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Originally Posted by bbriand
Flashing is a term used in the electronics field to indicate writing data to an Integrate Chip (IC). For example computer motherboards have a BIOS, an IC. When you download a new BIOS firmware from the manufacturer and install it onto your motherboard the term is called flashing the BIOS. The program used to write the firmware to the BIOS is called a flasher.
So a flasher is the software / program used to load data onto an Integrated Chip. In this case we are discussing the PRS Plus modified firmware and waiting until a program is developed to write (flash) the firmware to your ereader. This program is called a flasher.
I hope I didn't confuse you more. Here is some light reading:
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/flash+BIOS
Good luck!
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I'm not that technically inept, in fact I think I'm above the average.
I know what flashing is, and although I haven't heard the term flasher before I guessed it was something to do with that.
But I didn't know you need a program to flash these readers, I thought you just download it, copy it into some special folder on the reader and then reboot it and it does the job of installing the firmware (copying it onto the chip).
Anyway so there's already a flasher for PRS-505 and a flasher for PRS-950 is in the works or what ?
And they are third-party ? But the new firmware for the PRS-505 comes from Sony ? How is the firmware from Sony supposed to be installed without a flasher ?
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Originally Posted by noxx
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What does the "right" flasher mean ? What's wrong with this one ? Is it that this one was made for older versions of the reader ?
And what do you mean by "base" flasher, is it some other kind of flasher ?
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Originally Posted by kartu
I'm not a native English speaker. My apologies.
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No need to apologize, your English is fine. Besides being a native speaker doesn't matter much (look at my location), English is the international language today, not just belonging to a few countries.
My Suahili remark and the trenchcoat-flasher bit was my attempt at irony, I was trying to point out that the instructions on this thread and the other thread were very skimpy, full of acronyms and technical terms, and I need a much broader explanation.
So x50 I guess means PRS - 350 / 650 / 950 and CFW I'm guessing means Custom Firmware ?
Amutin / boroda / porkupan are custom firmware authors ?
And this sentence is unclear to me :
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Originally Posted by kartu
Unpack corresponding launcher file into the root of internal memory. You should get test-startup folder if using launcher for boroda (porkupan) or simply test.sh if amutin.
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You mean the CFW made by Amutin containts the file test.sh while the CFW made by boroda / porkupan contains the test-startup folder ?
And the forum on this link :
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Originally Posted by kartu
1) Install CFW from amutin or boroda (found here) |
is in Russian and written in cyrillic, and while I can read cyrillic (though badly) I don't speak a word of Russian (except for what I learned from American movies, like do svidanja comrade
). I could use Google translate but it's pretty horrible at it's job... Are there any instructions and detailed descriptions in English ? And a direct download link ?
And I don't understand why step 1) says "install CFW from..." and then steps 2-5 basically say install PRS+, so you're installing two firmwares, how come ?
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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
is it dependable / bug-free / safe, is it customizeable (because I only need folder support and nothing else) and does it support a multi-level (hierarchical) folder structure ?
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No one has still answered these 3 questions ?
Sorry for all the bugging guys, but this thread has really left me confused and with more questions then I started with.
P.S.
This could be considered the 5th generation of Sony readers (Librie -> 500 -> 505 -> 900 -> 950) and they still haven't thought of folder support ?
