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Originally Posted by superjoefly
I took a look at the .patch files and they seem to me to be somewhat complicated. Are the patches already set up to make certain adjustments without having to edit them? I see that some of them are already enabled, and I don't want to mess anything up.
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The patches that are enabled by default are just ones that are most popular but that also don't cause too many bad side-effects. It is fine to disable any of these that you don't want, none of them are necessary.
For most of the patches that are not enabled by default you can just enable them to make them take effect, but some will also need to be adjusted to suit a particular device or preference. An example is the `Custom reading footer style` patch where there doesn't seem to be any agreed ideal for size or style, and any particular setting will have different results on different devices depending on screen size/resolution/DPI.
A popular patch that is not enabled by default is the `Freedom to advanced font controls`, as it might cause problems for some users who read Japanses books. (I don't know exactly what the side-effects would be though, since I never read Japanese, I just see that the patch can cause a garbage value to be passed to a subroutine if Japanese is selected.)
Beware that many patches do things that most people would not want, so it is best not to enable them unless they do something you know you want and you can live with the side-effects (if any). I suggest starting by asking yourself what is it about the stock firmware that you want to change, and then see if there is a patch for that. If the stock firmware already does what you want then no need to patch it.