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Old 12-16-2010, 05:34 AM   #31
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OK, firstly all credit to zog for this, I just interpreted his instructions.
Thanks to both of you for the instructions. I am currently trying out the Cool-Er firmware from the SD card but plan to install soon.

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Edit: haven't tried PDFs yet
PDFs are significantly faster than on the Kobo (1.4) firmware. Reflow is supported but is turned off by selecting the smaller font size. I'll post more details soon.
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Old 12-16-2010, 05:54 AM   #32
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I just tried the 1.8 firmware via SD but reloaded the cool-er firmware after an hour. I actually really appreciate the effort that Kobo is making but the experience is just so slow. Page turns on epubs are barely any faster than the original. A slick looking interface is all well and good but if the core experience - reading and navigating a book - is this slow then I'm unfortunately just not that vibed about it. For the time being I'll stick with the speed and navigation features of the cool-er over the slower slickness of the Kobo.
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Old 12-16-2010, 09:31 AM   #33
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Just got a kobo last night and started playing with. Found this thread this morning. One of the features I was wondering about, is this. Is there anything else that can be done with the wifi connection. It would be so nice to point the device at a URL of my choosing. Anything available on the cooler-firmware in this regard? Or any other projects working on this?
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Old 12-28-2010, 08:53 PM   #34
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This does not appear to work on the kobo-wifi. Does anyone have a link to the 1.7.4 firmware? If so, I'll try dropping the cool-er bits in.
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Old 12-28-2010, 10:31 PM   #35
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The Cool-er firmware will not work the Kobo Wi-Fi since the two platforms use different compilers (gcc 3.4.1 vs gcc 4.4) so are not binary ABI compatible.
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Old 12-28-2010, 11:19 PM   #36
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Thanks for the confirmation though.
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Old 12-30-2010, 04:25 PM   #37
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I haven't seen this anywhere yet, but the Kobo Wifi boots off an internal SD card. Could make the hacking a lot less permanent as long as you have a few spare MicroSD cards around.


Courtesy of the FCC. The FCC ID is different, but the hardware is identical to what I've seen on the inside of mine.
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Old 12-30-2010, 08:56 PM   #38
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I haven't seen this anywhere yet, but the Kobo Wifi boots off an internal SD card. Could make the hacking a lot less permanent as long as you have a few spare MicroSD cards around.

Courtesy of the FCC. The FCC ID is different, but the hardware is identical to what I've seen on the inside of mine.
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Old 01-14-2011, 11:12 PM   #39
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I haven't seen this anywhere yet, but the Kobo Wifi boots off an internal SD card. Could make the hacking a lot less permanent as long as you have a few spare MicroSD cards around.


Courtesy of the FCC. The FCC ID is different, but the hardware is identical to what I've seen on the inside of mine.
An intrenal Micro SD? so we can basically replace the card with another with "cooler" firmware on it?
That would be much cooler!
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Old 01-15-2011, 02:53 PM   #40
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i got my kobo yesterday and opened it up and it has a 2gb microsd card. put it in my computer and it is just a very simple linux and hacking it would be easy. i copyed it to my hard drive and will look around when i have a chance
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Can I try booting from the SD card but not replace the kobo firmware? I'd like to try it but wouldn't want to remove the kobo firmware
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Can I try booting from the SD card but not replace the kobo firmware? I'd like to try it but wouldn't want to remove the kobo firmware
As far as I know, kobo boots from u-boot. You might add line to
change where it takes off from. To get there, the best way is jtag.
Since I see no jtag on reader, cannot guess how to approach boot
loader.
There was a thread on another firmware for kobo. Cool-er or alike.
It changes few lines on sd card boot image or file or two. So, with
sd card in, it boots guest firmware. Otherwise, kobo.
For further information, better find original post, for I could be
wrong.
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i got my kobo yesterday and opened it up and it has a 2gb microsd card. put it in my computer and it is just a very simple linux and hacking it would be easy. i copyed it to my hard drive and will look around when i have a chance
Hmm haven't tried to open mine yet.
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not a problem at all opening it and putting it back. i will take apart every thing i own
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i got my kobo yesterday and opened it up and it has a 2gb microsd card. put it in my computer and it is just a very simple linux and hacking it would be easy. i copyed it to my hard drive and will look around when i have a chance
What's the way to make a copy of backup Firmware MicroSD? just copy out the file or we need a software like "winimage"?
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