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Old 05-01-2010, 12:52 AM   #31
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Btw, I myself am looking for the bin file for the US version DX. Anyone got it? please post it...
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Old 05-01-2010, 02:24 AM   #32
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Btw, I myself am looking for the bin file for the US version DX. Anyone got it? please post it...

If you find it let me know, I'll do the same if I am so blessed.
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Old 05-01-2010, 05:28 AM   #33
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The bin works well for DXi, but doesn't support fonts other than English.
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Old 05-01-2010, 06:17 AM   #34
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The bin works well for DXi, but doesn't support fonts other than English.
This is hardly surprising; however, the following news is...

Under the 2.5 firmware, we can't even pan to next page or go to next page by pressing the button once zoomed into a pdf page? Is that true?
We have to zoom out before we can go to next page, and start zooming in again on a new page? Really?
It's so disappointing to hear this news from my friend. This renders the zooming into a pdf page capability so much less practical...
The kindle team, while you are still there, can you make some changes? Thanks.
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Old 05-01-2010, 11:36 AM   #35
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This is hardly surprising; however, the following news is...

Under the 2.5 firmware, we can't even pan to next page or go to next page by pressing the button once zoomed into a pdf page? Is that true?
We have to zoom out before we can go to next page, and start zooming in again on a new page? Really?
It's so disappointing to hear this news from my friend. This renders the zooming into a pdf page capability so much less practical...
The kindle team, while you are still there, can you make some changes? Thanks.
Actually the pan and zoom behavior as described makes sense. It is relatively easy to pan and zoom within a single page, but doing it across pages would mean having to reflow/recompose the entire document, which is a much harder thing to do.
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Old 05-01-2010, 11:41 AM   #36
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I have a DX international and the thing didn't work for me...not sure why :-(
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Old 05-01-2010, 03:49 PM   #37
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Never mind everybody. I know the Hipda forum and have been engaging in its discussion. It has no 2.5 update bin other than that for the DXi. So never mind actually going there at this stage. It's a great forum though. It's a shame that you guys don't speak Chinese. LOL

Just in case, here is the address of the forum:
http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/forumdis...?fid=59&page=1


Google translator is your friend!

http://translate.google.com/translat...sl=zh-CN&tl=en

If someone hears from 2.5 for k2i, please let me(us) know.

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Old 05-02-2010, 09:22 AM   #38
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Like mdovell I think I have the international version of the DX. I ordered mine in the Netherlands.
Also for me it doesn't seem to work.
I put the bin-file in the root, disconnect, from I press menu>settings. From settings I press menu and the update option is greyed out.

Anyone any ideas?
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Old 05-02-2010, 07:10 PM   #39
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for those DXi which can not update to be 2.5, u need to update ur DXi to be 2.33 firstly.


http://www.amazon.com/update_kindle_dx_gw.bin
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Old 05-02-2010, 08:48 PM   #40
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This is hardly surprising; however, the following news is...

Under the 2.5 firmware, we can't even pan to next page or go to next page by pressing the button once zoomed into a pdf page? Is that true?
We have to zoom out before we can go to next page, and start zooming in again on a new page? Really?
It's so disappointing to hear this news from my friend. This renders the zooming into a pdf page capability so much less practical...
The kindle team, while you are still there, can you make some changes? Thanks.
No. It is not true! The 5-way joystick is used to pan the zoomed area on each page. When we press "Next Page", the upper left portion (at the same zoom level) will be displayed. It is smarter than Sony's zoom and pan feature.

I also tried the facebook link, I really like this feature because I can share some news or good quotes with friends.
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Old 05-03-2010, 12:28 PM   #41
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for those DXi which can not update to be 2.5, u need to update ur DXi to be 2.33 firstly.


http://www.amazon.com/update_kindle_dx_gw.bin
Thank you, lili1989, for the tip and the link to the 2.3.3 update.

Apparently my DX never updated to the latest firmware.
Installing 2.3.3 and then 2.5 was completely straightforward.

Thank you, again.
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Old 05-03-2010, 02:42 PM   #42
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No. It is not true! The 5-way joystick is used to pan the zoomed area on each page. When we press "Next Page", the upper left portion (at the same zoom level) will be displayed. It is smarter than Sony's zoom and pan feature.

I also tried the facebook link, I really like this feature because I can share some news or good quotes with friends.
Great news!! Thanks a lot. Apparently my friend got it wrong.
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Old 05-03-2010, 03:11 PM   #43
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The bin works well for DXi, but doesn't support fonts other than English.
not true
french accented and romanian diacritics perfectly displayed!

maybe non-latin missing...
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Old 05-14-2010, 03:28 PM   #44
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I'll be damned I tried it again and it works...

Just make sure to drop it on the icon of the kindle. You don't open kind and drag and drop..somehow that made a difference.
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Old 05-15-2010, 05:16 AM   #45
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Thank you much lili1989
Your .bin works perfectly for my new DXi 2.3.3
Including very useful collections and pdf zooming features.
Cheers
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