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View Poll Results: Fed up with the bugs not fed up! | |||
Fed up with the bugs! | 30 | 32.97% | |
Neutral no opinion or no comment | 21 | 23.08% | |
Not fed up it works great for all things! | 40 | 43.96% | |
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09-09-2013, 10:18 AM | #31 | |||
Grand Sorcerer
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09-09-2013, 10:41 AM | #32 |
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I absolutely fed up with Kobo firmware.
After I made the mistake to upgrade from the factory firmaware that was shipped with the Kobo Glo I had had constant bugs and problems. Although I believe the overall UI is now better,it came with a cost.At least for me. In the last 6 months I had two serious situations that required to factory reset my device.One of them was quite persistant. Also until now there wasn't any patch that was relative bug free.The last one(8.1) introduced a bug that doesn't activate the light when is in 1%. I must increase the luminocity to 4-5% first and then press again the button. All in all,I was much happier and carefree user with my Sony.I wish Sony introduced a proper reader. Maybe a Kindle(or a Pocketbook) is a better option for my Xmas shopping spree. btw:I have relative little experience with kobo,my first(and I believe last)device is the glo.I don't know what was the firmware in the older devices or in the mini/aura HD. |
09-09-2013, 10:47 AM | #33 | |
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New devices that use the same firmware inherit all existing bugs. So the new Aura 6" has the same bugs as the existing models. Sure, if Kobo rolls out a new firmware for the new Aura 6" first I'm sure the changed or improved things, add new features, and maybe even fixed some bugs as well. If it is a major firmware revision or just a small incremental one? I don't know. |
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09-09-2013, 11:54 AM | #34 | |
Watching the Sky
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I was curious the Aura would debut the 3.0.x firmware due to the addition of Pocket & Beyond the Book might justify a jump instead of just 2.9.x. I guess we'll see later this week or next week. |
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09-09-2013, 12:02 PM | #35 |
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It'll be interesting to see, that's for sure.(whether new Aura suffers the same bugs, or gets fixes and we're still stuck with them, or we all get fixes?) I have to give Kobo credit for continuing to give us firmware updates for older models, and I hope that continues.
Frankly, I can't say the existing bugs affect me to any great degree, but they do affect others who can be quite vocal, and rightfully so. I want to see them fixed so people have a positive user experience, and also so that when I get to the point where they'll affect me(external SDHC issues, etc.), they will already be gone. I've said it before, they have great hardware, a nice physical design(minus the red power sliders), and good features in the software(I bought my 1st Kobo because of the variable weight fonts and other adjustments, my second for that again and the quality of the lighting), I just want to see them eliminate the system wide problems with SDHC usage, and the niggling little bugs that need chasing. And no, "but we're going to do that later in an updated version of the reader software that we don't have yet" is not really the reply customers want to hear. But if so, make it clear you can't fix those things because of lack of access to code or licensing concerns and chances are people would quit kvetching about them! Last edited by TechniSol; 09-09-2013 at 12:05 PM. Reason: 'cuz |
09-09-2013, 01:19 PM | #36 | |
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The only problem I do still see is when the last line of a chapter is occasionally forced to a new page when there appears to be easily enough room on the previous page. But since I also got that before applying the Patch I don't see how the Patch would be responsible. |
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09-09-2013, 01:35 PM | #37 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Every time a new (x)html file is encountered in the ePub it will ALWAYS start a new page.
Most publishers have one (x)html file per chapter. Therefore you should expect a chapter to start on a new screen. |
09-09-2013, 02:03 PM | #38 | |
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I think the on/off switch should be always be so easy to find that you don't have to think about it. So your bug is one reason I love it. |
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09-09-2013, 02:10 PM | #39 | |
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I always thought perhaps it was a kind of variation of the 'long paragraph bug', i.e. the Kobo not being quite sure how much text can fit in the remaining space. However, the Kobo Patcher 'fix' to the 'long para bug' doesn't appear to 'fix' the 'end of chapter bug', but it doesn't seem to make it worse either. I should add that I'm talking about standard epubs only. I've no idea what effect the Patcher hacks have on kepubs. |
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09-09-2013, 02:48 PM | #40 | |
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The bug you described is what I've dubbed "The end of chapter paragraph bug". Display the whole parapgraph on a page but with the exeption of the last line, while there is more than one empty line available to display that last (part) of sentence.. |
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09-09-2013, 02:51 PM | #41 | ||
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I've read several epub3 ebooks on my Kobo and using the ACCESS renderer for reflowable epub3 ebooks works quite well (other than one from Infogrid Pacific that made heavy use of Javascript and CSS animation). Oddly that one also crapped out on iBooks but did look quite decent on my desktop using the Azardi reader. Quote:
Regards, David Last edited by DNSB; 09-09-2013 at 02:58 PM. |
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09-09-2013, 02:53 PM | #42 | |
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09-09-2013, 02:57 PM | #43 | |
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09-09-2013, 03:41 PM | #44 |
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I got fed up with the bugs, and then metazoa fixed them all
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09-09-2013, 07:10 PM | #45 |
Connoisseur
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Josieb1..I have both (KPW and a Kobo Aura HD) and I have to say, the Aura HD is wonderful. I really like the size of the screen (6.8), the even front light (that you can turn completely off), and the resolution is great (1440 x 1080). It has spoiled me to the point that my poor kindle is gathering dust and I'm thinking about getting a second Aura HD. I'm holding out in case they update the HD and make it more like the new Aura that just came out (would like to see the edge 2 edge screen on an updated HD).
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