PRSCustomizer: Customize and personalize your PRS505 Reader

[macphersondh]

Ahhh - I guess I could have been more informative!

Option 7 does delete the firmware and does leave the Reader showing the message you described. When you connect to PC and run the Sony Updater, however, that reloads the Sony firmware and then you run the Customiser (all without affecting your on device library).

I fell into the same trap - delete the firmware then for some unexplicable reason tried to re-set and when that didn't work all logic and reason left me! I resorted to a plea on this board for help (which I received), plugged in and ran the Sony updater and all was well.

It was only when I had the reader running again and thought about it that my one sensible brain cell hiding in among the billiions of non-sensible ones piped up and pointed out that as I had deleted the firmware how could I expect the reader to work at all until I had reloaded!

Sorry for the panic attack...

David

[hmgreen]

Thanks for the explanation - at least I understand it now. And for the help. Now I can rest - after reading some of my current book BTW, aside from making most things selectible, what were the changes incorporated into the .04a release? Seems I have everything I set out to get in the way of hacks......

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by hmgreen

Whew! Took me literally 5 tries but somehow the Reader finally reset (I wish I understood why these devices are so finicky). Once that was done I took a chance and an the Sony updater rathe than retrying to do option 7 again (even though it DID say the chane was unsuccessful). It took 10 minutes to reboot but then I ran the customizer and all is well. BTW, I did all this with version .03 which ultimately worked fine. Considering the number of books I have on this and the $300 investment in the Reader I think I lost at least a couple of months' life expectancy over this one.... glad the update finally worked ...... :-)

I'm sorry you misunderstood the directions and suffered so much agitation. All option seven does is wipe all firmware from your reader, leaving it ready to re-flash with the official Sony Updater.

Originally Posted by hmgreen

On personalization. Looking at page 1 of this thread, it says to move the modified file to the 18040\opt\sony\ebook\application\resource\script folder. There is no script folder under resources in the 04a version. Also the kBookAssests.png file is called kBookAssets1.png in 04a. Should I create the script folder or just move it to resources and should I rename kBookAssets1 to kBookAssets?

Thanks.

Regarding personalization, all PRSCustomizer does is place your name,email and telephone number on the reader's About page. Regarding the kBookAssets.png file, as stated in the directions: As an additional customization not provided by this program, you can hand-modify your Reader logo. -- This involves editing the kBookAssets.png file with an editor such as Photoshop or Gimp. If you're not reasonably competent with these or similar programs I urge you not to take the extra step, for you'll surely brick your reader.

Originally Posted by hmgreen

Thanks for the explanation - at least I understand it now. And for the help. Now I can rest - after reading some of my current book BTW, aside from making most things selectible, what were the changes incorporated into the .04a release? Seems I have everything I set out to get in the way of hacks......

No new changes were incorporated into .04a, other than selectability. I'd heed the old maxim, If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

[igorsk]

JFYI, option 7 does not actually "wipe the firmware" but it does switch the Reader into the firmware update mode. It's possible (theoretically) to switch back to the "normal" mode but it's much simpler just to run the flasher again.

[hmgreen]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

I'm sorry you misunderstood the directions and suffered so much agitation. All option seven does is wipe all firmware from your reader, leaving it ready to re-flash with the official Sony Updater.



Regarding personalization, all PRSCustomizer does is place your name,email and telephone number on the reader's About page. Regarding the kBookAssets.png file, as stated in the directions: As an additional customization not provided by this program, you can hand-modify your Reader logo. -- This involves editing the kBookAssets.png file with an editor such as Photoshop or Gimp. If you're not reasonably competent with these or similar programs I urge you not to take the extra step, for you'll surely brick your reader.



No new changes were incorporated into .04a, other than selectability. I'd heed the old maxim, If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

I not only know how to hand manipulate these items I successfully made the changes. It wasn't a question of how to do that, however; my questions re: .04a was that the names of the kBookAsset file changed and the script sub-folder was missing. This was not the case in .03 which I ultimately used. Looking at the .xml script in .03 it did in fact call explicitley for the orginal spelling for the asset file. All academic now since it is done (in my case) but does a fix need to be made to .04a for others who will only read the first page of the thread and then attempt this with that version? Thanks!

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by igorsk

JFYI, option 7 does not actually "wipe the firmware" but it does switch the Reader into the firmware update mode. It's possible (theoretically) to switch back to the "normal" mode but it's much simpler just to run the flasher again.

Thanks for that clarification, Igorsk.

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by hmgreen

I not only know how to hand manipulate these items I successfully made the changes. It wasn't a question of how to do that, however; my questions re: .04a was that the names of the kBookAsset file changed and the script sub-folder was missing.

Congratulations. I'll make sure I either rename or delete kBookAssets1.png from the next revision. Thanks for pointing this out. As far as files.505.1.1.00.18040/opt/sony/ebook/application/resources/scripts/ goes, I suggest you check again. Both the Flasher and my program fail if it's not present.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I do have a new feature you can drop into 0.05. For those who like the joypad for turning pages and do not use the mp3 player functionality, they may prefer to have the volume buttons be page turns instead and the history can be left alone. Also, make the page turns on the left history as well so when you have the joypad as page turns, you can have the left side page turns as history.

			<boolean key="0x41" do="doPrevious"/>
			<boolean key="0x41-hold" do="doFirst"/>
			<boolean key="0x40" do="doNext"/>
			<boolean key="0x40-hold" do="doLast"/>

That is for changing the volume to be page turns.

			<boolean key="0x31" do="doLeft"/>
			<boolean key="0x31-hold" do="doFirst"/>
			<boolean key="0x30" do="doRight"/>
			<boolean key="0x30-hold" do="doLast"/>

This is the code for changing the lower right page turn circle button to be history.

			<boolean key="0x41" do="doLeft"/>
			<boolean key="0x41-hold" do="doLeft"/>
			<boolean key="0x40" do="doRight"/>
			<boolean key="0x40-hold" do="doRight"/>

This hack should make the volume be history in case the circle button is not wanted as history.

Now if someone would not mind testing these to see if I got them right.

[JeffElkins]

As configured, these hacks aren't working for me.

<group id="PAGE_GROUP" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" visible="false">

I placed them under the section above in main.xml just after the

<function id="doRight">
this.bubble("doNext");
</function>

hack.

Perhaps they need to be enclosed in a function bubble, just as the joystick next page hack needed to be.

[JSWolf]

No function bubbles are needed as far as I can tell. All that's needed is to replace the key functions. I've not seen that any function bubbles are needed. The hacks for the 500 were just key function replacement and when I did some on the 505, it was the same.

I'll grab a fresh XML from Flasher 2.0 and tell you what lines those are.

[JeffElkins]

My "duh" post.

[JSWolf]

The code I posted is from applicationStart.xml. Nothing gets edited in main.xml to get the keypress to change.

[JeffElkins]

PRSCustomizer 0.05 is now available.

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The code I posted is from applicationStart.xml. Nothing gets edited in main.xml to get the keypress to change.

Duh, I knew that Sorry, the thinking cap is askew today. Blame it on Tropical Storm Fay.

[JSWolf]

Did you get to testing my hacks and did they actually work?