Rooting Package for Sony Reader PRS-T2 Now Available

October 10, 2012 5 Comments

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Rooted Sony PRS-T2

A couple of weeks ago I penned an article about how it didn’t look like the Sony PRS-T2 would get hacked to run Android apps anytime soon. Luckily, a lot can change in two weeks.

The savvy developers, especially Boroda, over at MobileRead and The eBook have successfully managed to unlock the Sony PRS-T2 and get it rooted.

There’s even a rooting package available now that makes hacking the PRS-T2 to turn it into an ultimate ereading machine and quasi Android tablet as easy as downloading two files and clicking an install file a couple of times.

The rooting package is the same as the one for the PRS-T1, and includes the Zeam launcher for an alternate homescreen and there are some additional ereading apps pre-installed too.

Unfortunately my computer is not cooperating this morning so I haven’t been able to test this out myself. For some reason it refuses to properly recognize the PRS-T2, and installing Sony’s software and uninstalling and re-installing drivers doesn’t help. This is one of the reasons why I hate having to use USB cables so much.

Anyway, here’s the link to the translated rooting directions and here are the original directions in Russian.

First you have to jailbreak the Reader and then you can install the rooting package for some apps. You are going to need a microSD card for jailbreaking, and the PRS-T2 needs to have the latest firmware installed (1.0.03.09110).

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5 Responses to “Rooting Package for Sony Reader PRS-T2 Now Available”

  1. Andrew Reply October 10, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    I bought a Sony PRS-950 on eBay over the summer and it also refused to be recognized by my MacBook Pro. The computer didn’t recognize that it was plugged in, and neither did Calibre. Very frustrating. I scoured the forums in hops of finding a solution, but no one could help, not even Sony customer support. It showed up on my wife’s PC, but not the Mac.

    • Ingo Lembcke, Hamburg Reply October 10, 2012 at 2:38 pm

      Try connecting the PRS-950 to the MacBook Pro and plug the Power-Adapter in, if the PRS-950 has one.
      Another solution might be to disconnect everything else, meaning other USB/Firewire-Devices.
      If you are using an USB-Hub, connect the Power-Adapter for the Hub, or unplug the Hub altogether.
      Or use a split-USB-Kable with 2 connections to the PowerBook (these are sometimes delivered with small Harddisks).

      My guess is, that the PC delivers more Power to USB.
      Being a Mac user myself, but owning a Mac mini, this happens quite often.

      The same might be true with the Sony PRS-T2 mentioned above, but that could also be a device-driver-problem.

      • Andrew Reply October 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm

        Danke schön Ingo, but I already resold it on eBay. I will keep that in mind for the future, but at Sony’s current rate, I doubt I will be buying another one of their eReaders any time soon ;)

  2. fabrice Reply February 6, 2013 at 1:11 pm

    Hello, I have a PRST2 in english and french and i need to put it in Spanish.
    Is it possible?
    Fabrice