These are the files needed to apply the changes. Use the flasher by Igorsk to put these onto the PRS-505 itself. It has only been tested with PRS-505 version 1.1.
The file applicationStart.xml has a few modifications, and goes into:
files.505.1.1.00.18040/opt/sony/ebook/application/resources/applicationStart.xml
The main.xml has all the main modifications, and goes into:
files.505.1.1.00.18040/opt/sony/ebook/application/resources/scripts/main.xml
Please edit the main.xml to replace 'YOUR NAME' and 'NUMBER' with the relevant information before flashing your PRS with it, since that is the 'owner info' as filled in from the flasher. You'll find this on line 636 of main.xml. If you forget/skip this step, it won't break anything, it'll just look funny in the About screen.
These XML files include the clock provided by Igorsk's Universal Flasher, and maps the left/right arrows to back/forward page turning as part of that patch.
This patch adds the following button options:
1. Holding the 'center' button down on the arrow pad for a few seconds will reset the current page counter/timers to zero. This is handy when starting reading for the day, or changing books, etc. It does not reset the global count.
2. Pressing 9 in the About screen resets the global counters to 0.
Features you'll find in general:
1. The about screen will track total reading time in minutes, total pages turned, average pages per minute and pages per hour.
2. The bottom bar of the screen while reading will show: page/total_pages (pages_read/time_reading/pages_per_minute/time_to_finish), as in: 31/100 (20/18.2/1.1/62.7) meaning you're on page 31 of 100, you've read 20 pages since counter reset, which took 18.2 minutes, at a rate of 1.1 pages per minute, and it should take about 62.7 minutes to finish reading the entire 100 pages.
3. If there is an SD card inserted, the stats will be kept across USB connections/restarts. It will also create a file called reading.log which has all the page turn times (more details to come on that).
I hope that's enough for everyone to figure out how to get this on there :>
I'm not sure if I can put up a Zip of the entire set needed to flash or not (created by the Universal Flasher), but the link is:
http://filebin.ca/gjegmm/sony-flash-v1.zip The files in the zip file are all the files needed to put in the root of the SD card to flash the device.
Let me know if the patches work for anyone :>