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Old 11-19-2016, 02:59 PM   #37
kacir
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Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
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... As soon as I get the phone into my hands I will have a look.
The phone is finally in my hands. I have used it for one day with the default firmware it arrived with. This firmware has no option to upgrade Over The Air (ota). So I went to xda-developers site and read the thread about updating.
I found a windows 7 computer, downloaded the yotaphone2_flasher.exe and installed it. I started the update tool and downloaded the newest Russian firmware 124. It downloaded about gigabyte zip file. I do not exact size, because the tool automatically unzips it and deletes the archive.
In the meanwhile I have charged the phone.
I have switched off the phone and switched it on holding power and volume down. A small white text "downlading" appears on the screen.
I have connected the phone in this mode using USB cable. Windows tried to download an USB driver and fortunately failed. So I have manually installed the drivers from yotaphone flasher directory.
After installation of drivers I have run the flasher again and it started to write images to phone memory.
I was very apprehensive, because the PC looked as it was frozen while flashing the third image. I have let it work for about 20-30 minutes and it finished successfully. The phone restarted itself and finished update.
I have let it sit and it automatically updated itself over the air to even newer version (134 I think).

In the original Android 4.4.3 firmware the Yota Reader was *VERY* spartan. It did not even support landscape screen orientation, which is a dealbreaker for me on the screen that is 57mm wide and 103mm tall.

The setting of the e-ink screen to 16gray scale for certain ebook reading apps as described at http://forum.xda-developers.com/yota...-gray-t3474189 wasn't working on the 4.4.3 Android(*), I am going to investigate how to make it work under 5.0.

(*) I am not even sure it was needed. The text on the e-ink looked OK in other reading apps on the old firmware, on the new firmware the text doesn't look good, so perhaps the 1 bit and 4 bit graphics is only in the newest firmware.

Ok. Here it is,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/yota...1-0-0-t3326208
Program for modification of /storage/emulated/0/TitaniumManager/mirroring.cfg
Works nice under Lolipop. No manual editing necessary.
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