06-28-2011, 12:39 PM | #271 | |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
Part I, done.
Quote:
I am looking forward to updating the client tonight! Thank you for your help!! Sincerely, maylin |
|
06-29-2011, 01:30 AM | #272 |
Junior Member
Posts: 1
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle dxg
|
Dear yifanlu,
Just want to show my gratitude for your wonderful work on bringing 3.1 to my dxg and mention a few points I observed after two weeks of usage. Perhaps, it might be useful to you or to other people. 1) Battery will drain overnight if 3G is on when the dxg goes to sleep. 2) Slow wake up from sleep (15 to 20 seconds) 3) The browser sometimes gets into the "Kindle 3 mode"; namely only a part (upper left cornor) of the screen becomes active. The active area is similar to that of screen size of the Kindle 3. 4) Text to speech is not as good. All these points are OK with me except 3). The only way I can get it back to normal is by resetting the machine. I would be nice if there is a small trick to kill the browser and restart again in normal way. Thanks again. Now, my dxg becomes MUCH MUCH more useful with pdf files. TT |
Advert | |
|
06-30-2011, 01:44 PM | #273 | |
Member
Posts: 10
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2011
Device: kindle touch, paperwhite, Sony T3
|
Quote:
also, my working kindle 2i with 3.1 failed today when browsing a website, it reboot as kindle 3 wifi or 3g did at some web browsing. but it fail and stuck at the booting kindle tree !!! same symptom as my kindle dx us did !! cann't get into recovery mode too. should we make a swap for the kindle 2 dx to resolved the problem ? I will try to compile a swap package, it may help ... Last edited by mb8312; 06-30-2011 at 01:49 PM. |
|
06-30-2011, 04:49 PM | #274 | |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
Quote:
Thanks to YifanLu made update possible and DickeFix's Duokan script. Sincerely, maylin |
|
06-30-2011, 05:23 PM | #275 |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
For those who upgrade, are you able to use the + and - volume contral?
For me, the volume control buttons worked in Doukan but not in Kindle software. |
Advert | |
|
07-01-2011, 04:05 AM | #276 |
Addict
Posts: 202
Karma: 6720
Join Date: May 2011
Device: amazon kindle DXG
|
The volume info isn't displayed on screen but the buttons work effectively. I can increase and decrease the TTS volume on kindle software. BTW i use a kindle DXG
|
07-01-2011, 02:33 PM | #277 | |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
Quote:
If I am the only one that experienced this, I may try to revert back and run the update once again and see. Thanks! maylin |
|
07-04-2011, 09:46 AM | #278 | |
Addict
Posts: 201
Karma: 1300000
Join Date: Nov 2010
Device: Kindle DXG, PW
|
Quote:
|
|
07-04-2011, 11:45 AM | #279 | |
Kindle Dissector
Posts: 662
Karma: 475607
Join Date: Jul 2010
Device: Amazon Kindle 3
|
Quote:
And before you accuse me of not testing. I had 5 private testers and a month of public testing. In addition, there were more than 50 reports of success (the poll is inaccurate). This was the only report of failure and I'm not even sure the updater is the cause of it. |
|
07-06-2011, 07:34 AM | #280 |
Addict
Posts: 202
Karma: 6720
Join Date: May 2011
Device: amazon kindle DXG
|
Hi Yifanlu, i have a suggestion that may be a bit complicated to achieve. But i will just shoot.
