Font, ScreenSaver & USBNetwork Hacks for Kindle 2.x, 3.x & 4.x

[ichbindasauge]

There are so many questions about the Networking hack. I think it would help tremendously if somebody would bring all the information together and write a Wiki about that.

[NiLuJe]

What's in the readme should be enough.

I've already said it, and it might sound harsh, but there it is, but if one can't get it to work with what's out there, it probably means one shouldn't be using it in the first place.

It is *NOT* a hack one should use lightly, and without an at least basic understanding of Linux CLI system admin. Trying to introduce people to that on a semi-closed embedded consumer device is a recipe for disaster.

By doing this, I'm only trying to avoid people bricking/messing their Kindle up because they didn't really know what they were doing.

Look at the number of people who fiddled with their iptables settings without backups only to get bitten in the ass with the 3.0.3 update... And that's a pretty mild example.

[buzzhd]

Originally Posted by Stonecold

Then you did it wrong. You have to click on the pictures to enlarge them and then right-click and press "Save as", otherwise, you're just downloading thumbnails!

yes, you are right. sorry about that

[buzzhd]

Originally Posted by Rinzwind

Google images. Search for exactly 600 x 800.

Like this:
http://www.google.nl/images?q=fantas...800&source=lnt

I have this one http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...rcJJ8_BPUtgQY=

and this one
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A..._bwOfcpqYpSEA=

Though the last one is a bit too dark the first one looks amazing.

Search for anything different like "fantasy" that you like

Oh and color images seem to look best (better then b/w) but you need to find images with some contrast. Otherwise you need to open up gimp (or another image manipulation software) to change it.

fantastic! thanks a lot!

[Amir_Niknam]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

What's in the readme should be enough.

I've already said it, and it might sound harsh, but there it is, but if one can't get it to work with what's out there, it probably means one shouldn't be using it in the first place.

It is *NOT* a hack one should use lightly, and without an at least basic understanding of Linux CLI system admin. Trying to introduce people to that on a semi-closed embedded consumer device is a recipe for disaster.

By doing this, I'm only trying to avoid people bricking/messing their Kindle up because they didn't really know what they were doing.

Look at the number of people who fiddled with their iptables settings without backups only to get bitten in the ass with the 3.0.3 update... And that's a pretty mild example.

Yes, you are right
But I think people are responsible for devices. Any hack can be dangerous
Anyway i have read this post and this i have did all step without any mistake
But i still have problem
i have used old version of hack and my Kindle works as usb adapter but no data send or receive and Wireless wants to be on again. When i restrat it The computer shows usb adapter again and it doesn't convert to usb mass storage But i use two last line of that post and it returns to usb mass storage again.
I don't understand why it doesn't work correctly.
Please Help me I really need it.

[foghat]

For updating screen savers, if I put a blank reboot file in the linkss folder, will this cause a reboot every time I unplug from the computer? Or only if I update the sceensavers folder?

Thanks.

[NiLuJe]

Re: usbnet docs: Granted, the actual readme is a bit crappy, I'll clean it up a bit.

@foghat: No, it's a 'one shot' restart .

[NiLuJe]

Bump USBNet to v0.28.N:

* Cleanup the tethering scripts a bit. Log to syslog, and possibly do something useful on a K3 (untested).
* And port that to the uninstall script, so that it doesn't horribly die on a K3.
* Cleanup & rewrite the Readme.

----^ Look! Proper readme!

[farleylai]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

No problem, here goes (it may not be completely accurate):

Sans_Regular.ttf: Used in the Settings & Experimental page for the explanation texts. Also for the dictionnary/note popups.
Sans_Bold.ttf: Used in the menus, in the top & bottom panel, and as the collection title when browsing a collection, and the inline text in the book & collection browsers (ie. the 'delete this item' stuff & co)
Sans_Italic.ttf: May be used alongside Sans_Regular or Sans_Bold somewhere ^^
Sans_BoldItalic.ttf: Used in the book list, for the collection names

Serif_*.ttf: Used in the reader, that's the font your books will be rendered with.
Serif_Bold.ttf: Used in the book & collection browser for the book title & author. (NOTE: For these purposes, Serif_Regular is used instead on FW 3.x)

Mono_*.ttf: AFAICT, nowehere except in the browser, but I may be mistaken.

And since v3.8.N, on FW 3.x:

CJK.ttf: Used for Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
I18N.ttf: Last fallback for non-latin & non-cjk scripts.

Hi, I've installed the font hack on my Kindle 3 and it works very well on books with Chinese content. However, I recently try to read some periodicals(news from RSS feeds composed by Calibre) with Chinese titles which are displayed as boxes. I guess this is because the Mono_Bold/Serif_Bold/Sans_Bold and etc. contain only Latin characters but if they are replaced with a Unicode font(Droid_fallback), Kindle 3 fails to open the periodical.

Any ideas?

[NiLuJe]

@farleylai: No idea. I thought periodical handling wasn't any different than a regular book to the reader, so that's weird. Unless it isn't properly encoded in UTF-8.

[farleylai]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@farleylai: No idea. I thought periodical handling wasn't any different than a regular book to the reader, so that's weird. Unless it isn't properly encoded in UTF-8.

Sorry, when it comes to the periodicals with Chinese titles, I mean, clicking "View Section List" to view articles' titles in some section which are not displayed properly but the content has no problem. That's what periodicals differ from books.

Maybe the reason for this is that Kindle seems not to render the title with two or more fonts or non-Latin glyphs in bold or italic form.

[NiLuJe]

@farleylai: Yep, probably... So short of using a Serif_* family supporting the language you need, I don't see how you could 'fix' that .

[essebibi]

Hi NiLuJe, just finished to install the Jailbreak + Fonts Hack on my K3 3G. All worked perfectly, thank you so much, now my wife can read her chinese books

But...on this wiki page Kindle Font Hack for all 2.x and 3.x Kindles somebody says that the UK + Europe version has a serial number with B00A.
I bought mine by an authorized reseller in Switzerland and the serial number is B006*.

So, probably not all the resellers sells the "european" version, always take care and double check the serial number.

Using the files built for the US version (B006) worked perfectly.

I write this post, just to warn future users to follow the serial number and not the country where they bought the kindle...

Again, many many thanks!

[NiLuJe]

@essebibi: Yes, I'm aware of that, I actually also have a B006 in Europe .

I missed the edit that changed this particular description though, it's fixed now .

@farleylai: Scratch my previous answers, the reader indeed seems to be doing things differently on the 'sections' listview, at least with calibre newsfeed. It misses curly quotes with a custom font here (Latin Serif only, no CJK stuff), for example... o_O

[chuhongming]

Thank you NiLuJe， I have installed Chinese font "Zhongsong" in my kindle 3