Firmware 2.8.1 ?

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Vuguitan; have you bothered to maybe read the series of posts Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)?

hey peter thanks for that.


it looks really cool but complicated but then i said the same for rooting the nook and still managed to root after only 45 minutes of intense study.

i have rooted the noook and installed 36 different ebookreaders apps to read ANY file and 12 file browsers,3 chess apps,5 winrars ,8 winzips,and 12 calculators apps plus angry birds and 15 dictionaries and 18 internet browsers.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

why cant the operating systems be swapped?
i know one is android and one is linux but it is still hardware.

Possibly that the software must work with the hardware? Much the same reason I can't install Android from my Nexus tablet onto my laptop or Windows 8.1 from my laptop onto my Nexus tablet.

Originally Posted by vugtitan

could some one else try it as i'm too busy and also poor and don't want to cause any damage.

although it is just hardware and software can't damage hardware.

Perhaps you should try browsing various forums for DD-WRT, Tomato, Open-WRT and similar router software. There were quite a few people who managed to brick routers when installing some firmware versions and those were ones that were intended for that hardware. Also look for "JTAG".




Regards,
David

[freightgod]

I like the removal of the top margin in 2.8.1 on my mini. I re-convert all my epubs in Calibre to remove all margins to begin with then allow the minimum margin size in the settings of the mini itself.

I don't eat pizza while e-reading but also have experienced multiple page turn problems with the mini. I originally had refresh set at 6 pages but last evening experimented with changing it to 3, and that seems to have stopped the problem. We'll see.

[moffattm]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

The operating systems can possibly be swapped but they won't work and it is very possible to damage hardware using software.
http://trixter.oldskool.org/2006/02/...mage-hardware/
http://superuser.com/questions/31385...amage-hardware

Swapping won't work for the same reasons that you cannot play playstation games on a Nintendo.
Different chips, addressing etc. Basic electronics.

Helen

I'm with Helen on this one, software most definitely can damage hardware. Software can control hardware and tell it what to do, including telling it to do things that might not be too healthy for it.

I'm sorry to hear that pizza isn't so great in your part of the world, I love the pizza that I get down here in NZ!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by moffattm

I'm with Helen on this one, software most definitely can damage hardware. Software can control hardware and tell it what to do, including telling it to do things that might not be too healthy for it.

I had one CRT monitor that was destroyed when a software update on the computer changed the refresh rate to one that it could not support. Blew the power supply in the attempt. The semiconductors sacrificed themselves to save the fuse.

Regards,
David

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by franklekens

(And bummer: I just realized Calibre won't work with the Kobo anymore untill its next update. Probably in a week or so? Should have thought of that before turning wifi on...)

Well, that update has been out for two weeks now. Plus, I posted on the first page about the calibre support.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by freightgod

I like the removal of the top margin in 2.8.1 on my mini. I re-convert all my epubs in Calibre to remove all margins to begin with then allow the minimum margin size in the settings of the mini itself.

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ALL these things should be user configurable and we should not have to revert to third party tools which is time consuming.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Vuguitan; have you bothered to maybe read the series of posts Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)?

hey peter have you tried this yourself.the posts are very confusing and far as i can see you unzip koreader software into the kobo directory but then it goes on about a launcher and into linux command line speak.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

hey peter have you tried this yourself.the posts are very confusing and far as i can see you unzip koreader software into the kobo directory but then it goes on about a launcher and into linux command line speak.

Seeing I have zero interest In a file browser or alternate reading code I have not bothered with it.

[khahoon]

Weird, I still have not gotten the new firmware and I am in the States.

[paola]

Originally Posted by khahoon

Weird, I still have not gotten the new firmware and I am in the States.

same here (UK) - I am in no hurry, though.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by miyata

My Question is about the bottom bar:
above the pagenumbers there is room for one more line of text, which never is used, I wanna use that line, as I have VERY bad eyesight I use relatively large Fonts and therefor wanna use as much of the screen as possible. On some pages there are two lines missing on the bottom, midsentence it leaves them free and begins on top of the next page. I am talking about sideloaded ePubs, in which I set any margin setting I found in calibre to zero.
I may do some "screenshots" this evening to better show what I mean.

This is a well known issue with this device. I don't think there is a built in setting to change that. I wish there was, and I think there should be. There is a fullscreen mod in the developer forum, and I linked to a blog which refers to the problem you described. I have not tried the fullscreen mod yet, but I intend to as soon as my Kobo Aura arrives.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=217192

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...-wasted-space/

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by miyata

My Question is about the bottom bar:
above the pagenumbers there is room for one more line of text, which never is used, I wanna use that line, as I have VERY bad eyesight I use relatively large Fonts and therefor wanna use as much of the screen as possible. On some pages there are two lines missing on the bottom, midsentence it leaves them free and begins on top of the next page. I am talking about sideloaded ePubs, in which I set any margin setting I found in calibre to zero.
I may do some "screenshots" this evening to better show what I mean.

There is a patcher from Metazoa which can reduce the lower margin though you then have issues with trying to select text at the bottom of the screen. For your comments about paragraphs, you might want to try adding widows:0; and orphans: 0; to the epub's css -- Calibre can do this for you by adding "body {orphans: 0; widows: 0;}" in the "Common Options" => "Look and Feel" => "Extra CSS" field. Basically, widows and orphans are intended to prevent lines from being left at the bottom or top of a page. You can google them for more information.

I've added a screen capture of a page after apply Metazoa's patch using FW 2.8.1 and the default configuration file. As you will notice the page number is too small to be really useful but you do get a couple of extra lines on the screen.

Regards,
David

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by paola

same here (UK) - I am in no hurry, though.

it's largely pointless as i have tried it a manual install.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by DNSB

There is a patcher from Metazoa which can reduce the lower margin though you then have issues with trying to select text at the bottom of the screen.

Thanks for the screenshot. That layout looks almost perfect to me. Did you use the kpg.exe from Metazoa's post on the russian forum? I think a dedicated thread for Metazoa's mod in the dev forum would be a good idea. If there already is one, please direct me to it