Instructions for patching firmware 4.19.14123

[coolya21]

Hello, sorry for the machine translation, thanks for the patches, help make the e-book (kobo aura) always clock on screen

[surquizu]

Hi,

When I apply the "Show all games" patch, the web browser does not work well. The e-reader menus disappear. I have to restart to return to the reading menus. Does it happen to someone else? Do you know how it is solved?

The first two photos are without a patch and the next two with the patch applied.

I've tried it on a GloHD and auraH2O

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by surquizu

I have to restart to return to the reading menus

There is no need to restart the device. Enough 'sleep', close and open sleepcover (if available).

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by surquizu

Hi,

When I apply the "Show all games" patch, the web browser does not work well. The e-reader menus disappear. I have to restart to return to the reading menus. Does it happen to someone else? Do you know how it is solved?

The first two photos are without a patch and the next two with the patch applied.

I've tried it on a GloHD and auraH2O

That's extremely unusual. Do you have the full screen browser config setting enabled?

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by geek1011

Do you have the full screen browser config setting enabled?

Not in a config. There are two screenshots. He has it enabled with a patch: FeatureSettings - FullScreenBrowser

[Poppaea]

Thank you, dear Patchpeople!!!

I was able to patch my new Kobo and it is so much more fun to use now. I hated the store recommendations (always wrong, stuff I'd never read, how do they do that?) and love to have the games back. I almost never play them but it's nice to have my Kobo be able to do what my first Kobo could do

So thank you everyone for your work, I really do appreciate it!

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

I was able to patch my new Kobo and it is so much more fun to use now. I hated the store recommendations (always wrong, stuff I'd never read, how do they do that?)!

Have you told them they are wrong? The recommendations have options to mark books as "Not interested" or "Already read". That changes what they recommend. But, buying book or reading a book has bigger impact. Looking at my recommendations, everything in it makes sense based on the last few books I have purchased or read (such as same authors, same series, same genres).

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Have you told them they are wrong? The recommendations have options to mark books as "Not interested" or "Already read". That changes what they recommend. But, buying book or reading a book has bigger impact. Looking at my recommendations, everything in it makes sense based on the last few books I have purchased or read (such as same authors, same series, same genres).

Well, you might be right. I'll take it back and claim the opposite.

I haven't bought a book for quite a while, meaning years. It is possible they either recommended the most popular with everyone books or ones based on my former purchases. My reading interests do shift, so something I'd looked at in previous years, I wouldn't be interested right now.

Anyway, it doesn't matter much, I get almost all of my reading from the library and even if I do order something I do it with a shop where I can use points from my grocery shopping and just pay the difference if needed. You know I am constantly broke, right I spend all my money on hardware ;-)

[Regard_39]

Hi everyone!
I found out that you can disable the web browser on a Kobo and came across this thread about the Kobopatch

But couldn't we go a little further...
My 6 year old boy is very attracted to his brother's Kobo and he takes advantage of his absence to try to find access to card games or freecell.
One time out of two the result is disastrous: bookmark deletion and even book deletion.

Would it be possible to add the possibility to block/deactivate the games?

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by Regard_39

Hi everyone!
I found out that you can disable the web browser on a Kobo and came across this thread about the Kobopatch

But couldn't we go a little further...
My 6 year old boy is very attracted to his brother's Kobo and he takes advantage of his absence to try to find access to card games or freecell.
One time out of two the result is disastrous: bookmark deletion and even book deletion.

Would it be possible to add the possibility to block/deactivate the games?

Yep. Just change the "true" in the "Show all games" patch to "false".

[Regard_39]

Originally Posted by geek1011

Yep. Just change the "true" in the "Show all games" patch to "false".

Awesome, thank you very much. But I'm not sure which "true" should be changed to "false."
Is it right like this?

Show all games:
- Enabled: yes
- Description: Shows all games in beta features.
- FindZlib: "#boggleContainer[qApp_deviceIsPika=false]"
- ReplaceZlib: {Find: "qproperty-visible: false;", Replace: "qproperty-visible: true;"}

[ps67]

To avoid of enabling the patch simply:

Show all games:
  - Enabled: no
  - Description: Shows all games in beta features.
  - FindZlib: "#boggleContainer[qApp_deviceIsPika=true]"
  - ReplaceZlib: {Find: "qproperty-visible: false;", Replace: "qproperty-visible: true;"}

Enabled: no
I think You are using directly the src files instead of changing the kobopatch.yaml file.

[Semwize]

It's about Kobo Glo, games are displayed without a patch. It seems to me that changing this patch will not help to hide them (need another patch).

[DNSB]

@Regard_39: Instead of patching, why not consider enabling a PIN to restrict access to the Kobo. Look under Setting => Energy saving and privacy => PIN LOCK.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by Regard_39

Awesome, thank you very much. But I'm not sure which "true" should be changed to "false."
Is it right like this?

Show all games:
- Enabled: yes
- Description: Shows all games in beta features.
- FindZlib: "#boggleContainer[qApp_deviceIsPika=false]"
- ReplaceZlib: {Find: "qproperty-visible: false;", Replace: "qproperty-visible: true;"}

No, the replacement qproperty-visible should be false.