Thread: Firmware update 4.3.8842
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Old 03-08-2017, 05:35 AM   #316
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Rosalene View Post
Hi Guys
I am new here and most definitely NOT alas a geek (64 year old house frau in NZ) - so forgive my ignorance. I have a KOBO AURA HD and was most unhappy with the 43.8842 upgrade for two reasons. One: it screwed up my collections (obviously not alone in that) and two: itr meant that I could no longer use the earlier and excellent nightmode patch controled by a long press on the light button. So anyway I copied the .kobo file and put that aside, then downgraded to 3.7 firmware and reinstalled night mode, then backed up and deleted the 3.7 .kobo file in its entirety and added back the 4.3.8842 .kobo file. Result: I now can use the old nightmode, the firmware shows as 3.7, but I have some of the advantages of the 4.3.8842 including some bugs fixed. Hope this is useful for someone. Not kosher of course but I am happier.
So, you are running the 3.7 firmware but with the internal database from 4.3842? That will work, but, it won't have fixed any bugs.
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The only major problem I have found is that I now cannot use Calibre to 'send to device" but that is not a biggie - can still side load using - in my case - Windows Explorer.
Which probably means calibre displayed a message about the firmware version on the device. A message that included how to work around this problem. Of course, there is a newer calibre version that supports firmware 4.3.8871.
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NOW THE PLEA What 4.3.8842 needs is a good nightmode patch - one that can be toggled on an off.
You mean, like the nightmode hack created specifically for 4.2.8283 and later firmware that is discussed in the nightmode hack thread?
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(Could not get the code addition to the config file to work. That is [FeatureSettings] InvertScreen=true
Did you add those lines using Notepad? Or did you use a Linux line end aware editor such as Notepad++?
Last edited by davidfor; 03-11-2017 at 05:50 PM. Reason: Fixed some quoting
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