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Ok, here's an interesting issue. My wife's reader said low battery and showed no bars. So I plugged it into the power brick and did the firmware update and put back in the flasher hacks. Now it shows 3 bars from having been 0 bars and I know it's only been plugged in as long as it too do do the updating/flashing. So what gives?
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08-01-2007, 07:27 PM | #50 |
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Hey everyone! I just completed updating the firmware on my unit with no problems.
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08-01-2007, 08:45 PM | #51 | |
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08-01-2007, 09:40 PM | #53 |
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I would be happy if sony made the reader linux open source. Then if they don't feel like updating it for 5 months the fans can work on it. See half life and counter strike. Counter strike is bigger online and it was made by fans. It's a company mind set. Sony isn't really fan friendly. Take the iphone. 3rd parties are making tons of apps for them. Sony should hire the guys on mobileread that mod , like half life hired the counter strike team, day of defeat, red dawn?, etc. Of course, that would take great vision. On the plus side for sony, blue ray is doing good.
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08-02-2007, 12:29 AM | #55 | |
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A better example would be Linksys' WRT54G line of routers. They released the firmware, and now there are at least half a dozen alternatives to stock, all of them better. I actually purchased the WRT54GL in large part due to the fact that I could customize the firmware to add functionalities. I think it would be great if Sony did open source the Reader, but considering there are only 50-60k Readers in the wild, compared to millions of PS3s and other equipment, I think the Reader is pretty low on the list. |
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08-02-2007, 03:09 AM | #57 |
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I'd just like to confirm for everyone that my update from the original firmware (yes, I know) to the latest version worked perfectly. In addition, I flashed it to add the joystick page turning immediately after the update, and everything is aok.
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08-02-2007, 06:47 AM | #58 | |
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08-02-2007, 03:55 PM | #59 |
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After my battle with the previous firmware upgrade (short story: bad brickage on third day of ownership) I took mine to the Sony store and they upgraded it for me. I was just too scared to try again with a VMware Windows session. lol
I gotta say, the Sony store staff are awesome. They did the upgrade without any fuss, and I can't confirm or deny the fact that someone in the store pointed me here with information about the clock and joystick hacks ;-) |
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Nice job of Sony. I wonder what they'd think if I showed them my reader at the SonyStyle store next week sometime. I still need to install the history hack to get history back.
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