I am using firmware 3.2.1 for my kindle DXG thanks to you and i really like it. But there are some problems mostly minor but they are still there. I think the inability to use active content and the long wake-up problem are the most important ones. What i suggest is some kind of dual-boot for both 2.5.8 and 3.x in the same machine. Like Duokan or something like Duokan-lite which is launched from launch-pad. I know access to FAT is slow, but sometimes i want to play some of the kindle games and i don't want to turn back to 2.5.8 just for this. I am already more than glad for what you did for us and it is just a suggestion from a fellow who knows nearly nothing about the background of kindle. |
07-06-2011, 11:05 AM | #281 | |
Kindle Dissector
Posts: 662
Karma: 475607
Join Date: Jul 2010
Device: Amazon Kindle 3
|
Quote:
First, you need my custom kernel and mount the NAND via USB. In Linux, delete the Vfat partition, create a 500MB ext2 partition and another smaller Vfat partition. Then dd the image to this new partition (2.5.8 or 3.2.1). Now here's the first hard part, make a duel boot script that remounts the rootfs if the user wants. The second hard part is changing some offsets hard coded in the filesystem. I don't know if this is required, but I havent done this before. Now about those bugs. The long wake problem is caused by the power management. I think a solution is to port the kindle 3's kernel to kindle 2. This is hard because the CPU changed and amazon removed the old CPU support from the new kernel. Another way is to use the old powerd daemon from 2.5.8, but I tried it and the kindle crashed when it tries to sleep. I suspect some incompability with the newer scripts, but don't have the time to disassemble the thing. The active content bug is caused by the kindle downloading the content built for 2.5.8. You need to either change the serial number to a kindle 3 or find a way to remove the drm from the active content downloaded to a kindle 3 (no public method is aviable). |
|
07-06-2011, 10:38 PM | #282 |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
can't not get to restore menu
All,
My kindle updated to 3.2 was working fine except the volume control. Now, I have restored back to 2.5.8 with "update_restore-os.bin" and I confirmed the physical volume control is working properly under 2.5.8. I will update once again hope it will work properly this time. Sincerely, maylin Last edited by maylin; 07-06-2011 at 11:16 PM. |
07-07-2011, 02:16 AM | #283 | |
Addict
Posts: 202
Karma: 6720
Join Date: May 2011
Device: amazon kindle DXG
|
Quote:
|
|
07-07-2011, 04:08 AM | #284 |
Junior Member
Posts: 3
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2011
Device: kindle
|
Hi! I think I've run into a problem and I'm hoping someone can help me out. I jailbroke my K2 then installed 'update_k2-2.5.8-prepare_kindle'. It started to update and I think it's now frozen. It's been over four hours and it's stopped processing at the mid-way point. It's in 'Vcreating image...' mode
This is a brand new (fresh out of the box) replacement K2 from Amazon so I'm hoping I haven't just bricked it. How do I get it out of this and working again? I obviously haven't done a backup because this was the software I needed to install to create the backup. Honestly, I'd just be happy with getting 2.5.8 running again at factory reset. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the help. ETA: Yep, it's definitely frozen. Going into 8 hours now and absolutely nothing has changed. I don't understand, I followed the instructions perfectly. LOL - I didn't even get to a step that I thought I could possible screw up yet. I'm truly hoping this isn't bricked now. Help?... Anyone?... UPDATE: I managed to force the K2 into recovery mode with an error code of 003. I was able to restart and then did a factory restore back to 2.5.8. Upon restart, it froze in the settings menu then shutdown. After several attempts at a restart, it finally did and now seems to be running fine. Phew! I'm just relieved to have a working Kindle again. Last edited by broodingstorm; 07-07-2011 at 10:35 AM. Reason: update on update |
07-07-2011, 10:48 AM | #285 | |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: kindle, nookcolor
|
Quote:
I updated to 3.2 once again and lost the volume control. As much as I love 3.2's web browser, it is hard for me to live without a fully functioned TTS. Not sure the cause was 1.the update 3.2 bin that I got from, or 2. the kindle I have. Nevertheless, thanks to yifan's great work that allow me to experiment. Last edited by maylin; 07-07-2011 at 11:58 AM. |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
images for Kindle & ipad Kindle (or tablets) | hapax legomenon | Kindle Formats | 0 | 03-10-2011 10:54 PM |
Kindle & Tech formatted kindle books? | Ncage1974 | Amazon Kindle | 7 | 02-09-2011 10:03 AM |
Possible Kindle for PC & Kindle for iPhone Issue(s) | Nyssa | Amazon Kindle | 6 | 12-31-2010 03:58 PM |
Kindle vs Kindle for PC vs print books & old lady eyes | bert501 | Amazon Kindle | 30 | 11-19-2010 08:59 PM |
did kindle 2 get updated with kindle 3 zoom and contrast adjustment software? | med007 | Amazon Kindle | 1 | 10-15-2010 10:08 AM |