How to manually remove Safestrap (via ADB)

Posted by hashcode0f on December 27, 2012
Posted in: Android.

First off there are very few circumstances where this should be used.  The most obvious one could be:

  1. You are having some kind of odd display issue where you feel Safestrap is causing a scrambled display, but can’t obviously see anything on the phone to go into the APK and use “Remove Recovery” button.  (I’ve never had this happen.)   NOTE: There’s a good chance that you will still see a scrambled display after Safestrap is removed and that it’s not actually causing the problem.  It just happens to be the last thing that shows before the boot animation which if that’s swiss cheesed means there are driver / kernel / display issues in the stock ROM.

Assumptions:

  • Connected via ADB either in Recovery itself or fully booted in the OS
  • Should be on the stock ROM slot

Commands to be entered as su (should show “#” command prompt):

  1. mount -t ext3 /dev/block/system /system (if you need to mount system)
  2. ls -l /system/bin/logwrapper.bin
  3. Double check that this #2 command shows you a file on your system!  If not, then you are not on the stock system and/or don’t have Safestrap installed: proceeding further could brick your phone!
  4. mv /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/logwrapper.bak
  5. mv /system/bin/logwrapper.bin /system/bin/logwrapper
  6. rm -rf /system/etc/safestrap
  7. Reboot.
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2 comments on “How to manually remove Safestrap (via ADB)”

  1. Thanks for those instruction. I started getting low memory errors after moving up from v2 to v3. This appears to get me back to my single-rom system. Hopefully tomorrow when I get time to work through it again, I can figure out what went wrong.

    Thanks for sharing your work!

  2. Can we have the ability to set the keyboard lights to never turn off unless the phone is closed? So always on when it’s open? Please?

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