Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by _pietro

no success, i can't go ahead the fmon... if anyone was able to install koreader on a kobo touch please share, i only need the better pdf experience

It would help if you were to answer the questions such as which firmware you have on your Touch. With all that you have done I am surprised that it still works, at all. You probably need to do a "factory restore", to clear everything and start over.

Then you should be able to receive the current firmware 2.8.1. Once that is installed you should be able to install the "1 Setp Hack" following the directions in the zip file.

That is all that is required.

Luck;
Ken

[_pietro]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

It would help if you were to answer the questions such as which firmware you have on your Touch. With all that you have done I am surprised that it still works, at all. You probably need to do a "factory restore", to clear everything and start over.

Then you should be able to receive the current firmware 2.8.1. Once that is installed you should be able to install the "1 Setp Hack" following the directions in the zip file.

That is all that is required.

Luck;
Ken

tried 2.6.1 and 2.8.1, i have the images of the sd ready to use... same results... it's needed someone with a kobo touch working with koreader

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by _pietro

tried 2.6.1 and 2.8.1, i have the images of the sd ready to use... same results... it's needed someone with a kobo touch working with koreader

OK, the last remaining issue is which Kobo Touch model do you have?

N905 or N905B or N905C

Luck;
Ken

[_pietro]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

OK, the last remaining issue is which Kobo Touch model do you have?

N905 or N905B or N905C

Luck;
Ken

N905B

[vang]

All, I am a daily user of koreader_old on a Glo with 2.5.2, Kobo Tweaks and the extra house button. Just for the record, even with all the limitations and bugs, koreader is fantastic. Besides the miraculous reflow, it opens many kinds of files that Kobo cannot (such as doc, djvu and chm) and makes it possible to use large SD cards filled with a mix of many files. Without these features I would consider the Kobo device very near worthless.

Three observations:

1. To the developers: Besides koreader_old I have tried several of the 2.6.x or better versions. None seem to tie into the rather extensive koreader menu system which as I understand it evolved on Kindle and requires a letterpress on a keyboard. koreader will be far more useful once those menu items are made accessible by an on-screen keyboard or some other means.

2. This is an important project for a major family of devices and should be treated like one. Obviously all versions of koreader should be on github. And this thread should soon be broken up into manageable sub-units e.g. releases, developer communications, feature requests, technical problems, etc.

3. I would gladly contribute half the cost of my device to a Kickstarter for the accelerated development of koreader. Besides equipping the known developers here, the funds could be used to draw in professional talent from the Kobo world and/or koreader coders from the Kindle side.

[paola]

Originally Posted by Markismus

Reading my explanation for 1 step hack, I used cgm999 koreader build which is based on 266.

This answers my question, and anyhow checking the "git-rev" file confirmed it.

Originally Posted by Markismus

So the problem is that while there is a lot of improvement going on, it is not happening on 1 track. Trying to figure out what cgm999's changes were to the 266 version and implementing them in 396 version seems like a lot of work. It makes me appreciate Giorgio's complaint that all changes should be put into github.

o no, I wasn't implicitly trying to ask you to implement a one step hack for this one. I did try Giorgio's latest version, and while it worked it seemed fine, and the X worked, so I was happy, pity it does not work, but I will wait for the next fix.

And again, thanks to giorgio and all other developers for the incredible amount of work and passion put into this project!

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by vang

All, I am a daily user of koreader_old on a Glo with 2.5.2, Kobo Tweaks and the extra house button. Just for the record, even with all the limitations and bugs, koreader is fantastic. Besides the miraculous reflow, it opens many kinds of files that Kobo cannot (such as doc, djvu and chm) and makes it possible to use large SD cards filled with a mix of many files. Without these features I would consider the Kobo device very near worthless.

Three observations:

1. To the developers: Besides koreader_old I have tried several of the 2.6.x or better versions. None seem to tie into the rather extensive koreader menu system which as I understand it evolved on Kindle and requires a letterpress on a keyboard. koreader will be far more useful once those menu items are made accessible by an on-screen keyboard or some other means.

2. This is an important project for a major family of devices and should be treated like one. Obviously all versions of koreader should be on github. And this thread should soon be broken up into manageable sub-units e.g. releases, developer communications, feature requests, technical problems, etc.

3. I would gladly contribute half the cost of my device to a Kickstarter for the accelerated development of koreader. Besides equipping the known developers here, the funds could be used to draw in professional talent from the Kobo world and/or koreader coders from the Kindle side.

You sound dissatisfied with the current pace of development? All versions of Koreader are on Github. The Thread is working, some of the things you may think of as distractions are discussions that led directly to improvements. What starts as an attempt to solve an individuals problem sometimes led the discussion to significant advances.

Trying to add paid talent into a project like this might dampen the enthusiasm of those who have already contributed so much, and rightly view the project as theirs.

Luck;
Ken

[giorgio130]

Originally Posted by hawhill

Not yet. Can you open an issue in the tracker? I will probably have time to look at this in a few hours.

done: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/210

[hawhill]

Regarding paid development - right now, Koreader development is purely volunteer based. And as far as I know, a lot of us (or even all?) have day jobs as well, so Koreader is a hobby that goes into spare time. Payment isn't much of an incentive there, sorry. This is, on the other side, also the explanation for why some features get implemented and some don't. It's a bit based on personal need and motivation (fun and experience gathered on the course) of the developers.

Oh, and I hope to speak for all of us when I say that we consider this project a bit as "ours", yes, but mainly as a community effort that is explicitly free and open for all.

Though thanks for any encouragement, this adds to the fun in doing this.

[byblo]

Originally Posted by giorgio130

Things that are still missing:
- suspend support (hard to implement)
- avoid a reboot after exiting koreader (maybe a little easier)

Are these feature/fix still planned ?

[hawhill]

Of course. Not scheduled, though :-P

[rehemiau]

Originally Posted by byblo

Are these feature/fix still planned ?

I am also very interested in the suspend support.
cgm999 wrote a suspend mod, I found it also here. Because Markismus used this build, it is also included in Markismus's 1 step hack.
The question is, can this mod be used in the official release? I'm sick of unofficial mods and problems and I will be using the latest nightly build, which is surprisingly awesome

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by rehemiau

The question is, can this mod be used in the official release? I'm sick of unofficial mods and problems and I will be using the latest nightly build, which is surprisingly awesome

cgm999's suspend-mod seems to be based on bash-scripts, contrary to his frontlight-mod, which is compiled. So if you check the differences between the lua-files in the 266 build and the ones uploaded by cgm999, you should be able to implement suspend in the latest build.

Would you be willing to share your latest nightly builds? I am still not able to compile my own.

[Ken Maltby]

Are we talking about these? http://code.google.com/p/koreader-pa...downloads/list

If so, some of them look like they don't need compiling. I could be wrong as the last time I tried just merging/replacing the folders and files involved, I didn't git it working.

Luck;
Ken

I am using the latest nightly build "package" (one of the two downloads listed) and it seems to be working fine. #454

[rehemiau]

These, I'm successfully using one of the builds with "kobo" in the name from google code (began yesterday, but no crashes so far)
I'll look into bash files during week-end then, thanks, Markismus!