04-04-2020, 06:33 AM | #1 |
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Kindle PaperWhite 4 Screen Rotation 180 Degree
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I have Kindle PaperWhite 4 (10th Generation)(2018) WiFi JB with FW 5.10.1.3 Factory installed. I have KUAL, KOReader and kterm installed. Is there any way to enable screen rotation to say 180 degree. Any help regarding this would be much appreciated. Thank you all. |
04-04-2020, 06:48 AM | #2 |
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I mean landscape upside down mode.
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04-04-2020, 06:57 AM | #3 |
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I haven't tested on recent devices but this used to work.
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04-04-2020, 12:09 PM | #4 |
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That's certainly how the Oases did it, worth a try .
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04-04-2020, 02:43 PM | #5 |
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Tried on PW2, all rotations work, except D (inverted portrait).
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04-04-2020, 03:19 PM | #6 |
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For others visibility here's the content of the post suggested by PoP:
Some useable tweaks I've found: -To stop the browser from using an large font, edit /var/local/waf/browser/config.xml and delete the line that says "<setting name="defaultFontSize" value="20"/>" (must be done at each reboot as the device resets the settings) -To rotate the device (in books and the browser but not home screen), type (in ssh) # lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock L for landscape left # lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock R for landscape right # lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock U for portrait # lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock D for inverted portrait -To enable accelerator (no point except allow the Kindle to see rotate event, it does nothing with those events though), edit "/etc/upstart/makexconfig" and on line 120, edit "IS_ACCEL=0" to "IS_ACCEL=1" Do I need to run this command in kterm ? Just wanted to know is there any possibility of brick as we are dealing with com.lab26.winmgr Thank you PoP, NiLuJe and hius07 for your responses. |
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No danger, rotations (not accelerator) don't modify the file system. Worst case, just reboot the device. Last edited by PoP; 04-04-2020 at 04:13 PM. Reason: warning accelerator |
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04-05-2020, 01:21 AM | #8 |
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Hi,
I have tried those commands and hius07 you are right, option D is not working. Is there any other way? Thank you all for your support. |
04-05-2020, 02:15 AM | #9 |
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Not really, depending on what you want to do, exactly.
I can certainly rotate the fb myself (either via sysfs or fbdepth, see the K4 thread right next to this one), but neither X nor the stock UI like that very much. Stuff isn't too broken if you start from U (which happens to be 3 on my PW2, which gets us 1 for the Inverted variant. Look into linuxfb rotate constants for the maths). The UI and a book will actually render Inverted, but touch input won't be translated properly (i.e., still expects to be Upright). If I do that from any other orientation, things go kablooey real quick, and ligl gets its panties in a twist until I restart x (meaning don't play with this outside of an USBNet shell session). |
04-11-2020, 07:58 AM | #10 |
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Thank you Niluje
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12-06-2020, 04:47 AM | #11 | |
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In an older thread someone said: Sounds a bit complicated Last edited by Eures; 12-06-2020 at 01:12 PM. |
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12-06-2020, 01:25 PM | #12 |
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Actually, however, I would like to rotate the browser 90°, ie landscape mode, as it was very easy to do in the Kindle Keyboard
Last edited by Eures; 12-06-2020 at 01:45 PM. |
12-08-2020, 12:13 PM | #13 |
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So, I think I have now a regular command line prompt ssh with USB Network enabled and Putty connected:
192.168.15.244 login as: root Pre-authentication banner message from server: Welcome to Kindle! End of banner message from server root@192.168.15.244's password: [root@kindle root]# libc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock R -sh: libc-set-prop: not found [root@kindle root]# Some advice?... EDIT: Ok, I wrote b instead of p EDIT: [root@kindle root]# lipc-set-prop -- com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock R [root@kindle root]# But the browser doesn't want to rotate in landscape mode ... EDIT: Not even with: [root@kindle root]# lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock R [root@kindle root]# Last edited by Eures; 12-08-2020 at 03:12 PM. |
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