KUAL can't replace store button on KT2 and PW1

[cryptocoryne]

I noticed this KUAL button to replace the store button on both my jailbroken KT2 (Special Offers) 5.8.9.2 and PW1 (No Advertising) 5.6.1.1. So I pushed it and then restarted. No change. The little shopping cart is still up there at the top on both Kindles and prompts me to enable networking to connect to Amazon when I press it.

Is my firmware too new?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by cryptocoryne

I noticed this KUAL button to replace the store button on both my jailbroken KT2 (Special Offers) 5.8.9.2 and PW1 (No Advertising) 5.6.1.1. So I pushed it and then restarted. No change. The little shopping cart is still up there at the top on both Kindles and prompts me to enable networking to connect to Amazon when I press it.

Is my firmware too new?

On the 5.8.9 probably.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by cryptocoryne

I noticed this KUAL button to replace the store button on both my jailbroken KT2 (Special Offers) 5.8.9.2 and PW1 (No Advertising) 5.6.1.1. So I pushed it and then restarted. No change. The little shopping cart is still up there at the top on both Kindles and prompts me to enable networking to connect to Amazon when I press it.

Is my firmware too new?

That feature is firmware version specific, and has been broken for a long time.
Could you fix/update it for us?

[cryptocoryne]

Originally Posted by knc1

That feature is firmware version specific, and has been broken for a long time.
Could you fix/update it for us?

Unless it's something simple like /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/javascripts/search_bar.js has been moved or STORE_ID renamed, I really doubt I can do much.

I'm not a developer and I don't know my arse from my elbow about javascript. But I decided to set up USBnetwork and ssh in to have a look in my KT2, just for fun.

I thought maybe changing STORE_ID might work in system_menu.js (I'm guessing this is the menu that drops down off the 3 dots in the upper right corner.) So I changed

const STORE_ID = 'app://com.lab126.store';

to

const STORE_ID = 'file:///mnt/us/documents/KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2';

but it has no effect after restarting (killall) cvm. Choosing the store menu item still gives me an error asking if I want to turn off airplane mode.

grepping *.js for STORE_ID says it only appears in these two files.

Maybe these two files don't do anything anymore and are just leftover in 5.8.9.2?

Maybe some other searchy, java-y files are involved?

lsof | grep search

cvm       16323  framework   60r   REG      179,1      636      10305 /opt/amazon/ebook/lib/searchbar-resources.jar                                             
cvm       16323  framework   86r   REG      179,1   131439       8196 /opt/amazon/ebook/lib/searchbar-assets.jar                                           
cvm       16323  framework  105r   REG      179,1    11577       6604 /opt/amazon/ebook/lib/systembar-search-results-resources.jar                        
cvm       16323  framework  177r   REG      179,1    10064       9512 /opt/amazon/ebook/lib/searchbar-resources-en_gb-assets.jar

Copying them all to my PC and unzipping then (jar xf), I see they've mostly got button images in them.

[knc1]

Well, even experienced developers check all of the easy things.
You never know when there might be low hanging fruit.

Thanks for checking.
Evidently things have changed, it will take someone who can devote some time to fixing the store button thingy.

[cryptocoryne]

Some progress on the PW1...

In this 5.6.1.1 firmware search_bar.js is one monstrous line and changing the consts does have some effect:

The kual button to "replace store button" sets:

const F="file:///mnt/us/documents/KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2";

and nothing happens.

If I change F to aK, the search bar at the top disappears altogether:

const aK="file:///mnt/us/documents/KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2";

(I found aK="store" by searching the long line and figured it would probably do something.) Gotta copy this search_bar.js to PC and study it a bit after wrapping the lines.... Such fun!

[knc1]

There are on-line tools to pretty-print js

[cryptocoryne]

Even nicely formatted, it looks like they've deliberately obfuscated these scripts. Meaningful variable names are gone and it's all weird constants(Bz, A, D, C,....). This might be hard to untangle even if I knew something about javascript. There is also a lot of red herring(?) cruft lying around: things having to do with searching/social network rubbish-sites like baidu and goodreads.

Whatever.... I'm thinking of selling this evil amazon junk and looking for a more open reader.

[lucasmpr]

I dont think you should change an app:// to an file://

I dont see how it would work.

Try typing that

lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd start file:///mnt/us/documents/KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2

[knc1]

Originally Posted by cryptocoryne

- - - -
I'm thinking of selling this evil amazon junk and looking for a more open reader.

(I deleted the "whatever" part - If you don't consider it relevant, why should it be included? ).

If you did that, where would you get the fun of the challenge from?
There isn't much fun when everything is handed to you.