Thread: Why is Aura One slower than Aura HD?
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Old 09-26-2016, 11:31 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by tschucha View Post
How could you use the same firmware for the Aura HD, Aura H2O and Aura One? The Aura One is running 4.xxxxxxx and the latest versions at least for the HD is 3.19xxxxx.

When I ran my psuedo tests I just took the 3 readers that we have - Kindle Oasis, Aura HD and Aura One each of which is running the latest firmware for the device. Each reader had a different set of books on them.

I set the oasis and One next to each other and the Oasis boots noticeably faster. When I repested the test with the HD and the One the HD booted faster. The page turns were also faster but this may be because the One was set to refresh on every page and I'm nnot sure what the HD was set for. I do think that the One reacts to finger presses 'better' - quick enough, accurate enough and doesn't require extra presses than the HD. The Oasis is faster though. The One's screen is phenomenal and the build quality is better than the HD. I do wish they had thrown in a faster processor though.
I installed the 4.0.7523 firmware on the Aura HD and the Aura H2O (basically, just copy the KoboRoot.tgz file from the firmware .zip file into the .kobo\Kobo directory and let it install). I also installed those of GeoffR's patches that I use. I removed the uSD cards from the HD and the H2O and sideloaded a single book into the internal storage of each. I checked the settings between all three to make sure they were set as close as possible to identical.

Oddly, I find the opposite to you with the touch screen. I was so used to the IR touch where no contact is required and had to learn to actually touch the screen on the Aura One. Once I got used to that, it seems to respond to my swipes more reliably.

An newer processor would have been nice to have but so far there don't seem to be many members to the iMX7 family. For an eInk device, the Freescale iMX7 Dual (to get the EPD) might have been a good choice since if it lives up to it's promises, a lot of what is currently done in software will be done in hardware, page turns with the integrated Regal waveform support as an example.
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