Question

I’m working in eclipse and trying to use my phone (HTC Thunderbolt) for development for the first time (because the emulator is too slow).

In Eclipse I get the error:
Android ActivityManager: am: not found
(The error is after Android Launch!, adb is running normally, and Success!, etc.)

Using adb shell, I see that the am file is not located in /system/bin or anywhere else that I looked. I’m running a custom ROM on my phone. Is it possible the file is simply not present? If so, can I push it to my phone? How?

Thank you

EDIT: Using adb shell, from /, I ran ls -R | grep “^am$” and there is no file named “am”.

I have seen posts like this one where they mention an error message like system-bin-sh-am-not-found, but in those cases the file is actually present and needs to be edited. In my case, the file is not present. Anyone have a copy of /system/bin/am for Gingerbread? Is it the same for all devices?

Answer 1

The problem was related to the custom ROM I was running. The ROM cook had not included that file in the ROM.