do. but if you are looking for an app that will change parts of the text size and color this app will never have that ability.

not quite sure what exactly you mean by this though

do you mean per say add another element for say search browser "new director" terminal?

if so there just is not the room to do so

i can probably add in the ability to add maybe 2 to the top tool bar but that would be the limit
[G1 Apps and Games] ggolemg:
Yep, now the best and most useful app on the entire market

There's features I can think of to make it better for us root users, but.. for yourself, and the $$$, I would think there was a way to determine wether or not someone has root if they download your app, if they don't just scale back the functionality, so now everyone can and will buy the best app, and your profits can skyrocket, to them it will still be astro x 100, to us it will be astro x 1000, to you it will be a pocket full of cash

We really appreciate all of your hard work
[G1 Apps and Games] pentace:
Maybe once i get everything 100% for root users i will look into interfacing it for non root users as well, but for now they have a million browsers to use.

What other options would you like to see as a root user?
[G1 Apps and Games] ggolemg:
like many previous posts:

1. a check box interface for multiple file selection / operations

you have already said your working on it, amazing

2. an install / uninstall utility, for mass installs / uninstalls

3. a unzip in memory for apk's, so we can browse the internals and make edits

4. a re-sign apk portion for the unzipped in memory apks

5. a hex editor for .xml / etc files

6. a web linked and text downloaded to a description portion for files, so the user will actually know what a particular file is for, I would think from the git or something similar

7. a boot into recovery option

8. an ash-like terminal

9. a terminal command reference and functionality reference

10. scalable interface for users of this on multiple resolutions such as myself: g1, x86(my netbook)

11. ability to switch from tree / list / icon view

12. a warning when a user tries to move / delete a file that will crash android

13. an app backup quick link

14. ability to theme the app itself

15. pull icons from apks and display the actual programs icon

just some thoughts, I know not all of them are possible

I believe your on the cusp of going from an app to a necessity, when android finally hits netbooks as a preinstalled os, there will be no file browser, and i believe yours will end up being the default in time, as os installs have root as the default