Writing to /system/fonts after root

isoelectric · July 2nd, 2010, 12:39 AM

I managed to get my incredible rooted earlier today using the SD card trick. Now I am trying to install Arabic fonts + reshaper as seen here.

The problem I am having is that I can't figure out a way to replace the font. When I open up a console and try to adb remount it claims I don't have permission. When I manually mount, with this, it claims that there is insufficient space when I try and push the font. Root explorer won't allow me to paste into the system/fonts directory either.

I know that NAND protection still exists on the Incredible, but is there a way to easily get around this right now?

yojoe600 · July 2nd, 2010, 12:53 AM

try mounting the partitions with the nand partions menu

isoelectric · July 2nd, 2010, 12:58 AM

Which menu in what program? I'm not a developer so all specifics you can offer would be useful.

Matchbox · July 2nd, 2010, 03:31 AM

Boot into recovery and there will be an option that says "partitions". Go into that and mount your system and/or sdcard. This is assuming you have flashed clockwork mod using unrevoked's reflash tool.

isoelectric · July 2nd, 2010, 10:54 AM

I installed clockwork recovery and mounted all available partitions (/system, /data, etc). Still no dice. Root Explorer still shows /fonts to be unmodifiable, adb remount is impossible, as is adb push.

I'm wondering, are other people able to write to /system this way? What do you guys do when you want to modify the partition?

RootDaDuck · July 2nd, 2010, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by isoelectric

I installed clockwork recovery and mounted all available partitions (/system, /data, etc). Still no dice. Root Explorer still shows /fonts to be unmodifiable, adb remount is impossible, as is adb push.

I'm wondering, are other people able to write to /system this way? What do you guys do when you want to modify the partition?

I was able to write to the /system partition in when I removed CItyID and VVM. I moved them to /system/app.backup no problem

Matchbox · July 2nd, 2010, 11:36 AM

Try placing the files onto your sdcard, boot into recovery and mount both your sdcard and system. Then go into adb shell, it should automatically have you as su. Now just copy or move the files from your sdcard to whatever system directory they need to go.

~#:cp /sdcard/nameof.file /system/fonts

GMK83 · July 2nd, 2010, 01:14 PM

System is ro when booted. You're going to have to do it while in recovery.

ezy1022 · July 2nd, 2010, 06:33 PM

i was able to put hebrew font on both my incredibles with no problem, like said above you just need to have /system mounted in recovery

isoelectric · July 2nd, 2010, 08:52 PM

I mounted my system into recovery and managed to push the fonts. However the Nexus One arabic fonts didn't cooperate with the incredible and it just froze on the startup screen.

Pretty infurating that the android is the only smartphone system out there without wide language support