Any way to edit settings.db without ro.secure=0?

[guido.rosso]

Hi All,
I used unrevoked to root my Aria but it looks like my default.prop still has ro.secure=1. This means that I can't use adb to enable install_non_market_apps under settings.db. Adb apparently won't run as root unless I have ro.secure=0.

It seems like setting ro.secure=0 is quite a complex process that involves recreating my boot img file, so I'd prefer to avoid this if possible...

Just started learning about all this stuff, this is my first android phone. Any help is most appreciated, thanks!

 

[tomlogan1]

another way to edit settings.db

If you have SQlite Administrator (http://sqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de/) Windows link attached, you can just edit the settings.db file like any other database. Pretty easy to do and minimizes the effect of fat fingers..

 

[guido.rosso]

Cool, thanks for the link. I'm assuming I need to get the file off the phone first though, right? No way to edit it directly?

 

[tomlogan1]

Correct, follow the instructions in Workaround for Fixing 'Unsupported Sources', but use SQlite instead of the dos commands.

 

[guido.rosso]

Thanks again, this all worked great! If anybody has trouble copying settings.db, I managed to browse to and copy the file using Root Explorer.

 

[sharonpta]

Thanks again, this all worked great! If anybody has trouble copying settings.db, I managed to browse to and copy the file using Root Explorer.

Can you tell me the location of settings.db using Root Explorer?

 

[guido.rosso]

Check out the "workaround for unsupported sources" thread in this forum. Sorry, would give you a link but I'm using the XDA app and can't find a way to link to threads...

Sent from my HTC Aria using XDA App

 

[hotelmode]

Can you tell me the location of settings.db using Root Explorer?

/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/

That's on a Galaxy Nexus, might be different on the Aria.