Read Only File System On Android

I recently rooted my Droid X and everything seems to be working perfectly. I made some changes to build.prop and when I do adb push build.prop /system/ I get the following error: f

Solution 1:

Not all phones and versions of android have things mounted the same. Limiting options when remounting would be best.

Simply remount as rw (Read/Write):

# mount -o rw,remount /system

Once you are done making changes, remount to ro (read-only):

# mount -o ro,remount /system

Solution 2:

adb remount

works for me and seems to be the simplest solution.

Solution 3:

Got this off an Android forum where I asked the same question. Hope this helps somebody else.

On a terminal emulator on the phone:

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Then on the cmd prompt, do the adb push

Solution 4:

While I know the question is about the real device, in case someone got here with a similar issue in the emulator, with whatever tools are the latest as of Feb, 2017, the emulator needs to be launched from the command line with:

-writable-system

For anything to be writable to the /system. Without this flag no combination of remount or mount will allow one to write to /system.

After the emulator is launched with that flag, a single adb remount after adb root is sufficient to get permissions to push to /system.

Here's an example of the command line I use to run my emulator:

./emulator -writable-system -avd Nexus_5_API_25 -no-snapshot-load -qemu

The value for the -avd flags comes from:

./emulator -list-avds

Solution 5:

I think the safest way is remounting the /system as read-write, using:

mount -o remount,rw /system

and when done, remount it as read-only:

mount -o remount,ro /system