Firmware 4.11.11982
 

Kobo Firmware 4.11.11982

Kobo firmware 4.11.11982 has been released. As of November 12, 2018, it has been released to the Kobo Forma. It has not been released to the Kobo Touch A/B, Kobo Touch C, Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Touch 2.0, Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura HD, Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 v1, Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 v2, Kobo Aura ONE, Kobo Aura ONE Limited Edition, Kobo Aura Edition 2 v1, Kobo Aura Edition 2 v2, and the Kobo Clara HD. The affiliates used to check these firmware versions were: kobo, bestbuyca, fnac, beta, rakutenbooks, and the walmartca.


Download Links

Official Links:

• Kobo Forma (mark 7) - Download | Release Notes

You can also try the generic links at your own risk:

• Mark 7 - Download

Generated by kobofirmware by Patrick G (geek1011). Source Code

This firmware should be installable on any device, but there may be issues on the KA1.

Patches

Changes

No info about the changes?

Not yet. I'll say what I find (if anything) when I release the patches.

Or I'm imagining stuff or the infamous "the wedge-side light issue" was fixed for me after upgrading to this version.

Will the patches include the new ones you've been so wonderful to make for us?

My wife has the first Kobo Aura. Still on 4.8.x

Would it be safe to install the generic firmware meant for Mark 7 units?

Well, my imagination may be playing tricks too. I still have the light issue down the button side, but the gradient issue appears less patchy to me. It's still brighter on the side opposite from the buttons, but it now seems to get there in a more even way as one looks across the screen. The "page" looks cleaner, in effect. Maybe I'm just "seeing things" - imagining an improvement, but in this instance I'm okay with that! :D

Yes.

Of course! I use most of them myself too. I'm already done finding the addresses, and when I get back to a computer later today, I'll do the the replacements and release the patches

Even if the Aura is a Mark 5 ?

I wouldn't want to brick her ereader...

You know, divorce lawyer are not cheap. ;)


EDIT : Just upgraded it. It works fine. Thanks.

Aura Ed 2 is a Mark 6 and I have it running this firmware. Anyway, nothing comes with a security stamp, neither the original FW through WIFI.

I don't know anything about this firmware, but it might not be intended for all. My Firma which is running 4.11.11980, doesn't get offered this 4.11.11982. But, testing the updates, only Forma's with an affiliate of "rakutenbooks" running 4.11.11980 will be offered 4.11.11982. Forma's running firmware from before 4.11.11980 will be offered 4.11.11982.

My take on this is that the change is something specific to the Japanese market or language. It is probably not considered dangerous to others but, not important enough to force an update on other users.

I have asked Kobo about it. I'll report when I get anything that I can share.

I beg to differ. See my screenshot below. It seems to be available to all affiliates, and has rolled out faster than the previous version.

I have bestbuyca as my affiliate on my Forma and it does not download this 4.11.11982 FW when I sync. (currently have FW 4.11.11980). So though it does appear to be available to the device it isn't downloading it as David suggested when already running 4.11.11980. I will likely do a manual update at some point but as no one has posted what the changes are I think I will hold off for a bit. I am happy with 4.11.11980 particularly with some of your great new patches, like invert screen and eliminating the swipe to wake it up.

And none of that disagrees with what I said. But, you are testing using 0.0 as the current firmware version. There is an update relative to version 0.0. But, relative to version 4.11.11980, the only affiliate updated is "rakutenbooks". So, any Forma already on 4.11.11980 won't be offered an update. Anyone setting up a Forma for the first time today, or who hadn't updated to 4.11.11980, will get 4.11.11982.

As I said, it is probably some small tweak for the Japanese market. Something not considered an issue for others so not worthwhile updating any devices already on 4.11.11980. That firmware is less than a week old, and it would be annoying to have such a quick update if there is nothing for you. Maybe the plan is to let it go to the pre-4.11.11980 devices first, and then update the rest later. Or maybe they will just leave it until a release for the other devices is made.

Oh, I see what you mean. Usually, it has been the other way around (for example the Aura ONE LE needed 4.7.10364 as the base).

And yes, it is quite annoying to have an update so soon, but I'm getting faster at updating the patches (I can do it in 30 minutes now, plus 10 for testing).

For those who want to patch, they will be forced to upgrade to 4.11.11982? I went to patch my Forma (4.11.11980), and since the 4.11.11980 isn't available for download, I'm going to upgrade to 4.11.11982.

The Wiki has the link to the 4.11.11980 package to download. It still works.

Has the sticky menu behavior changed? On my Glo HD (on a much older firmware), when I click on the bottom for the menu (while reading), it would pop-up with the last menu selection; in this firmware, when I click on the bottom for the menu, I always get menu with the arrow pointing left-right (page number, table of contents, ...).

Thanks.

How does the two-finger light adjustment work? Does it still "miss" swipes, have any kind of delay, or open the dictionary after adjusting the brightness?

The two finger light adjustment is the one persistent issue that has compelled me to stick with firmware v3.12.1 on my 1st gen Aura, because it's the last firmware where it worked flawlessly.

