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mszklano · 10-11-2009, 04:00 AM

I bought Sony PRS-505 a couple of weeks ago.

I bought it in Switzerland, so it has German (or Swiss?) firmware; version: 1.4.00.23260.

As everybody knows, PRS-505 by default has some problems with displaying Eastern Europe and Cyryllic fonts.

As most of my books are LRF books in Polish, I'm interested in getting the polish fonts to work on my device.

For the time being I'm using font mapper trick, which allows me to have polish fonts w/o reflashing the device, but requires me to run the script after each restart of the device.

I have a couple of questions about PRS-505 firmware:

1. What are the differences between firmware versions 1.1 (US), 1.2(UK) a 1.4(Germany)?
2. If I re-flash my PRS-505, does it mean loosing Sony guarantee for the device?

Thanks a lot for any advice.

10-11-2009, 04:00 AM	#1
mszklano Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	Which firmware for PRS-505? I bought Sony PRS-505 a couple of weeks ago. I bought it in Switzerland, so it has German (or Swiss?) firmware; version: 1.4.00.23260. As everybody knows, PRS-505 by default has some problems with displaying Eastern Europe and Cyryllic fonts. As most of my books are LRF books in Polish, I'm interested in getting the polish fonts to work on my device. For the time being I'm using font mapper trick, which allows me to have polish fonts w/o reflashing the device, but requires me to run the script after each restart of the device. I have a couple of questions about PRS-505 firmware: 1. What are the differences between firmware versions 1.1 (US), 1.2(UK) a 1.4(Germany)? 2. If I re-flash my PRS-505, does it mean loosing Sony guarantee for the device? Thanks a lot for any advice.