Thread: PRS-T1 Rooting and Modding for COMPLETE NOOBS
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Old 02-06-2012, 01:23 PM   #4
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You found out about editing the XML files, and I can't tell you too much about fonts as I did not touch them. But on your first question:
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Originally Posted by thoreau View Post
1. How do I browse the file system on the device after rooting? Is it possible to do this from a computer? (mac preferably)
You have various options (and this includes the option to get into serious trouble by overwriting something you should not have, so be warned):
  1. After rooting, the file system can be accessed from within the reader using the supplied Root Explorer. You may need to press "Mount R/W" on partitions that are mounted read only by default.
    For those not that much into Linux and everything down the line from it: As opposed to Windows e.g. all physical drives and partitions thereon are part of one single file system, layed out in a tree style and appropriately starting at root (/). Partitions become part of this system by being "mounted" at some place in this tree structure, namely a directory or folder. Therefore, simply changing into a subfolder may physically take you to another partition. This as a very simplified explanation why at some parts you may need to remount for writing.
  2. As a variant to 1., you can just plug the reader into your computer, put some files on the drives presented to you, and move them where they belong with the Root Explorer.
  3. You can also access the files you want to play around with from the terminal within the reader, but taking into account the title of this thread, you probably do not want to.
  4. Then you can use a program supplied with the Android Developer Kit named adb. There are instructions on the wiki and in the forums on how to get adb working. If it works, you can use the adb push and pull commands to move files around.
  5. Finally, and just for completeness, you can boot into recovery and access the reader with another method from your computer, a serial console. You can access files with this method that you will not be able to reliably modify while the reader runs normally, but this is also one of the most reliable ways to brick (or, taking the thickness of the PRS-T1 into account, rather "slate") your device.

So as a conclusion: if you want to have it simple as a beginner, use method 1, combined with method 2 if you want to have less pain in editing by using the keyboard on your computer.

A P.S. to all this is that there are some files which you cannot edit with all these methods directly, the font directory being a prominent example. This is due to the fact that this sits on a partition (remember?) using a special kind of file system that is not to be ment to be edited on a file-by-file basis.

Hope by trying to keep it simple I didn't get too abstract.
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