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I was wondering if it is possible to terminal into my Android (Razr) and navigate the file system and processes like you would on any other Linux distribution. As it is supposed to be built on top of the Linux Kernel.
I find it annoying that you simply can’t shut down most apps, like Firefox for example, from the phone’s default UI, I wish there would be a way to find the process ID and kill it like you would on a regular Linux/Unix machine.
If you enable debugging and have the Android SDK installed then you can use
adb shellto get a shell on the android device using the USB cable to a PC. If you want something just on the device, ConnectBot which is a SSH client application that is available for free, can provide a localhost only shell which will let you work as for most linux systems. Note that the shell is fairly restricted. A lot of common commands are missing.