Kindle 4th gen non-touch - hacking

[NiLuJe]

@treaders: No idea, I'm not a cr3 dev .

[treaders]

Are not there any Amazon Kindle 4Nt users, who want to use coolreader? Just me?

[hippy dave]

i didn't have any luck with the kindlet for running coolreader, but i got it running using kite.

[treaders]

So, as a 4 NT users our one chance is Calibre.

[hippy dave]

or running coolreader using kite?

[treaders]

Originally Posted by hippy dave

or running coolreader using kite?

How could you install it?

[hippy dave]

i installed kite using the script found inside the kite.gz file, which i guess i downloaded from the kite thread. i then put the following script, named CoolReader3, in the kite directory:

#!/bin/sh
/mnt/us/cr3/goqt.sh cr3 start

[treaders]

Originally Posted by hippy dave

i installed kite using the script found inside the kite.gz file, which i guess i downloaded from the kite thread. i then put the following script, named CoolReader3, in the kite directory:

#!/bin/sh
/mnt/us/cr3/goqt.sh cr3 start

@hippy dave, you copied the scripts from kite.sh to goqt.sh (in mnt/us/cr3), did'nt you?

[hippy dave]

hm no, the goqt.sh is a script that is supplied with coolreader3.

[twobob]

yeah goQT.sh just dumps some environment variable values and runs the app -qws or something IIRC

You can actually just do a big long command line call (I was doing this last week) that does the same thing

AFAICT it's fairly generic (other than the app that gets "runned") aside from a few specific lib calls (that are related to the actual app rather than QT)

I do have a copy of CR3 somewhere lying around that I could check but from what I have seen so far all the goQT.sh's are much of a muchness.

[treaders]

think i will cross the line.

[sandman7920]

I am using this slightly goqt.zip modified goqt script unzip and copy to /mnt/us/qtKindle. And this CoolReader3_kite.zip is my kite script to start CoolReader

[twobob]

oh yeah, with some logging and a CVM manager. nice. but as you can see - it's more or less what I said above - THANKS FOR THE LINK!!!

[hippy dave]

new kindle, new start - i decided to have another go at getting cr3runner working, and this time it does think i'll be using it instead of kite, to avoid kite's funny glitches on k4 like running everything at boot.

had a look at this (russian) guide, and got the gist of what it wanted, basically:

mntroot rw
vi /mnt/main/opt/amazon/ebook/security/external.policy

then add these lines at the bottom of the file:

grant {
  permission java.io.FilePermission "/mnt/us/qtKindle/-", "read,execute";
  permission java.io.FilePermission "/mnt/us/cr3runner/-", "read,write,execute";
  permission java.io.FilePermission "/mnt/us/cr3/-", "read,execute";
};

then of course don't forget:

mntroot ro

files you should have:
cr3runner-26.azw2 in /mnt/us/documents
commands.txt in /mnt/us/cr3runner
(and all the actual coolreader stuff in /mnt/us/cr3 etc)

i started putting my other script files for running native things in the cr3runner directory just for tidiness, then discovered it was probably the best place anyway so i didn't need to set further permissions.

[purpleclockwork]

What does all this do for the Kindle 4 NT? Im assuming it adds extra features.. Does anybody have step by step instructions?