It is available. Just click the "Other Versions" button, and you'll see it there.

Yes. I'll be working on a patch for that next week.

How did you get your hands on a Glo HD version of the firmware? (mark 6)

I would like it too.

Thanks!

Just install the mark 7 one.

I was running the latest firmware on a Forma, and comparing to old firmware running on my Glo HD.

It works really well with the kobo glo HD! Very happy with the patchers. PBChess also still works and NighMode.

Thank you so much!

EDIT: I also have the NoGoogleAnalytics and Adblock installed.

Just heard back from Kobo. The only change in this is "a small pin lock fix." Nothing else has changed. From that, if you are on 4.11.11980 and don't use the pin lock, don't worry about updating. If you do use the pin lock, maybe it is worthwhile.

Updated my KA2v1 to FW 4.11.11982.

Found 1 issue:
after swiping to increase the back-light (from 0% to 100%) and inspection of the value from the back-light icon in the upper menu bar it remains there always at 0%. Not a big issue, but still.

I don’t know, I’m not the one using it. But I haven’t heard any complaint.

Hi David :) (yeah long time, eh)

I received my forma on Wednesday this week, and it auto installed version:
4.11.11982 (83d4c9392f) 11/6/18

I bought it through jbhifi.

PS I use jbhifi's Friends and Family program, because I'm alumni of UTS, and I paid $384.55, and $40.32 for the kobo cover

Just installed this on my (original) H2O. Seems to work fine and has some nice new options (especially with the patches!). I do have one issue however.

When reading epub's (haven't tested kepub files), There seems to be a rather large gap between the bottom of the text, and the footer. The footer size itself does not appear to be the problem, as I've tried the "custom footer style" and the new "footer size" patch, which doesn't really help. Also note that I have the "widows/orphans" patch enabled, so it's not that.

For the moment, I'm trying the "fullscreen" options, which seems to work well enough, but I do miss the footer. I'm wondering if a value has been hardcoded for 300 DPI screens, making the gap larger on lower DPI screens like the H2O.

Anyway, I'm not going to scream too loudly, seeing as this firmware version is not meant for the H2O.

(Note, I happen to like some whitespace. Emphasis on the "some". The current whitespace I'm seeing is excessive)

One of the new patches for 4.11.1192 reduces the footer size similar to the kepub header reduction patch.

Tried that, as I mentioned in my original post. Yes, the new patch that was released today. That one.

As I said, I don't think it's the footer itself that's the issue. Appears to be either the margin above the footer, or margin below the renderer, or similar.

On a page with the screen as full as it gets, tap the screen and bring menu bars. The line at the top of the footer is the bottom of the text area. That is what you need to measure the "wasted" space against.

I completely disabled all patches and have done a bit of testing. It appears to me what has happened is the previous (4.8) firmware allowed the text to encroach into the footer region a bit, so long as it didn't cover the actual "page n of nn" text. I seem to recall the bottom menu covering a bit of text previously (which never bothered me).

The current firmware appears to be enforcing a minimum gap between the footer region and the text, so depending on the font size, style and metrics, this could become quite a gap.

Also, there is now a bit of whitespace at the top of the page, which didn't exist before. I don't actually mind that however.

Ok, putting the patches back on, including the reduce footer size patch seems to indicate to me that Kobo appears to have changed the dimensions of their epub render surface (ie. made it shorter).

Making the footer smaller doesn't change where the lines of text stop.

I also note that the "page n of nn" text appears to have more whitespace below it, which probably also helps explain the changes.

All of this makes me wonder if it's possible to change the dimensions of the surface which epubs render to. I'm pretty sure Nickel probably creates a surface for RMSDK to render to. EDIT: Maybe pixmapsurface might be something to search for...

I'll completely disagree with that. I have never seen the text going beyond the line of the bottom bar area. Maybe there were some patches that did that, but the unpatched firmware has never done it. There has been far to much discussion about the "wasted" space for this not to have come up.
There has always been some space, but not much. Looking at my Glo HD, which is on 4.11.11982, I haven't noticed any changes. Or on the other devices. If it has changed, it is only a pixel or two.
There is a bigger margin at the top with the title turned off than there was before in the epub reader. I didn't like it when there was none, but, there is a little more that I like now.

I'll eat humble pie on that one. I went back and did a factory reset, then upgraded to 4.8.x, and you're right on the money.

Also, the difference is not as bad as thought, although there does appear to be a slight increase in whitespace at the bottom. 4.8.x was approx 14mm from the bottom edge, whereas 4.11.x appears to be about 16mm. Measurements to the baseline of the last line of text.

I'm going to tentatively attribute the difference to the increase to the top whitespace allowing for one less line to fit, but the increased top whitespace is less than a line of text, therefore the bottom whitespace increases slightly. And no, I haven't counted lines, so I may be wrong here.

Has anyone installed this firmware on ka1? I did it and bricked mine, and I had to factory reset it.


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This firmware runs absolutely stable on my Kobo Aura H2O 2nd Edition (version 1) as well as on the Kobo Aura H2O 1st generation.