Gen3 New Firmware build 796 available for CyBook Gen3

[HarryT]

That certainly sounds like the problem. Make sure that it's NOT an SDHC card. Format it in Windows as FAT32, and make sure you put it in the Gen3 correctly (label facing away from the front of the Gen3, and push it down below the level of the top of the slot until it "clicks").

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jinibiza

I tried another Sd card and it is now upgrading!

Thanks, Harry.

I wonder why it doesn't like my other SD card. It is a 1 GB 60x.

That's good to hear. Pleased we got it sorted out!

Dodgy formatting of the card is the general reason for the card not being recognised. Try reformatting the card as FAT32 on a desktop PC.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Perhaps it would help us all if you could send it along with a report of the bug to Bookeen?

Yes, I'll do when I have the full list

I think it would be easy for them to fix such easily reproducible bug.

They still haven't fixed the wrong autorotation for images, which I reported months ago, though.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by bbusybookworm

Can I Ask which firmware version you were running when that PDF worked? was it 708? or was it the version that came preloaded from Bookeen (can't remember the no).

I think it worked with 708, but I'm not quite sure I really tried the book with that version. It certainly worked with 538 (the original) and 685 (1.1).

[Krystian Galaj]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Yes, I'll do when I have the full list



They still haven't fixed the wrong autorotation for images, which I reported months ago, though.

Yes, they haven't made it possible to display Polish letters either, even though I reported it to them in December.I hope it's all in the "bestter support for HTML and TXT" they have on the Next To Do list.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Yes, they haven't made it possible to display Polish letters either, even though I reported it to them in December.I hope it's all in the "bestter support for HTML and TXT" they have on the Next To Do list.

Or they have lost the bug report. When I submitted bug reports I asked for confirmation that they had registered the bug in their bug track system but never got any answer.

[Krystian Galaj]

Originally Posted by tompe

Or they have lost the bug report. When I submitted bug reports I asked for confirmation that they had registered the bug in their bug track system but never got any answer.

Well, they wrote once, asking me for further details, a few days after I wrote to them. I provided those details, no info from then on.

They might have lost the bug report later, true.

[jinibiza]

"Dodgy formatting of the card is the general reason for the card not being recognised. Try reformatting the card as FAT32 on a desktop PC.
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Actually, that didn't work for this particular card. It works with other devices and is not an HDSD card. Strange!

[Georgios]

That's the ticket! Great PDF support, finally, I had reverted to 538 but this one is almost perfect. Just the folder issue and I'm all done visiting the support forum :-)

BTW I haven't seen anyone pointing out that the new kernel is much smaller than the olders..

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Georgios

BTW I haven't seen anyone pointing out that the new kernel is much smaller than the olders..

How much smaller is it?

You can't tell from the size of the "update_kernel" file - that just patches the old firmware; it's not a "standalone" replacement for it.

[bob_ninja]

I had a single PDF left on my reader:

"Souled" from BookHabit.com
http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=249

It is a simple file, pure text. After the upgrade my Cybook skips some lines and others are truncated. Tried different zoom levels, same rendering. Also tried to remove and readd the same PDF, no change.

I simply extracted text into a text file, so don't mind so much. Still, I wonder if the PDF rendering engine now has some new bugs introduced?

[Gianfranco]

Yeah! *dances*
Finally the PDF support everyone reading technical PDF's been waiting for!!! No more stupid cropping.
!!!
And thanks for the pictures PIPO!

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

How much smaller is it?

You can't tell from the size of the "update_kernel" file - that just patches the old firmware; it's not a "standalone" replacement for it.

How do you know that? It would be very stupid if it is not a standalone replacement since then it would not install from previous versions of the firmware or not install properly if one file is corrupted in the internal system.

Smaller size usually is an indication that debug symbols have been removed.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by tompe

How do you know that?

Because the "readme" file that comes with it says so. It seems rather unlikely that they've cut the size of the firmware down from 16MB (the size of the previous "full" version) to 5MB, don't you think?

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Because the "readme" file that comes with it says so. It seems rather unlikely that they've cut the size of the firmware down from 16MB (the size of the previous "full" version) to 5MB, don't you think?

Nothing strange with that. Adding compression or stripping binaries will have that effect easily.

The readme file did not say that the firmware (kernel and other things on internal partition) was not complete. The comment about just updating sections I am pretty sure refer to the fact that it does not erase you books or your configurations like some previous updated did.