Firmware 5.0.175773

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Gymnar

and Tolino is probably dying, with weltbild now ceasing operations.

That is a ridiculous statement, as Weltbild was a relatively small part of Tolino. I addition to that, Thalia is looking to buy a lot of Weltbild assets and may take over their ebook operations.

1/3 of Tolino is owned by Thalia alone. To be honest, I think that Thalia is playing the long game where they either buy smaller Tolino partner or just wait them out.

[Laen]

is there today for a vision color?

I mean in the Kobo ereader.con is
[DeveloperSettings]
EnableDebugServices=true

but nothing to see in the Menü

[rantanplan]

By the way, Thalia really did take over all of Weltbild ebook operations and as far as I understand they’ll migrate all Weltbild accounts.

[Laen]

ok i make a libra color out of my vision color through that manual
in Post 176
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=176


the one downside i see is no automatic Updates possible

[Laen]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Of course, not. Tolino ereaders have never used KoboRoot.tgz and the current v5.0 code is for installing on Tolinos. Copy update.zip to the root directory is the Tolino equivalent of copy KoboRoot.tgz to the .kobo directory.



That's hardly the list of items breaking that I asked for. You did say that "it breaks too many things" and I asked for a list of those things.

I would suggest that you either supply your list of multiple items that break or be quiet on the topic until you have something useful to share with the community.

not full correct. the update file 4.XX to 5.1.184318 des vision color has the Koboroot.tgz in it.

as a late hint

[Laen]

doppelpost

[Laen]

So i test on my Shine 5 the Firmwares.it seems that Firmware 5.0.175773 was the Last mit Development Mode through Devmodeon.
On 5.1.184318 und 5.2.190625 no Devmode Visible through the command

[Redundantant]

I just registered to share a thought I had. I may overlook something or I'm plain dumb, but please bear with me.
My Tolino Shine 4 just died and I was looking into a replacement, which might be the Clara BW or the Shine 5. So...

Since it looks like firmwares unify to some extent and I recall reading that older devices might follow, could the Shine 4 become a better performer than the aforementioned two?


Assuming it DOES get the same firmware base, it does have:
- a 1.8 GHz quad core processor
- 1 GB of RAM
...which on paper is superior to the Shine 5/Clara BW oddly enough.
(Of course the updates are late if at all coming, and there's Carta 1300 on the newer models, but still.)

Am I mistaken?
Of course this would only apply IF it ends up on the same base.


(Since my Shine 4 is still under warranty, I could get it replaced by another Shine 4 or pay just a couple of Euros to "upgrade", so I'm wondering if there's any merit to stay with the Shine 4 or I am grasping at straws.)