Upgrade Gmail from r8

[Guest bas-r]

I'm trying to upgrade my Gmail app on my Desire running Froyo r8, and s-off.

I know I have to delete the /system/app/Gmail.apk file and then go to the market and install Gmail.

However, with Root Explorer, it deletes the file, but then the file comes back, or hasn't been deleted in any way.

When I go into recovery I follow the following procedure:

./adb remount

remount failed: Unknown error: 0

And then I cannot go into /system/app to remove the Gmail.apk since there's nothing in /system

I'm at a loss here, and dont understand why I cannot remove the old gmail.

This is all very frustrating: I am Root and s-off, and still I have NO CONTROL over my f***ing phone!! I bought it for 400 bloody euro's, so HTC, give me rwx right for my complete phone please.

Anyone here that does know what to do?

EDIT: I'm doing this from OSX, don't know if that makes a difference. I used to do similar things from within Ubuntu.

Edited October 18, 2010 by bas-r

[Guest LouiS22]

I'm trying to upgrade my Gmail app on my Desire running Froyo r8, and s-off.

I know I have to delete the /system/app/Gmail.apk file and then go to the market and install Gmail.

However, with Root Explorer, it deletes the file, but then the file comes back, or hasn't been deleted in any way.

When I go into recovery I follow the following procedure:

./adb remount

remount failed: Unknown error: 0

And then I cannot go into /system/app to remove the Gmail.apk since there's nothing in /system

I'm at a loss here, and dont understand why I cannot remove the old gmail.

This is all very frustrating: I am Root and s-off, and still I have NO CONTROL over my f***ing phone!! I bought it for 400 bloody euro's, so HTC, give me rwx right for my complete phone please.

Anyone here that does know what to do?

EDIT: I'm doing this from OSX, don't know if that makes a difference. I used to do similar things from within Ubuntu.

First of all: calm down! Then, take a deep breath, restart your phone. After booting up, and assuming that you're rooted and have S-OFF, start root explorer again. There's a remount button up there, which enables rw for /system. Use this, then erase the gmail.apk, and you're good to go.

[Guest bas-r]

First of all: calm down! Then, take a deep breath, restart your phone. After booting up, and assuming that you're rooted and have S-OFF, start root explorer again. There's a remount button up there, which enables rw for /system. Use this, then erase the gmail.apk, and you're good to go.

Thank you, I needed this calming down advice :-)

Indeed I'm rooted and s-off from alpharev. Apparently I needed to reboot another time for this to work.

Thanks so much, not only you but as well the rest of the community, for rooting, s-off and root explorer!!!