YAY!! Real task management!

syrusfrost · Oct 31, 2008

So, downloaded pTerminal from the market.

YAY!

ps and kill aren't blocked!

If you want to manage tasks enter command "ps" view the tasks.

If you want to kill a task type "kill <pid>"

Fun times... Finally, I can kill the tasks that are syncing and using gps etc in the background.

Edit: If you are interested in killing tasks to preserve memory, you should know by now that the memory management is automatic. There is no need to kill tasks to free up memory. If a task is doing something you don't want it to do though (i.e. eating up battery by doing unnecessary **** in the background) then by all means use this method to kill it for now.

I would like to see a comprehensive task manager in the future with not memory usage, but awake time for the app listed, network usage and a combined "Battery Usage" figure using all the other data...

beartard · Oct 31, 2008

That's good news. I wonder if "killall <appname>" works as well?

syrusfrost · Oct 31, 2008

Har, looking at the process list there's a few on here running as root... buffers? Yes I do think so.

nick_karstedt · Oct 31, 2008

Good find! I'm sure a real task manager is in the works.

felicita · Oct 31, 2008

i can`t find it in Market

demontefixo · Oct 31, 2008

felicita said:
i can`t find it in Market

I think your phone is defective... please box it and return it.

--M

(hehe)

xavier6303 · Oct 31, 2008

felicita said:
i can`t find it in Market

In the market, hit menu->search and then type the name "pterminal"

felicita · Oct 31, 2008

xavier6303 said:
In the market, hit menu->search and then type the name "pterminal"

There is no pterminal in market on my g1

Yos025 · Oct 31, 2008

felicita said:
There is no pterminal in market on my g1

I just downloaded the application... It is there...

SplasPood · Nov 1, 2008

Other pTerminal finds..

Not sure if this has been posted in the forum before but if you're connected via wifi (at least...?) you can run system/bin/telnetd in pTerminal then telnet to the IP of the phone... It'll drop you to what appears to be a root shell...

GlobalM3 · Nov 1, 2008

felicita said:
There is no pterminal in market on my g1

If they are working on it or updating it, the app will dissapear from the store for a short time. At the moment I cant even connect to the market.

Wait a few hours and check back

satru · Nov 1, 2008

im using wireless and market is working with full acces

GlobalM3 said:
If they are working on it or updating it, the app will dissapear from the store for a short time. At the moment I cant even connect to the market.

Wait a few hours and check back

GlobalM3 · Nov 1, 2008

satru said:
im using wireless and market is working with full acces

I had to restart my device and it worked. tnx

syrusfrost · Nov 2, 2008

SplasPood said:
Not sure if this has been posted in the forum before but if you're connected via wifi (at least...?) you can run system/bin/telnetd in pTerminal then telnet to the IP of the phone... It'll drop you to what appears to be a root shell...

Thank you for the tip. It doesn't appear to be a root shell, BUT the process runs as root, which should be just as good as soon as I drop my own sshd in there... just have to compile for the right processor hehe...

satadru · Nov 2, 2008

telnet?

SplasPood said:
Not sure if this has been posted in the forum before but if you're connected via wifi (at least...?) you can run system/bin/telnetd in pTerminal then telnet to the IP of the phone... It'll drop you to what appears to be a root shell...

What did you type in exactly to get telnetd to run? Any flags you passed?

I'm trying /system/bin/telnetd from pterminal, but it never runs.

syrusfrost · Nov 3, 2008

satadru said:
What did you type in exactly to get telnetd to run? Any flags you passed?

I'm trying /system/bin/telnetd from pterminal, but it never runs.

I had to run it twice before it ran, then once it started it's like a watchdog process killed it after a few minutes.

do...

Code:

# cd system
# cd bin
# telnetd
# ps

Then scroll to the bottom to see if it's running. THEN connect really quick, because it seems to die off fast

.

SplasPood · Nov 3, 2008

It seems that unless you first cd to system/bin running telnetd doesn't work. It also seems t-mobile does inbound filtering so I cannot root my phone remotely... :-/

syrusfrost · Nov 4, 2008

SplasPood said:
It also seems t-mobile does inbound filtering so I cannot root my phone remotely... :-/

What if... you recompiled a VPN client for ARM and ran it on the phone, having it connected to your home network?

It would be a battery drainer for sure... Perhaps activate it with an SMS message? Or maybe a flag it checks for on a static html page every 10 minutes?

Darkrift · Nov 4, 2008

W00t. I figured everyone gave up on trying to root this thing. Now it seems the excitement has just begun.

Dimath · Nov 5, 2008

That's reeeealy great!
Does anybody know how one can copy the files there?

Regular 'cp' does not work there.

YAY!! Real task management!

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