Thread: Kobo Firmware 3.11.0
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Old 11-15-2014, 09:59 PM   #404
davidfor
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
I remember this discussion before on the PDF issues. Did we ever get a test document that could be shown to be faster on the old f/w than the new?
Not to my knowledge. I just dropped the PDFs that I had in my test library onto my Glo. The largest has 1272 pages but, apart from the first page, it is all text. That opened in less than five seconds and turn pages in less than 1.

Then I looked through the MR library. I started at the top looking for things that might be big and have images. I didn't look very hard but found https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21585, https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=102775 and https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=161140. Probably not big enough and not many images. But, still no problems opening them.

Then I remembered I have some manuals. The instruction manual for the TV is 21.2MB and reasonably complicated. And similarly, the manual for the soundbar is 7.44MB. Both of these have a complicated layout with lots of images.

The TV manual opens quickly and turns pages reasonably quickly. The page turns that are slow are to more complicated pages. It isn't fast, but it is better than I expected. The longest was maybe ten seconds. Most are well under five.

The soundbar manual might be the test case. It is taking close to 30 seconds to open. Turning the page depends on the page. Turning to the text only contents page is less than a second.But, turning to page before or after is a lot slower. Still, not many pages took 10 seconds to turn. Again, most were under five.

Is that slow? Yes. It is slower than I would like, but, based on the comments made, I was expecting it to be a lot worse. Maybe that means these manuals aren't good tests. If someone tries them on older firmware and they are a lot quicker, then there is a case. Otherwise someone needs to find a test case that more of us can look at. Even better would be several test cases. That would help to work out if there is a pattern or if it is just the one book.

And I should say my testing is on beta firmware*. It is possible I am seeing different results than 3.11.0, but I wouldn't expect it to be different. If someone wants to check them, that would be good.

* Don't ask, I'm not going to answer even with a redacted list. Or at least, not yet
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