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bryanzs · 03-20-2010, 12:31 PM

Following Scott_T's successful upgrade to the slightly newer (but still named the same) "W950A.img" firmware (dated 03/17/10), I decided to try the newer firmware myself.

For quite some time, I was unable to get the firmware update tool to recognize my Delstar; I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, rebooting/powering off the computer, and even installed the software on a different PC, all to no avail. I then remembered that I had removed the SD card from the Delstar - and that last time I'd run the upgrade, the SD card had still been in the device. That couldn't make any difference, though...could it?

Yes, yes it could. For some reason, the firmware update tool only seemed to see the Delstar if I had the SD card inserted into the device again.

Anyway, after finally getting it installed, I can report...little difference.

The two things that I noticed include:
- the audio folder now seems to properly find all the music on the device (if you run the MediaLib update), and puts the music into the various categories listed on the menu (All Music, Artist, Album, etc.);
- the PDF viewer seems a little bit better - it seemed that originally, once I'd 'zoomed' into the PDF document, even though there were left/right/up/down arrows on the screen, I couldn't actually navigate around. Now, I can use the arrows around the "scrolly circle" to move the document around, like a very small, very painful-to-use, viewport. (Unfortunately, the page up/page down buttons, and the rotate button, still do nothing with PDFs; you "page" through the document using the up/down arrows on the scrolly circle)

I looked around, and couldn't find anything else new - formatting (or the lack thereof), as Scott_T already reported, is unchanged (though he did report as well that the epubs that were blowing up on him are fixed again, so that's good news). DOC formats still don't open, html opens but all functionality & formatting is gone, etc, etc.

(Oh, and another BTW to Delstar if they're reading this - why, when using the image viewer, do you use the page up/page down buttons to rotate the images? Isn't that what the power button "quick press" is for? I know consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but come on...)

03-20-2010, 12:31 PM	#349
bryanzs Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 122 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gilbert, AZ Device: Nook HD+, Nook ST Glow, PocketBook 360, Nook Color	So, What's In The Slightly Newer Firmware? Following Scott_T's successful upgrade to the slightly newer (but still named the same) "W950A.img" firmware (dated 03/17/10), I decided to try the newer firmware myself. For quite some time, I was unable to get the firmware update tool to recognize my Delstar; I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, rebooting/powering off the computer, and even installed the software on a different PC, all to no avail. I then remembered that I had removed the SD card from the Delstar - and that last time I'd run the upgrade, the SD card had still been in the device. That couldn't make any difference, though...could it? Yes, yes it could. For some reason, the firmware update tool only seemed to see the Delstar if I had the SD card inserted into the device again. Anyway, after finally getting it installed, I can report...little difference. The two things that I noticed include: - the audio folder now seems to properly find all the music on the device (if you run the MediaLib update), and puts the music into the various categories listed on the menu (All Music, Artist, Album, etc.); - the PDF viewer seems a little bit better - it seemed that originally, once I'd 'zoomed' into the PDF document, even though there were left/right/up/down arrows on the screen, I couldn't actually navigate around. Now, I can use the arrows around the "scrolly circle" to move the document around, like a very small, very painful-to-use, viewport. (Unfortunately, the page up/page down buttons, and the rotate button, still do nothing with PDFs; you "page" through the document using the up/down arrows on the scrolly circle) I looked around, and couldn't find anything else new - formatting (or the lack thereof), as Scott_T already reported, is unchanged (though he did report as well that the epubs that were blowing up on him are fixed again, so that's good news). DOC formats still don't open, html opens but all functionality & formatting is gone, etc, etc. (Oh, and another BTW to Delstar if they're reading this - why, when using the image viewer, do you use the page up/page down buttons to rotate the images? Isn't that what the power button "quick press" is for? I know consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but come on...)