[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
How to Access ES File Explorer Menu - How to Copy and Paste

keyleroy,

I am glad we can help you, we love questions since it keeps us sharp. Now to your questions, when you open ES File Explorer, you will notice a Upside down U with horizontal line running through it, this is found at the bottom of the Kindle Fire Framework between the Home (Picture of the Hose) and the Search (Picture of a Magnifying Glass). Click on this upside down U and a menu will pop up with these selections: Operations, New, Manager, Show Tabs, Settings and More. First let's setup Root Access on the Kindle by performing these steps:

1. Click on the Menu, select Settings. Once Settings is open scroll near the bottom, look for Root Settings. Click on Root Settings

2. First Click on Root Explorer, answer Yes to the Pop-up and a second pop-up will appear. Be sure to click Grant or Allow which ever version of Superuser you are using.

3. Once you have Granted Superuser to ES File Explorer, you can place a check mark on all the other options in Root Settings, so check: Root Explorer, Up to Root, Mount File System, Backup System App, Uninstall apk automatically.

4. Next let navigate and use Root Explorer. You now have Superpowers with ES File Explorer, so be very careful as you work in the /system/app folder.

OK, now that you have Superpowers with ES File Explorer, we can now teach you how to use ES File Explorer. When you first open ES File Explorer, it normally defaults to the root of the SD Card. Look at the very top of the ES File Explorer interface, do you see "Local"? This is where you are in the file system. Normally ES File Explorer will show Local| /sdcard/ - what this means is that you are in the SD Card Root. If you click on the folder Download look at the top, you are now at Local| /sdcard/Download. If you already copied any files to this folder select one, let's say suchecker.apk. So you would long press the suchecker.apk package and a Menu will appear, select Copy. Depending on the version of ES File Explorer, youy may see one of two objects. Ether ES File Explorer will as Copy to? Then you would click up arrow twice to get to the Root of the Android File System. Once you are here, you would click on the System folder and next the App folder, then select Paste. On the latest version, a Tab at the bottom will apear when you Long Press and select Copy. The you would click on the Up Arrow (at the top under Local/sdcard/Download) twice, navigating to the Root, now local will show /. Next you would click on the System Folder and finally click on the App folder. Once you see Local| /system/app/ then you would click on the Menu (Upside down U) and choose Operations, then choose Paste. At this point superuser.apk is in the /system/app folder. Scroll down to the package and find suchecker.apk, once you find it Long Press the icon, choose Properties. You will have another menu pop-up, select Permissions: Change. Then change the permissions to User: Read Write Group: Read and Others: Read. Finally, we need to install suchecker.apk be just clicking on the suchecker.apk icon and wait for a small box to pop-up, it takes about 5 seconds, you will see Install Success.

That is it, you have learned how to copy files and how to make changes with the permissions. Any package that is moved to the /system/app location will always need the permissions of: User: Read Write Group: Read and Others: Read and usually installed unless otherwise instructed differently.

Finally, I would recommend Copy Paste over Move Paste since the Copy Paste will give you a backup of the original App.

Let me know if any of this is confusing or if you have any other questions.