So here's an update. I had been checking with Boyue's support representative roughly every 2 weeks about the status of my repair request, and they mentioned that (after cleaning up their translated chat) their OEM hasn't yet got to making the replacement parts needed.
The display assembly on the Mimas not only includes the pen digitiser, EPD panel, front lighting, and touch digitiser, but it also includes the bezel and front buttons. Yeah, it includes the bezel. As they didn't have parts in stock and had to order them, that means my limited edition white model will become a regular black model, but if they do it correctly, they'll transplant the mainboard over, but then all my data would be 4-5 months out of date by the time I get it back in April! (according to the estimate they provided me)
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In the meanwhile, back in January, I bought a used Kobo Aura to use as a temporary e-reader, as one of my two current reads had been purchased on my Kobo account. Later, I ended up with a cheap broken Kindle Paperwhite 3 of which I bypassed the issue it has, and is usable aside from it no longer being able to respond to the cover (also I jailbroke it), and just this month, Kobo had a sale on their Singaporean device store, so I now have a new Kobo Clara HD, and plan to sell the Aura after doing some YouTube videos about it, following a subscriber update video I haven't yet recorded. Either that, or I might keep all 3 for my separate book research project, depending on how I feel at the time. However, I can confirm that Kobo's OverDrive integration seems to support "OverDrive Read" titles, on-device borrowing is limited to titles on Kobo Store, so other titles can be borrowed using the Libby app, OD app, or the OD Web interface. I plan to do a YT video about that.
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Reading your post /exchange as I just got myself a LikeBook Ares Note and I am looking forward to rooting it eventually...
The model is referenced as K78W, it is an octa-core 1.5Ghz chip so I assume it is RK3368.
Could you share the stock image there / in a dedicated thread?
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I'll try to remember to do so. Thanks for the advice.
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No, I didn't
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Is there anything I can help contribute? I have a Mars. I was just fiddling with it this morning. I too can boot to fastboot and/or bootloader, but there is nothing useful on the screen (used ADB).
I'd like root, but mostly I'd like to figure out how to get the navigation/notification bar to the bottom of the screen rather than the top.
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I'm not too sure. What I can mention is that the navigation bar had been integrated into the status bar as a custom Boyue implementation rather than using the actual Android navigation bar, which I believe is why holding down the home button to bring up the Android user-defined device assistance app doesn't work.