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pablocrossa	2012-01-04 , 13:31
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[QUOTE=jecargo22;1145160]

Originally Posted by pablocrossa

Try what I said before

Thank you, yeah, I considered your post before, I was just hoping someone with better knowledge than mine to try first and to elaborate more of how to proceed.
I will dig a bit deeper around your suggestion, bearing in mind that I have limited expertise in these matters, but /i have a very curious mind, and I would love to push n900 to its limits and ics might be the top benchmark it could still beat (as we already see how beautifully performance has improved with maemo and cssu, easydeb et al.).
Selfishly speaking (for n900ers), now e-yes is targetting to port nitdroid to n9, so we might have to wait a bit longer to get a fully functional n14package in n900. But yeah, it is worth the effort.
Any hints of how to make sdcard mountable in ICS? Should this be fixed if i try to install nitdroid on the external class 10 MicroSD card? or does it sounds like an unrelated matter?

Ok let me try to develop this idea further, we are all here to help and learn

Of course this might not work, it is only a test

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NJ6NRMI

1) Download the file from the link above (too big to attach, can a mod do it??)
2) Extract it in your N900, put it in the MyDocs folder
3) Open Terminal
4) "sudo mkdir /and"
5) "sudo mount /home /and"
6) "sudo cp /home/user/MyDocs/su /and/system/bin/su"
7) "sudo chmod 755 /and/system/bin/su"
7a) "sudo chown root /and/system/bin/su"
8) "sudo cp /home/user/MyDocs/busybox /and/system/xbin/busybox"
9) "sudo chmod 755 /and/system/xbin/busybox"
9a) "sudo chown root /and/system/xbin/busybox"
10) "rm /and/system/xbin/su" (ignore any error on this command)
11) "ln -s /and/system/bin/su /system/xbin/su"
12) "cp /home/user/MyDocs/Superuser.apk /and/system/app/"
13) Boot into Nitdroid
14) Open the terminal (IN NITDROID)
15) "su"
15b) "/system/xbin/busybox mount -o remount,rw /system"
16) "/system/xbin/busybox --install -s /system/xbin"

I believe that should do it, that was a tough one hehe, basically you are exploiting root on Maemo to give root to Nitdroid, you are manually rooting it. Have fun, give it a shot and tell me how it goes, this is based on an exploit for Gingerbread but it should work

HAVE FUN

EDIT: Just a final reminder, come back with any problems or "IT WORKS!!" feedback because I have not tried this, do not use Android a lot

EDIT2: Actually that last command will not work, you need to do one last thing before, updated instructions above as 15b

EDIT3: Sorry, I remembered you maybe need to change ownership, updated just in case with 7a and 9a, they might not be necessary. Maybe the chown has to be done from android but that is hard without su, the owner would be root.shell

Last edited by pablocrossa; 2012-01-04 at 15:08.

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