Thread: Android for Kobo v2 - improved reading mode
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Old 08-14-2014, 11:23 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Lucas Malor View Post
Do you plan to do some modification to the Tolino GUI? If so, I'll be happy to give you my modest contribute.
Thanks Lukas! What you are asking of requires modification of every app. I've modified coolreader3 and I'm very happy with the results. I'm spending 80% of time reading with it and 20% in news reader/web browser so the rest is not very important for me. Changing web browser to page based is too hard probably. So for now I'm not planning to make more UI changes.

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Originally Posted by am9 View Post
I expect this android can work together with kobo OS,and I try to run 2 patch which can run andriod in external SD,but failrue，I hope you can make the k2 run in the external SD and doual boot with the kobo OS ,and fix some bugs such as LED can't turn off, front light can't turn off,at your next update ,thank you very much!
I never tried dual boot. Also I don't have kobo glo (but kobo touch) - that's why I didn't setup front light. And kill me but I like the blinking LED - it's an indicator if the device is really sleeping for me.

However, the changes in v2 version should be compatible with all changes proposed for v1 by other people - including dual boot, turning off LED and installing software for front light. Please try to do it yourself - you should succeed.

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Originally Posted by embryo View Post
Hi Marek,
I checked your new image and I saw some interesting things there.
The most important for me is the Kobo Service_v2.0.apk
As I understand it, this is an updated Kobo Rotate_v1.1.apk with some very nice additions.
I installed it to my system and although the USB portion worked, the other parts (rotation and refresh) didn't.
Yes, Kobo Service 2.0 is newer version of Kobo Rotate service. You need only one. It communicates with modified kernel and to make it fully working you need to upgrade the kernel, too (copy image bytes from 0x100000 - 0x6FFFF0).

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Originally Posted by lekofraggle View Post
Hello,
Thank you for this. It certainly is good news. I tried to run the Kobo glo sd image, but It kept bootlooping. Any idea why? I burned your older image to my sd, and it worked fine.
No, sorry. It's working for am9 on Kobo Glo. Maybe try again with different SD card? In which moment is it rebooting? Do you see booting animation? If yes, you can connect it to PC to USB port and look at logcat logs ("adb logcat" command during booting).

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Originally Posted by Haugor View Post
Thank you for the work. I just update from the Version 1 to V2, there are many great improvements! I especially interseted in the option 'monochromatic dithered' of "Kobo service".
Thanks! I was hoping it will allow me to play games but unfortunately my implementation is too slow
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