Strange Characters in ADB/ Shell

[Guest Nebulous]

Whenever I navigate through the file system, I get loads of strange characters which make it very hard to understand what is happening.

I get it through ADB and using a terminall application on the phone its self.

c:\android>adb-windows.exe shell ls -l /data

drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 2048 May 30 18:40 ←[1;34mDxDrm←[0m

drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 May 30 18:41 ←[1;34manr←[0m

lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 14 May 30 18:40 ←[1;36mapp←[0m -> ←[1;3

4m/system/sd/app←[0m

drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 May 30 18:40 ←[1;34mapp-cache←[0m

lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 22 May 30 18:40 ←[1;36mapp-private←[0m

-> ←[1;34m/system/sd/app-private←[0m

drwx------ 1 1000 1000 2048 Jun 1 09:07 ←[1;34mbackup←[0m

lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 23 Jun 1 09:07 ←[1;36mdalvik-cache←[0m

-> ←[1;34m/system/sd/dalvik-cache←[0m

drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 2048 May 30 18:34 ←[1;34mdata←[0m

drwxr-x--- 1 0 1007 2048 May 30 18:40 ←[1;34mdontpanic←[0m

lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 11 May 30 18:40 ←[1;36mdrm←[0m -> ←[1;3

4m/data/local←[0m

drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2048 Aug 1 2008 ←[1;34mdropbear←[0m

prw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 2048 May 30 23:28 ←[0;35mgps_nmea_fifo←[0

m

drwxr-xr-x 1 2000 2000 2048 May 30 18:40 ←[1;34mlocal←[0m

drwxrwx--- 1 0 0 2048 May 30 18:40 ←[1;34mlost+found←[0m

[Guest Kali-]

some time ago i got the same problem (never bricked my phone) on win7 x64

[Guest KaMeLe0n]

c:\android>adb-windows.exe shell ls -l /data

try running: c:\android>adb-windows.exe shell & (<---- remember about the "&" sign at the end!)

and then in the shell: ls -l /data

see if anything changes

[Guest Nebulous]

try running: c:\android>adb-windows.exe shell & (<---- remember about the "&" sign at the end!)

and then in the shell: ls -l /data

see if anything changes

Nope, its still the same!

[Guest Silvarbullit]

try running: c:\android>adb-windows.exe shell & (<---- remember about the "&" sign at the end!)

and then in the shell: ls -l /data

see if anything changes

Mine does the same since putting r3 on, I've done a recovery reflash too but it didnt change anything. Everything seems to work fine however and the paths do work as /system or /data etc.... its just weird looking and annoying try to find file names and paths through ADB.

Putting & doesn't make any difference.

Using win7-64 - haven't tried linux or mac.

[Guest Nebulous]

Mine does the same since putting r3 on, I've done a recovery reflash too but it didnt change anything. Everything seems to work fine however and the paths do work as /system or /data etc.... its just weird looking and annoying try to find file names and paths through ADB.

Putting & doesn't make any difference.

Using win7-64 - haven't tried linux or mac.

I am using Windows 7, although had the same problem on XP

[Guest encrypt]

Have the same issue on Win7 X64... Used the tinycore method for root.

[Guest KaMeLe0n]

do you have usb-debugging turned on?

have you tried running those commands from recovery?

as per:

run in recovery (red triangle page) and then

adb-windows push files / (<----- files from Pauls rooting guide)

adb-windows shell busybox --install /sbin

adb-windows shell mount /system

adb-windows shell &

see what happens

Edited June 1, 2010 by KaMeLe0n

[Guest afiorillo]

That isn't a device issue, nor a ROM one: those "strange" characters are escape sequences to color the console output that aren't properly parsed by your command prompt / console window.

[Guest WolfspiritM]

Just type:

alias ls='ls --color=never'

and the color sequenzes are gone for this shell session. For use in one line ls code:

adb.exe shell ls --color=never -l /data

Edited June 1, 2010 by WolfspiritM

[Guest Matchstick]

Just type:

alias ls='ls --color=never'

and the color sequenzes are gone for this shell session. For use in one line ls code:

adb.exe shell ls --color=never -l /data

Alternatively you can use the freeware program ANSICON to enable the colours in the windows shell.

http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon/index.html

You can automate running ANSICON with the -i option which works fine in Windows XP.

However on Windows -i option doesn't work with cmd but it you use Console instead of cmd the colours work fine.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

[Guest Silvarbullit]

Just type:

alias ls='ls --color=never'

and the color sequenzes are gone for this shell session. For use in one line ls code:

adb.exe shell ls --color=never -l /data

Cheers Wolf.

Suspected it was escape codes but didn't know why they had turned on all of a sudden after r3.

Turning color off fixed it. If only I can find which .profile file or other shell config file I can add the alias into to switch them off permanently.