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Originally Posted by Jemison
danifunker & hieronymos,
Thank you! I followed your instructions last night and my Vox is now operating just as I had expected it would when I first purchased it  ! This is a very exciting development.
I have two questions:
1) I'd like to install google currents, and danifunker - you said you copied files from the zip to /etc and /framework. On what filesystem are /etc and /framework? When I try to copy, I get an error that the filesystem is ro - yet I can't figure out from the mount command where they are.
2) Now that our Voxs are "googlized" - any advice on how to protect the time spent so that we have any easy way of returning to this state should an update be released from Kobo?
I'm very happy and I appreciate all the time you've invested in this. |
I recommend using a paid software called 'Root explorer' it's a file manager GUI software, can be found here:
https://market.android.com/details?i...explorer&hl=en since it allows an easy way to mount the /system partition as Read/Write (R/W)
I copied the files in /system/etc/permissions, as well as the /system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar and adjusted the permissions to 644 (owner read/write, group read, everyone read).
I did get currents to run! It's a little slow on the Kobo, but functional. Please note, I didn't use the v6 of the framework (That was from the froyo release) instead I used v7. The only app from v6 I needed was GooglePartnerSetup.apk
PS, in regards to protection... don't delete any files from /system, if you want to remove apps from the launcher, just rename them to .bak. If you have to change any files in /system then copy the file then rename the original file to .bak and then rename the copied file to a new filename. That preserves the original timestamp (for the paranoid...)