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Old 11-15-2013, 03:35 PM   #75
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Location: Cracow, Poland
Device: Kobo Touch N905C
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Originally Posted by commandante View Post
I am wondering if android can be put on the Kobo simple touch. Is it possible? Will it be possible? If not, I will definitely buy the Kobo glo! Thanks!
Yes, I confirm it works perfect on my Kobo Touch.

Original image from Tolino works almost without any changes. I had to change only one bit responsible for setting the resolution. You need to find "HW CONFIG" string in the image file and 32 bytes further there is byte with "01" value. You have to change it to "00" and that's it. "01" means 1024x768 screen, "00" is 800x600.

Android is a killer feature for me too! Although I was configuring debian desktop for Kobo for almost one year now, using Android on it is so convenient that I won't miss my previous work or even original Kobo software at all. It is superious in every way.

It even enables multitouch support out of the box - the feature that was not available on Kobo Touch at all. Zooming works with PDF. PDF viewers are blazingly fast. Buttons work. Wifi works. Mounting it as external memory works. Installing apps from Windows/Linux through adb is really easy. Finally web browsing experience is a pleasure. Keyboard supports my native language. Automatically shows and hides when needed in the way the cursor is always visible! Tons of apps with tons of settings. I can play "interactive fiction" games. Moon+ reader shows me how far it is to the end of the chapter. I can't wait to test RSS reader you mentioned. There is no part of the original software that cannot be replaced with better equivalent. Apps are very small. Easy to install and uninstall with no space wasted!

I don't understand why manufactures try to invent the wheel and rewrite features that should be supported (and are better supported) by existing OS like Android.

Cons:

- touch doesn't rotate with the screen so the landscape mode is unusable (I want to fix it sooner or later as we have kernel sources)

- 256MB of RAM on the device (~150MB free) allow you to run 2 or 3 apps at the same time only (however Android tries to hide that fact from you and if the app is correctly written it can restore its state after being killed)

- only Tolino's reader app knows how to do full screen refresh after a few pages - on other readers the screen won't be perfectly clear (it can be fixed by writing special Android app that do full screen refreshes when you are reading with other apps - but it doesn't exist yet)

Bare and rooted Android takes no more than 150 MB It can fit even on original 2GB SD card with plenty of space for apps and books (if you shrink partition sizes - Tolino image is for 4GB card).
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