Universal Flasher 2.0 with PRS-505 support!

[igorsk]

Go into Settings-About, press 0 and watch the status bar.

[The Old Man]

Originally Posted by igorsk

Go into Settings-About, press 0 and watch the status bar.

That was a quick - easy - accurate!

[Peto]

Originally Posted by The Old Man

After the 2.0 flash hack is there any way to get a 24 hour clock instead of the am/pm display?

From the Readme file in the flash:

"... To set up 12/24 hour format or turn off the clock, use the Settings/About
screen and the button 0 (check the status bar)..."

[dewmap]

Hi

I have managed to get the clock and the unified fonts working by flashing with the Universal Flasher 2. I am however unable to get the russian fonts installed. I have copied the ready made image from Porkupan's post and renamed it new_opt and put in the root of the directory of the the universal flasher. The flash was successful but I still get garbage when viewing russian fonts.

I also tried the 3 fonts with cyrillic support from Avdim's post which I placed in the Font directory with same results as above.

What am I doing wrong? Please could someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks

[stasys]

Use not the universal flasher, but flasher from here: http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7155

[Peto]

Hello Igorsk,

I followed the instructions on the readme file and added "Futura Lt Bt" with the name tt0011m_.ttf in /files.XXXX/opt/sony/ebook/FONT directory, in order to replace Dutch801 Rm BT Roman, which is the default font for books. I bricked the Reader. Now I have all the hacks but don't dare try again with the fonts.

Any suggestions? I think I did everything exactly as explained.

[gwynevans]

I think that when trying to replace fonts, you need certain elements of the font meta-data itself to match the Sony values - I don't recall the info off-hand, but it's in the forums!

You might also want to investigate using the non-flash font-replacement approach to at least verify that the fonts you're using work with the Reader without requiring a reflash if they don't, before flashing them.

[Peto]

Originally Posted by gwynevans

I think that when trying to replace fonts, you need certain elements of the font meta-data itself to match the Sony values - I don't recall the info off-hand, but it's in the forums!

You might also want to investigate using the non-flash font-replacement approach to at least verify that the fonts you're using work with the Reader without requiring a reflash if they don't, before flashing them.

I'll try that, thanks as usual, Gwyn

[Peto]

Well.

Learned about Font-Creator, read all that was posted in the prs 500 dev corner, renamed Futura Lt Bt to replace Dutch, including all the different tags in the naming option, erased all my books, reinstalled firmware, flashed, bricked.

I just don't know anymore if I am trying this to gain page turn speed avoiding embedded fonts or if it is just a matter of pride.

[gwynevans]

Well, all I can say is that I did in the past manage to get a new font working with the non-flash method, which still required erasing all the books, etc... before eventually deciding that I was not that unhappy with the default fonts and ending up sticking with the defaults!

[Peto]

That's where I am now, more or less. It was harder to unbrick the Reader this time, so I will stick to embedding fonts into the LRFs and renounce to the faster page turns. For now

[SurgE]

Originally Posted by Peto

That's where I am now, more or less. It was harder to unbrick the Reader this time, so I will stick to embedding fonts into the LRFs and renounce to the faster page turns. For now

I did something stupid to get my fonts working. Instead of renaming the font, i opened both the original font file and the replacement in fontcreator, deleted all the characters in the original font and copied in all the characters from the replacement font file WITH all the mappings. Worked very well for me

[Peto]

Originally Posted by SurgE

I did something stupid to get my fonts working. Instead of renaming the font, i opened both the original font file and the replacement in fontcreator, deleted all the characters in the original font and copied in all the characters from the replacement font file WITH all the mappings. Worked very well for me

Damn. That's something I haven't tried... I had decided to let it be, but I will surely end up trying today or tomorrow...

Thanks, SurgE

[scottsan]

my screen customized with a photo.

[benjaminvm]

I have a problem, when I run script.sh(press 3) the script does not seem to work and there is a log(script.log1) that says mkdir could not create /tmp/bin/ because it was already created. Do I have to add rm -r /tmp/bin/ before executing?