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Originally Posted by kilohertz53
Okay, I applied the new update. The Adobe DRM works like it did after the first (unofficial) update. I tested it on an epub I downloaded from Kobo, and the text is all there. The accelerometer function is restored for e-books in the "My Books" and the "Free eBooks" folders, BUT I have a problem with epubs in the "Digital Editions" folder -- the first page rotates into landscape mode, and all subsequent pages in landscape mode are blank. So landscape mode is still pretty useless for DRM'ed epubs.
Can someone else confirm my findings?
Looks like another round of submitting service tickets to Augen customer support...
(One more thing I should mention: the installation instructions provided are very badly written, and there is no need to do either a "/Restore" or "/Format" after the hard reset. These actions do not change the result of the update. If you choose to do them anyway, make sure you've copied your data (like the free eBooks, for instance) to your computer's hard drive, and be prepared to reauthorize the TB for ADE, and reset your timezone and other preferences.)
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Kilohertz53;
I confirm your observation this is just a fix to the fubar with the accelerometer and the obvious problem that can be a “killer” to a e-book reader that is not capable of playing in the “Pay” world public domain can go just so far thus the DRM change and nothing else.
Must have been a interesting “interesting” back and forth conversation with the outsourced software provider as to who is going to pick up the tab for this “change order” repair.
I have three of the puppies so I decided to "play". The gurus are telling me that all of the problem was that someone used the wrong library (looks like it was for the prototyping model) when they recompiled for the “DRM” fix, which BTW is not fixed since it is using data from a previously stored address that may be faulty, oh and the Clock is still not fixed (similar problems on all units).
I was hoping for a bit more at least in the basic WiFi setup but it looks like this is the only “break fix” that we will be seeing for “The Book” any time soon.
Any way for a $65 dollar unit the unit makes a decent inexpensive video player, audio if you can stand only a monolithic file structure and It makes a excellent public domain e-book reader that actually talks.
The way Augen is working the problems I am sure that this will be a orphan unit in the near future, I guess the buyer at Sears was impressed with the “demo” unit but never sent it for eval before sending in the PO.
Radioman52 Over and Out"