K5 FW 5.x ScreenSavers Hack

[ddimasbr]

Hello guys!

I'm a little confused about how to install SS on my Kindle. I wish he showed each of the last open book when it was turned off.

I have a PW 2 with software 5.4.2.1.

I need to install only *Update_python_0.9.N_install_pw2.bin* + *Update_linkss_0.16.N_install_pw2.bin* + Archiving "cover"?

Or simply just Python v0.9.N + KUAL?

[NiLuJe]

@ddimasbr: JB, MKK, KUAL, Python, SS.

Then setup the SS hack from KUAL.

[ddimasbr]

@ NiLuJe

JB, MKK, KUAL, Python, SS = in this exact order of installation?

The SS means Update_linkss_0.16.N_install_pw2.bin file?

[NiLuJe]

@ddimasbr: Yes to both .

(JailBreak -> Mobileread Kindlet Kit -> KUAL -> Python -> ScreenSavers)

[ddimasbr]

@ NiLuJe

It all worked out now! Thank you!

[Gronk]

My Paperwhite 2 is not showing the cover. I get "The ScreenSavers Hack has been successfully installed!" when I put it to sleep. I don't know what a Kindlet Kit or KUAL is but I followed the instructions in the first message in this thread.

The empty cover file I used has a txt extension. Is that OK?

I too have a Paperwhite 2 with software 5.4.2.1.

[NiLuJe]

@Gronk: Nope, that .txt extension is the reason it's not in cover mode .

[Gronk]

@NiLuJe: Thank you sir. I wasn't certain that Windows would allow me to just have no extension.

[NiLuJe]

@Gronk: it doesn't by default, hence the recommendation to use KUAL.

(FWIW, the setting to always show file extensions is hidden somewhere in the Explorer's folder settings).

[Gronk]

nm

Gronk

[knc1]

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money

[dsmid]

It would be nice to have a chance to put your own (localized) text in personal info instead of "If found,...". (cover-extract could read the text from a file).
And converting those ugly unicode escape sequences in com.lab126.booklet.settings.preferences to UTF-8 would be nice as well:

  # Extract the info from the settings (convert linefeeds to semicolons to avoid ending up with an unreadable mess for LF heavy strings. Remember that 60px is *small*! ImageMagick takes care of wordwrapping
  if [ -x /usr/bin/uconv ] ; then
    UCONV=uconv -x 'Hex/Java-Any' -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8
  else
    UCONV=cat
  fi
  if [ -f "${LINKSS_BASEDIR}/pinfo_header" ] ; then
    pinfo_header=$(cat "${LINKSS_BASEDIR}/pinfo_header")
  else
    pinfo_header="If found, please contact: "
  fi
  pinfo_msg="${pinfo_header} $(grep PERSONAL_INFO /var/local/java/prefs/com.lab126.booklet.settings.preferences | $UCONV | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/\\n/; /g')"

[NiLuJe]

@dsmid: It seems so natural that I actually thought it already was supported ;p.

Thanks, will merge this later this week .

[Calleja]

Hi, there's a new Paperwhite 2 firmware update: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=201307450

Will updating break the screensaver hack?

[NiLuJe]

@Calleja:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Q. My hacks suddenly failed to work properly, how come? (aka. What happens if I get an OTA update?)

A. Since FW 5.3.x, official updates (OTA or not, actually) are complete updates, overwriting the complete main system. This has the side effect of breaking a lot of custom hacks. For instance, you'll have to reinstall MKK for sure, along with most full hacks that touch the system, whereas simple KUAL extensions should survive the process .
On a sidenote, FW updates are usually a game of cat and mouse, so do make sure you check the forums to see if the hacks you care about will actually *work* on a new FW version before updating .

TL;DR: You'll have to reinstall it.