11-04-2013, 01:12 PM | #31 |
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on the german ebook reader page was it for 2 days
http://allesebook.de/e-book-reader/k...obo-glo-36607/ |
11-04-2013, 01:55 PM | #32 |
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Hello everyone, this is my 1st post
i just finished turning my kobo glo into a rooted kobo shine, not very complicated. i installed some apps for testing, some gave me system crashes and i had to reboot. i would be thankfull for suggestions for usefull working (if known) apps. atm i have no idea how i can benefit from having such a device, beside of installing other readers. working app(s) so far: root explorer to be continued... Last edited by Koboloid; 11-04-2013 at 02:03 PM. |
11-04-2013, 01:56 PM | #33 |
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Now I'm really curious how this actually runs? Is it actually usable? If so I could be tempted into hacking my Kobo Glo.
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11-04-2013, 02:54 PM | #34 | |
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I loaded my favorite note taking app (Note Everything) on it and it seemed to be perfectly functional. Much to my disappointment my favorite android keyboard (Message Ease) does not seem to work. I suspect the biggest limitation with android on the Glo will turn out to be the battery life. The rest is just a simple matter of software |
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11-04-2013, 03:30 PM | #35 |
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I don't think that Android will be more demanding in terms of power. The user might be, since there's a lot more to play with. Of course, when you are running a bunch of background application, there'll be a lot of background energy consumption...
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11-04-2013, 03:48 PM | #36 |
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Has anyone tried coolreader yet?
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11-04-2013, 03:53 PM | #37 | |
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That is the pessimistic engineer coming through. Hopefully the Kobo battery will be enough for useful functions with android. |
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11-04-2013, 04:44 PM | #38 |
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Yep, that's probably right. Well - when just reading books, there shouldn't be that much more refreshes, I guess?
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11-04-2013, 08:45 PM | #39 | |
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Aside:- as a newbie here, I just wanted to send my thanks to the OP and other contributors- this is quite an achievement and really exciting suff- looking forward to seeing how it progresses! |
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11-05-2013, 07:47 AM | #40 | |
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11-05-2013, 07:49 AM | #41 |
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I think you can choose to close all the activities when they go in background, this should help with the battery life!
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11-05-2013, 07:51 AM | #42 | |
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11-05-2013, 08:24 AM | #43 | |
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See the first 10 photos at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...48&postcount=2 |
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11-05-2013, 09:46 AM | #44 |
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would this run on a touch????
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11-05-2013, 09:52 AM | #45 |
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I tried writing the recovery.img from the Allesbook download to a spare mSD card but my Glo wouldn't do much: blue light at power-on then nothing. I must be missing something essential here.
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android, glo, kobo, shine, tolino |
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