PRS-T2 Hacking the T2

[simonchik]

Did you manage to get the job done? will try to do the same someday.

the password to the files you're mentioning is mrdev.
you can also find the same file but no passwd here

https://web.archive.org/web/20130610...-root-zeam.zip


Please let us know what you've done and what worked.
Thank you.

Originally Posted by Skinjob

I don't necessarily need your files. I just need to know where I can find a working download link of rupor's "AMR" ("Absolutely Minimal Root") exploit files for the Sony PRS-T2. I know it used to be on one of these threads.

Failing that, I just need the PASSWORD to Porkupan/rupor's files. (Located here.: Specifically, "minimal-root-zeam.zip" or "minimal-root.zip".

Since it seems important to do so here, I'll even justify my request, in exchange....

YES I bought a Sony PRS-T2 reader a couple of days ago. YES I know it's 2025. It's the best reader made, AFAIC. I could not care less if it doesn't have the latest Android. Why would anyone??? I don't use these things to play the latest video games. Who does?? I use them to read books.

Why not read books to read books? Because my eyes are such that I can't read regular sized print. And this is part of the reason why I need to hack the T2. To install additional fonts, and Coolreader.

The additional fonts is very important, because it includes bold fonts like Georgia, that make it easier for me to read, due to the increased contrast. The fonts that come with the Sony suck b***s, in comparison. Don't like reading anything with the default fonts.

And before anyone goes into it... YES, I am fully aware that you can use Calibre to manually inject fonts into e-pubs. I don't care about that option as I would never use it. I have hundreds of books and the last thing I want, is to shave off several years of my life, trying to inject lines of code, into books I may never read.

And YES, I already know you can do this with batch programming, and maybe save a few years in the process. Again, don't care to do that, as I don't even want to even think about erasing all the books I have on the unit and SD-card, then try to transfer them all back again, all coded up with the font coding hack.
Because I want what I've had on the Sony reader since 2014: The ability to change fonts on the fly, at will, for the book I am reading.

The other thing I require is Coolreader. For it allows kerning, hyphenation, margin customization and all kinds of such configurations, that make it much easier and more pleasant to read books on the e-reader. Both the font hack and the Coolreader require either an early firmware, or (perhaps?) it can be done with rupor's AMR.

The early firmware is out, since the T2 I bought had the latest firmware. I bought it to replace the PRS-T2 I already had, which was fully rooted. Only, it got dunked in a lake this summer, when the canoe tipped over. Now, I am looking to buy a T2 with much older and 'hackable' firmware, that may not require AMR.

But I am blocked on both fronts by

a) Unable to find and download rupor's AMR files today (after scanning Wayback, Google, this site....).

b) Unable to open the files I did find, that may allow me to crack the early firmware, without AMR.

Ok, now that you guys understand why people might actually want to root their Sony readers, just like they did in the past, are those good enough reasons to help me find the AMR files?? Enough people did this around the world already, so there has to be a copy of the files somewhere!