I have a CWM 3.0+ updater-script question

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Hello all,

I have written a script to push as file to my TB and it works kind of...I just want to know why it is not functioning as it should.

Here is what I am attempting to do.

Since my HTC weather does not have my city listed and my weather is always way off, I hacked the HTC weather database to add my city. And it works great.

So I wanted to create a weather_update.zip to install using CWM to do all of this for me if I changed roms and to allow others to use it as well.

the file goes into the /data/data/com.htc.provider.weather/files directory.

My script mounts data, pushes the file, changes the appropriate permissions, then unmounts.

It works as intended because I can see the file using adb prior to reboot.

However, after a reboot, the file is overwritten by the original. I can even delete the file completely, reboot and it is rebuilt. So my modified file does not stick.

BUT, if I use root explorer and copy the file to the correct directory and change permissions, my modified file works even after a reboot.

I don't understand why it works one way but not another.

Is there a step I am missing in the updater-script?

Any help would be appreciated....

Thanks,
Scott

Originally Posted by UPEngineer

Hello all,

I have written a script to push as file to my TB and it works kind of...I just want to know why it is not functioning as it should.

Here is what I am attempting to do.

Since my HTC weather does not have my city listed and my weather is always way off, I hacked the HTC weather database to add my city. And it works great.

So I wanted to create a weather_update.zip to install using CWM to do all of this for me if I changed roms and to allow others to use it as well.

the file goes into the /data/data/com.htc.provider.weather/files directory.

My script mounts data, pushes the file, changes the appropriate permissions, then unmounts.

It works as intended because I can see the file using adb prior to reboot.

However, after a reboot, the file is overwritten by the original. I can even delete the file completely, reboot and it is rebuilt. So my modified file does not stick.

BUT, if I use root explorer and copy the file to the correct directory and change permissions, my modified file works even after a reboot.

I don't understand why it works one way but not another.

Is there a step I am missing in the updater-script?

Any help would be appreciated....

Thanks,
Scott

I could be way off base here but wouldn't you have to recursively delete the original to keep it from rebuilding?

Originally Posted by dbu

I could be way off base here but wouldn't you have to recursively delete the original to keep it from rebuilding?

LOL, what I was thinking too, but it doesn't seem to work, unless I am doing it wrong.

If I replace the file and reboot, the original rebuilds.
If I delete the file completely and reboot, the original rebuilds.
If I replace the file using root explorer after phone has booted and then reboot, my modified file sticks.

That is what I can't figure out. Why it sticks after OS has loaded but rebuilds if the same file is placed before reboot.

And I can't figure out where the file is being rebuilt from.

Uggggg.