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BusyBox BusyBox

by Stephen (Stericson)
>250,000 downloads, 10451 ratings (4.57 average), 5411 kb

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The fastest, most trusted, and most popular BusyBox installer and uninstaller! Over 1.9 million installs! Winner of best Utility Software award for Android via Handster. This is the ONLY Installer on the market that will allow you to remove Busybox (If supported on your phone) AND the only open sourced installer!

Source: https://code.google.com/p/busybox-android/
Featured on the BusyBox website at: http://busybox.net/products.html
The BusyBox source code can be found here: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/

A must have for any rooted phone! Almost EVERY rooted applications needs BusyBox to perform their magic, if you have a rooted phone then you need BusyBox.

Pro version contains no ads or nag screens, uninstall feature, custom tune feature, the ability to hand pick the applets you want, safety check for missing applets on start, and better overall support. The pro version will receive more frequent updates than the free version will. Eventually some of the features and improvements will make their way to the free version but not all of them will. Look for BusyBox Pro in the market.

This installer has the smallest Busybox binaries available, right around 700kb unlike the other installers which are over a meg. Also this installer does not require you to download anything extra like other installers do and thus works much faster.

Featured on the BusyBox website at: http://busybox.net/products.html

Please note I did not write BusyBox! I wrote this installer and cross compiled BusyBox for Android. Please see the about menu option for more details or here: www.BusyBox.net

The BusyBox source code can be found here: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/

Patches added to this can be found here: http://matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Building+BusyBox+binaries+for+Android

BusyBox is a software application that provides many standard Unix tools, much like the larger (but more capable) GNU Core Utilities. BusyBox is designed to be a small executable for use with the Linux kernel, which makes it ideal for use with embedded devices. It has been self-dubbed "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux".

This version includes 1.19.4, 1.19.3, 1.19.2, 1.18.4, and 1.18.5 no need to have more than that because it takes up space on your phone and each newer version will still contain the older features, unless I forgot to compile them in.

Leave this installed if you always want to get the latest version of busybox!

tags: busybox, utility, terminal, emulator, root, stericson, adb, toolbox, rom, unlock, jailbreak, root, linux, unix, shell, script, tools, android, installer, busybox installer, bb, custom, installer, pro, android, android root (Confirmed Amazon)

Recent changes:
This update should fix the Galaxy Nexus freeze issue. Please let me know if it does not.


Latest version: 7.6.1 (for Android version 2.1 and higher)

Pages about this Android app:

Free Download BusyBox Software Application for Android | KeletSoft [www.keletsoft.com]
[Howto] Standaard Samsung apps verwijderen [www.androidworld.nl]
[RECOVERY] для Xperia X8 Android 2.1 - Форум Sony Ericsson [semasterz.net]
Samsung Galaxy S (IMEI Restoration Techniques) - YouTube [www.youtube.com]
Jak zainstalowac Busy Box [forum.android.com.pl]
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User reviews of BusyBox

0kti
Jan 14, 2012
Works fine on SGS+
m1k30rz
Dec 1, 2011
Crashed my ROM after updating to latest busybox, said it failed to install then I had to reflash, SHITTY.
meermanr
Sep 27, 2011
Works on rooted Samsung Galaxy S II. Prompts user to select where to install to. Recommand using "busybox --install /system/xbin" to have it create symbolic links for you.
etherea
Mar 22, 2011
Works fine - Motorola DEFY (Eclair)
digiscorpio
Mar 19, 2011
cannot find busybox in market SE x10 mini

Android Market Comments (936)

Kevin
Friday 12:33 AM
Current version. Does not show current version installed on Samsung vibrant.
abufahad
Friday 12:31 AM
Add The "ssh"
Himanshu
Thursday 3:44 PM
Not working
Jay
Thursday 2:26 AM
ICS Freeze issue resolved GN Thank You!
Espen
Thursday 12:21 AM
New update fixed my problems.

Changelog for BusyBox

  • Friday 5:07 AM
    Update
    Version 7.6.1
  • 4 days ago
    Update
    Version 7.6
  • 6 days ago
    Update
    Version 7.5.5
  • Jan 22, 2012
    Update
    Version 7.3
  • Jan 19, 2012
    Update
    Version 7.2
  • Jan 7, 2012
    Update
    Version 7.1
  • Dec 31, 2011
    Update
    Version 7.0
  • Dec 29, 2011
    Update
    Version 6.8
  • Dec 18, 2011
    Update
    Version 6.7
  • Dec 16, 2011
    Update
    Version 6.5
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