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Exported May 9, 2026
This most likely has to do with the size of classes.dex. On anything pre-ICS dexopt will fail on anything over 5mb. Check the size of classes.dex in your apk. It would also be good to see what your method count is as...
INSTALL_FAIL_DEXOPT usually has to do with the limit placed on classes.dex. On anything pre-ICS dexopt will fail on anything over 5 MB. Recent versions of Android use an 8 or 16 MB buffer. Check the size of classes.dex...
You can use an open source library to run the command as root. Check out the following libraries: https://github.com/Stericson/RootTools https://github.com/SpazeDog/rootfw https://github.com/Chainfire/libsuperuser...