enable developer mode directly from the leappad

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enable developer mode directly from the leappad - LucP - 12-26-2019

First I would like to thank "Deak Phreak" and "Joshtech" for all the great information on spiffyhacks.

I found myself constantly enabling and disabling developer mode for various reasons and I wanted to save some time so I created this script.
It will enable developer mode by holding the "up" arrow when booting the leappad.
It will disable developer mode by holding the "down" arrow when booting the leappad. (in case I forgot to rm /flags/developer)
I also included a feature to reinstall backed up games after connecting with wifi, by holding the "right" arrow.

in /etc/init.d create a file called "devmode"

Code:
#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in

    start)

    if [ "`read_button left`" == "pressed" ] ; then        # up button holding it landscape

       if [ ! -e /flags/developer ]; then

            /bin/touch /flags/developer

            reboot

       fi

    fi

    if [ "`read_button right`" == "pressed" ] ; then    # down button holding in landscape

       if [ -e /flags/developer ]; then

            /bin/rm /flags/developer

            reboot

       fi

    fi

        if [ "`read_button up`" == "pressed" ] ; then        # right button holding in landscape

        /bin/sh /install.sh

            exit

        fi

    exit

    ;;

   stop)

    exit

    ;;

   *)

    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/devmode {start|stop}"

    exit 1

    ;;

esac

exit 0

modify the file /etc/init.d/rcS by adding the following line at the very end of the file.

Code:
nice /etc/init.d/devmode start;

to reinstall backed up games after connecting with wifi by holding the right arrow, create a file in "/" called "install.sh" and chmod 755 the file.
In this file, simply lfpkg2 each directory that is needed for the backed up games. (as it appears they are only removed from the database and not the file system)
example:

Code:
lfpkg2 /LF/Bulk/ProgramFiles/MULT-0x002D001A-000302/meta.inf

lfpkg2 /LF/Bulk/ProgramFiles/MULT-0x002B005A-000204/meta.inf

That is it. I hope people will find this useful.